Posted 2005-04-18 4:52 PM (#23995) Subject: slats or slides?
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Posts: 560 Location: Mena, AR
If you could only get the trailer you wanted with slats or slides, which would you perfer? Seems like you'd get more air with the slats, but the slides would be less trouble. I live in Texas, so I'm concerned about air flow. I would like drops on both sides, but I'm not finding that in my price range.
Posted 2005-04-18 5:27 PM (#23996 - in reply to #23995) Subject: RE: slats or slides?
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Posts: 565 Location: Michigan
Slides here. Couple reasons I have chosen trailers with slider windows, 1. to keep out the weather, not only to keep horses dry and clean but to prolong the life of the interior horse area, 2. living in NE Michigan and 4 seasons, and 3. BUGS, bees seemed to like a trailer I had that had slider windows with NO screens and when left open all summer, well they are quite crafty creatures.
Just my opinion. I have not had problems with little air flow during the summer. With pop-up roof vents,sliders on nose and rear side and the back door slider, there seemed to be plenty of airflow and my horse was not sweaty. You could look into gettting a trailer with an insulated roof. Some have said that keeps a trailer cooler.
Posted 2005-04-18 6:20 PM (#23998 - in reply to #23995) Subject: RE: slats or slides?
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Posts: 108 Location: TX
I live in Texas too. I just bought a trailer last week. It has drop-downs on both sides. I started to scrimp and get bus windows. I spent the little bit extra for drops. I figured that if I'm going to be making payments on it and looking at it every day, I might as well get what I wanted or I won't be happy. It's not much difference in the payment. Glad I did. Mainly because if it starts raining when you are on the road, with bus windows you can't close them on some trailers from the outside. So, what do you do, unload your horses in the rain so you can close the windows?? Gets the dropdowns and be happy later.
Posted 2005-04-19 11:25 AM (#24023 - in reply to #23995) Subject: RE: slats or slides?
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Sides - and if I was in the southern states a lot either an insulated roof, air conditioned horse area, or some sort of second shade roof (design and invention tbd). The insulated roof is probably the simplest and therefore cheapest.
Posted 2005-04-19 12:28 PM (#24027 - in reply to #23995) Subject: RE: slats or slides?
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Posts: 46 Location: New Mexico
Slats or big drops. I live in a hot climate, have slider windows and roof vents, insulated, and the trailer is hotter than hades in there in the summer! Moving down the road it is not to bad, but we are in trouble if we have to slow down or stop. I can open the walk through door if we are stopped, but if we got into slow moving traffic or something I would start to worry about the horses.
A friend has a trailer with slats and even on the hottest days it is like standing under a shade tree in the trailer because the air can move through.
Posted 2005-04-22 9:49 AM (#24170 - in reply to #24041) Subject: RE: slats or slides?
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Posts: 560 Location: Mena, AR
I think I'll look for slats or drops, and if I end up with slides I'll get an insulated roof. I'm hoping to buy used to save some money.
I was talking with a friend on this topic and we came up with the idea that slates should have plexi glass in three pieces that can be slid to one end or the center, so you don't actually have to take them out.
slats or slides?
