What are people liking nowadays?
Still the nylon ones with the breakaway on one end and the regular big snap on the other?
http://www.doversaddlery.com/nylon-trailer-tie/p/X1-27841/?ids=4ocz0ohhcanby5fuqgwvlgbn
Or the new Velcro breakaways
http://www.doversaddlery.com/tie-safe-trailer-tie/p/X1-4713/?ids=4ocz0ohhcanby5fuqgwvlgbn
Have to equip the new trailer and looking to see what’s popular now.
Thanks,
Em
It’s a little unpolished, but I tie them with their lead rope to a loop of baling twine. Breakable if needed, and god forbid there is an accident of some sort, their lead ropes are already attached to them. The last thing I want to be doing if I need to get the horses off the trailer (or again, god forbid, a first responder needs to) is hunting for the lead ropes in the backseat of the truck/the dressing room.
Now that I have a big three horse slant instead of my two horse straight, if I’m hauling just one I leave him loose in the front two slant stalls, and leave the lead rope on the floor right near the rear doors. If I ever haul more than just one, it will be back to the lead ropes on baling twine.
While this is a great idea for many reasons, it’s a bit touch to do in new trailer. The interior height is 8’6" and I need a step stool to reach the “loop” where the bailing twine goes to secure the tie to. To make it a loop I could reach I worry that it would be too big and slightly a hazard to put their face into. Even if I tape it or knot it so they can’t reach I think it would be a bit of an eye sore to look at, and worse, my one guy would likely eat his way free every trip. (Swear to God)
This picture is tough to see but you can see how high the ceiling is and you can’t even see the loops that the tie would go to. It’s that high up.
~Emily
Odd. Both my trailers are warmblood size and have the rings closer to ear level/easily reachable by a 5’2’’ person, my baling twine loops are probably 6" or so. Whatever the standard is. :lol:
In that case, I’d go with the velcro ones. I use them as crossties. With the note that the jerk horses sometimes startle themselves even further by the noise of the velcro coming undone. :lol:
I use the nylon ones but tie them to twine instead of directly to the trailer.
[QUOTE=Xctrygirl;8658834]
…The interior height is 8’6" and I need a step stool to reach the “loop” where the bailing twine goes to secure the tie to…
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If your tie rings are really at the ceiling, 8’6" above the floor, then you will DEFINITELY need to get a step ladder and measure how long you will want your ties to be for the horses to be able to move around a bit and lower their heads.
I am afraid you will find that most commercially manufactured trailer ties will be too short for that tall of a ceiling. You may have to go with chains, or make your own ties with rope, panic snaps, bolt/bull snaps and rope clamps.
[QUOTE=moving to dc;8659086]
If your tie rings are really at the ceiling, 8’6" above the floor, then you will DEFINITELY need to get a step ladder and measure how long you will want your ties to be for the horses to be able to move around a bit and lower their heads.
I am afraid you will find that most commercially manufactured trailer ties will be too short for that tall of a ceiling. You may have to go with chains, or make your own ties with rope, panic snaps, bolt/bull snaps and rope clamps.[/QUOTE]
Cross ties might be a good length for the OP!
[QUOTE=Xctrygirl;8658834]
While this is a great idea for many reasons, it’s a bit touch to do in new trailer. The interior height is 8’6" and I need a step stool to reach the “loop” where the bailing twine goes to secure the tie to. To make it a loop I could reach I worry that it would be too big and slightly a hazard to put their face into. Even if I tape it or knot it so they can’t reach I think it would be a bit of an eye sore to look at, and worse, my one guy would likely eat his way free every trip. (Swear to God)
This picture is tough to see but you can see how high the ceiling is and you can’t even see the loops that the tie would go to. It’s that high up.
~Emily[/QUOTE]
What I did was bought extra lead ropes and did the safety knot/twine and just left them up as my ties. Then I’ve got extra lead ropes in a snap but don’t have to fart around trying to reach the rings and tie the knots. 
I do very much like the velcro ties, though. I use the crosstie version and love them, especially for my perennial crosstie-breaker. It’s just less drama and danger when there isn’t a snap flying through the air at my head and dragging behind him.
I don’t tie at all. But then again I only ever haul one horse, or very rarely two of my own that live together anyway.
I just leave the leadrope over his back or pulled up front next to the hay manger-bag.
If I did need ties I’d use cheapie cotton leadropes. No burning if they get caught up in them the way nylon can, and pretty easy to cut in an emergency.
I love the tie safes. We sometimes haul in rope halters and it’s great knowing they will break free but leave something attached to you horse.
They are pretty long, too long for my bumper pull so you might want to measure them first.
I’d leave my mare loose but she’s a freaking pretzel and she’s going to break her neck being a busy body if she’s not tied.
I really like the Velcro trailer ties. I attach them to the trailer with a small piece of baling twine. I am guilty of asking my horse to unload without remembering to unhook the trailer ties. I always know when I have done this. He gives me a disdainful stare and then flips his head to detach the Velcro.
I am not the only one who forgets to unhook a trailer tie. Several of my friends have unloaded their horses without remembering. I am convinced that the Velcro has prevented serious injuries as the Velcro prevents having a metal end of a trailer tie fly through the air and hit someone’s eye or face.
I think that tie loop is for your hay net… Don’t you have another, lower one? My trailer has them at the side of the door, too.
I use cotton lead ropes and a baling twine loop. However, I leave the lead rope attached to the twine loop in the trailer and just attach it to the halter when I load, taking off the regular one. That might work for you.
Ok ![](n this pic if you zoom in a bit you can see the loops.
I am going to use some size loop of twine to attach the ties.
Tonight I made it so my old trailers ties will work for a clinic I’m going to in the am.
I think I like the idea of the velcro ones. I was hoping that people would say they were good, so yay!
I have a cross tie area also so I’ll try those there also.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Emily
I just bought 3’ to 6’ cross ties to use in my trailer. The breakaway trailer ties that I used in my previous trailer were too short in the new one. My D rings for the ties are close in the ceiling in the new trailer.
I like the Velcro ties.
I have baling twine loops that stay attached to the trailer tie, and I use regular nylon trailer ties and leave them attached, so there is no reaching up anywhere, they hang all the time.
I unclip my regular leadrope when I clip that one to the horse’s halter, and walk out.
The twine will break in an emergency
the trailer tie will still be attached to halter for grabbing if horse ends up loose
I refuse to tie with lead ropes because my trailer has open slats like a cattle trailer, and I read about a gal who’s leadrope came untied, and the excess leadrope ended outside her trailer slats, got grabbed by the tire/axle, and did a real number on the horse’s face because the halter didn’t break off his head
my tie loops are up by my ceiling too and I have a 7’6" ceiling. I use the velcro cross ties as my trailer ties. The real trailer ties were too short. I have a brand new trailer (well, its 2 years old now, but still considered brand new to me !!). I attached tennis balls to the ends of the ties to they dont keep banging against the wall, scratching up my trailer when not in use. When you take the air out of the tennis ball, it doesnt bounce.
I attached a Blocker Tie Ring to my trailer and just leave a lead rope on it. It works great!
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I attached a Blocker Tie Ring to my trailer and just leave a lead rope on it. It works great![/QUOTE]
Me, too! It is so easy to clip the lead rope that I leave on the Blocker Tie Ring onto the halter and throw the first lead rope over the horse’s back.
I use normal nylon trailer ties with the break-away clasp connected to Equiping loops at the trailer. Halters are breakaway or all leather, too.
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