First LD next month! nervous about camping...

[katarine]

If you know anyone else who is going, can you ask them what they do? I’ve seen people run high lines between horse trailers. You could tie it off to a tie ring, toss it over the top of the trailer, and over the other, too- then it off to the 2nd trailer…that would add some height to the line. Set the horses up between the trailers. Works fine.

I’d certainly practice first, and get handy tying it off so you can get it good and tight.

Everyone just needs to do what makes 'em happy. No one way is perfect.

[Auventera_Two]

If you tie where horses can get their feet on the trailer tires, definitely consider using a cover of some sort. Mine is a sheet of plywood cut in the shape of the wheel well. It has two handles screwed to the back of it. You hook a bungee cord to one handle, run it through one wheel, out the front of the other wheel, and hook it to the second handle. It keeps the cover snapped tight over the whole wheel well area. This also keeps feet and legs off the sharp sheet metal edges of the wheel well. Even a horse that doesn’t paw, could lay down and stretch their legs out under the trailer and that scares me.

[Icecapade]

[QUOTE=Auventera Two;3967699]
This always makes me go “hu?” because when I go to an endurance ride, 80% of ride camp is using portable paddocks, and the other 20% is tied either on a High Tie or to the trailer. When I tied to my trailer for the first 2 rides, a long-time competitor told me to get a paddock because that’s the “right way” to do it. But you go to the internet and everybody says how horrible paddocks are. I wonder if its different culture for different areas of the country?

Around here is mostly farm land and reclaimed dairy properties converted to horse. Lots of people have their horses out in barbed wire, or 2-wire electric fence. I think out East you see a lot more fancy wooden fences, so horses might not grow up with the flimsier fences? Around here, people have puny 2-string fences right near the highways. I’d be scared if it were me, but people do it. My fence at home is 5-ft high, tight 3-string white tape fence and I’ve had no problems with horses getting out. I go for months and don’t plug the electric in. On another bulletin board, somebody commented - OMG, my horses would tear that down and head for the hills - they have to be in 4 rail wooden with electric strung on the top. Hmm, weird.

I just find it interesting the differing opinions on this, because what I see at local ridecamps is different than what people report on COTH. :lol: Interesting conversation though.[/QUOTE]

same with my compitetion experiances. Mostly paddocks, a lot more portable panels rather than electric, which was increasaingly more popular but more of those than tieing for sure. But that might be an edurance thing b/c I know w/ NATRC you CAN"T have a paddock, you must tie (stallions 2x)

Edit: I was in the south west of SoCal and neighboring regions.

[saratoga]

I ride mostly in the SW region, but also have done rides in the PS, West and Mountain. I would estimate maybe 60% of people use portable panel corrals and the rest use Hi-ties or tie to the trailer. I dont see a whole lot of electric corrals, I’d say maybe 5%. But whenever there is a loose horse, it usually involves an electric set-up.

[Auventera_Two]

I mostly have seen electric paddocks. One guy does use these really cool PVC pipe panels. Not sure what the brand is, but they look very nice.

[decorum]

I use an electric corral like A2’s, the tall posts with 2 strands of tape. My horse high lines great but he is happier in a corral and I feel better that he can move more. I would guess that 75% of the people use corrals of some kind at the rides I go to, about half are small ones made from panels though.