Tips, tricks, favorite hardware?
I’ve got two 15x20 pens setup out of corral panels. I’d prefer hanging water buckets over troughs. Is that even doable?
I usually just use baling twine. Horses can get to the water just fine. Or I use a large muck bucket type and tie the handles to the corner of the corral panel.
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I also use baling twine (and double end snaps).
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Easy peasy! Thanks!
Another bit for easy peasy baling twine! Thank you
I use the standard nylon buckets straps with a loop on one end, and a snap on the other.
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I saw some of those at tractor supply, but they were a hideous orange lol. Thanks for sharing
Don’t blame you for passing on orange! My least favorite color, by a mile.
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Amazon may have better selection of colors. Though pretty much anything would be better than orange!
You’ve got that right!
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Tack shops usually have less offensive colours of those straps and carry them in different lengths too. That might be a concern with using them on a panel rather than stall bars with a solid wall below.
But blaze orange or boring black, my vote lies with them - easy peasy and they hold up and look better than twine and are more easily portable than twine.
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I had not considered how length of the strap would influence where the buckets lay against the panel bars. Thanks for pointing that out. I don’t have much experience with corral panels outside of using them as a round pen. So this all new for me. Hoping I can make it work until lumber prices come back from outer space. Otherwise I’ll need to sell a kidney to build real stalls lol.
Our local tack shop closed recently, but a new one is opening up. Now I have a good excuse to go check them out!
I see Amazon has several on offer. I’ll check to see if the descriptions include the length of the strap.
At least they’d be easy to find when/if they got removed from the buckets.
Because: Horses 
I use baler twine & carabiners to hold gates to my pastures open.
Replace every couple of years when the twine gets too frayed.
@sascha ??? how hard is it to stick rolled up twine in a pocket?
I roll up the strings from each bale when I cut it open, put the rolls in a bushel basket & always have access to a rolled bundle.
I hate that knotted twine tends to not get cut down. I find it hideous and inconvenient as I don’t usually carry a knife and/or twine in my pocket. Being able to move the strap with zero tools makes me happy.
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I always have access to a knife & am careful (read: obsessive) about removing the old, frayed stuff.
Free is my Go To.
I also use the twine to crisscross the roof of my chickens’ fenced yard - keeps hawks out.
That lasts several years & allows snow to get through, something the deer netting I used first did not.
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There is that. Lol.
Color coding horses is a thing here. My homebred is purple. My new horse doesn’t have a color yet (I’m thinking a blue/green) but I could conceivably get color coordinated buckets and straps in bright colors! Lol
Twine would be free, less the cost of the snaps, but I think the bucket straps will look a bit nicer. Fortunately only two horses so it won’t be a major expense.
I always carry a small supply of twine in my trailer. Never know when it might come in handy.
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