Making Stalls Out of Panels?

[Bluey]

TSC has the same Behlen panels in your first post in red, that are heavy duty.
Those work for horses, other than the round tops on the ends, that could be a problem if a horse hangs a leg in that gap.
Happens very, very rarely, but it does happen.
Depends on how risk adverse you may be.

We have Powder River panels between horses, have had for years.
The old ones had curved tops, we have them around the outside arena, the new ones are square and are in the horse pens and runs.
The old gates still have rounded corners, the new ones square ones.
We have not had any of those bent or damaged in any way, but never say never:

[dani0303]

[QUOTE=moving to dc;8312798]
Those are still “lightweight” panels.

The barn I work at special ordered a ton of Priefert gates when they re-did their pasture set-up in 2013. I am NOT impressed with the quality of the construction and the durability AT ALL. Paint is chipping off, welds are rusting horribly, and every gate is bent to heck already, and we do not have destructive horses on the property…

You are lucky, given your location in Colorado, you have an option that many “East Coasters” don’t have! I would suggest looking for a private individual who constructs/welds panels of their own, they are generally pretty easy to find in that region. We have a dozen privately made galvanized panels from Oklahoma, and they are built like tanks - completely different than any commercial panel I have purchased from Atwood’s, Orscheln’s or TSC.[/QUOTE]

SO works in the oilfield and said he’s working on acquiring the heavy duty Behlen panels that they use on well sites. Apparently they’re just discarded after use.

[Bluey]

[QUOTE=dani0303;8312990]
SO works in the oilfield and said he’s working on acquiring the heavy duty Behlen panels that they use on well sites. Apparently they’re just discarded after use.[/QUOTE]

Those are the red ones.
We use their gates and they are very sturdy, but still will give if a horse does hit one, rather than the horse break something, definitively better than heavy gauge pipe that won’t budge.

If you are going to line the panels with 3/4" plywood type sheets, you may be able to get by with lighter panels.
The light, grey panels, without lining them, a horse scratching it’s behind on one can bend them, they are so flimsy.
If you get the heavier panels, if the horses don’t fight, you may get by with unlined panels.

Accidents happen when they happen, hard to foresee what all horses may do.
Many people have horses in small pipe panel pens without incident.

[walkinthewalk]

My pipe panel stalls started out to be temporary ---- 12 years ago, lol. My barn is small and the pipe panel stalls allow for more air flow.

Ditto the horses need to get along. My bully horse always had the outside wall on one side and the alpha horse on the other. The alpha did a great job of keeping him in line.

The two horses who never caused any trouble were on the other side of the alpha horse.

Bolt the panels to the barn as secure as you can. My bully horse is 16.1H and throws his whole body into the joy of rubbing himself on the pipe panel. DH has had to weld the door hinge back on, thanks to this horse’s antics.

Put 3/4" plywood from the ground up to second rail. I did that mainly so my older horses wouldn’t get their hooves caught somewhere, when they laid down. Include the door in that effort.

I would also reinforce the back side of the stalls (the barn wall) with hardwood four feet high.

Two of my horses have passed. The bully horse and one of the peaceable horses are still here. They are in their original stalls at opposite ends of the barn, to keep peace and my barn in tact when they come in at night:)

[uphill]

regardless of what you use, if a horse can get caught up, under, through it…it might

[ReSomething]

Our plywood is from the ground up like walkinthewalk. It is almost a solid wall, it’s sort of a head scratcher why we bothered to buy the panels at all. It was meant to be two sided, but the old guy has never touched his side except to gnaw on the lumber on the top edge.

When we built the Klene pipe run in, that design is very similar. It gives you a pipe frame that you bolt 2x4 onto, then plate with 3/4 ply.

[SLW]

I had custom pipe panels made for my 4 stalls. The first dislike I had was all the hay or bedding being blown from stall to stall or out in the aisle. Later, my alpha mate kicked at the horse next to her and put her leg through the pipe. She pulled it back through with no injury.

We bought 3/4 plywood and attached it to the front of and in between the stalls. That has kept the hay and horse legs in the proper place.

[DHCarrotfeeder]

[QUOTE=saje;8311364]
I’ve done it. The only downside is if you have a really pushy horse they can push the panels around and the end up standing in a parallelogram rather than a square (unless you can anchor them somehow), and that hay and shavings get pushed out under the panel. A hay net fixed the problem of finding 2/3s of his night’s hay uneaten and out of his reach, but I did spend a lot of time sweeping bedding back where it was supposed to be.[/QUOTE]

It doesn’t take a pushy horse. It just takes a horse that wants to itch on the only stationary object available.

We’ve used the panels for outside “turnout” of a recuperating horse, but for indoor service I’m not sure I agree with the safety aspects. With the turnout situation there was some level of supervision.

I would at least use the “no-climb” expanded metal type.

David

[Simkie]

[QUOTE=DHCarrotfeeder;8315392]
It doesn’t take a pushy horse. It just takes a horse that wants to itch on the only stationary object available.

We’ve used the panels for outside “turnout” of a recuperating horse, but for indoor service I’m not sure I agree with the safety aspects. With the turnout situation there was some level of supervision.

I would at least use the “no-climb” expanded metal type.

David[/QUOTE]

It’s not difficult to secure panels to posts and the barn walls, and they are SOLID when you do so. Heavy zip ties also allow you to get a much tighter connection that the chains they come with, if you need that for the corners.

We just put up some panels under the overhang as the start of the long runs off the east side of the barn–they’re attached with pipe straps to a post in concrete on the “barn” side, and attached to the overhang upright with a post strap on the “outside” side. They’re not going to go anywhere

On the other side of the barn, they’re secured with t-posts on the outside of the panels (horses are on the other side) and connected with zip ties between panels…which was all a temporary measure, until we put in more permanent posts…but they’ve also not budged.