Need help with tack stall configuration

[IPEsq]

Let me start by saying I’ve set up tack stalls a gazillion times at horse shows.

I’ve been tasked with setting up a tack stall at the home barn. Stall is 12x12. Door is sliding door on one end (so an opening 3-4’ at one corner, rather than in the middle of the front wall). The stall fronts are metal frame, wood insert and bolted onto the barn frame. The rest of the stall is not any sort of kit type. Just nice 12’ horizontal laid boards, going up something like 8-9’ high.

BO does not want any screw eyes or similar hardware put into the boards. Some could be placed at the corner posts, or chains or other things could go around the corner posts up high to which cross ties can be attached. This is how cross ties in the aisle are done.

It may also not be possible to add other wood pieces because the tack stall is meant to be temporary should BO sell the stall to a new boarder. But the aisle gets very busy so while some stalls are empty we are trying to make the aisle a bit more open and safe and groom/tack elsewhere.

Obviously, we don’t want any panicked horse to be ripping out a stall board or trying to rip off the stall front.

However, with the door configuration to the one side and with the corner posts being the things the stall fronts attach to, it is quite awkward to use the posts to hang cross ties. They wind up being too long so they get chewed on, horse can move around too much, you can’t put the horse at an angle facing the door well without having one tie being even longer.

I suppose I could attach a tie elsewhere with baling twine, but then you have the issue of if twine breaks, the entire cross tie is still attached to horse.

Help me figure this out. I won’t have any problem configuring the grooming supplies, tack holders, etc. once horse position is figured out. It’s just getting the horses tied where I am stumped.

[Bluey]

Can you not just take the whole front of the stall out and leave that open to work in there grooming horses?

Later, if you want to make it into a stall again, bring the front back and attach it again.

You can then put whatever you want on the front posts to cross tie horses to or if that puts the horses too far to the front, run a rope or chain from front to back post, along the wall, on each side.

Then tie the cross ties wherever along that rope fits best for them, maybe 3’ to 4’ from the front.

That last will work with the stall front in there also.

[Tiffani_B]

We just have crossties in all of the stalls. No one in the aisle, easy. Each stall has two bridle hooks and there are portable saddle racks you can take to your stall.

[IPEsq]

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We just have crossties in all of the stalls. No one in the aisle, easy. Each stall has two bridle hooks and there are portable saddle racks you can take to your stall.[/QUOTE]

But where do you attach your cross ties?

Bluey, no the stall front removal is not going to be an option. It’s pretty permanently bolted to the barn frame (versus fronts that you could just lift out at pin connections).

Running a rope from front to back up at the top is an interesting idea. I’d have to take a look to see if it would work in this particular stall, which has the tack room on one side (so boards to the ceiling on one side). Of course, that is not the side with the door, so even if I could screw an eye into that extra wood, horse would be at the wrong position relative to the door. Running a rope would be possible on the other side, which would keep the tie from allowing the horse to try to go out the door.

[Tiffani_B]

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But where do you attach your cross ties? [/QUOTE]

To the upright posts in the stalls and/or the planks. In my 30+ years with horses on cross ties in stalls, never once has a horse pulled a board out. The eye hook will pull out of the wood.