I use screw eyes for a lot of things in the stalls and sheds but when they aren’t in use I don’t feel like pulling them out. Someone told me they make them hinged, that lay flat when not in use but I can’t find them anywhere. Has anyone seen that type of hook ? Thanks !
not sure but you may be thinking of D Rings?
http://www.uscargocontrol.com/Ratchet-Straps-Tie-Downs/D-Rings-D-Ring-Tie-downs
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Hmmm. Those wouldn’t hold up a stall gate or anything though.
Not sure what you mean by “hold up,” but they are very strong. I use them on the wooden end posts at gate entry points and hook my clip from my gate to them on the post. Very strong.
You could definitely use them instead of screw eyes for stall chains, stall guards, or anything you needed to attach something to. They don’t come loose like a screw eye will over time, either.
Im trying to hold up one of these
http://www.doversaddlery.com/m/dover’s-stall-screens/p/w1-c27264a/?eid=X18A00U1000&utm_source=google&utm_medium=PLA&utm_campaign=NB_PLA_Retail_New+England_GOOG&adpos=1o3&creative=182746402219&device=m&matchtype=&network=g
but if I’m not using it I take it down and just leave the stall open for him to go in and out of. It’s a shedrow barn in a field.
I think they’d hold up your gate.
Those are what I use to hang my hay nets, so ~40 lb from a single one, with horses yanking on it all night long.
And I don’t use these–these would absolutely hold up your gate: http://www.uscargocontrol.com/Ratchet-Straps-Tie-Downs/D-Rings-D-Ring-Tie-downs/Wall-Pan-Mounting-Ring-1-200-Lbs-Black-Plastic-Base
these d rings are rated 12,000 pounds
http://www.uscargocontrol.com/Ratchet-Straps-Tie-Downs/D-Rings-D-Ring-Tie-downs/Mounting-Ring-2-5-16-x-12-000-Lbs_2
The D rings would certainly be strong enough using proper strength screws to attach. I have a several of the same stall guards.
For a nice fit you don’t want to use ones that have too large a diameter. The hinge pin will flop around in it and the guard will “wobble” around when opening and closing. But it will still do the job.
I just use small diameter screw eyes. They are rounded and have yet to have a horse hit one and cause an injury. But that’s not to say there will never be a first time. The D rings might just be a better mouse trap. Depends on finding ones with that will give a good fit.
If you decide to just leave them there and are still worried something may hit one, you could get a very long bolt or threaded rod with a nut on the top, Home Depot sells those, or a piece of, say, conduit or other that fits in the rings, with a cap or some protection on both ends.
Then stick it down thru the eyebolts, so it will be more like a door jamb than those three eye screws sticking out there alone, if you have room to stick such a long piece somehow in there, from below, above or the middle by turning the top eyebolt a bit to the side.
We also had those eye screws in stall doors at home and at the tracks and never had a horse injured on one, but we screwed them in as far as we could, they really didn’t stick out hardly at all.
I am not quite sure about it.
Chandlers always have nifty fittings; http://www.defender.com/category.jsp…373&id=2303377
Check out the deck plates and threaded eyes.
If you want to remove the gate regularly you will have to slide both pins DOWN through your fittings, which means you will have to drill and run an R clip through the pins.
Is there a particular reason to keep taking the gate off when you don’t want it? Can it not just be secured back to lay flat against a wall or fence?
Something rated for
Assembly Break Strength: 12,000 lbs
Work Load Limit: 4,000 lbs
Is absolutely going to hold up that gate and even deal with a horse leaning against or on top of the gate That gate will likely be damaged before any of the 3 d-rings even thinks about giving way, assuming you use the proper diameter and length screws.
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We have a gate like that and it came with thoses really cool small tubular hinges that the bar slips into. I would be worried that an unsecured end of the long piece would somehow be an issue with an accident prone horse. Does that make sense?
