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[RC] Pipe panels - safety - Ridecamp GuestPlease Reply to: Sharon Hahn sharon.hahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ========================================== What kind of horses will you have? For older horses that are happy to stand quietly, it might not be a problem, but: 1. My weanling used to get cast occasionally until she figured out her body size. Once she managed to get her foot through the web gate, which wasn't a huge deal since she just quietly waited for help, but it gave me a heart attack when I found her. Getting a foot through a pipe panel would be more of a problem. 2. A bored horse on stall rest due to an injury (or a stretch of bad weather) might start playing with the panels and get stuck. 3. Neighbors might fight or kick at each other. Consider having wood about 4 - 4.5 feet up and then leave the rest open or use screens - that should give you decent circulation while being quite a bit safer. Faith Bongiorno fmbong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: The reason I am writting today is my mother-in-law and I are looking to build a barn on our property. We are debating back and forth over the use of pipe panels. The outer shell of the barn is going to to be log like their house, but she wants to use pipe panels as the stall dividers, I have reservation about this so I am trying to find information on the pros/cons of pipe panels versus tradtional box stalls. Her main reason is not money but air movement since we live area of the south that has high humidity! The horses would only be in there to eat and for bad weather. Any experieces, suggestion, or comments would be greatly appreciated. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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