Re: Horse Trailer Expanded Living Quarters

["Janet Baca" <horsetrl@ctaz.com>]

You all have given me some excellent material to go on.  Thanks so much.
Now I'm armed and dangerous.  I just love the idea of that door.  It really
works for me.  Thanks to Amber, she's the one that told me about it in the
first place.
Janet Baca
-----Original Message-----
From: CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com <CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com>
To: carlmey <carlmey>; horsetrl <horsetrl>
Cc: ridecamp <ridecamp>
Date: Sunday, October 25, 1998 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: Horse Trailer Expanded Living Quarters


>In a message dated 98-10-25 23:51:45 EST, carlmey@citrus.infi.net writes:
>
><<  In addition, we had them cut a door into the horse box area from the
>    gooseneck quarters so that access COULD be had to enlarge the living
>    area...I call it my apartment... >>
>
>We have an access door between the living quarters and the horse area in
our
>gooseneck, too, and I love it.  Neither of us sleep back there, but have,
on
>occasion, put up a cot there for others.  Also like to put the porta potty
>back there once we get to the ride, as well as any other "stuff" we brought
>along in the living quarters that clutters up the space there.  Also works
>great for using the solar shower--I just leave the mats bare after
>sweeping/cleaning for that very reason.  And yes, it really enlarges your
>"living space" to have the extra "room."  We also use it for the ride
office
>at most of the rides we put on.  Sure missed it at the LWT multi-day,
though,
>when the "horse quarters" in the trailer became the space for the water
tank,
>extra hay, and transporting folks' crew bags and "stuff" to the vet
checks...
>Had to give hubby credit though for designing a water delivery system with
the
>tank up on pallets and the delivery hose out the escape door--worked slick
for
>adapting a truck bed tank into something that worked out of a gooseneck,
since
>the two were incompatable otherwise...
>
>Heidi
>