Buying a horse trailer requires first determining how many horses need to be hauled at once, finding a trailer made of lightweight metals and shopping around the region for the best deal. Find a slant-load horse trailer to transport horses to and from shows and events with advice from a riding instructor in this video on equestrian living.
Your first trailer purchase is probably one of the most exciting extensions of your horse life that you will ever make. It's not unusual to buy your first trailer, and within a short time realize you didn't buy big enough. We hope that we can guide people into making that choice that's going to be good for a number of years. You want to first consider what are your ultimate goals in owning and experiencing the freedom that comes with purchasing a trailer. If your goal is to travel around and be spending weekends at a horse show, you may wish to look into things like the living quarters option. The first thing you want to find out or ask yourself is 'How many horses do I need to haul or transport? Will I be transporting for friends or commercially at any given time?' They come in single horse, two horse, three horse, all the way on up to huge vans that can transport twelve at a time. You also want to look at the materials they're manufactured with. It's very common right now to be looking more in the aluminum variety trailers, or a mix of steel and aluminum for the lightweight nature and easy to pull that aluminum brings with it. In the old days, it was pretty much standard what we call front-load trailers. You horse had to walk straight in, and be able to back straight out. Nowadays, we have what they call slant-load features. It's very uncommon to see a brand new horse trailer that is not a slant-load, as we have found with time, horses are much more amenable to loading and unloading out of a slant-load trailer. After you have made all those decisions, you want to shop around. It's not unusual. I've traveled to Oklahoma from here in Texas to find the best deal when things...when it gets right down to it. You want to also look at the size of the trailer, itself, and how much room they allow per horse. If you're going to be transporting very tall horses, you have to have at least that seven foot height. Be sure you don't under buy at any given time. That's a much bigger dilemma than overbuying in the way of the size that each horse is given. Then you have lots of options. You've got tack rooms. You've got, as I commented, living quarters that can get as pricey as your...as a typical house, and have all the amenities that anyone could ever need on a weekend or week away. Lots to shop about, lots to think about, but your budget will usually tell you where you need to be.
on April 6, 2012, 3:51 am