Make Over Your Tack Room
Winter is the perfect time to make over your tack room and be organized for spring activities with your horse
. One of the easiest ways is to take everything out and separate items into piles keep, store, fix, give away and throw away.
The keep pile might include the tack you use every day, first aid items, boots and bandages and other frequently used items. These items should be clean and ready to go. Thoroughly inspect all your leather tack to see if it belongs in the fix/clean pile to repair any damage and give it a good cleaning.
The store pile can include those items that you dont use on a regular basis if its winter, it may be fly sheets and fly masks, or things you use only during showing season. Again, these items should be clean and ready to be used they are just things you dont use during the winter.
The fix pile also includes the to be cleaned pile. These can be saddle pads or polo wraps you keep meaning to wash, extra blankets that need to be cleaned and/or repaired, your show jacket that needs a button put back on or anything that you know youll use, but needs to have something done before you can. Also add to this pile your grooming brushes, sponges and towels to clean, disinfect and let dry thoroughly
The give away are all those items that are still in good shape, but you no longer use. The blanket for your 17 hand Warmblood that you sold and now have a 15.1 hand Quarter horse, the 4 extra brushes in the grooming kit that you dont know how they got there, the polos in navy and yellow because now youre at a barn with burgundy and black as their colors. And do really need ALL those saddle pads? There are many organizations out there that would dearly love your hand-me-downs horse rescues, therapeutic riding programs, horse programs for at risk youth. Or rather than give away, sell them on EBay or host a tack sale at your barn.
The throw away pile consists of items that can no longer be used. The mane comb with missing teeth, your horses blanket that was ripped to shreds by an overenthusiastic neighbor or the broken riding crop. But before you toss, consider the possibility of recycling. Could your blanket repair/cleaning service use any of the hardware from your blanket? Can your pile of supplement containers be used around the barn for feeding? Or as paint buckets on your next paint the jumps party?
This is also the pile that all your expired medicines and outdated first aid products go. Dont just dump them in the toilet or toss them in the dumpster. These products may contain ingredients that must be disposed of carefully. Check with local officials to see how best to get rid of these medicines and products. While youre at it, make a list of any medicines or first aid products you need to replenish.
Once your piles are finished and youve fixed/cleaned what you can, you are ready to create your new tack room. First, sweep out all cobwebs, dirt and dust. If the floor of the tack room is dirt or concrete, you may want to add stall mats they make the surface nicer to walk on and make cleaning spilled items much easier.
Consider using closet organizers or visit Classic Equine Equipment for their fabulous tack storage systems (http://www.classic-equine.com/barn-accessories/tack-systems). Each individual component of their system fits with the Ultimate Frame. The Ultimate Baskets hang over any 2 rail. Made of heavy duty 3/8 steel, the Ultimate Tack System can handle all types of tack from the lightest English saddles to the heaviest Western rigs. Components include:
Ultimate Frame
Use with any Ultimate Tack System component to provide great storage-solutions anywhere in you tack room or trailer. 17.5"W x 56.25"H
Ultimate Shelf
Large enough to safely store hat boxes and saddle pads up off the floor. The Ultimate Shelf is designed for the top tier of the Ultimate Frame. 28"W x 26"D
Ultimate Large Basket
Perfect for holding all those extras a groom needs and easily removable for carry and go convenience. 18"W x 13"D x 8"D
Ultimate Small Basket
Perfect for medications, feed supplements, leg wraps and spray bottles. 19"W x 6.5"D x 7"H
Best of all, the Classic Equine Equipment Ultimate Tack System allows you to order any combination of components, so you can organize your tack, your way. They are available in a standard galvanized finish or can be powder coated in any of Classic's color options.
With a little work and planning, once your tack room is clean and organized, all your horse products will be easy to find and ready to go.
by: Adam Busse
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