Do you ever partake of the Monday night Sheperdsville horse auction??
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Nope, but I know the auctioneer a little, and he's told me some about it. Mabey someday I'll go.
I'm alot closer to the Tri-county sale barn in Henry county, which has the same auctioneer.
-Phillip
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I've been to Shepherdsville a time or three. We've bought some decent horses there and we have sold some "not so good" horses there as well. The hip numbers don't seem to matter much. The Ryan boys just go in the sale ring whenever they want to. It's been a couple of years, so maybe it's changed some.
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I haven't looked behind the rubber wall lining on my CM, but it appears to be mounted on an aluminum frame of some kind directly inside the extruded aluminum exterior walls. I assume you used the plywood to give some rigidity and protection to your outside sheet aluminum walls, and to mount your rubber lining. 3/4" laminated board, treated, must up your weight, too! Not to expand your project [you've done a great job and way more than I ever could!], but you might look for extruded aluminum panels for your o/s walls if you go back and ditch the plywood.
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I'm alot closer to the Tri-county sale barn in Henry county, which has the same auctioneer.
-Phillip
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<font color="green">You wouldn't by any chance be talking about "SLIGO", where they trade anything, including fighting roosters, goats, Jersey calves, wives, you name it, would you?? </font>
I would do something to try to preserve the floor.... like soaking it with Diesel or Linseed oil a couple times and then again once a year. Diesel really stinks for a couple weeks but then the smell subsides, Linseed oil has worked really well for me, kind of hardens the wood as it oxidizes. Both help keep the wood dry.
I'm alot closer to the Tri-county sale barn in Henry county, which has the same auctioneer.
-Phillip
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<font color="green">You wouldn't by any chance be talking about "SLIGO", where they trade anything, including fighting roosters, goats, Jersey calves, wives, you name it, would you?? </font>
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I would do something to try to preserve the floor.... like soaking it with Diesel or Linseed oil a couple times and then again once a year. Diesel really stinks for a couple weeks but then the smell subsides, Linseed oil has worked really well for me, kind of hardens the wood as it oxidizes. Both help keep the wood dry.
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I will probably make my favorite used oil/diesel mix.
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I have decided that my next trailer will have line-x sprayed to cover the floor and up the walls 3'.
[/ QUOTE ]Checkout the W.E.R.M. (We Eliminate Rubber Mats) flooring. It is a very nice poured flooring that is used in a lot of custom trailers. It was tested with a device designed to mimic a horse pawing continuously in the same place for 10 years and it did not wear through it. And any defects can be repaired with a trowel. Very little slipping and sliding on that surface and easily cleaned up with a pressure washer. I bed with shaving for absorption of the urine and manure even with the flooring.
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I have decided that my next trailer will have line-x sprayed to cover the floor and up the walls 3'.
[/ QUOTE ]Checkout the W.E.R.M. (We Eliminate Rubber Mats) flooring. It is a very nice poured flooring that is used in a lot of custom trailers. It was tested with a device designed to mimic a horse pawing continuously in the same place for 10 years and it did not wear through it. And any defects can be repaired with a trowel. Very little slipping and sliding on that surface and easily cleaned up with a pressure washer. I bed with shaving for absorption of the urine and manure even with the flooring.
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You all listen this this guy right here, he knows his horse trailers!!! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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