Posted 2015-11-05 4:53 PM (#165305) Subject: How to get my trailer cooler for my horses.
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Posts: 40 Location: Laguna Hills, CA
Hi guys,I have a sweet 2008 20foot on the floor gooseneck horse trailer.It is like a 4 horse trailer divided into a 3 horse slant load designed for 3 draft horses.It has 3 big drop down feed doors on the right, three vents in the ceiling and 3 sliding windows on the butt side and one small window in the back.All it does is a little air blows on their faces and they are hot and sweaty inside.When it is warm it is hot inside despite having an insulated ceiling etc.Any way to keep it cooler inside. Something that can work as scoops on the sliding windows or ? I am thinking of adding a maxxfan in the ceiling.Here is the plans:[IMG]http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/uu177/seejohnnyrun/Trailer_Page_2_zpsfgtlqvqu.jpg[/IMG]
Posted 2015-11-07 1:08 PM (#165322 - in reply to #165305) Subject: RE: How to get my trailer cooler for my horses.
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My previous trailer was pretty much closed in, so we had a fan installed to move air. It ran off the truck battery ( aux cable). It was placed high in the front and blew towards the back. Flymasks help a lot to keep at least the big stuff out of horses' eyes while rolling down the road with the windows down.
Posted 2015-11-09 7:18 PM (#165330 - in reply to #165305) Subject: RE: How to get my trailer cooler for my horses.
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Posts: 1989 Location: South Central OK
Is your trailer a Jackson? If so please call Jackson and ask what they recommend, the owner is about the nicest trailer guy I've ever met. I would think finding someone to rip off the rear sliding windows and either put larger fold down windows or putting in stock slats would fix the problem completely. You are finding out the hard way why those little sliding windows went the way of the laser disk.
Posted 2015-11-25 5:22 PM (#165454 - in reply to #165305) Subject: RE: safty hitch system
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Posts: 183 Location: riverside ca
@PaulChristenson why would you not want highway speed air in the trailer? The more air you move the cooler the horses are. I have hauled horses thousands of miles in an open topped truck, and I know several other people who have done the same and never had an issue, I haul them facing backwards but they haul well probably better than an enclosed trailer.
@Terrye If i were you I would add more roof vents, they dont do much standing still but on the highway they help quite a bit. I like one right over the withers as well as one on the butt. Also is your roof insulated? that will really help it keep cooler. I find the fans they sell for in horse trailers do next to nothing, If i am stopped for a long period of time I use a big fan like they use for drying carpet but it runs off of a generator.
Posted 2015-11-25 5:26 PM (#165456 - in reply to #165305) Subject: RE: safty hitch system
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Posts: 183 Location: riverside ca
here is a video of how we haul the carriage horses in the back of the truck, may want to skip to about 3:00 minuteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCrT4p-qtQwI just cant see how they would get any more air moving inside a trailer than that and i have never heard of an issue.
Posted 2015-11-26 7:18 AM (#165459 - in reply to #165454) Subject: RE: safty hitch system
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Posts: 3853 Location: Vermont
Originally written by HOUSE on 2015-11-25 8:22 PM
@PaulChristenson why would you not want highway speed air in the trailer? The more air you move the cooler the horses are. I have hauled horses thousands of miles in an open topped truck, and I know several other people who have done the same and never had an issue, I haul them facing backwards but they haul well probably better than an enclosed trailer.@Terrye If i were you I would add more roof vents, they dont do much standing still but on the highway they help quite a bit. I like one right over the withers as well as one on the butt. Also is your roof insulated? that will really help it keep cooler. I find the fans they sell for in horse trailers do next to nothing, If i am stopped for a long period of time I use a big fan like they use for drying carpet but it runs off of a generator.
Posted 2015-11-28 1:57 PM (#165467 - in reply to #165305) Subject: RE: How to get my trailer cooler for my horses.
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Location: Lafayette, La.
Keeping horses cooler is really pretty simple and it is amazing more horse trailer manufacturers do not take advantage of it. I am in the RV Business and we have been using a variety of Large fans, Max air, or fantastic fans that both pull air out or in depending on the settings. If you are familiar with attic fans they work the same way. They work off 12V and will run whether you truck is on or not as long as you have battery power. Pull off to eat or get stuck in traffic they still work. Most pull an average of 900cfms and basically suck out all of the hot air in the ceiling at the same time pulling fresh air from the outside. Horse compartments that are not insulated are basically ovens. One will work great on a 3 horse and I would go with two for 4 horse and above. Most will need max air covers that allow them to be used going down the highway and in the rain. I have pulled from La. to Purcell Ok., in the middle of the summer with my windows slid open all around the trailer with my fan on, and arrived in ok, without hardly a drop of sweat on my horses. I can promise it will drop the temperature in the trailer dramatically! I would not own or stock a trailer without these in them. RV's have been using them for years and can be operated with a remote switch or just a remote. Outside of putting an air condition in the horse compartment there is no better way to keep your horses cool. (insulating your horse compartment is also a very big help).
Posted 2015-11-30 9:10 AM (#165474 - in reply to #165305) Subject: RE: How to get my trailer cooler for my horses.
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i was concerned about this when i had my trailer built so i had drops at heads and slides at rumps put in and there is a 2-speed fans on the head side at each horse, as well as a flettner vents in the ceiling which suck the hot air out. my horses seem to stay cooler and are not sweaty when i unload.
How to get my trailer cooler for my horses.
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