Field shelters

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squidsin

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Do you need planning permission to put one up? Also, what is usually the deal with farmers/landowners - do you take them with you when you leave? Do those of you with fields you rent have a long term lease?

Thinking of renting somewhere and DIYing properly, just in case you were wondering! I reckon it will quickly work out cheaper than paying for DIY.
 
It varies from council to council as to whether pp is required. Check first. Mobile ones may still need it. Ours did not - we checked anyway. Some councils are VERY fussy about what is deemed mobile and will make you prove they can be moved easily.
We bought Redmire ones which are outstanding - not cheap but worth every penny. We actually moved ours last year - the tractor pulled them. All field shelters are not made equal! Depends on how much wind you get in your neck of the woods. What you can do is loop a chain over a post which has been concreted in - for added anchorage. This will still enable them to be mobile as and when required.
 
Just wanted to add - if you want details on living with field shelters and the pros and cons feel free to pm me - I won't bore everyone on this thread with the nitty gritty but I have been there and done it - so can give you pointers if you decide to go down that road. We have a proper stable complex and yard now and life is very different !
 
Thanks Trewsers - I want all the info I can get so anyone on this thread is welcome to bombard me with PMs!
 
We have three - one by Levade systems which forms two stables, the ponies have a 12 x 12 they share with an open front and because the girls are bigger and don't share well have a 12 x 18 open front - both of the field ones are by NFF.

They are all on timber skids and are all sited so that we do not need to move them around (i.e not dragging them about all the time) otherwise we would have got metal skids. We have them all stood perpendicular to the prevailing winds and they didnt move an inch this winter. We only have bedding down in the stables but feed hay from the shelters and keep it tidy to stop it getting wet and boggy (although we do have mats down)

We do not have a long term lease and we would take them down and move them if we left.
 
That was the type I was looking at - that effectively forms two stables if you shut the doors, so I could use them as stables if needed.
 
At my last field I had one made and it was outstanding - I wish the guy hadn't turned into a creepy weirdo as I would have used him again in a heartbeat :redcarded:...

I took mine with me when I left as I was only there 12 months and would have lost out on the money I spent on it.
 
popularfurball said:
At my last field I had one made and it was outstanding - I wish the guy hadn't turned into a creepy weirdo as I would have used him again in a heartbeat :redcarded:...

I took mine with me when I left as I was only there 12 months and would have lost out on the money I spent on it.
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Eeeeuw, sounds most odd! Then again, there are some very odd folk about these days...............I don't think I would end up noticing half of them, I just seem to talk them to death anyways:giggle::giggle: Mr T finds it hilarious how I don't seem to notice - ah well, any opportunity to talk horses.....:yellowcarded:
 
I have a Redmire shelter, it is wonderful. Metal skids but I haven't needed to move it yet. I rent the field, but the shelter is mine, all mine *rubs hands and cackles*
 
Two friends have got round the planning by having shelters on skids and painting it green.
Its then not a permanent structure and its yours if you buy it and put up, you sell/take with you.
 
Yes he didn't take it well when I declined his advances and then text me and told me the shelter was on fire with the ponies in!!! And tried to say I hadn't paid him. Cheeky slimy toad!
 
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