brucea
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Would you think it acceptable...That horses be turned out into a field where this has all been dumped?
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I am not sure that I do think it is acceptable. I'm a little annoyed to say the least.   At least my horse is sensible - but where the herd goes they all go. I am going in 3 days so limited time to have an accident - not that it makes it less likely - but I am so worried about the really nice horses that will remain in there.
it is a time bomb. It really is.
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horsesfirst
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Of course its not acceptable and the field owner could be sued if an accident happened.
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babyjay
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That's not good! Can't it at least be fenced off?
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Yann
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Hmmm, Environment Agency might be interested too 
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stormybracken
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Not good, especially when the owner is taking money for it! All those sticky up rods.
Have you seen the thin glossy paperback photographic guides, I think they are published by Allen. There is one on field management and I have to say my field looks like their version of a badly maintained field with the vet's friend barbed wire fences, and old baths dumped in boggy areas. Initially I taped off everywhere, but over time I've worked out which bits actually are a hazard, and which bits the horses enjoy, like bramble and rosehips growing on rubbly dumps of earth. It has also helped with the mini-track system over the summer, which can be bigger and better next year!
Fingers crossed for your neddies, hope the move goes smoothly! 
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cptrayes
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Which definition of "acceptable" could that possibly come under 
I assume the dumper's own horses, if they have any, are not in that field??????
Good luck with the move Bruce.
C
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brucea
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No - they are not. I asked the YO's partner if she was happy for her horse to go in there and she evaded answering!
I did ask about fencing it off and got a very "unhelpful" reply from the yard manager. Being polite and politic here 
It's not acceptable, and yes they are taking rather a lot of money, and probably nothing will be done about it. But I took pictures anyway in case my horse does get injured and I need to tell the insurance company why it happened.
There have been 4 yard related injuries in the last 4 months on fencing, field shelters, new horses put in with the others witout being introduced appropriately...
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Nic
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Absolutely not on in my opinion, Bruce - those loops of metal look particularly nasty. I'm obsessive about safety, not only for our own horses but because we have other people's coming in, and I know how I would feel about entrusting my horse to someone else, so I am even more paranoid about them than I am with ours!
To be honest, it beggars belief that someone could run a yard and dump that sort of stuff in a field which they expect liveries to use.
N
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brucea
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Me too Nic - beggars belief. There are lovely horses in that field, and some of them are older veterans who can't get out of the way of the younger ones quite as quick as they used to be able to, and they are the ones that will get pushed on to it if there is a rammy.
I won't name the yard, but everyone local to me knows where I am. I spoke with the YO tonight about it and he said the YM had been told to put up a tape fence round it. That will help, I pointed out, but what about when there is heavy snow drifting and high winds....which may be quite soon methinks.
These are issues I have been struggling with for a long time. That field is being used becuase it is the only one that has been rested for a few weeks. There are now so many horses at the yard that the fields cannot be rotated and rested adequately - and more horses on the way to fill new stables just built.
I hope, really hope, that none of the geldings get hurt on it. My own horse only has 2 more nights (he is in the dry lot during the day). Such a pity - it used to be a brilliant yard and we loved being there.
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vickyclink
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absolutely unnacceptable!! 
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stormybracken
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right time to move, on more than one level
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Chris Thompson
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Those re-bars could be lethal - they have killed people who fell on them in the past.
Also from the photo they are all rusty so if you get a puncture would from them it will not be very nice and could be difficult to heal.
Best use for them - get one of those concrete/rock grinding machines - put them through it and you may have a nice base for a track system. I said may though
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vickyclink
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it reminds me of when my landowner had a party in the field i used to rent. He decided to burn his sofa on the bonfire and when i got there in the morning the field was strewn with bottles, a pitchfork and the springs (rusty) of the sofa
The fire site was covered in old nails and it took me 3 hrs to remove the nails and stuff. then I had to find all the sofa springs which were hoof sized 
so i thought i had found all of them... until... i found one wrapped around my horse's pastern a few days later.. of course the rusty thing had scored deeply into his leg and it was infected almost immediately!!!
Angry is NOT the word!
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brucea
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Well this is moving weekend and I'm a mixture of sad that I am leaving my friends and horse-friends at the yard, scared that the new yard won't work out, trying to work out the logistics of the actual move....
But looking forward to a new chapter. I was getting very despondent at the current yard, and have not even ridden my horse for any time for a number of weeks - just going up and doing them and going away. Not fair on them if I emotionally disengage from them because I'm unhappy in my surroundings.
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Chris Thompson
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Look on the bright side - if those pictures are anything to go by, the new yard will have to try very hard to be worse than where you are
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brucea
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Here's a funny thing.
We can get the use of the schol next door belonging to a rather nice retired lady. Rather jolly lady, but I couldn't help notice that she looked a little bit glazed at 11 in the morning.
She is quite delightful, keeps donkeys and cats, not in the same field of course, quite loaded, and gets through the day on several bottles of pink champagne, and apparently..it's not the cheap stuff!
A friend told me that after she had helped her sort out the paddocks for the donkeys last Christmas she was invited in for a drink. Two bottles of pink later, she called her husband to drive her home...
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stormybracken
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Bottoms up!
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micki
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No way is that acceptable . I wouldn't dare let my horse in that field she'd come back in ripped to pieces.
It's a good job you are moving. Hope it goes well for you.
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