Re: protection of saddlery and equipment in the tackroom

 It seems people aren't bothered about this. Personally i was robbed and lost 1000,s of pounds of equipment, and i was sickend to think that these thieves can sell on through auction etc or basically anywhere they choose, with them making money and the auction making money. And i have met people in other forums who say the insurance didnt even pay up! Does anyone have reccomendations for the best tack insurers?

People are using RFID in there saddles in hope if it is!! scanned their tack will be returned.

Any other suggestions for tack protection? Please, would like to hear.

Jen

Re: protection of saddlery and equipment in the tackroom

We've always had to keep our tack at home as there is nowhere to keep it at the field, and also previously when we were in a rented field with a lockable stone built shed we did the same, as we found everything stayed damp and went mouldy very quickly.

It's covered by our house insurance, just had to remember to take everything in the car !!

Re: protection of saddlery and equipment in the tackroom

The big problem is when travellers are about things start to be stolen, but this at times happening so they get the blame even though they are not always innocent, but when they break through the roof when everything else is alarmed. At the place my son is a lorry container  for the tack room but like every where else only good as the lock. I had the garage door open the once leading my horse through and found a scrap metal dealer inspecting my saddle which was on a saddle rack asked him what he was doing and he kept asking if a wheelchair in the garage was scrap my answer was no quite a few times until I lost it and the word had off at the end. Cannot understand why stealing equipment as if you try to sell your old equipment don't get much at all, this saddle of mine was made for a specific horse Lara. with very high withers.

Re: protection of saddlery and equipment in the tackroom

my tack is kept at home, not good when you have 2 saddles to lug out without a car! i'm sure my tack is covered in my house insurance. I know its not always possible to take stuff home but we have our tack room well tucked out the way.

Re: protection of saddlery and equipment in the tackroom

 Hi, everyone thank you for your comments, i am actually looking into a unit to be fitted into saddles, as this is generally the most common piece of equipment taken.  You then have to purchase a separate handheld scanner and an app to access mapping. Should your things be stolen there is avery good chance that this unit will allow you to find it on a pc within a range of 500m -1500m then you use this scanner which takes you directly to where your goods will be. This unit is in trial at the moment and hopefully will be available shortly.

Is this something that you think people will like?  I think especially on yards where there are shared tackrooms this device will be worth its weight in gold.

I have created a little online shop called www.horse-security.com just to get us on line with a link to our facebook page, which when this unit is ready i will post on there. (This is basically to get us some ground and get us seen ready for launching it)

We are also working on a unit to be worn by the horse.

Would appreciate your thoughts on such a unit.

Jenny