Simple fixed windows for van?

But entirely relevant to *your* spouting of

"What makes the horse need to see where it is going ?"

Very poor trolling again woddles, do you have a temperature & a continuous cough?

Of a van?

From a window in a rear door?

I really feel the quality of your trolling has dropped in the last few months...

I have a Renault Master panel van (not coachbuilt) horsebox, the type with standard solid steel back doors. Wife has decided the horses (rear facing) need to be able to look out. The "proper" Renault glazed units are comparatively expensive but I reckon all I need is one or two simple boat/caravan types fitted within the "single skin" part at the top of the door/s. Any suggestions for suppliers, or things to watch out for?

newshound laid this down on his screen :

Caravan and probably boat types are basically designed to have a thicker panel to fit to. You would probably need to add a 25mm piece of ply around the holes.

A better bet would be a car/van scrap yard and look for a van which has had panel windows added, which can be reclaimed.

Make sure structural pressures cannot bounce the windows out of their surrounds. Also be interested in what makes the horse need to be able to see where its been! Brian

Don't see many horse boxes / transporters that allow the horses a view. There may be a very good reason for this. Like they are totally mental, afraid of everything that moves and easily spooked. Many can't be got into boxes without a bag over their heads.

Have you asked other horse box owners how horses get on when they can see where they have been? And what happens when they see you getting tailgated by a moving or rapidly approaching car?

It's one thing having to make allowances for riders on horses but totally another thing if we have to start giving extra wide berth to horses in transit that have windows.

Brian Gaff (Sofa) snipped-for-privacy@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote

What makes the horse need to see where it is going ?

Not true, actually. You see them both in coachbuilt horseboxes and in trailers. The windows are typically not very deep so you might not see the horse's head from the ground, but the horse gets enough of a view to give them a frame of reference for the outside world.

Good point, although I think most of the structural strength in modern van doors comes from the internal frame which is a deep pressed channel structure.

Also be interested in what makes the horse need to be able to see

I think it is more to provide them with a frame of reference that stays aligned with gravity while a vehicle bounces around.

Nope from the window at the front that some have.

Irrelevant to the general question of what horses need to see when being moved in horseboxes etc.

newshound wrote on 02/07/2020 :

Do horses become travel sick?

Some gutless f****it desperately cowering behind Jimk snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote just the shit that always spews from the back of it.

"Harry Bloomfield"; "Esq." snipped-for-privacy@NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message news:rdmsb7$ofu$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me...

Nope.

Horses cannot vomit, or so I always believed. This is why certain conditions are much more dangerous to them.

Correct, it's all about the geometry. Colic can be a very serious condition, quite often fatal or requiring major surgery (starting cost £3k). I was lucky to get away with a night in horse hospital and a bill < £1k last time. (I think they were being nice to me because it was triggered by what turned out to be an inappropriate wormer).

Some gutless f****it desperately cowering behind Jimk snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com spewed just the shit that always spews from the back of it.