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After safety considerations, think about how your club plans to use the trailer. Will certain items be stored that you need frequent access to while your trailer is parked? Perhaps you need to use one ring’s worth of equipment once a week when you teach a class. Maybe the trailer will most often be used at trials for one particular organization, but storage is needed for a few extra pieces for an occasional trial for a different venue. You might want maximum access so that you can easily reach nearly every piece of equipment without moving many others. Also be sure to consider other needs your club may have. Wagner listed several for his club, including putting the contact equipment in last if desired and allowing wet equipment to dry without having to unload it. If you are lucky enough to have lots of volunteers to help load equipment after a trial, you might consider how to allow them to easily move through the trailer. Bob Matejek of the Agility Workout Society of Mid-Michigan (AWSOMM) set up his club’s trailer with this in mind: “With everything loaded, there is still a 30"-wide aisle open to pass through. A procession of people can carry the equipment in the rear drop gate and continue out the front service door.” It’s a handy idea, but you’ll need to decide if your club will gain enough benefit from this design to forego a lot of packing space. Also think about convenience and ease of use. Fregien says, “When setting up a trailer, the main thing is figuring out how to store the contact equipment. As big, heavy, clunky obstacles, they really need a secure place. Everything else can fit around those pieces. Having them stored near the door of the trailer is also important because it’s much easier to load and unload them without having to carry them up into the depths of the trailer.”
Outfitting the Trailer
After considering your club’s major uses of the trailer, think about what kinds of modifications your club members are capable of doing. Do you have access to someone who can weld to make racks and stabilizers? Agility Club of Evansville used welded lightweight steel in their trailer. Laughlin says, “One of our club members welded 1" steel frameworks to make the various modules. The wall structure is used only for stability and anchorage.”
To the right in the photo is the framework that serves to help secure fence posts, PVC jump bars, and the tire. The dogwalk and teeter boards are hung on the opposite wall, freeing the middle of the trailer for other items.
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Clean Run - May 2011
Clean Run - May 2011
Contents
Editorializing: A Change of Plan
Tip of the Month
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Agility…
Backyard Dogs
Building and Balancing Handler and Obstacle Focus, Part 2
Bloopers
Avoiding Fatigue: How to Stay on Track During an Agility Trial
Teaching Focus and Impulse-Control Classes: Week 1
Customizing and Organizing an Agility Trailer
Are You Prepared for a Medical Emergency?
Trials With Molly
Power Paws Drills: Crossing Patterns
Aging Agility Dogs
Challenges for Rising Stars
Ready, Set, Trial! Your First Trial Day
Confessions of a Gambling Addict, Part 1: Planning and Running the Gamble
Vive La DifféRence!
No Wrong Way to Teach Anything
Self-Assessment: Learning From Your Students
Tricks for Agility: Ring Toss
Clean Run - May 2011 - Clean Run - May 2011
Clean Run - May 2011 - 2
Clean Run - May 2011 - Contents
Clean Run - May 2011 - 4
Clean Run - May 2011 - Editorializing: A Change of Plan
Clean Run - May 2011 - Tip of the Month
Clean Run - May 2011 - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Agility…
Clean Run - May 2011 - Backyard Dogs
Clean Run - May 2011 - 9
Clean Run - May 2011 - 10
Clean Run - May 2011 - 11
Clean Run - May 2011 - Building and Balancing Handler and Obstacle Focus, Part 2
Clean Run - May 2011 - 13
Clean Run - May 2011 - 14
Clean Run - May 2011 - Bloopers
Clean Run - May 2011 - 16
Clean Run - May 2011 - 17
Clean Run - May 2011 - Avoiding Fatigue: How to Stay on Track During an Agility Trial
Clean Run - May 2011 - 19
Clean Run - May 2011 - 20
Clean Run - May 2011 - 21
Clean Run - May 2011 - Teaching Focus and Impulse-Control Classes: Week 1
Clean Run - May 2011 - 23
Clean Run - May 2011 - 24
Clean Run - May 2011 - 25
Clean Run - May 2011 - 26
Clean Run - May 2011 - 27
Clean Run - May 2011 - Customizing and Organizing an Agility Trailer
Clean Run - May 2011 - 29
Clean Run - May 2011 - 30
Clean Run - May 2011 - 31
Clean Run - May 2011 - 32
Clean Run - May 2011 - 33
Clean Run - May 2011 - 34
Clean Run - May 2011 - Are You Prepared for a Medical Emergency?
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Clean Run - May 2011 - 38
Clean Run - May 2011 - 39
Clean Run - May 2011 - 40
Clean Run - May 2011 - 41
Clean Run - May 2011 - Trials With Molly
Clean Run - May 2011 - 43
Clean Run - May 2011 - 44
Clean Run - May 2011 - 45
Clean Run - May 2011 - Power Paws Drills: Crossing Patterns
Clean Run - May 2011 - 47
Clean Run - May 2011 - 48
Clean Run - May 2011 - 49
Clean Run - May 2011 - 50
Clean Run - May 2011 - Aging Agility Dogs
Clean Run - May 2011 - 52
Clean Run - May 2011 - 53
Clean Run - May 2011 - 54
Clean Run - May 2011 - 55
Clean Run - May 2011 - Challenges for Rising Stars
Clean Run - May 2011 - 57
Clean Run - May 2011 - 58
Clean Run - May 2011 - Ready, Set, Trial! Your First Trial Day
Clean Run - May 2011 - 60
Clean Run - May 2011 - 61
Clean Run - May 2011 - Confessions of a Gambling Addict, Part 1: Planning and Running the Gamble
Clean Run - May 2011 - 63
Clean Run - May 2011 - 64
Clean Run - May 2011 - 65
Clean Run - May 2011 - 66
Clean Run - May 2011 - 67
Clean Run - May 2011 - Vive La DifféRence!
Clean Run - May 2011 - 69
Clean Run - May 2011 - 70
Clean Run - May 2011 - No Wrong Way to Teach Anything
Clean Run - May 2011 - 72
Clean Run - May 2011 - 73
Clean Run - May 2011 - Self-Assessment: Learning From Your Students
Clean Run - May 2011 - 75
Clean Run - May 2011 - 76
Clean Run - May 2011 - 77
Clean Run - May 2011 - 78
Clean Run - May 2011 - 79
Clean Run - May 2011 - Tricks for Agility: Ring Toss
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