Are Up-Right® Anti-Cast Safety Strips easy to install?

We recommend that you have one other person to help you install your Up-Right® Anti-Cast Safety Strips.

The only tools you will need are standard to every handyman. An Installation Instruction Booklet specific to your individual fixing requirements is forwarded with every order.

The Up-Right® Anti-Cast Safety Strips are easily cut when necessary with a circular or table saw. They can be drilled with a hand held electric drill or drill press to fit odd or different wall lengths or to avoid some wall stud constrictions. This allows you to secure the Up-Right® Anti-Cast Safety Strips at the strongest fixing points to obtain maximum structural support.  

We have our horses stabled away from home at present but would welcome the peace of mind the Up-Right® Anti-Cast Safety Strips obviously provide. When we build our new barn late this year, could we take the strips with us and re-install them into the new barn?

Up-Right® Anti-Cast Safety Strips can be installed in both temporary and permanent enclosures. Bear this in mind when you initially install the Strips.

If you feel you may need to take them down for any reason sometime in the future, just don't use adhesive glue, epoxy or liquid nails on the back of each Strip where it comes into contact with the wall during installation. On the other hand adhesive glues and the like should be seriously considered when installing the Strips as a permanent fixture.  

We have a 3yo Thoroughbred filly that only seems to get cast and in trouble on the same wall. Could we install Up-Right® Anti-Cast Safety Strips on this section of the stall only?

I realise horses are creatures of habit, and I have experienced the same or similar so-called repetitive behavioral traits of horses in my care in the past.

But bear in mind the purpose of the Up-Right® Anti-Cast Strips are to protect your stabled horses over a number of years. Once the Strips are installed, they are there for an infinite period of time. The idea is to provide every horse with the 360° - 24/7 aid and assistance that only a stall enclosure with all walls fitted with the Strips can offer.

This specially designed and tested safety equipment is not a novelty item, nor should the Up-Right® Anti-Cast Safety Strips be considered luxury goods for the rich and famous. We believe they represent essential equipment to make every barn complete and horse people should desist from playing Russian Roulette with their valuable and precious horseflesh and embrace the technology that helps to keep your horses safe and productive.     

Should I replace the wooden 6"x2" casting stops I have in place with the Up-Right® Anti-Cast Safety Strips?

Please yourself, but in my experience once a cast animal gets in a position where the foot pushes or flails over and therefore above the hard wood "casting stops", the damage to the exposed soft tissue of the leg coming into contact with such an unyeilding and unforgiving material spells out injury, vet bills and time on the sideline to me.

I guess you could say something is better than nothing but sometimes an attempt to solve a problem creates another. Casting "stops" or "rails" fashioned from anything but pliable materials just doesn't sit comfortably with me.

Up-Right® Anti-Cast Safety Strips are purpose designed and made with only the welfare of your horse in mind. 

We have rather expensive rubber matting 2 metres high on every wall in our stalls, but we still have horses cast and hurt on occasions. We were thinking we had done what was required to prevent this happening, can you offer any solution?

A work in progress for us is the fully bonded rubber stall wall, simply because horses ideally should at all times be comfortably accomodated in a padded enclosure.

As far as horses and rubber are concerned, the more the better. However, even the slightest amount of moisture in contact with rubber provides an almost too perfect lubricant. The smallest amount of urine or faeces on the foot of an animal upside down and panic-struck is enough to create "wheel spin".

A horse in danger of becoming cast needs a proper, purpose-built gripping and purchasing surface area and even though fully bonded rubber stall walls are on our drawing board, we would certainly include the Up-Right® Anti-Cast Safety Strip technology into the design of another equally ground-breaking idea. 

I have wood cast rails in the stalls in my barn. The problem I have is that my horses have chewed away at the rails over time and they now are ineffective as well as unsightly. If I go ahead and replace the rails with the Up-Right® Anti-Cast Safety Strips, am I likely to encounter the same problem?

Cribbing, chewing and windsucking are vices that every horse owner or carer might need to contend with, sometimes everyday. Our Up-Right® Anti-Cast Safety Strips are both pliable and flexible, and therefore not exempt from the destructive habits of bored or curious animals.

On installation, we recommend that you apply an anti-cribbing solution to the top edge of the Up-Right® Anti-Cast Safety Strips.

In Australia and New Zealand, Kelato Animal Health manufacture a product that in our experience is the best no mess application for this purpose. Kelato RedHOT Liquid Spray is formulated to stop animals from chewing on various surfaces including housings, bandages, leg wraps and blankets and is readily available from all leading saddlery and produce stores.

Why must the goods be paid for before despatch of an Up-Right® Anti-Cast Safety Strip order?

This has always been our policy simply because the orders require custom measurements, assembly and hardware supplies that are all specific to the individual customers needs.

As the Up-Right® Anti-Cast Safety Strips are mostly retro-installed, the buyer must decide when the time is right to have the strips on hand and the enclosures vacated for the installation work to commence. 

This more often than not necessitates a plan to be in place for any movement of livestock that may be required and so the work can be completed to suit the situation, be it immediately, stall by stall or in stages over a period of time. 

We require that 50% of the total be submitted on order, and the remaining 50% on the pick up or delivery of the goods.