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Post by bree17 on Mar 14, 2016 15:21:31 GMT
Has anybody used of the nomad horse washers? What's are your thoughts?
Thanks
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Post by Toaster on Mar 15, 2016 19:46:59 GMT
I have an Aqua2Go which is very similar but a bit cheaper
I am not sure if its you that has asked about these on another forum this evening but here is my reply to that thread:
I love my Aqua2Go, its absolutely awesome, the pressure is fine and the fact that its portable means I can use it to clean literally anything, it does the greenhouse, chicken coops, jumps, troughs, car, dogs as well as the ponies, my grey is looking much better for warm baths as opposed to me using cold water
The only drawback with mine was that I left it plugged in on charge for days once and wrecked the internal battery but they can be replaced and in the meantime I am using it with a 12v socket and car battery
I bought spare hose and am planning to rig that up as a permenant 'wash station' outside with a swinging arm so that when I come to bathe the ponies I just need to plug the base unit on to the end of the hose and the other hose can live in the car or lorry
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Post by chloesmum on Mar 16, 2016 10:40:18 GMT
Hi Toaster is this product similar to a hot horse shower that runs of a gas cylinder? I am looking at buying one as decided at my age I need all the help I can get and fed up with boiling kettles!
They are not cheap so want to make sure I get the right one. I have looked at Showerking and Equus. How does yours differ if at all?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
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Post by Toaster on Mar 16, 2016 12:52:21 GMT
Hi.
The Nomad and the Aqua2Go are different to the gas showers, they are self contained units that you need to add warm water to. they have an internal battery which runs a motor that forces the warm water out of the unit under pressure, they can also be used from a 12v socket in a car
The benefit being that they are totally portable, need no gas or mains water, the pressure is decent and they do a good job of bathing a pony without use of excess water, you can take them in a lorry too
the drawback being that you must have water that is already warm to fill them
I fill two containers of very hot water from the house then use cold water at the yard to dilute this and fill the unit. If you filled it with cold then topped up with a couple of kettles this would do the job, I know its still boiling kettles but the unit uses water more efficiently and you'd need less kettles than if you were using water
I like the look of the gas powered ones, there is someone on Facebook that sells them for £150, maybe not as top notch as others but they'd need to be safe and would be less of a risk financially, even if only to see if you like them enough to invest in a posh one (I'd imagine the resale value would be decent too)
The reason I don't have a gas one myself is that I don't have mains water at my yard plus I am notoriously cack handed with these things and would be sure to blow myself up, I may be tempted one day as my yard is behind my house and ponies could be bathed on the driveway but until then I am thrilled with my little Aqua2Go
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Post by chloesmum on Mar 16, 2016 13:00:27 GMT
Ah thanks Toaster for the detailed reply. Those would not help us as we have no running hot water hence 2 kettles! but we do have good supply of mains water cold. So just splashed out (sorry about the pun!!) on a gas one complete with trolley from Equus - really helpful guy who has horses himself and it all ocmes ready assembled for idiots like me!
Fingers crossed we get on with it - hoping it will transform our lives, too many 'yellow' ponies and everything has white socks apart from the Dartie obviously! and also hope it will keep the lorry clean. Who knows maybe we will take it to Equifest for us!
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