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         Don’t forget these essential items
        when packing the truck for the agility trial  | 
     
   
  
 
Setting the Course: 
  
    
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         Agility Equipment (of course)  | 
      
         Don’t forget cotter pins, chains, stakes, tunnel holders, and all
        the "little" pieces  | 
     
    
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         Flagging or fencing to mark the course boundaries  | 
      
         Need poles, too  | 
     
    
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         100’ measuring tape  | 
      
         For measuring the boundaries and laying out a course grid  | 
     
    
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         Smaller measuring tape  | 
      
         For checking A-frame height, jump heights  | 
     
    
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         Flags or grid markers  | 
      
         For marking the course grid  | 
     
    
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         Tape for gamble line, golf tees  | 
      
         Plastic tees are recommended for securing the gamble line tape.  | 
     
    
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         Hammers  | 
      
         For driving stakes for tunnels, etc. At least 2.  | 
     
    
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         Numbered cones, snooker flags, start line markers  | 
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         Large maps of the courses  | 
      
         Extras for the course builders  | 
     
   
 
Elsewhere on the Site 
  
    
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         Folding Tables  | 
      
         For check-in, scoring, raffle, awards, hospitality  | 
     
    
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         Chairs  | 
      
         For all the above plus bar-setters, gate stewards, timers, scribes,
        etc.  | 
     
    
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         Rain & shade tarps  | 
      
         Don’t forget stakes to hold these down.  | 
     
    
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         Signage  | 
      
         Directions to the site, check-in, ring numbers, etc.  | 
     
    
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         Waste bins, plastic liners  | 
      
         For trash as well as dog waste  | 
     
    
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         Easels, white boards w/ markers  | 
      
         For gate check-in and postings  | 
     
   
 
Essentials 
  
    
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         All the paperwork  | 
      
         Score sheets, scribe sheets, course maps, catalogs, running order,
        gate sheets, check-in sheets  | 
     
    
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         Stopwatches  | 
      
         Recommend 2 per ring  | 
     
    
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         Whistles  | 
      
         1 per ring plus a spare  | 
     
    
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         Calculators  | 
      
         Minimum 1 per score table plus a spare  | 
     
    
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         Start flags or bell  | 
      
         Something to signal competitors on the line that they may start their
        run  | 
     
    
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         Measuring wickets or device  | 
      
         For measuring dogs  | 
     
    
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         Batons  | 
      
         For USDAA pairs  | 
     
    
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         Clipboards  | 
      
         For the scribes and perhaps also the judge  | 
     
    
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         Pens, pencils, pencil sharpener  | 
      
         For scribes and score table  | 
     
    
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         White-out, correction tape, carbon paper  | 
      
         For score table  | 
     
    
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         Masking tape, clear tape, push-pins  | 
      
         For posting results, making repairs  | 
     
    
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         Binders, file holders  | 
      
         To hold score sheets, course maps, and all the other paperwork you
        don’t want to lose track of  | 
     
    
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         Highlighters, permanent markers  | 
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         Stapler, paper clips, large clips  | 
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         Ribbons, awards, judges gifts  | 
      
         Forgetting these is BAD.  | 
     
   
 
Other Handy Stuff 
  
    
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         Pooper scooper and plastic baggies  | 
      
         Make it easy for exhibitors to keep the site clean  | 
     
    
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         Big box of doggie treats  | 
      
         Exhibitors appreciate  | 
     
    
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         Wire ties, duct tape, super glue, WD-40, rope, wire  | 
      
         Emergency repairs  | 
     
    
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         Tools: screwdrivers, drill, wire cutters, pliers, more hammers,
        sandpaper  | 
      
         Ditto  | 
     
    
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         Natures Miracle, vinegar  | 
      
         Or other cleaner, to remove the smell of "mistakes" in the
        ring  | 
     
    
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         Buckets, spray bottles  | 
      
         Ditto  | 
     
    
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         Extension cords, power strips  | 
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         PA System  | 
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         Flash lights, extra batteries  | 
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