Collar Fit

Excellent pix Jenn,
The collar appears to fit very well with the pad. In truth, tight is better than loose.

I have always used collar pads, mostly to extend the life of the collar, but I know those who never use them. Of more concern is whether the structure of the collar can live up to the strain of work. It looks good enough for this exercise, I didn’t get a chance to appraise it in the sale. I especially like the duct tape. It’ll look like you’ve been at it for years.

Your initiative is great, as like everything else with training, if you wait till the last minute, you have an obstacle, whereas starting long before necessary, when you need the horse, he will not know any different.

I know it is hard to justify expenses for equipment that will be grown out of, but good equipment well-maintained will retain its value, and will be much more valuable to you if you want to start exposing Peanut to real work. He’s certainly big enough.

Thanks for starting this thread, Carl

Its a little long but the pad helps, does it rock back and forth or lay flat on the shoulder? it looks like it has been broke at the bottom and if it has chuck it. to pick a new collar, start by looking at the neck up high and see if they have a large muscle about a third of the way up, if there is you’ll need a half to full sweeny collar, if not and there is a long flat surface faceing some what forward the whole way to the top, that a flat shoulder and you’ll need a full face collar, here a video I did a while a go it might help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU2FftmwWMM

the pad is to short but it works for this mare, a longer one wrinkled a the the bend at the bottom,
but they should be 2″ longer than the collar
Neil

@Neil Dimmock 2885 wrote:

Its a little long but the pad helps, does it rock back and forth or lay flat on the shoulder? it looks like it has been broke at the bottom and if it has chuck it. to pick a new collar, start by looking at the neck up high and see if they have a large muscle about a third of the way up, if there is you’ll need a half to full sweeny collar, if not and there is a long flat surface faceing some what forward the whole way to the top, that a flat shoulder and you’ll need a full face collar, here a video I did a while a go it might help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU2FftmwWMM

the pad is to short but it works for this mare, a longer one wrinkled a the the bend at the bottom,
but they should be 2″ longer than the collar
Neil

Ooooooooooh…I’m an old man….but I stand up & lay th’ lines to ’em…love the Wind….walk’n’s for Pedestrians….on sidewalks or whatever….I gets Some Big Air…Sapplin-Straddlin, etc….on the way to Work…yeah, right……..

@Marchand 2894 wrote:

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Aight, Cuz’n Neil,….I know us is double-time’n…& parlor-skill violate’n…but…since I been U-tube’n…widja’…I’ve chap’d 3-r-4 ponies…All on the Bottom…Collar Neck-portions…been play’n pad-dis & pad-dat…& try’d all sizes of collars….Why am’s we chap’n on the Throat???…& Bless your Big O’ Heart…….

Ooooooooooh…I’m an old man….but I stand up & lay th’ lines to ’em…love the Wind….walk’n’s for Pedestrians….on sidewalks or whatever….I gets Some Big Air…Sapplin-Straddlin, etc….on the way to Work…yeah, right……..

It took a couple of runs at it but I think I go it!! if you are having trouble with scalding the shoulder down low, kind of like a wrinkled smile, two things are happening, 1, hot soft skin. 2 over heated and wet shoulders! you can work your horses a little easier until they callous, not easy to do. or if you like go get a pare of vinyl pads, here’s a link, http://www.aaronmartin.com/product.php?cat_id=206&catview=34&submit=View , they will heal a sore shoulder while you work the horse, they sure don’t look like they work but they sure do, i use them on all my teams now, after all I have 18 teams and not all there shoulders can be toughened up to work hard on hot days and since I have switched to these I have no more scalds period, hope this helps
ps I hit spell check and it all most fried out trying to decider you post my man!! hows life??
Neil

No go bigger hames, they will fit the collar, try 25″ or 26″ hames on a 24″ collar some dont like how a 26″ sticks up a little so the forgo the fit and use a 24″. most newer hames are bent out more than the older style right at the sweeney and with a new collar there sh old be more than enuff room! there are some special order hames but your horses dont warrant them!!
Neil

Thanks dude! but we will get by, that’s what us country folk do is get by,
Let me know how you make out with them pads. Mine are a manly black. I hope you dant draw to much unwhanted atention with those (BLUE) pads, HE HE,
Neil