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Neil Dimmock
ParticipantHey I wouldn’t cross a street to woop ya (no offence just don’t fight much at my age) but I might buy my own ticket to come a ride them stangs with ya in them hills but I am more than double there weight, kewl pics
NeilParticipantThere sure would not be many wild horses left if a little frost killed!
NeilParticipantHow about tying on to my double tree and find out!
there just ponies not work horses dont matter how much some one likes them there still ponys and nothing looks worse then some one bulling a pair of ponys in to pulling a load to big for them
NeilParticipant(“Don’t allow horses to graze frosted pastures)!! Humm!! OK.
NeilParticipantFunny after a 150 years or so of grazing fall grass and no sick horses!! ever in the fall, and up to two hunderd head of them, maybe its what your putting on the grass, LIKE fertilizer which can raise the level of nitrates which can cause sweating and colic, we use non of that and no sick horses!! yum??
NeilParticipantMine dont come in until the snow gets to deep to dig, theres hay outn for them but there just as happy grazing instead. guess frost dont hurt to much
NeilParticipantNo its as old as any and more so then a side backer or dring city harness!
NeilParticipant@Ira 2926 wrote:
The rule of thumb is to have your hames 2 inches longer than the collar.
24in. collar needs 26in. hames.
Hames are measured from the bottom hame loop to the top adjustment notch in a straight line.I said that already!
ParticipantThanks 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,
NeilParticipantHey look at the video!! and you’ll see the problems if you what to!! talk is just talk but video dont lie!~
NeilParticipantNo 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!!
NeilParticipant@Marchand 2894 wrote:
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??
NeilParticipant@jenjudkins 2892 wrote:
OK, Neil. I measured Peanut and the collar as per your video instructions and both measure out at 24 inches. No rocking. But I still can’t figure out the neck shape. Pictures below. I suspect his neck is of the flat type at this point, but might change as he gets older/fitter/etc. Thanks for any feedback. Jennifer.
They appear to be half sweeney, there is a small swell or muscle about the one third mark and a full face might push in on that and sore them there, I must say what a nice clean shoulder, no white marks or scars, I hope I can help you keep them that way!
and you welcome!!
NeilParticipantWell that was fun , if you pull down on the tug it will pull down on the collar. ie, like when the belly band is to short, if set up right the d ring is not a bad harness but it is so rarely set right that all the extra weight added to the pole makes it worse and a small adjustment out of whack and its adding weight, and most that drive rarely have a collar or a bridle fit right so for them to figure out this contraption !!!!
NeilParticipantIts 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
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