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  • October 5, 2008 at 3:08 am #47526
    Neil Dimmock
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    @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!

    October 5, 2008 at 12:50 pm #47520
    Marchand
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    @Neil Dimmock 2922 wrote:

    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

    Pad Report:
    Strap’d ’em on with 4 seat belt strips with 2″ WWII buckles…skeptically…but the pad molded & formed to collar great before long day’s over….forgot before…pony had bad sore on top of neck at mane….applied a goose-grease size wad of Boudreaux’s Butt-Paste..(cajun Desitin)….& it’s healed on 2nd day of work….works so well I plumb forgot I’d left out like a wagon go’n to the Gay Pride Parade….now, the color seems more like Denium…or Boy-Dog Blue….& none ‘a buddies would ever try load’n me over such????…..

    October 5, 2008 at 1:51 pm #47517
    jen judkins
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    @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.

    Thanks, Ira. How do they think of these ways of measuring necks and collars and hames…all seems sort of arbitrary…though I’m sure steeped in tradition!?! Jennifer.

    October 5, 2008 at 11:46 pm #47513
    Ira
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    @jenjudkins 2934 wrote:

    Thanks, Ira. How do they think of these ways of measuring necks and collars and hames…all seems sort of arbitrary…though I’m sure steeped in tradition!?! Jennifer.

    Your welcome:) I haven’t got a clue when everything became standardised. I do know that the harness styles that are common have been around for well over 100 years. I think the western style with belly backers is probably the newest design. And that is also over a hundred years old:D
    Ira

    October 6, 2008 at 1:11 am #47527
    Neil Dimmock
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    No its as old as any and more so then a side backer or dring city harness!
    Neil

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