D ring harness

[jac]

I notice a lot of mentions of D ring harness. Am I right in thinking this is also called “side backer” and what is the real benefits. I’ve been told it will help ease mowing and binder operation for the horses shoulders without having to use a tongue truck ??
John

[Carl Russell]

JAC, your basic premise is correct. Rather than rewriting a whole bunch of info, here is a search page with lots of posts about this subject.

http://www.draftanimalpower.com/search.php?searchid=224802

Carl

[jac]

Thanks Carl.. still getting to grips with the sheer volume of info on this web site. Thanks for your patience.. I get the general picture of the harness now.. my present harness is the western breeching set up.. works well but as I intend to do a lot more mowing and dont really want to go down the tongue truck route I think this could be the answer and now need an east coast {to keep shipping cost down} harness maker you folks could recomend. cheers
John

[Carl Russell]

Sorry this is the page I meant to post
http://www.draftanimalpower.com/search.php?searchid=224962

Carl

[grey]

A D-ring harness is a sidebacker harness, but not all sidebacker harnesses are D-ring. Clear as mud? 😮 I sometimes say sidebacker when I mean D-ring. It’s not correct, though.

[jac]

Awww jeeez .. an just when I thot i’d got it 🙂

[Does’ Leap]

John, you can try Zimmerman’s Harness (717)354-5667. They are excellent and inexpensive. Refer to the threads on the length of the front tug and relay that info to whomever is making your harness.

George

PS I have an aunt who lives on an island off the Isle of Skye. Scotland is a beautiful place!

[jac]

Hi George.. Skye is one of the particulary beautiful places here. I dont know if any of you over there have heard of Charlie Pinney, he made horse drawn machines now sadly dead but I was privelaged to be asked to a working horse weekend he had at his place way up on the west coast.. stunning !!!
Thank you for that contact I will give them a call soon because from what I’v read this type of harness does seem to answer a lot of probs. cheers
John

[Tim Harrigan]

Carl, FYI I have not been able to display either of those reference posts. Tim

[Carl Russell]

I am confused. It works once or twice then not. Try this; http://www.draftanimalpower.com/search.php?searchid=225276

Or just go to the search tab, then to advanced, enter D-ring, and set to titles only. It should post quite a few that deal with details of the d-ring.

Carl

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