Reducing tongue-slap

[Marshall]

Geoff, I hope this worked

[grey]

Geoff, I was thinking about it this morning and I bet if you eliminated the combination snap and sent your pole strap directly to the neck yoke, you’d have less tongue slap. The combination snap lets the neck yoke articulate side-to-side readily. I think most pole straps that we get from the harness makers these days are of a length designed to attach to the combination snap. But you can get a longer pole strap with the reinforced loop at the end that is designed to pass over the end of the neck yoke itself. Then the breast snap clips to the ring.

[near horse]

Thanks Jenni (spelled it right this time). I have seen others with that arrangement of the pole strap but was never sure of the application/advantage. It does seem like a nice solution.

[grey]

It’s the older way of doing it, before they came out with the handy-dandy #1616 combination snap. You could go back to a plain old #440 on your breast strap and loop your pole strap around the neck yoke. Some of the nicer wood neck yokes are lathed with a groove or a pair of ridges to help keep the pole strap in place.

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