Pad Science, Part II
12 May 2009 22:51![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glenatronToday by way of control for my previous experiment, I tried the playdough pad under my regular saddle.
Will a towel be enough to protect Zorro from the leaking oil from the saddlepad's playdough? This shows the pad in place. If one wanted to do this better I think having a panel on each side of the back with a join over the back that allowed space for the wither would be smarter.
The saddle is on: "Hey, Zorro, she's got a camera, lets both look retarded!"
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sleepsy_mouse sees me? As some kind of bizarre capering idiot?
A bit of rampage to see how the pad reacts to the horse in motion. It's weird because under the treeless you can actually feel the dough squodging about as you go along.
I managed to leave the pad in situ when I lifted the saddle off this time around- much easier to do when the saddle weighs less than a tonne.
What I notice here is that you can clearly see where my leg goes and much less of the rest of the saddle. The gullet was keeping it well clear of Zorro's spine but as I rather expected, that big tree on the western saddle does a much better job of dispersing my weight. I don't know how important that is for the distances we do, I suspect not that important if we're only going out for an hour or two from time to time, but it's useful to know. I think I shall definitely get hold of the pad and stirrups that will make the western saddle a viable alternative, but I'll keep the treefree for the time being because we can use that for dressaging and there is no harm in having a spare saddle that fits most horses...
Will a towel be enough to protect Zorro from the leaking oil from the saddlepad's playdough? This shows the pad in place. If one wanted to do this better I think having a panel on each side of the back with a join over the back that allowed space for the wither would be smarter.
The saddle is on: "Hey, Zorro, she's got a camera, lets both look retarded!"
Are these photographs representative of how
sleepsy_mouse sees me? As some kind of bizarre capering idiot?A bit of rampage to see how the pad reacts to the horse in motion. It's weird because under the treeless you can actually feel the dough squodging about as you go along.
I managed to leave the pad in situ when I lifted the saddle off this time around- much easier to do when the saddle weighs less than a tonne.
What I notice here is that you can clearly see where my leg goes and much less of the rest of the saddle. The gullet was keeping it well clear of Zorro's spine but as I rather expected, that big tree on the western saddle does a much better job of dispersing my weight. I don't know how important that is for the distances we do, I suspect not that important if we're only going out for an hour or two from time to time, but it's useful to know. I think I shall definitely get hold of the pad and stirrups that will make the western saddle a viable alternative, but I'll keep the treefree for the time being because we can use that for dressaging and there is no harm in having a spare saddle that fits most horses...