Lady Wade

[bruce johnson]

Grumpy,

No you have the other Timberline. This one is in Vernal UT. I don't have the contact info with me. Jim Redding has used a bunch of their trees and could tell you more. I am actually pretty impressed with a lot of trees. Usually when one breaks it is a thinner built saddle like a barrel racer of cutter flipped over on the concrete, a fork ripped off by the handle of a squeeze chute, or run over by the gooseneck when it fell off the flatbed.

I used to compete a little more. I grew up in the midwest with halter and pleasure horses. Roped calves a little too. I worked for a cutting horse trainer named Keith Barnett in college. I was green as a gourd, but he took me on. I got to lope some really good horses and learned a bunch about horses and people. I saw some of the top end horses compete. Doc's Starlight (mother of the "Starlights") was owned by a customer, so was a campaigner named "Kingstream", I got to see the Dry Docs and Doc OLenas. Saw Little Peppy show. I got to see guys like Buster Welch, Matlock Rose, Billy Mowry, John Carter, Shorty Russell, Shorty Freeman, Don Dodge, Leon Harrell, Pat Patterson, and Dale Wilkinson show. It was a pretty special time, and I appreciate it more now than I did then. I graduated and moved to California. Married into a stockhorse showing family and my first wife had run barrels too. We did bridle horse/snaffle bit deal for a while and then got to trading horses and starting colts. I ended up with a heel horse that could cut a little. I cut on him for a couple years, he got pretty solid, and then sold him. My wife died and I went to roping calves on her barrel futurity prospect in the practice pen. My new wife has roped some and made it to the senior pro finals with her late husband. Now we just stay pretty close to home and are trying to figure out what we want to do when we grow up.

[Tosch]

Grumpy,

Phone number for Timberline Saddle Tree Company should be 435-789-8228.

Say "hi" to Randy from the Swiss tourist who asked lots of questions and took lots of pictures when he toured the facility last May for about 2 hours.

Tosch

Edited April 30, 2008 by Tosch

[grumpyguy]

Thanks Tosch,

We'll do! Sweden, thats a way away kind of interesting what brings people together!

Bruce,

I know the names (who doesn't if they have been arond the cutting horse arena.) I repaired alot of cutting saddles for people who wanted to be like the trainers and competitors you mentioned. Thanks again for you help!

Edited April 30, 2008 by grumpyguy