Members megabit Posted July 21, 2011 Members Report Posted July 21, 2011 Well I bought the hide back in January. I started cutting it up in May I think, then took a hard fall off my caballo and had to set it aside till I healed up. Now I have maybe 500' or more of 1/4" string ready to go. Unfortunately I have 3 100' strings a 85'-90' one and a handfull of shorter ones. I guess I'll end up with a splice, unless it seems I have over 60' braided when I get there. How many feet should I expenct to get done per hour? Any chance I can get the whole thing done in a day if I set the whole day aside to work on it? CurlyJo thanks for reminding me about humidifers. I built a couple out of plastic boxes and they worked great for getting a good temper. I had a bucket one in the past but had trouble with mold, I think mostly because I left my string in it too long. This time a put a good shot of bleach in the water to help with mold. I sure would like to get this done before I hit the road for the Vaquero Fiesta in Alturas. Getting it broke in enough to rope with by then might be a challenge but we will see. I'll try to remember to get some pictures as I build it up and once done. Sure would like a picture of it hooked to a bovine in Alturas. Quote
Members Nod4Eight Posted July 21, 2011 Members Report Posted July 21, 2011 Nice megabit, keep us posted. I got a hide picked out for one, but it's gonna have to wait till closer to fall, just too busy right now. Got pics of the lace? It would be nice to see progress pics along the way. Quote
Members curlyjo Posted July 22, 2011 Members Report Posted July 22, 2011 Megabit, I think you'll be ok with 3 at 100' and 1 at 90'. Fromthe measurements I talked to you about you lose about 1/3 when braiding a 4 strand reata. And keep your plastic containers ready because I think it's going to take longer than 1 day to braid up. Also I was teasing about the paracord and lace over rawhide issue. I've lost track of the number of hackamore and bosal bodies I have hanging on the wall that are designated chew toys for the learning curve. To short, twisted, to big or to small core, and than some. But when it works all is well. Brad Quote
Members broncstompinben Posted July 24, 2011 Members Report Posted July 24, 2011 I am no expert but the last Reata I braided I was averaging a 19 inches of braid to 24 inches of string and i averaged between 4-6 feet an hour. Although II was able to braid nine feet in an hour once when i convinced my wife to worry about the backbraid. As for the getting it done in one day, it probably is possible, but i only was able to get at most about 30 feet done in a day. The only other thing i would recommend is once you decide to temper the hide keep of tempered until the whole thing is done i tried to dry my string out over a weekend and it took me three days to get everything back tempered Quote
Members megabit Posted July 25, 2011 Author Members Report Posted July 25, 2011 Time for a beer break. At the rate I am going I should have this done in time for the Fiesta 2012. :smack: ;D reata string by ss1442, on Flickr tameles ready to start braiding by ss1442, on Flickr ready set go by ss1442, on Flickr finally started by ss1442, on Flickr braiding rig by ss1442, on Flickr Quote
Members roo4u Posted July 25, 2011 Members Report Posted July 25, 2011 looks like you got a great start on it!!! Quote TRACY MONSTER FARM SPECIALTIES-custom tack for dog, horse and human
Members megabit Posted July 27, 2011 Author Members Report Posted July 27, 2011 Ok, all you reata braiders out there, I have a question. How do you managae your tamales? What I am doing is I pull the top string tight, plait it and then move the tamale to the back moving the back one to the front. Does that make sense? Is there a faster way to do this or is this pretty much what you need to do to keep things from getting tangled? Quote
Members blackhammer Posted July 30, 2011 Members Report Posted July 30, 2011 I kept mine in plastic bags. I lifted the whole tamale through after pulling working string tight and putting it in position. I kept about 2 ft between reata and tamales. However, like I said before, I did devlop some gaps from strings that were too wet. Passing the entire tamale with each pull probably added some time to the process, but I never had to untangle any back braid. I hate back braid. Quote Take your time. In a hurry.
Members megabit Posted August 1, 2011 Author Members Report Posted August 1, 2011 Well I am making progress although it is slow. I think I get about 2' per hour, sometimes a bit more sometimes a bit less. I am up to about 34'. It doesn't look like I'll get it done in time to take with me to Alturas but I certainly have a good start on it. Quote
Members megabit Posted August 2, 2011 Author Members Report Posted August 2, 2011 Still a long ways to go and I doubt I'll pick it back up before I get back from Alturas, but I sure like the way this rope is looking so far. reata braiding by ss1442, on Flickr Quote
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