Rear Conchos Won't Budge - Need Help

[oltoot]

There are ways to get the ring shanks out but they still leave a crater rather than a clean hole in the wood and rawhide of the tree. Ring shanks should be banned from the saddlemaking/repair world.

[Dwight]

There are ways to get the ring shanks out but they still leave a crater rather than a clean hole in the wood and rawhide of the tree. Ring shanks should be banned from the saddlemaking/repair world.

Just in case you made that into a motion, . . . I'll second it, . . . only had to mess with them once, . . . that was twice too many times.

Can we somehow get a binding vote on it,..................lol

May God bless,

Dwight

[Saddlebag]

No ring shanks yet. What's the trick to removing them? Nail pullers for horse shoes? The saddle with all the staples, none were blued so were starting to rust. They were one on top of the other. Removal of these added new words to my vocabulary. If I hadn't detected a big lump under the skirt I wouldn't have known about all the staples but I had to investigate. Someone didn't bother skiving the stirrup leather to an even thickness and where it wrapped around the tree it was 3/8" thick. There was no way to get it to move without releasing some of the tension from the skirt. Owner had complained of horse's sore back. Small wonder.