Bull Rider Rodeo Chaps

[KornelKobak]

My first one  

[mikesc]

Very impressive :)

[bikermutt07]

Love the red and white pattern on the back.

Curious as I don't have any experience with rodeo chaps, is that buckle and strap in the front heavy duty enough for bull riding? 

[Dwight]

2 hours ago, bikermutt07 said:

Love the red and white pattern on the back.

Curious as I don't have any experience with rodeo chaps, is that buckle and strap in the front heavy duty enough for bull riding? 

If you wear chaps for any length of time in a saddle, . . . you DO NOT want any big piece of anything up there becoming another belt around you . . . it's a comfort thing.

AND, . . . you don't want it to be very strong either, . . . just in case something happens where you get thrown just enough forward to get it to loop around the saddle horn, . . . your horse just may go crazy with the un-recognized shift in weight and tugging and pulling.  It would have a tendency to ruin your whole day, . . . unless of course, . . . you really do want to get some saddle bronc riding experience........ 

Chaps I make use only a replaceable 1/2 or 5/8 strap and buckle.

Don't recall who it was that explained it to me, . . . was probably on here.

May God bless,

Dwight

[KornelKobak]

Buckles on the back is 1/2 solid brass - strong enought. Front buckle is 3/4 - must be a bit stronger ( the same strap) . 
 

[bikermutt07]

Thanks for the insight.

[KornelKobak]

and top is looking like that:

[Rolandranch]

Looks awesome. Bull riding is my favorite sport to watch. If you can, I would love to see a pic of them in action.  

Thanks for sharing,

-Ryan

[cowboycolonel]

You can get away with a strap that heavy in front IF you make the connection between the yoke and the front belt weak enough to break away when the wreck occurs.  I make mine with no heavier than 1/2 x 7 oz leather and light weight attachment point - just like Dwight said.

[CRCCustomLeather]

On my step in leggins and work chaps, I cut a 1/4" wide string out of chap leather for the front. I've been hung on a saddle horn and it isn't fun.

[Ken Nelson]

Nice job of designing your bull ridin chaps and nice work.

Seen a couple of times when a string in front broke, hung over a saddle horn.  Back 50 years or more ago, most of the "hands" used a leather boot lace, one strand to tie the front together.  It doesn't take much to hold  the front together on a belt in the back work chap.  Most tack rooms on them ranches had  boot laces hanging in them as they figured on a short life of them.  However,  If I were riding bulls, and never did,  I would not want it to break and let my chaps drop while trying to get  away from a bull and there isn't much to hang up on a bull unless he runs a horn under your chap belt and then you are in TROUBLE anyway. Mostly it depends on what you are doing, how it needs to be built.

Edited April 6, 2018 by Ken Nelson