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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | I'm interested in buying one but I don't know much about them. Anyone have one? What's the pros and cons to them? A friend bought one online and didn't relize it had a 5" cantle so she's selling it and I'm needing a new one but I can't afford a brand new saddle so I though about this one. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | They're great saddles. Well made and balanced. My daughter rides one and doesn't like anything else she's tried. |
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Location: SE KS | A friend has one, she likes it really well!!! I want one, but haven't found one I can afford yet!!!! |
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Location: NE Texas | Where is rachellyn80??? She has one that is gaw-jous!!! I had a couple about 10 years ago and liked them. Sold them when I sold the horse I was riding them in and for some reason didn't buy them back. Very nice and balanced, fit a horse nice, and quality. They used to all look alike and not be very fancy, but these i'm seeing them build now are beautiful! |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | Herbie - 2016-02-05 11:05 AM
Where is rachellyn80??? She has one that is gaw-jous!!! I had a couple about 10 years ago and liked them. Sold them when I sold the horse I was riding them in and for some reason didn't buy them back. Very nice and balanced, fit a horse nice, and quality. They used to all look alike and not be very fancy, but these i'm seeing them build now are beautiful!
Wish I had pics of it but it's fully tooled except the jockeys and seat are rough out. Very pretty saddle. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | How do they fit in general? It will be for my every day saddle so I'll use it on different horses. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | TessBelle - 2016-02-05 11:20 AM How do they fit in general? It will be for my every day saddle so I'll use it on different horses.
Depends on if it's wide or regular fit. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | Three 4 Luck - 2016-02-05 12:54 PM
TessBelle - 2016-02-05 11:20 AM How do they fit in general? It will be for my every day saddle so I'll use it on different horses.
Depends on if it's wide or regular fit.
It's a regular |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | TessBelle - 2016-02-05 1:59 PM Three 4 Luck - 2016-02-05 12:54 PM TessBelle - 2016-02-05 11:20 AM How do they fit in general? It will be for my every day saddle so I'll use it on different horses. Depends on if it's wide or regular fit. It's a regular
We have a regular as well. If I was going to ride one myself, I had rather have a wide because it's more versatile. The regular tree fits an average back, it works on most of what I've put it on. They do use other trees too tho. They've made some on a TG tree, rachellyn80's is on a cutting tree, and I don't know what else. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | Three 4 Luck - 2016-02-05 2:23 PM
TessBelle - 2016-02-05 1:59 PM Three 4 Luck - 2016-02-05 12:54 PM TessBelle - 2016-02-05 11:20 AM How do they fit in general? It will be for my every day saddle so I'll use it on different horses. Depends on if it's wide or regular fit. It's a regular
Oh I wasn't aware of that. I need to double check then. I just assumed it was a regular and wide. I know a TG won't fit anything I have. I had a older Caldwell with a TG tree and hated it. |
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| I have one on order they are building it on a bob marshall cutting tree, this will be my fourth the one i traded it didn't fit my cowbred horse i tried a full quarter horse bar and it didn't either I'm crossing my fingers this one will they ride nice I've had a Martin five rusty Andrews and a circle y i like the Allen ranches the best |
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Location: Oklahoma | I prefer the wide fit in both barrel and roping Allen Ranches.. The only saddle I have found that compares is Yoachum's Custom .. That being said my big gelding is fine in his rope saddle but it is easier for me to ride him in a treeless for barrels as he is downhill.. It is very hard to find used AR.. People keep them for life. |
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| The saddle should have a W on the back of the cantle if it's a wide tree. |
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Location: Valley City,ND | I have a Regular tree 14 inch Allen Ranch advertised here. $1000 |
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Location: Where the blacktop ends | They are really nice saddles. They can fit your horse exactly. He has some used one in his shop for sale, as well as new ones or he can custom make you one. Customer service is OUTSTANDING and so is the quality of the saddle. |
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| I have had mine for 12 years and it has been an awesome saddle. I have ridden all my horses with it and it fit them all. I have a little cutting horse an OTT gelding and a FG gelding and it fits them all. Mine is on the original Allen ranch tree. Stanley is awesome. I am looking for a used one...everyone rides in a 14 inch apparently! I need a 15 inch. They are worth the money for sure! Would love to have a new one but......I will have to wait! |
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| I just got my first new Allen Ranch and love it! I have rode them for 6 or 7 years now. I have one on a new tree. It's similar to a Pozzi but has lower swells and the cantle is tilted back. I love the way his saddles ride. Very well made and super super comfortable. He is excellent to work with and his saddles really last! In my opinion the only con to the Allen Ranch saddles is the price tag. |
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| Just picked mine up last week-it's made on a modified cutting tree:) Absolutely love it!!!!! They are awesome to work with-customer service is A-1!
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| That's beautiful, i have one on order with the cutting horse tree please let me know how you like it. |
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| That's beautiful, i have one on order with the cutting horse tree please let me know how you like it. |
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Location: Beggs, OK | Absolutely love mine!
The pocket in it is just right. I've never felt so secure in a barrel saddle. My legs are so long that when I let the stirrups out in a regular barrel saddle they end up at the wrong angle and feel awkward. Stanley and I designed the modified cutter to work around the issues that I've always had with saddles. I love my ranch cutters to work horses in and this just seemed like the natural choice. I'm thrilled that they're working so well for so many others now too!
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| We've had 5. Only sold one because it was a youth saddle of mine. One of the ones we have was made in '96 and I just replaced the strip leathers just because I had the funds. They could have gone a few more years. They fit great. Really helps that they are close to me so when we are getting one made we can take a horse over and get the right tree. |
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| The one i ordered was based off of your picture minus the dots, and carving on the fenders and all basket weave. Do you like the hard seat i have always had padded. I was thinking i could feel my horse better, how long did it take you to get yours after the tree came in . I ordered this for a huge cow bred horse and don't have any saddle to fit him mine are all semi quarterhorse bars |
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Location: Beggs, OK | tin can - 2016-02-10 4:49 AM The one i ordered was based off of your picture minus the dots, and carving on the fenders and all basket weave. Do you like the hard seat i have always had padded. I was thinking i could feel my horse better, how long did it take you to get yours after the tree came in . I ordered this for a huge cow bred horse and don't have any saddle to fit him mine are all semi quarterhorse bars It didn't take long at all, but that was last year. I'm not sure how busy he is right now. I love the hard seat and probably won't have anything else now. It definitely lets me feel my horses better. I love that I can sit deep and hug up to the swells a little and ride them through a turn two handed if I'm needing to tune on them a little.
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