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Location: In The Snow, AZ | I have 2 treeless saddles. One's a Circle Y, Lisa Lockhart, wide. The other is a Circle Y JBN, regular. The wide is too wide for my mare, regardless of padding. But it fits my gelding great. The JBN fit my mare when i first got it. But now that she is muscled up, it seems too narrow around her withers with a pad. I've tried mutliple pads and thicknesses and it just isn't working. Is it possible to ride with just a saddle blanket? I would never have considered it before now, but I wonder with a "tree free" if it would work? I'm a bit desperate, as we don't have the ability right now to buy yet another saddle.... |
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| wonder which one fallon taylor uses with her treeless? |
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| Fallon uses Best Ever I think - they are a sponsor. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Send DiAnn Guinn a pm all she rides is treeless saddles and I bet she could help you out.  |
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Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | I have a Best Ever, it makes it too tight around her withers. Also seems to force the saddle up and forward unless I really crank the cinch tight, and I don't want to have to do that to her. |
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | There are many companies that sell a thin wool liner. I like the Thin Lines as it has some padding while being thin. |
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I Am a Snake Killer
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Location: Golden Gulf Coast of Texas | ~BINGO~ - 2015-07-07 11:10 AM
I have a Best Ever, it makes it too tight around her withers. Also seems to force the saddle up and forward unless I really crank the cinch tight, and I don't want to have to do that to her.
Try a Coats balance pad. It gives more room under saddle. It's cut thinner like where the bars are. I used one under a BM that was too narrow for a really big gelding I had. Most of the time I use Saddleright pads but that wouldn't work for you because it's built up in the same area the Coats pad is cut thin. |
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Location: Peach State | I use a reinmans pocket PEP pad. It was the only pad that wouldn't slide back with my treeless saddle for my high withered gelding. It's cut way back at the withers but wool felt material. I also use the regular classic equine ESP contour saddle pad with treeless on other horses too. |
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Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | I appreciate the recommendations. Definitely going to research them and see what will work best. |
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Location: Central Texas | I use a Classic Equine ESP pad on my older gelding, but on my young horse who has virtually no whithers and a round back (pure cow horse) I use a wool blanket. We call them navajo pads because of the different designs. My mom always uses a wool navajo pad under her saddle. Never had problems with rubbing or sore backs from the saddle. |
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| I've heard that with a treeless saddle you're supposed to use a CSI or 5 Star treeless pad (or some other pad designed for treeless saddles) because the whole point of the tree is to keep weight off the horse's spine. By eliminating the tree, all the weight of saddle and rider sits directly on the horse's spine, whereas if you have a pad designed to keep weight off the spine it eliminates that problem.
With that being said, I have never heard of a regular pad doing any damage, that's just my best understanding.
Also, I don't know that trying one of those pads would help your problem, but I figured I'd throw it in anyways (: |
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| So this may be relevant, or not. BUT my dad who has been a working cowboy everyday of his life for the last 60 years, only uses the $20 saddle blankets. The wool ones you can fold in half. I'm not very good at descriptions, sorry. But he says if your saddle fits good then you do more harm than good with a thick pad. Of course he has about 8 saddles in his tack room, but whatev. His are all treed though. |
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Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | wickedstepmother - 2015-07-07 6:16 PM
So this may be relevant, or not. BUT my dad who has been a working cowboy everyday of his life for the last 60 years, only uses the $20 saddle blankets. The wool ones you can fold in half. I'm not very good at descriptions, sorry. But he says if your saddle fits good then you do more harm than good with a thick pad. Of course he has about 8 saddles in his tack room, but whatev. His are all treed though.
This is what I wanted to try. The saddle, tho treeless, really fits well....with a pad. Put a pad on and its tight and jerks forward. I end up riding on her neck, or at least it feels that way. I may try the saddle blanket just for giggles. And if it doesn't work, I'll be looking for a new pad. |
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Location: Piedmont, OK | I use a 5 star with my Circle Y Tammy Fisher and it works great! |
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 Poor Cracker Girl
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Location: Feeding mosquitos, FL | I use a Saddleright on one horse and a no-name 1/2" wool pad on another. My treeless saddles fit so close that I needed thinner pads to keep the saddles from rolling. |
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Location: Louisiana | TrackinBubba - 2015-07-08 2:10 PM
I use a Saddleright on one horse and a no-name 1/2" wool pad on another. My treeless saddles fit so close that I needed thinner pads to keep the saddles from rolling.
I also use a Saddleright. I absolutely love it. |
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Sock Snob
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| I had a mare i used a treeless on with a thick doubled wool navajo.
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