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 The One
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Location: South Georgia | If you have followed my saddle fitting saga, here is an update. Lynn McKenzie sent me her trees to fit my mare. They are so nice! Here is the Wide Special (that I had purchased and had left these odd horizontal sweat marks):
It makes perfect sense now that I can see a tree on her back...It is too narrow and it rides on the bottom edge of the bars.
 In this pic, you can see how little bar contact there is. I can stick my fingers underneath down to the edge almost.
 So...the nueva was better but I still could stick fingers under the bars. It was riding on the bottom edge of the bars also.
The WIDE nueva was the best of the three...
 As you can see, the tree could fit a back with a little more upswing, but it makes even bar contact.
So, the wide goes up for sale, and the hunt for a wide nueva begins! LOL I never would have guessed she needed that tree. Learning experience, for sure!
Edited by horsegirl 2017-12-11 8:58 AM
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Location: Mountains of VA | I have been following your post and have since watch the videos. I have a LM Special tree saddle that I love but it has only fit the horse I originally bought it for back in 2006. I keep thinking I will have another horse it will fit but after reading your post and watching the videos, I don't think I will ever have another "thin" built horse. All the youngsters here are all wide flat backed.
I would like to try the wide Nueva tree/saddle too.
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Location: South Georgia | hotpaints - 2017-12-11 11:27 AM I have been following your post and have since watch the videos. I have a LM Special tree saddle that I love but it has only fit the horse I originally bought it for back in 2006. I keep thinking I will have another horse it will fit but after reading your post and watching the videos, I don't think I will ever have another "thin" built horse. All the youngsters here are all wide flat backed.
I would like to try the wide Nueva tree/saddle too.
Here is a pic of the 3 trees (wide, nueva, wide nueva from L to R) when I received them. The angles are visible in this pic:
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Location: Mountains of VA | horsegirl - 2017-12-11 11:37 AM hotpaints - 2017-12-11 11:27 AM I have been following your post and have since watch the videos. I have a LM Special tree saddle that I love but it has only fit the horse I originally bought it for back in 2006. I keep thinking I will have another horse it will fit but after reading your post and watching the videos, I don't think I will ever have another "thin" built horse. All the youngsters here are all wide flat backed.
I would like to try the wide Nueva tree/saddle too.
Here is a pic of the 3 trees (wide, nueva, wide nueva from L to R) when I received them. The angles are visible in this pic:
Thanks for posting this pic! Really helpful to be able to compare all three together. I love the LM Double J saddles and would really like to have one that I can use. |
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The One
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Location: South Georgia | You're welcome. I think I'm going to see if Double J has a demo I can try before I take the leap with the wide nueva. I'm gun shy at this point. LOL |
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Location: Mountains of VA | horsegirl - 2017-12-12 7:35 AM You're welcome. I think I'm going to see if Double J has a demo I can try before I take the leap with the wide nueva. I'm gun shy at this point. LOL
That's what I would like to do too. Those saddles are not cheap and I do not want to have money tied up in another saddle that I can not use. |
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The One
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Location: South Georgia | A CSI pad wouldn't solve this issue enough for me to keep this saddle, you think? Grasping at straws here. Just reading about the pressure displacement on their website. |
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| horsegirl - 2017-12-12 1:21 PM
A CSI pad wouldn't solve this issue enough for me to keep this saddle, you think? Grasping at straws here. Just reading about the pressure displacement on their website.
I don’t feel so, no. Would it help if you absolutely needed to ride the saddle on that horse? Maybe for a few rides in a pinch. I also feel that the fact that the bars aren’t touching at the top and pinching at the bottom would cause the saddle kind of perch and to roll in a CSI pad as they thicker and pick the saddle up quite a bit in my experience (we have one for 1 horse who has kissing spines).
Just my thought. |
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Location: South Georgia | OhMax - 2017-12-13 7:54 AM horsegirl - 2017-12-12 1:21 PM A CSI pad wouldn't solve this issue enough for me to keep this saddle, you think? Grasping at straws here. Just reading about the pressure displacement on their website. I don’t feel so, no. Would it help if you absolutely needed to ride the saddle on that horse? Maybe for a few rides in a pinch. I also feel that the fact that the bars aren’t touching at the top and pinching at the bottom would cause the saddle kind of perch and to roll in a CSI pad as they thicker and pick the saddle up quite a bit in my experience (we have one for 1 horse who has kissing spines ). Just my thought.
You just confirmed my fear after having watched some videos on CSI pads yesterday. Thank you. It already perches, so that definitely would not be a good combo. |
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