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 Extreme Veteran
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Location: Ellensburg, Washington | I have never used a CSI only looked at them and they seemed really thick to me. I have had a Corrector for about 10 years and it has replaced my 5 Star, Saddleright, ESP, etc. It is currently the only thing that works with my McKenzie Nueva and my Sibley (when I was using it). I agree his webpage is a hot mess and his comments come across very rudley but IMHO he makes a great product!
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 Just a Yankee
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Location: Some where I haven't left yet | I've had a Corrector for quite a while, Love it. Tried a CSI.... Sold it. His website is a TRAIN wreck, at best. I skip over as much as I can weed through to get to the "shopping" area. | |
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 Half-Eaten Cookies
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Location: Fort Worth / Springtown | GLP - 2017-01-13 7:12 PM txbredbr - 2017-01-12 1:30 PM I like it, and would definitely recommend trying one, but it does not work in every situation.
I have a high-withered horse and it does not work for him, as is. I have actually dissected it, pulled out the discs and place them where I need to, depending on the saddle and the horse. The pad is not contoured enough for high withers and the pad itself will dig into the top of the backbone. I have discussed this with Len in the past.
I will take pics later to show you what I mean. And this is a very high-withered horse I'm talking about.
Some trees are too long to fit directly on the disks where they are recommended to be placed the way the discs are already secured in the pad.
Another reason I have dissected it to even removing the felt on one side of the disc is because my other two horses are extremely broad and I have to used a very thin pad, anyway, or my saddle will roll. I really want one of his his near/never tight cinches to try and help with that but $$ :)
I rushed to take some pics this morning,, but my husband's camera was too dark in the 7am light...and I lost mine in the dirt riding last night - also there are btis of grass, dirt and alfalfa everywhere after feeding - forgive the messiness - nothing is ever easy for me :) But here's an idea...
The corrector in the envelope pad has two sections on the top that keep it together over the spine, as you can see here:
- the front top section will dig into the top of the spine on a high withered horse like one of mine is:
This makes it impossible for the corrector pad to sit flush on the horse's back unless you slide it further down the back, which puts the corrector shields in the wrong place. Years later I bought the full western corrector pad and had the same problem.
Also when I said the discs seem to be too close together to fit exactly where the discs should go under the point of the tree, which is why I dissected it, to be able to place the discs whereever I need -- here is an example -- I have a Reinsman Sharon Camarillo pad with an "envelope" in it where you can place padding in 3 different sections on each side, the corrector INSIDE and Envelope pad is no longer than the envelope on the Reinsman pad....I don't know that I have had a saddle tree that short- ever (even though I need one on this horse), to allow the corrector discs to be where they need to be. :
I'd like to discuss that with him, more, but if you go to his website you can see a picture of the corrector discs under a raw tree on a grey horse's back, with him sitting in the raw saddle tree......that Is kind of what I do with the corrector discs that I have dissected, but with a real saddle and a thin pad.
I know this may seem bizarre what I do, but if I had the tools, I'd make my own saddle pad to fit every horse /saddle combo that I mounted. I spend countless trips to riding a horse, feeling how it moves/how the saddle sits, hair rub marks, short-stride, cinchy, etc, going back to the trailer, changing one thing, and going back out to ride. Yes I overthink, but I've watched my horse go from 1st in 1-D to not placing in 3-D overnight and vise versa, and white hair saddle scars disappear. That matters to me. 
What saddle are you using on this horse? His top line looks a lot my geldings.
Ugh, right now I'm using an old round skirt barrrel saddle by Red Barn Saddlery in Colleyville, TX that is no longer in business.
His back is so short that I considered special ordering an Arabian saddle, before.
It is really hard to try to fit his back, yet clear his wither. I liked the JBN aside from a couple things, but needed the wide tree and I just don't have $2000 to spend on a saddle until I selll one of my other horses. I also liked the Deb Sibley - high wither clearance, but neded to try the wide tree there, also.
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