The neoprene I'm using is 2mm thick which is very thin and I have also found a place that sells "breathable" neoprene which might be even more worth looking into if these "socks" work as I'm am a bit reluctant to use neoprene in the heat, but again, it is covering a small area and the gaiters are neoprene as well so it may not be an issue. I thought about velcro but decided against it. I would like it to be a one piece construction. I think the neoprene will work if I can get it to the size where I can pull it up over her hoof like a sock. I do not have any trouble with her heel bulbs or anything esle being rubbed just her pasterns from the gaiters. My idea is to have them cover from the coronary band all the way up to ankle and be able to fold them over the velco on the gaiter. The first pair I had made didn't fit her (made them too small) so I'm having another set made. I have been experimenting with some different fabrics and making "socks" out of them but have not really found anything I like except for the some really thin neoprene. I am at a loss as to what to use to not get rubs.
I removed the boots and stockings and replaced them with vet wrap and we completed the ride with no more problems. After the first loop Fortune had rubs on all four pasterns, the front legs actually down to the point of bleeding. Unfortunately, they did not work to well on the actual ride. I have been doubling up on them, using a pair on each leg, and it seemed to working well on the training rides, like I said. Well, had been using the nylon stockings for our training rides for a while with some fairly good luck, so I figured it was time to try them on an actual ride. Meanwhile, I'd like to not have this happen anymore, What a pain! I have to wait until Monday to order new cables. My horse is helpless without those front boots, and this keeps happening.Īdvice welcome.
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Does anyone know why this could be happening? How to stop it? Cables themselves are cheap, but shipping is more than the cables! All my spare cables are used up, now I'm stuck waiting one month for new ones and more spares. The old ones just bent sideways when I stepped on them to close the front. My two back boots, only used for rides over 2 hours, are frayed one strand each in the smae location.ĭoes anyone else out there have problems like this? My old generation buckles didn't do this to me, just these new ones. ?name for this? It won't last any longer either. This i 8 hours in brand new buckles and wires?! Te other boot that the tape stayed on now has four broken strands right where it beds around the sizing fork. The tape slipped on one boot and ny the time I returned, there were only two strands somehow holding the wire together still. (I'm a pleasure rider, not endurance) I covered the frays with duct tape and hoped they would not get worse. I had no replacements for a four hour ride today. After just four hours on a ride and both wires are damaged! Both in the center where it goes through the buckle grooves, two broken stands. Now I have completely new buckles to replace the salt water damaged ones. The new boots and buckles were used on the beach for one week, then both buckles AND cables were trashed! Broken pieces off one buckle, and deep dings and grooves on the others. The boots were old anyway, I traded them in. I first blamed this on the old buckles style, so I took a file and smoothed the edges. Even on and brand new pair of boots, I have frayed cables after two short break in rides!! I'll tolerate one or two frayed stands and get another few hours out of the cable, if I'm lucky. I also always have a frayed strand where the buckle is, right in the middle. They usually fray one stand in several places, but almost all are above the crimp and where you wrap it for sizes. Well, my cables just don't last more than 8 hours in the saddle before they are useless.
(just curious) How many frayed stands (if any) will you let slide before you replace them? Where do your cables first show frays? above the crimps? Where the cable wraps for size, or right in the center of the cable, where it touches the buckle? I'd first like to know how often other people go through cables? How many hours of use? Do you wait until they are frayed or just replace them. I am having ongoing cable problems, even with brand new buckles.