Older video I know, but if someone is just getting into horses, Clinton Anderson also sell a Aussie tie ring. I’ve been using them a good while now. Not only will it teach your horse how to stand tied (I didn’t believe it either but it does) it also has 3 different ways to tie your horse up. I had been using the quick release knot for years, but I always wondered what if no one was around to release that knot what would happen, and the Aussie tie ring answered that question. And don’t say you should never tie your horse up and walk away! If you’ve ever been to any type horse show or rodeo you know people do it all the time. Just look it up!

You can do the Nevada twist with either way the blevins come in. I've done 2 saddles that had the blevins different ends. From watching the video you recommended

You need to start renewing your mind to the word of God! He created you for good works. Acknowledge Him, which simply means check with Him when you’re about do something. The steps of a righteous man are ordered by the Lord. That’s a Bible verse, Google it, and you need to repeat it whenever a negative thought enters your mind. Take every thought captive to the obedience of God. That’s a Bible verse. If God be for us who can be against us? That’s in the Bible. Jesus cleanses you from all your sins and you become a totally new creation when you accept him, old things pass away and all things become new. You are the righteousness of God in Christ, that’s in the Bible. Who can separate us from the love of God? No one. That’s in the Bible. I know the plans I have for you, plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope, that’s in the old testament in the book of Jeremiah. Google it. That’s in the Bible. And It’s true. Before Jesus left this earth he said I am sending you the Comforter to lead you and guide you. He was talking about the Holy Spirit. He said he was giving us all of his authority and we would do things greater than what He did when he was here, At the name of Jesus every knee in heaven and in earth will bow to him. That’s in the Bible. Get to know him. He is the Prince of Peace, King of Kings and Lord of Lords and he is worthy to be praised. There are some great teachers of the Bible on KZbin to listen to. Jospeh Prince from Singapore, Ramiro Pena in Waco, the late Derek Prince from England, Billy Graham, David Jeremiah, the late Les Feldick who was a farmer, Baruch Korman, Tiff Shuttlesworth and Andrew Womack. If your children learn who they are to God people won’t manipulate or take advantage of them.

I love your dog.

Always good to have others along to help

Nice video, Im in the UK. Western tack is so hard to get here. That same setup would cost about $450 here!!! Crazy 😲

Good stuff

I got a mustang off the corral in November 2021, last year I went through the same thing getting a mustang used to fly spray. I did the exact same thing, went at it with water then went to the fly spray.

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Having turned stirrups will allow you to ride more comfortably. If you are working as a packer, a guide or riding spring or fall gathers on larger ranges it become imperative. If you desire to be able to dismount and walk to your bunk without excruciating pain. Otherwise, you will end up crawling to the bunk, and if you get that midnight call, you'll wake the whole camp with your groans a cussin'. After the first two weeks of spending hour upon hour in the saddle your knees will become so sensitive that you won't want to put your feet in the stirrups. I have done the rod thing it is not very effective in my experience. What worked for me was to take the blevens buckle apart remove the rivets in the part with the pins. Remove and reverse the slide part used to secure the pins in the holes. Relocate the part with the pins so it faces the opposite direction, install new rivets and the soak the stirrup leathers as you said, put a twist in it, place back in the buckle and wrap some leather around the leathers to let them dry in place with the twist, so your stirrups always face front to back and never turn sideways on you like they do on most production saddles. If you want real comfort, take the belevens buckles completely off install a little longer stirrup leathers and punch oval holes an inch and three quarters apart (horizontally) and spacing them an inch apart up and down the leathers where you will want adjustment. Set your proper length and lace the leathers together with saddle string maintaining the same twist. This eliminates the hard bulge of the blevens buckles against your shins, which can also cause discomfort if you are living a horse back. Now you have to watch when leading you mount that you do not let the stirrups catch on branches, dead fall and other stirrup snagging debris.

Winston Churchill said“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty-never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” All I can tell you is if you stumble and fall, fall forward.

Great job, making your own gear gets you thinking about whats needed and best design for it.

Have made 3 saddles. The snappes wont hold. I havd been dealing with them and none of them have much holding power. That arrangement may keep a rope out of there, but sticks ect that you run into will catch. Best plan is to make a pair of taps. Not as hard as you think. Study a bunch of pictures and make templets out of cardboard. You will do better than you know. PS I am a grumpy guy, that is because I have gotten hurt alot. That is untill I started making my owne equipment. O' yea I love to rope, I made my owne roping cow.

Something I've found beyond what you've done is to keep the fenders and stirrup leathers lathered with neatsfoot oil then stick it in your trailer with your dowel rod. It will keep them trained and soften everything up at the same time.