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Discussion on Bridle hooks
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Mleeb
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Posted on Thursday, Jun 1, 2006 - 5:13 pm:
I guess this isn't a horse care tip so much as a tack care tip. I've read through lots of the other stuff and haven't come across it listed already, so here goes.
I don't have a barn or tack room so most of my tack is hung in the garage. While I did buy nice matching hooks for halters and lead ropes, I wanted something for the bridles that would help keep their shape. Next to the folding saddle racks I hung two large plastic peanut butter jars by putting a large wood screw through the center bottom and into the wall. My first thought was it would look tacky (no pun intended), but it actually isn't bad at all. The bridles hang just right, and I use the inside of one to hold extra bits. Most bits with a split mouth piece will fold nicely and fit just right. I put my hoof picks in another one as it's the only way I can keep from losing the darn things.
I have an horse trailer I recently bought used, and the hooks there are the usual ones that don't do anything to keep the shape of a bridle. I won't be doing a trailer reno for a while yet, so in the meantime I have hung a few mostly-used rolls of duct tape over the hooks I use for the bridles, and the bridles hang over top of the rolls. I always seem to need duct tape, so now I have tape always to hand, and bridles without a sharp bend in the leather.
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Hwood
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Posted on Thursday, Jun 1, 2006 - 5:23 pm:
What an absolutely MARVELOUS idea about the peanut butter jars! Especially, since they can be used for storage, too. Thanks for sharing. Love it.
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Djws
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Posted on Friday, Jun 2, 2006 - 12:38 pm:
Michelle,
I take large coffee cans, spray paint them whatever color we want (for each horse) and screw the closed bottom end to the wall. My bridles fit nicely over them and keep their shape. I save the top plastic lids and store items inside the cans with the lids snapped on (dust free). My son is quite the artist and he will paint the horses names on the lids...sometimes he will even paint a horse head, etc., on the cans. I think these ideas are economical and practical! Love the fact that someone else uses lots of duct tape too! I know what you mean about the hoof picks...anyone have a suggestion on keeping tabs on them? LOL-My dad remembered that we tied our skate keys around our necks with a shoe string when we were kids (okay so I'm ancient) and suggested that! Anyway, I invariably misplace mine!
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Mleeb
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Posted on Friday, Jun 2, 2006 - 6:25 pm:
DJ, I like the paint! I had wondered about doing it with the peanut butter jars, but didn't it would stick well to the plastic so passed on it. We're not big coffee drinkers here so never seem to have those nice large cans, or I might have thought to use those instead.
Hoof picks - worse than socks in a dryer! I used to carry one in a back pocket all the time and was never without it, to the point of forgeting it was there and having it along when I rode. Then someone pointed out that if I ever came off my horse, I sure wouldn't want that hoofpick in the kidneys. Point taken, I no longer put it in my pocket. I just buy lots and hope there's one in the grooming kit somewhere when I'm looking for it.
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Ilona
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Posted on Saturday, Jun 3, 2006 - 12:50 pm:
You can now get spray paint especially for plastic, maybe liquid too. I know Home Depot sells the spray paint. I'm sure if you do an internet search you will be able to find liquid paint for plastic as well. I have decided that there is a planet out there called "The Planet of Lost Things". Where else could all those items be stored, there are too many of them accumulated over the past few thousand years 
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Djws
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Posted on Sunday, Jun 4, 2006 - 10:44 pm:
Michelle,
Hmmm...yes, point well taken (in more ways than one-LOL)! I placed a hoof pick in my back pocket a few months ago and forgot it was there. After driving home from the barn, I realized it had poked through my jeans and made a distinct hole in the driver's seat (thankfully, not my seat but, the cars)! I suppose I was lucky that it wasn't embedded in my flesh although I wasn't happy what it did to my leather seat either!
Ilona is correct, they do sell spray paint for plastics. I used the spray because it left a smoother finish than liquid paint (no brush marks either)! The one advantage you probably have with the plastic (if clear), is that you can see what's inside! I should look in my cans. I'd probably find a bunch of hoof picks!
Love the "Planet of Lost Things" concept!}
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