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chinks and slickforks

Jinglebob

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I just had a thought. We've seen a lot more chinks and slickfork wade saddles come into these parts in the last 10 to 20 years. And it's been drier than normal. Coincidence?

Chinks and slick fork wades came from the high desert country of the great basin and the high desert of California, traditionally. Chinks are more comfortable in hot dry weather and slick fork wades have a big horn with usually, a mule hide wrap, so you can slide your dally more easily.

Soooo, if we all went back to riding swell forks and using shorter ropes and tying on hard and fast, would the rains come back??????

Naawwww! They use those in the southwest a lot and I notice it's pretty dry down there also. :wink:

Nevermind. :oops:


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Tap

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Jinglebob, wanna buy my wore out chinks, and good wade saddle? lol. :wink: I sure like my saddle, but it might be worth it. :shock:

Maybe you could sell the saddle back to me if it doesn't rain in the next fifteen years. We don't expect a lot over in our county. :lol:
 

IL Rancher

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I'll hav to get out my horseperson to horse idiots (That would be me) dictionary to understand this post... am still larning all the different "browns" right now for coat type. I'mahead of the oter guy who calls all horses either brown or not brown, lol.
 

Jinglebob

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IL Rancher said:
I'll hav to get out my horseperson to horse idiots (That would be me) dictionary to understand this post... am still larning all the different "browns" right now for coat type. I'mahead of the oter guy who calls all horses either brown or not brown, lol.

Slick fork wades are made on a tree that is named a Wade. They don't have any swells, or bulges, as it were, in the front. Swell forks have swells, or bulges, in the front. They are more "cowboy" and slick forks are more "buckaroo" heritage, tho' all western saddles were slick until about 1880 or there abouts. Some tree maker made a saddle tree with the bucking rolls built into the front of the tree. For what ever reason, the great basin and buckaroo types,held on to the slick forks. It's all mixed up now. Give me a call sometime and we'll go over all the differences and the sameness between cowboys and buckaroo's and their gear.
 

Northern Rancher

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Have you ever rode a 'formfitter' -I have one here-they are real hard to get bucked out of-but really painful when you do-was that a post about my Tyler that you deleted or dop you have one too.
 

Jinglebob

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Northern Rancher said:
Have you ever rode a 'formfitter' -I have one here-they are real hard to get bucked out of-but really painful when you do-was that a post about my Tyler that you deleted or dop you have one too.
My Dad's saddle was a Bullmoose tree. Almost a form fitter. The cantle has a lot of dish and is prety narrow. Fits a medium sized kid pretty good. I've took a patch of skin off from my tailbone, trying to ride a small horse down for the boys, using that saddle, when the boys were smaller. Now, they need to ride mine down for me! :shock:

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Soooo, when you coming down to get this filly? :D
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Sooooo.....do we need to start wearin wooly's and carryin a slicker suit to get some cool wet weather down here?......I don't see that happenin LOL But we did get a thunderstorm thru here yesterday afternoon that dropped 3/4 inches of rain. Can't say it's any cooler tho.....
 

IL Rancher

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Thanks for the offer JB, I might have to take you up on it some day.... One of these days, when I get a horse, I am actually going to have to figure out a saddle too... All of this stuff is a bit more involved than I thought it would be, lol.. So much to learn, so much to try...
 

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