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Buy the cotton rope at the local Orchard Supply (California) or what you have where you live.  It is tighter and smaller and you can bradi back any kind of snap you want in it..........mb

 

 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth Walker" <bwalker2@xxxxxxx>
To: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 7:39:10 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [RC] One of my cardinal rules of horses (was: gloves)

My problem is that I can't **find** anything made out of anything but  
nylon or poly (which has the same problem).  The cotton leads I see  
are way too fat and loosely wrapped.

Got a source?

On Apr 22, 2009, at 9:15 PM, k s swigart wrote:

>
> Cindy Collins said:
>
>> I have a good girlfriend here in Cody
>> who didn't wear gloves while dealing
>> with an excited horse. BTW, it was a
>> yacht rope lead. Two fingers on her
>> hand were "de- gloved" ....no skin
>> left, down to the bone and tendons.
>
> This, BTW, is why one of my first safety rules of horses is:
>
> Never hold onto anything made out of nylon the other end of which is  
> attached to a horse.
>
> Yachting rope is made out of nylon.
>
> I don't own any reins made out of yachting rope, and I wouldn't use  
> them if you gave them to me.  The only thing I use nylon lead ropes  
> for (that have been given to me or I have won as awards) is to tie  
> gates shut.  You certainly won't catch me using one for leading a  
> horse.
>
> My reins are leather or rubber and my lead ropes are cotton (as are  
> my driving lines and my longe lines).
>
> kat
> Orange County, Calif.
> :)
>
> p.s.  It is also the reason that all my lead ropes and reins have  
> knots in the end of them (and some of the lead ropes have knots in  
> the middle of them too).  It is far easier to hold onto a knot than  
> it is to hold onto a rope.
>
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