OT -- "Don't Ever Sell Your Saddle"

alnitak · Post by **alnitak** » Wed May 05, 2010 8:44 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_7c1L-qKWM

lthardman · Post by **lthardman** » Wed May 05, 2010 9:08 am

Very nice. Thanks for sharing. If I still had a horse, I'd give it a big kiss right now. Guess I'll hug the dog instead.

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Wed May 05, 2010 1:03 pm

My horse died almost 30 years ago after I left the farm to go to university, but I keep my old, beat-up saddle in my office. It brings back a lot of memories from my teenage years. That song has some good advice ...... very good advice.

Buck Elliott · Post by **Buck Elliott** » Wed May 05, 2010 3:44 pm

I don't ever get to sell mine --- they get stolen...

firefuzz · Post by **firefuzz** » Wed May 05, 2010 4:57 pm

Mine's in the living room.

Rob

Hankster · Post by **Hankster** » Wed May 05, 2010 5:18 pm

Well, we sold a saddle the other day!!! The guy "made us an offer we couldn't refuse"!!! Just Bought a nice old Semi highback western saddle, no name on it we could find, but it was a good one nonetheless. Used it on a horse we have here but belongs to a "cowboy friend" of ours..... Tony came out on one of his horses to ride, and while we were all out riding, he looked at it, and asked if we wanted to sell it! Told him no, we liked it too much... he then offered to give us a good profit on it... naw.. not interested. So THEN he says, you give me the Saddle, you can have the HORSE! SOLD! 12 yr old Walking horse...for a 130.00 buck saddle!! He liked the fit and feel... maybe it's worth more than we gave, who knows! But he feels he scored, we KNOW we did! we know the horse, and wanted to buy him anyways!! Plus he gave us "a loaner" until we buy a replacement saddle! Good friends.....

Terry Murbach · Post by **Terry Murbach** » Wed May 05, 2010 5:45 pm

TWO REALLY STUPID THINGS I'VE DONE IN THIS LIFE WAS TO SELL MY SADDLE AND MY LATHE.....HAD A REALLY BAD CASE OF THE RECTAL CRANIUL INVERSION THOSE DAYS, GUYS.

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Wed May 05, 2010 6:01 pm

Terry Murbach wrote:TWO REALLY STUPID THINGS I'VE DONE IN THIS LIFE WAS TO SELL MY SADDLE AND MY LATHE.....HAD A REALLY BAD CASE OF THE RECTAL CRANIUL INVERSION THOSE DAYS, GUYS.

I've never had a saddle or a horse, but I've had that and sometimes feel as if my head is still in there

Joe

KSRtrd · Post by **KSRtrd** » Wed May 05, 2010 7:40 pm

Buck Dang can't think of anything lower than stealin a horse. If I even lost one of my cows I would be furious.

zack coyote · Post by **zack coyote** » Thu May 06, 2010 6:37 am

The horses have been gone five years now, but we won't sell our custom made saddles. The third picture on the video is one of a series of firearm paintings I did. Don't ever sell your saddle, or your last levergun.

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Thu May 06, 2010 6:43 am

I've got mine....no horse though....

I'm an asphalt cowboy nowadays

piller · Post by **piller** » Sat May 08, 2010 11:42 am

Buck Elliott wrote:I don't ever get to sell mine --- they get stolen...

Buck, I sincerely hope that whoever steals your saddle will be thrown from whatever horse they put it on, and may they never be able to enjoy a ride again. A friend of my Father is a saddlemaker and he had a bunch of saddles he was repairing get stolen from his business. I hope those saddles bring nothing but trouble to each and every person who was involved in the theft.

kimwcook · Post by **kimwcook** » Sat May 08, 2010 2:44 pm

Don't ever plan on selling my saddle.

Stealing, now that's another matter and why I do what I do.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Sat May 08, 2010 3:58 pm

I've 3 examples of "yard art," 28, 25 & 13... along with 3 saddles, a 1920 Bona Allen, a '70s Circle Y and a custom Bridger Creek made for a deceased friend of mine in '97, but fits my horses & me (except for the stirrup length). I paid $600/ea for the two oldest horses when they were 6 & 9, turned down $10K for the oldest when she was 16. Too many memories of competition and Sheriff's work...

Thieves are the lowest of the low.

Topside · Post by **Topside** » Sat May 08, 2010 4:13 pm

MAN THAT WAS GREAT!! Brings back many memories of a little quarter horse I had when I was a kid. Her name was Dixie, and she had a handsome little pinto colt we named Patches.

Gone to get a kleenex.

Mutt · Post by **Mutt** » Sat May 08, 2010 11:21 pm

Can't ride any more , saddle sits in my living room now. I saddle soap it good about once a year or so. Old but in pretty good shape .I'd ride to about anywhere on it if I could.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Mutt

20cows · Post by **20cows** » Sat May 08, 2010 11:45 pm

Don't get to spend enough time on it, but it and Red are still here.

winchester1886 · Post by **winchester1886** » Sun May 09, 2010 7:41 am

Come on boy's saddle pictures, saddle pictures, saddle pictures.

kimwcook · Post by **kimwcook** » Sun May 09, 2010 8:59 am

winchester1886 wrote:Come on boy's saddle pictures, saddle pictures, saddle pictures.

Yeah, I know. I've got some somewhere when I got my saddle new. I'll have to get some of it now.

20cows · Post by **20cows** » Sun May 09, 2010 10:51 pm

Mine:

The one I inherited (with the horse) when I lost my brother:

kimwcook · Post by **kimwcook** » Sun May 09, 2010 10:54 pm

Nice ole slick fork there, 20cows. How's the Appy?

JerryB · Post by **JerryB** » Sun May 09, 2010 11:05 pm

After my second back surgery a few years ago I sold the horses and later finally sold my saddle knowing that I shouldn't ride anymore. Selling my saddle hurt worse than letting the horses go, I could hear my dad saying "son don't ever sell your saddle".

20cows · Post by **20cows** » Sun May 09, 2010 11:19 pm

How's the Appy?

He's a great road horse, but he's just getting over being foot-sore again. My brother just had a small place and he spent most of his time in a pen and ate what he was given. Since the transition, he's in a pasture with my other two. Every spring or so when we have everything greening up, he gets a mild dose of laminitus. Whatever it is, it's not getting the other horses.

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