Can i put a medium/wide gullett in a bates vsd wide saddle?

[catherinem]

Hi. I have baught a lovely bates wide saddle for my welsh d 4yr old who is currently away being broken (he comes home next thursday ) when he went he was quite portly and in a wide gullett. He now has lost weight and is in a medium/wide gullett (she is using her own saddle on him). Does anyone know if i can put a medium wide gullet in a wide saddle (obviously it does has a changable gullet system) but is desigled to take the WIDE gullets. Im sure that once hes home and muscled up a bit he will soon put the weight back on (he is by no means skilly though!) so will probably soon be back in a wide gullet.
I hope this makes sense!
Thanks

 

[HaffiesRock]

My Wintec Wide say wide (red) gullet is the smallest you can put in. I currently have an xw (white) gullet in it and that was a pig to get in so I would say no.

 

[catherinem]

Yeh i thought that! Never mind i can always use my other ponys wintec on him for a start as that has a medium wide gullet in it. I just wanted to get my posh new saddle streigh on him! Hehe. Thanks!

 

[Rhodders]

I'd say no too i'm afraid, wintec wide saddles can take gullets from wide upwards

 

[Rhodders]

careful, if he's got a flat back, and is cob shaped a normal wintec is not a good fit

 

[kerrieberry2]

I would think you could the saddle is just designed to take the extra gullet in the range. the standard saddle can take a massive range of gullets so cant see yours being much different?

 

[catherinem]

Ill put a wide gullet in and try it on him when hes back and see what its like... Hopefully it should fit! If not i will have to rethink! Thanks guys x

 

[sbloom]

I would think you could the saddle is just designed to take the extra gullet in the range. the standard saddle can take a massive range of gullets so cant see yours being much different?

No you really musn't use anything less than the wide plate. The saddle is not designed to be taken narrower. You do have a good point, in reverse, in that it just shows that using very different sized gullets DOES affect the fit, people don't realise this. Wider gullets make the tree curvier.

 

[catherinem]

Thanks sbloom. I thought that this would be the case.im sure he'l soon bulk back out and fit in the wide gullet!