Clippers.....

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Any suggestions on a good clippers for a greasy thick coated fjording?

£2-300 budget

Need to get this right as I am buying from the UK to have sent to me in Norway, so all help appreciated!
 
I use the liveryman arena to clip my very thick and greasy coated cob!! I have to use they very course blades to go through it but i have had these clippers around 6 years now and they have never failed me!
 
course,medium and fine are for the closeness of the cut(fine leaves the shortest hair)
all should cut any coat if the clippers are eficiant(sp).
what does happen though if you use the fine on a pony is the coat grease mixes with the clipper oil to make a paste which blunts the blades.
pre clip shampoos are available th help.
 
Fine blades do give a closer cut but they also have more teeth, 31 for fine (surgical 40) and 22 for standard so coarser hair may not flow cleanly through the fine teeth to the cutterbar, there are coarser blades that cut closer to the skin
 
Yeh, but heiniger clippers have more wearing points in the head than other clippers, which mean more servicing costs.

K_M, you are probably best to ring and speak to a clipper specialist company and ask their advice.
 
I've had Wolseley 'Swift' for years & they are still very efficient & have never let me down. They're still made & still selling well.
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I clip a lot of horses over the winter around 80 last year alone, and I have wolsleys. They are fantastic, never let me down unlike my liveryman mustangs which have been a real waste of money, overheat in ten minutes. So long as your blades are sharp and the coat is as clean as possible I see no reason why you couldn't clip with fine blades although if norwegian winters are colder a standard blade might be the better option. I have only once needed to use coarse blades on a pony and it had a matted cushings coat. I took a first clip with coarse cattle blades then ran over it again with the standard blades and it came out great. Lots of oiling and blade cleaning is essential.
 
Sorry Claire- Ripped off is a bit strong, I should have simply said
" Not my choice"
Nicnag, I was reading Peasridge comments about how old and noisy Wolsleys are, do you agree? I also see that the record for a single day is 1084 sheep -using Heiniger, I think it says something to be the market leader in countries like Aus, New Zealand and Argentina where they seriously use clippers.
Doesn't it take you longer to clip a coarse coat with fine blades than a coarser set?
 
I personally don't think the wolsleys are any noisier than the listers I have also had, my liveryman mustangs are the loudest I've ever worked with - your ears would be ringing by the time you'd finished!
In the case where I used the coarse blades it was definately quicker as the poor ponies coat was so matted there was no chance finer blades could have touched it. I do agree that fine blades can take longer but that's very dependant on the coat your clipping.
I also work with sheep and heiniger are leaders in that market but wolsleys etc don't really compete in that area and the motors are very different in sheep shears as they are seperate from the hand piece. I don't personally like heinigers but that's because the couple of times I have used them I didn't like the balance of them in my hand.
 
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