Fastest clip of the day award

EKW said:
I've done a 19min clip on a 17hh tb before but I don't make a habit of it lol! Im usually 30-35 mins a clip. It's taken me an hour to do Arthur because he has been done to absolute perfection. And then I've spent the last 30mins hot clothing and strapping him! He will be shining like a brand new penny next Saturday at Aintree!
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i usually spend a leisurely 40 minutes or so, as i like to fiddle around and make sure everything is perfect. Not this time though, as he's a very nervous, explosive horse, with great big carthorse feet! I wanted to be well clear before he woke up!
 
Mine take days! Luckily my horse is now quite OK with clippers and trimmers, but I only seem to start clipping in the evening when everybody has gone home. A throwback to when she hated clipping and was a bit dangerous if people tried helping me clip a moving target. So come the morning, there's tufts that need tidying up and lines that weren't visible the night before.
 
I am impressed @Auslander! Takes me about 50 minutes for the same full clip on a 15.2, including brushing off and going over any lines! He isn't sedated and is a fidget/drama queen when I get near his head thought. Grr. Thinking of this, might get some sedation off the vet when shes back out.

What clippers do you have? Tidy job too! I wonder if they wake up thinking, where the **** did my hair go?!
 
I'm going to attempt a sedation free bib clip on Arch on Sunday. He's been full clipped until this year when his 20-30 minutes of walk twice a week doesn't warrant it. We can do 95% of him without sedation it's just the last 5% that's the problem. Unfortunately that last 5% is about 40% of a bib clip! I'm hoping doing it slowly with quiet cordless clippers, lots of talking to him and lots of treats will do the trick. At least the really bad part - around his ears - will be avoided. Armpits might be tricky though. It'll either take me 5 minutes or 5 hours!
 
ForbiddenHorse said:
I am impressed @Auslander! Takes me about 50 minutes for the same full clip on a 15.2, including brushing off and going over any lines! He isn't sedated and is a fidget/drama queen when I get near his head thought. Grr. Thinking of this, might get some sedation off the vet when shes back out.

What clippers do you have? Tidy job too! I wonder if they wake up thinking, where the **** did my hair go?!
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Hauptner 2000's - they are brilliant! Heavy duty, but nice and light! I had cordless heiniger xplorers til recently, but I have several horses to clip that need sedating, so I feel a bit safer with corded ones - no risk of battery dying on me!
 
Auslander said:
Hauptner 2000'
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Interesting. I've always had corded too.. borrow a friends set of batteries once and it died mid clip, then had to be charged over night. Had a few looks hacking the following morning! I've got Liveryman Black Beauties I've had a couple of years. They're great but a bit heavy. Not had them serviced yet but they only use to do 6 clips a year at max
 
ForbiddenHorse said:
Interesting. I've always had corded too.. borrow a friends set of batteries once and it died mid clip, then had to be charged over night. Had a few looks hacking the following morning! I've got Liveryman Black Beauties I've had a couple of years. They're great but a bit heavy. Not had them serviced yet but they only use to do 6 clips a year at max
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The Xplorers are fabulous cordless ones - very heavy duty, and last plenty long enough to do a full clip. I loved them, but I love being able to clip a few horses back to back more!
 
Ooh takes me at least an hour. Would love any tips for speeding things up? Although taking off the full head and any clip with lines adds time for me (at least the first time, when you have to make the lines symetrical).
 
if i send Chance cob on the Ferry with a pack lunch.. and a return stamp on his forehead
will you return him before the return ferry leaves then?


Ferrys gets in to hayshem normally at 12.30ish and leaves again at 2.15 but all much be aboard by 1.15!
 
Auslander said:
The vet had to head off to another call, so I didnt have the top up option! Bless her though - I met her on the drive as I was heading back to the house - she popped by on her way back, just to make sure I was still alive!
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Thats why I wont clip after hours at work - if I get kicked in the head I wont be found til 9pm. Also why I stopped freelance clipping - too many people expecting me to turn up and do the job, leaving money (usually short changed money at that!) With no one around. Sorry but if anything went wrong it would be my word against theirs and my head with a dent in it!

Saying that I have only been kicked a handful of times clipping - mostly warning shots and one that meant it. I have been smashed off of more walls and had my toes stood on more often lol!
 
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