Great Alternative Uses For Horsey Stuff

[claracanter]

Hi

I am currently using an over reach boot as a bottle holder in my car. Works brilliantly actually
Wondered if any fellow HHO'ers have some great uses for horsey stuff?

 

[*hic*]

As I tend to find that anything intended for horse usage is vastly more expensive than a similar "domestic" item I'm more inclined to look at things the other way round. Such as why buy a grip pad when in the pound shop you can buy a couple of metres of the same stuff for a quid and cut your own out.

 

[Stacy_W]

My (eccentric!) boyfriend made himself a belt from a stirrup leather.

 

[claracanter]

^^Sounds like a good idea and probably a lot cheaper

 

[Littlelegs]

Like dee o'dorant, usually do it the other way round. But use a shavings fork for raking the garden & de-weeding flower beds. And various first aid stuff. Such as dermobion on a cut that I kept re-opening on a finger. Hot poulticed an infected bite on my arm with animalintex with success. And have frequently used bandages, vetwrap & dressings on myself & once on daughter. Use a plastic curry on the dog too.

 

[mulledwhine]

I used plaiting bands for my hair, old stirrup leathers for belts and I sometimes use his fly repellent on me

 

[midnight mayhem]

I use spare numnahs (square ones) as pet beds.

 

[ghostie]

saddle soap did a lovely job at bringing the leather writing pad on a bureau I bought on ebay back to life

Schooling whip = best cat toy ever - they love chasing the lash on it - they had my last one for five months and it got played with daily, when it finally snapped from too much cat play I had to buy them another one!

 

[[69117]]

Ice Tight is AMAZING for twisted ankles!

 

[mulledwhine]

Ice Tight is AMAZING for twisted ankles!

Having seen you had posted on this...... Made me very nervous as to what you were going to say

 

[sandi_84]

Have sported the stirrup leather belt look once (holding a spare one and got asked to lead out on a trek - it was that or drop it ) and more than once have seriously considered using mane and tail detangler in my usually matted long hair

 

[Mrs C]

Canter mane and tail makes my hair super shiny (greasy if you're heavy handed though!!)

 

[dreamcometrue]

A white van man got his van stuck in mud in the field by our house and we used my lunge line as a tow rope to our 4x4 to pull the van out!

Also a colleague of mine goes diving for sunken treasure and uses my old haynets to put his finds in to bring up to the surface.

 

[claracanter]

Also a colleague of mine goes diving for sunken treasure and uses my old haynets to put his finds in to bring up to the surface.

^^ This is just brilliant.

 

[topclass]

Ive fallen off quite badly once over a stone wall all the way down it had loads of yuk n stuff in it so I put horse poltice and vet wrap on it and it worked a treat and left no scar