HELP - Clipping Disaster!!

[Rowreach]

Probably a daft question but - how do you check your tensioning is ok?

Scroll down and there is a video for you re Liveryman clippers

https://www.clippersharp.com/learning-portal/79-tensioning-changing-blades

A new tensioning kit if you need one is about a fiver + postage. If you look at the spring you may see that it's a bit flattened and worn.

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

I can see exactly what you have done and where you have gone wrong. Always clip 1/4 over where you already have. Don't start a whole brand new line, overlap them as you go. Then clip at a 45⁰ angle over it again and all those lines will disappear.

Go hunting. If you go fast enough no one will see the clip! That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it ??

We have a really good horse, he's a Gold Cup prospect for this year (if you ignore his last run at the weekend ?) anywho I dope him to clip him now. The first race he ran for us he looked a right state of a clip ? I hadn't been warned he was running in time to get the vet to dope him and he was a new horse to us so I did what I always do. Turn the clippers on. Put them on the shoulder, run them over the body, under the belly, round the bum, up the neck, through the ears and down the front of their face bother sides before taking a single hair off. Hank didn't make a fuss so I thought "great! He'll be grand I'll get him clipped in no time." Pah!

I started taking hair off of his near side shoulder, went halfway up his neck then went backwards over the body - my usual way of clipping. Well! I nearly got my legs smashed when I went to clip underneath him. He had a bit of rain scald on his bum so I said f it. I'm not clipping through that so I clipped a dead straight line up from his flanks. Then I couldn't get near his head so I clipped another straight line about 6in back from his ears. If I could do the same the other side he would look fine.

I got 3 stripes into the shoulder and decided my life was worth more than persisting clipping. And the bugger was twitched. He came 2nd first time out and no one really noticed how awful he looked ??

 

[Snow Falcon]

I had a partially clipped pony once. Blades gave up on me even though they had been sharpened.

In answer to the tensionning qu. Tighten the screw down then release. I've had 2 sets of clippers. One you released 1.5 turns, current set is 2.

 

[Rowreach]

I can see exactly what you have done and where you have gone wrong. Always clip 1/4 over where you already have. Don't start a whole brand new line, overlap them as you go. Then clip at a 45⁰ angle over it again and all those lines will disappear.

Agreed, having just seen the photo

 

[MereChristmas]

I can see exactly what you have done and where you have gone wrong. Always clip 1/4 over where you already have. Don't start a whole brand new line, overlap them as you go. Then clip at a 45⁰ angle over it again and all those lines will disappear.

Go hunting. If you go fast enough no one will see the clip! That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it ??

Thanks, Elf On A Shelf but my hunting days finished a few years ago and I do overlap lines but as I explained above my grip is not steady or strong enough. The clip pictured took me about 1 1/2 hours by which time I was shattered. I hunted with clips like this for years. Nobody cared least of all me. Life’s too short and if the horse is comfortable I am happy.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

It's the worst job ever. I did one last Friday and I think I still have tiny hairs inside my eyelids.

I've had clipping hairs in the most awful places? I have very short bleached blonde hair, after clipping a very big black horse on a very windy day my hair was no longer blonde it sort of got trapped in it and it looked terrible.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

I can see exactly what you have done and where you have gone wrong. Always clip 1/4 over where you already have. Don't start a whole brand new line, overlap them as you go. Then clip at a 45⁰ angle over it again and all those lines will disappear.

Go hunting. If you go fast enough no one will see the clip! That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it ??

We have a really good horse, he's a Gold Cup prospect for this year (if you ignore his last run at the weekend ?) anywho I dope him to clip him now. The first race he ran for us he looked a right state of a clip ? I hadn't been warned he was running in time to get the vet to dope him and he was a new horse to us so I did what I always do. Turn the clippers on. Put them on the shoulder, run them over the body, under the belly, round the bum, up the neck, through the ears and down the front of their face bother sides before taking a single hair off. Hank didn't make a fuss so I thought "great! He'll be grand I'll get him clipped in no time." Pah!

I started taking hair off of his near side shoulder, went halfway up his neck then went backwards over the body - my usual way of clipping. Well! I nearly got my legs smashed when I went to clip underneath him. He had a bit of rain scald on his bum so I said f it. I'm not clipping through that so I clipped a dead straight line up from his flanks. Then I couldn't get near his head so I clipped another straight line about 6in back from his ears. If I could do the same the other side he would look fine.

I got 3 stripes into the shoulder and decided my life was worth more than persisting clipping. And the bugger was twitched. He came 2nd first time out and no one really noticed how awful he looked ??

Was it you who had horse clipped hair stuck in a very delicate place and it got infected?

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

Thanks, Elf On A Shelf but my hunting days finished a few years ago and I do overlap lines but as I explained above my grip is not steady or strong enough. The clip pictured took me about 1 1/2 hours by which time I was shattered. I hunted with clips like this for years. Nobody cared least of all me. Life’s too short and if the horse is comfortable I am happy.

It is tiresome I had the bright idea of clipping both of mine one day I thought my back was gonna break and my arm was shaking like a leaf totally wrecked myself.

 

[Maryann]

A friend of a friend clipped one side of her horse and then the clippers died. She went hunting the next day regardless.

 

[Abacus]

A friend of a friend clipped one side of her horse and then the clippers died. She went hunting the next day regardless.

Respect. I’ve done exactly the same but just didn’t know what rug to put on?

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

Was it you who had horse clipped hair stuck in a very delicate place and it got infected?

Yup! In the nipple! Took 4 days to get the bugger out!

 

[Barton Bounty]

This is not my clipping, its vet school to enable the ultrasound use when he had colic, I was just glad he was alive, didnt fix it , just let it grow out ?

 

[GG13]

He doesn’t look nearly as bad as I was imagining. Give it a week or so and it’ll be fine.

Quite a few years ago I got half way through clipping my pony when the blades completely gave up. I was meant to be competing the next day and couldn’t get hold of any blades or clippers in the interim. The show was a qualifier so I went anyway. We got some strange looks and someone did ask what had happened to the poor pony ? however we jumped well despite the dodgy haircut and ended up qualifying so worth it in the end ?

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

This is not my clipping, its vet school to enable the ultrasound use when he had colic, I was just glad he was alive, didnt fix it , just let it grow out ?View attachment 101716View attachment 101717

The vets in Lanark now clip neat lines and squares as too many people complained at the random lines and dodgy clips ? small and large animal, not restricted to hordes. You would think people would just be happy their animal was alive!

 

[Barton Bounty]

The vets in Lanark now clip neat lines and squares as too many people complained at the random lines and dodgy clips ? small and large animal, not restricted to hordes. You would think people would just be happy their animal was alive!

We didn’t have that option and i didnt care! He nearly died so clipping a patch really wasn’t bothering me lol ,shame on them for complaining

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

Yup! In the nipple! Took 4 days to get the bugger out!

I do remember that clipped hair horse is not to messed with ?

 

[ElectricChampagne]

Saw someone spend 8 hours shaving a horse once. Literally shaved him bald with a battery operated dog clippers. It didn't really grow back until his spring coat came through.

Never ever want to see that again. It was horrid, like pure horrid. Poor horse was freezing too. Felt so sorry for him.

 

[jnb]

I'll never forget a livery yard I was on, an owner asked the YM to clip her horse and do his tail.
She CLIPPED his dock. All the way down. FFS !

I would literally have murdered her if she'd done that to my show cob. And no jury would have convicted me! (PS this is a joke obviously)

 

[MidChristmasCrisis]

Auslander posted a fab clipping errrm faux pas a year or so ago..Alfs chicken drumstick legs….hasten to add it wasn’t Auslander who had clipped Alf.

 

[Auslander]

Clip was fine, but we spent several days sporting a woolly hat, after himself refused to let me anywhere near his ears

 

[Auslander]

Auslander posted a fab clipping errrm faux pas a year or so ago..Alfs chicken drumstick legs….hasten to add it wasn’t Auslander who had clipped Alf.

Oh God! Yes!!
I left one of my liveries alone with Alf and some trimmers. Came back to this.
I laughed so much I was nearly sick!

 

[Tiddlypom]

I gaily got stuck in giving a full clip to my mostly white coloured mare in the stable. Had taken most of her top half off before I noticed that her skin was showing through rather pinkly ?.

Instead of my usual medium blades (2.4mm cut), I was using a fine set (1.0mm cut) that I didn't even that know I possessed.

The poor thing looked like a plucked chicken. The vet was round in a few days for routine stuff and she absolutely roared with laughter at what I'd done. This was Jan time, and it took months for her coat to grow back to a respectable length.

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

I gaily got stuck in giving a full clip to my mostly white coloured mare in the stable. Had taken most of her top half off before I noticed that her skin was showing through rather pinkly ?.

Instead of my usual medium blades (2.4mm cut), I was using a fine set (1.0mm cut) that I didn't even that know I possessed.

The poor thing looked like a plucked chicken. The vet was round in a few days for routine stuff and she absolutely roared with laughter at what I'd done. This was Jan time, and it took months for her coat to grow back to a respectable length.

Once you get to December the coat won't grow enough again to hide a bad clip. So get all of the dodgyness out of your system now on clips ??

 

[fiwen30]

Oh God! Yes!!
I left one of my liveries alone with Alf and some trimmers. Came back to this.
I laughed so much I was nearly sick! View attachment 101798View attachment 101799

I saw the top of the leg and thought how neat it looked, and then it hit me! Poor lad hahaha.

 

[Louby]

My boys sporting a full clip with the top third of his neck still on in a lovely jagged line lol as he wouldnt let us anywhere near! Do I leave it as it and hope he needs clipping again so he can be doped to do a proper job next time lol or is it really worth doping him for what will take 2 mins to finish off He is or was a very hairy Highland Pony, so its not exactly discreet lol

 

[ponynutz]

Clip was fine, but we spent several days sporting a woolly hat, after himself refused to let me anywhere near his earsView attachment 101797

I've had this before. Mine was a connie and had a full clip (including legs) so was skinny and bald with a really fluffy head making it look massive compared!!

 

[Lucky Snowball]

Just say someone else did it !!! (sorry)

 

[Fly_By_Wire]

For your viewing pleasure - I present to you the result of me clipping in a hurry, after work, in the dark, on borrowed clippers that I didn't notice had extra fine blades on! It took weeks to grow out, even longer for me to live it down! ?

(Spoiler - this poor horse is not dapple grey...). I paid someone to do her this year......

 

[Widgeon]

(Spoiler - this poor horse is not dapple grey...).

No....I think what you mean is "well she's dapple grey, obviously. They always look like this. Don't you know ANYthing?"

P.S. Is the other half of her mane on the other side? Or did something unspeakable happen?

 

[sunleychops]

Only difference between a terrible clip and an amazing clip is 6 weeks