How do you avoid "Tram lines"

[Araminta]

How do you avoid "Tram lines" when clipping - any tips.

Also - blades overheating?

 

[treena]

oil blades regularly and remove hair with a soft brush from clippers to stop over heating. to avoid tram lines, dont put too much weight behind the clippers, or push clippers to hard against the skin. just allow the blades to do the work for you. they should just glide over the skin of the horse. hope this helps.

 

[Araminta]

Thank you

 

[CrazyMare]

The cleaner the coat the better too. Either very well body brushed, hot clothed or bathed.

 

[saddlesore]

Also, keeping the clippers on the coat as much as possible reduces tram lines. I.e run them back and forth along the coat rather than clipping a line, removing and clipping another line. Just keep the pressure even and run the clippers backwards and forwards. Hope that makes sense!

 

[Brummyrat]

Like what saddlesore said, apart from the not digging in, and regular oiling and cleaning, try to do long sweeping movements with the blades and start the next "sweep" slightly overlapping the previous. Then, the all important bit, when you've finished go over the whole coat gently with the blades in a kind of "hoovering" movement, as you would when you vacuum round the furniture!!! I was taught this by a clipping nerd and I have to say it works!

 

[dieseldog]

Easy - you clip your horse and then don't look too close at it for a week, by which time the lines have grown out

 

[PippiPony]

Make sure clipper blades are nice & sharp too.

 

[Hippona]

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Easy - you clip your horse and then don't look too close at it for a week, by which time the lines have grown out

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lol...clip, them immediately rug

 

[Shazzababs]

If you already have tram lines you can get rid of them by going back over the coat at a different angle to the way you did before.

I find that at 60 degrees to the lines works best.

 

[saddlesore]

'Hoovering'!! That's a brilliant description for what I was trying to say!