How to store bridles

Where do you want to keep them (home/yard etc)?
I used to keep my long term unused tack at home in the spare room - that way it was kept dry as the heating was on low and didn't go mouldy. I put some decent leather balm on before hanging up (on hooks behind the door ;) ) and then just did the same before using it again.
I find storing it in an unheated tack room leads to mould problems eventually. I have got some tack that's been in a plastic box at the yard for a good while that seem OK, but it was meticulously clean before being put away and hasn't got damp.
 
thanks for the reply MP. I also find keeping them in the tack room eventually makes them go mouldy, but I'm worried if I store them indoors they'll dry out. I have thought about putting them in those vacuum storage bags, but then I won't be able to hang them up.
I was also wondering which leather balm to use for minimum mouldiness.
 
I just whacked some effax in the brown pot on mine, as that's what I use all the time. As long as they aren't in a very warm room or right next to a heat source they would be fine indoors IME, somewhere not directly by a radiator for example. Spare room was ideal for me as it wasn't kept as warm as other rooms. then pop some more balm on them once in a while (annually?) if you felt they were a bit dry.
 
Ko-chi-line. Clean them, smother them in it, then store anywhere.

We store polo tack all winter in the tack room like this and it comes back out in May exactly as it was put away. Amazing stuff.
 
ewww but don't you find everything is sticky and pink afterwards Starzaan? I used to use it but the sticky mingingness just drove me nuts. how do you get it off again? Doesn't help that i have laced reins so they just got full of gunge, lol :lol:
 
I've never had sticky mingingness haha! I rub it all over with a sponge, and then wipe the excess off with a yellow duster. Lovely unsticky tack!
 
I managed to lose a very expensive handmade bridle a few months ago - was devastated. I found it yesterday - it had obviously been hung on a fence post, then fallen off into the hell hole behind my hay store. It was buried in sludge, under an old haylage bag, and I pulled it out, expecting it to be mouldy/rotten/completely mullered.
It was slightly hard, but otherwise undamaged. I use RM Williams Saddle and Leather Dressing on it - always liked the stuff, but now I am convinced that it's the greatest invention ever!
 
Clean it, cover it in Ko-chi-line and store it in pieces wrapped in a pillow case in a dry, frost free place - under a spare bed is ideal. Ko-chi-line is a storage grease, you need to clean it off when you get the bridle out of storage to use it again.
 
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