Just cleaned my clippers - rant

[amzy]

I had left my small clippers up the yard for a few days as I was going to finish tidying up my pony's legs soon. Anyway, I decided to bring them home today to clean out thoroughly and charge up as I hadn't got around to finishing the job after all. I am fuming - inside I found clumps of brown hair, when my pony is very black!! I know who has used them, the same girl that I allowed to borrow my heavy duty ones to clip her two horses and then proceeded to do other peoples with them without my knowledge at the time and didn't even bother cleaning them out afterwards!! I will be having words tonight.

 

[kerilli]

she must think you're really stupid not to notice that! not wishing to pour petrol on the fire or anything...

the cheek of some people never fails to amaze me.
my best ever was a livery who asked if she could use my tiny clippers just to hog her horse, and then proceeded (while i went out for a long hack) to hunter clip the whole (previously unclipped) horse with them (because she said she'd slipped and done a bit of his neck by accident, so he looked daft, so she had to do all of him...!), and couldn't believe that i was rather annoyed!
both barrels tonight, i think.

 

[amzy]

I think that's what makes it worse, the fact that she must think I'm either stupid and won't notice or I'm some sort of push-over. Better make it clear tonight so there can't be any more 'misunderstandings'.'

 

[Christmas Crumpet]

Let us know what happens when you tell her off!!! I have lent my clippers to people before and the blades have come back seriously blunt because they haven't bothered to clean their horses. Or worse than that - I have been asked to clip 2 horses this winter and got there and they were caked in mud. I refused to do them surprisingly!! I was always taught to have an exceptionally clean horse if I wanted to clip so always give mine a bath the night before.

 

[henryhorn]

I know exactly how you feel.
We went to use ours and found them clogged up with black and white hair, but we don't have any black and white horses..
Someone who did had used our access code to go into the tackroom, take them to their yard, clip their black and white horse and stuck them back..Cheeky cow.
We simply installed a bee bop movement detector and from then on we knew if anyone went in after it was locked.