Masterclip Royale vs Liveryman Harmony Plus

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I think I may have posted about this the other year but never did anything about it. Basically I have a very noise sensitive horse who has decreed that my full size cordless clippers are not acceptable to him. (Wolseley Goshawk, similar in size / noise level to Lister Liberty / Heiniger Xperience, although I actually think they're lighter and quieter than both of these which is why I bought them over the others in the first place... now selling them if anyone wants a perfectly good pair of cordless clippers that have hardly been used!)

Realistically the ones I'm going to have to look at are the glorified dog clipper types. I am aware they will not be as powerful, will have slimmer blades and that the whole process would in theory take longer on a well behaved horse (although in practice if he tolerates them better it will in fact speed things up!)

I already have a pair of Masteclip trimmers which are very quiet and he finds these acceptable, just a bit much to ask them to do a "proper" clip (although we are only talking a bib / trace clip really). Just wondered what peoples experiences were of the noise levels and ability to actually clip through a winter coat of either the Masterclip Royales or Liveryman Harmony? This would be using them off the battery pack as I don't want to have to worry about a wire trailing on the floor plus no plug in the barn anyway.
 
What kind of coat does the horse have? No experience of the Masterclip ones, but I had a set of Harmony clippers and replaced them last year with the new model. I like them, bought them for my last horse, who I was told was bad to clip, well he wasn't with those. They were also accepted very readily by my current horse for his first clip as ge entered his 4yo year. Both horses WBs and both blanket clips, high trace etc. The clippers were perfectly fine for that job. What I think may have killed the first set is my friend's cushings IDxTB, who has thicker, longer hairs and it seems a lot more of them. I may be blaming his coat unfairly, but I certainly wouldn't recommend them for a cob or a native.
 
He is a Welsh D but he doesn't grow that thick a coat for a native if I'm honest (there's a TB on our yard that gets more winter fluff than him!) if he grew the woolly mammoth coat that some traditional cobs / other natives grow then I wouldn't even consider it. Ditto if I was wanting to do a full clip but as I'm not was hoping I may be able to get away with it... Food for thought anyway
 
Well you could give them a go. If his coat did kill them, you'd likely get two or three years' use out of them first, and by that time he might have got over himself a bit enabling you to get something slightly beefier nect time. Or they might be absolutely fine.

My understanding is that Masterclip can be difficult to cope with re servicing and repairs, so you might want to learn towards the Harmony.
 
I've got the Liveryman Harmony Plus clippers. They're very good, and VERY quiet. You can get wide blades, too - I alternate betweeen narrow and wide depending on which part of the horse I'm doing.

I confess that I use them as back up for fiddly bits to my full size Heiniger Xplorers, which are also surprisingly quiet, so I haven't done a full clip with the Harmonys.
 
I clipped my IDxConnie at the weekend with my new Liveryman Harmony Plus clippers. He's never been clipped before and was unsure to start with, but after a while I could behind his ears and under his chin while he had a snooze. They're super quiet and I had no problems going through his coat. He's not got a particularly thick coat, but not thin either.
 
I have had both for my noise sensitive cob mare who has a thickish coat. Both have coped very well with her coat and have done numerous hogs and feather trims. Just did a really high blanket clip and used a full battery on the harmonies without the battery pack. So battery does well. I'm not sure I could pick one over the other though. Probably liveryman as my royales were corded. Masterclip were good with me when I had an issue with them not turning on. Sent the clippers and charger and they replaced the charger free of charge and was fairly quick but this was many years ago.
 
I Have the liveryman harmony plus clippers and love them.
My current horse totaly freaks out at normal clippers (including rearing up and putting his head through the roof of the stables when they were turned on outside his stable. but I can full body clip him in around 30 mins with the Harmonys, and he will stand and go to sleep for it.
Mine is a IDxTB x yeti. grows an enormous coat and the harmony plus have coped beautifully for the last 3 years, and still going strong
 
I like the Harmonys, quiet enough to do an Irish clip on my nervous Irish mare, also did my WB with them. Good charge, reasonable blades included and worked well on fine-medium haired horses.
 
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