safe whip

I don't want to sound stupid but how is that effective as a whip?! No thanks, will stick with wearing high viz, using hand signals and carrying a proper whip!
 
Lolo said:
I don't want to sound stupid but how is that effective as a whip?! No thanks, will stick with wearing high viz, using hand signals and carrying a proper whip!
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I imagine it is not actually a 'whip' as such - rather, a stick with a sign on it that you hold in your hand. I suppose its usefulness would depend on whether or not you feel you may need to apply a whip to your horse in a safety situation (eg. to get it to shift out the road, fast). It is very similar to a thing I had attached to my bike when I commuted with it.
 
What if you actually need a whip for being a whip?

Also drivers will continue to ignore and probably think look at that eejit, If it being written in big letters on the back of a hi viz vest dont work why will this?

I would feel a right tit carrying one of those.
 
Lolo said:
I don't want to sound stupid but how is that effective as a whip?! No thanks, will stick with wearing high viz, using hand signals and carrying a proper whip!
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If I used one, I wouldn't use it as a whip!
It's would be a way to make it obvious what we would like drivers to do!
Most just don't think or realise!
 
People I know carry a schooling whip when on the road and stick it right out at their side so drivers give them more room.
So I think this is making it more obvious, brighter with a request.
 
Have a good look at the pictures, think about where a driver is in the car and then have a nice long ponder on the saying "Look where you want to go". Do you really want a driver coming nice and close to read what the rather small printing says, aiming directly for your stick, which is midway along your (or your child's) horse? I jolly well don't!

Have a look at picture #2. Note how close to the lead pony the photographer is. Then look at the whip held by the child on the second pony. Can't read it easily? Nor could a driver at that distance to the second pony!
 
I do love though how there is always a uber dramatic story owing to the development of these products. It's nothing to do with the fact that they would quite like to make money.
 
chrisritch said:
I do love though how there is always a uber dramatic story owing to the development of these products. It's nothing to do with the fact that they would quite like to make money.
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Very true.

This product really is laughable. I shall be keeping my twenty-three pounds.
 
I've just seen that they're £20 too! For a bit of plastic that renders a £6 whip unusable. Blimey.
 
Could just as easily print and laminate a bit of paper to sellotape on to a normal whip :P not that I would use one, but I do quite like the idea! It's original and attention grabbing, I just don't think drivers will be able to read it from a distance and ridiculously overpriced
 
I would think the writing would be too small to read from a moving vehicle. I shall be sticking with my schooling whip with some hi vis ribbon tied on the end, seems to work nicely and usually stops the car behind pushing through the gap between the oncoming traffic and my horse.
 
they just made me laugh !!

no driver is going to be able to read that unless they are too close... which completely defeats the object !

i'll stick to the old fashioned way
 
I was having an online conversation with someone who had one & she said the wording was the same size as on a normal hi viz! I'm pretty sure they must have very small hi viz writing or its one heck of a whip ;)
 
Hmm. In my experience, this would be a red rag to a bull for the drivers who think we shouldn't be on the roads anyway: as in 'How DARE you tell me what to do!... and I will now pass close and fast and if you can't control your horse, then it's your own look out.'

I'd love to think this was an unlikely scenario, but I'm afraid it isn't :(
 
Have seen these circulating on FB. A good idea but as others have said, in order for it to be read you'd have to be pretty damn close anyway! Hi viz vest is easier IMO.
 
jemima*askin said:
Have a good look at the pictures, think about where a driver is in the car and then have a nice long ponder on the saying "Look where you want to go". Do you really want a driver coming nice and close to read what the rather small printing says, aiming directly for your stick, which is midway along your (or your child's) horse? I jolly well don't!
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^^ this, I never want drivers to try and read my hi viz. the most effective hi viz tabard I have is one with a caution sign on it.
 
I have recently received a safe whip and can't believe the difference it has made when I am hacking out. With regards to whether or not you can read it, the writing is the same size as that on any of my other equine safety products, such as my high vis jacket and what not. And as for drivers coming too close, they most certainly do the opposite. urthermore, when drivers are approaching at an extreme speed, I stick the whip out, and the impact it has is unbelievable ... just ordered another one for my daughter!

I don't think it the idea of the safe whip is for it to be used as a whip, it is just an aid to help you communicate with drivers when you are out hacking ... I wouldn't really take a horse out on the road in the first place if it wasn't well schooled enough to listen to my leg.
 
Simply sharing my opinion on a forum, I didn't realise you couldn't post positive feedback! I was writing based on my experience handling the safe whip, as oppose to making a misconceived judgment. Both myself and my daughter are very happy with the product which we received just short of a month ago.
 
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