Shavings
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Best stirrup covers and where to buy please
Stirrup covers
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teapot
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Buy some oven gloves 
Dave's Mam
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Yep, oven gloves.
Rowreach
Adjusting my sails
Saw some advertised today at £40 a pair so oven gloves would definitely be cheaper ?
MuddyMonster
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I've seen them for under £5 on ebay, so I'd buy from there personally! Or make your own from some fleece.
Do oven gloves not get wet and dirty when you put stirrups away?
Do oven gloves not get wet and dirty when you put stirrups away?
Cowpony
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Do oven gloves not get wet and dirty when you put stirrups away?[/QUOTE said:Well I guess nobody is proposing to use them for the Sunday roast afterwards
ElleSkywalkingintheair
As excited as Kitty about to be a bridesmaid
Finer equine stirrup covers, pricey but worth it
Rowreach
Adjusting my sails
They’re the £40 ones.
ElleSkywalkingintheair
As excited as Kitty about to be a bridesmaid
Yep. But worth it
MereChristmas
riding reluctantly into the sunset
I made these. It didn’t take long.
MuddyMonster
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Well no hopefully no one is using them to cook afterwards But I wouldn't want to be bringing home or leaving in the tack room something that will go wet and mouldy either. Maybe they don't though!
My homemade ones are fleece so at least they should dry out when the wet, muddy stirrups go inside
But I wouldn't want to be bringing home or leaving in the tack room something that will go wet and mouldy either. Maybe they don't though! My homemade ones are fleece so at least they should dry out when the wet, muddy stirrups go inside
Shavings
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Oven gloves you say… any one got a photo of them in use I’m trying to picture it and can just see my Mickey Mouse gloves (mitt style) stuck on either side of the saddle
Roasted Chestnuts
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I bought a set on eBay to match my fleece saddle cover ? I think I was £7.50 including postage for the stirrup covers and £15 for the cover including postage ?
was this seller on eBay I bought the harlequin set
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fleece-s...2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0
was this seller on eBay I bought the harlequin set
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fleece-s...2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0
WaterySun852
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Drawstring washbags work well too
scats
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I get mine through Dreamchaser equestrian
Red-1
I used to be decisive, now I'm not so sure...
Cheapest nice ones I have seen on ebay was £3.88, but they are the separate ones.
I tried oven gloves, they weren't quite big enough for my XL 13.5cm stirrups. I also prefer the over the saddle ones, as it spends less time in the dirt/lost than individual ones.
ETA, tried a different search, found high viz fleece ones for £2.98. Searched for "Stirrup Covers" and cheapest first...
Over the saddle ones are on the same search, £10.98.
I tried oven gloves, they weren't quite big enough for my XL 13.5cm stirrups. I also prefer the over the saddle ones, as it spends less time in the dirt/lost than individual ones.
ETA, tried a different search, found high viz fleece ones for £2.98. Searched for "Stirrup Covers" and cheapest first...
Over the saddle ones are on the same search, £10.98.
CanteringCarrot
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I'm not sure how much they'd cost over there, but I have QHP stirrup covers. They were around 10€ when I bought them. They're a bit more robust compared to fleece (which I used to use and they were fine but the elastic wore out and I just happened to spot these in a nice pattern), and I've been quite satisfied with them so far. Good value I'd say.
MereChristmas
riding reluctantly into the sunset
I have a saddle cover by QHP. A different pattern to the above but the material is robust.
My homemade stirrup covers ( pictured earlier ) now have a strap added which joins them together and goes over the saddle. They are thick cotton gabardine lined with towelling and a drawstring with fastener. They wash and dry easily.
chaps89
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Can someone explain the purpose of these to me please? I’ve never quite understood it if I’m honest.
Rowreach
Adjusting my sails
Partly to keep mud off the saddle flaps and partly (these days) to stop cheese grater and other lethal weapon type stirrups from completely destroying the saddle.
muddybay
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i got mine from etsy
Shavings
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I have a brand new saddle I have waited over a year for and want to keep it from being scratched or the dirt going on it, I’m allergic to stuff in leather cleaner so try to avoid cleaning my tack to often
LEC
Opinions are like bum holes, everyone has one.
Horze Neoprene ones. Last really well, can run up stirrups as normal and cheap.
I hate oven glove style ones it just annoys me looking at them.
I hate oven glove style ones it just annoys me looking at them.
black and brown
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Griffin Nuumed do quilted 'oven glove' style ones but obviously designed specifically for stirrups so a bit bigger than oven gloves. I just put mine in the washing machine to keep them clean and they come out looking like new.
MuddyMonster
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I've got cage stirrups so can't run them up - I have stirrup clips that I clips stirrups to the front of my saddle so wanted covers to stop them making the saddle pad either wet & muddy or just wet depending on if I've hosed the stirrups off or not ?
McFluff
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I’ve got these too. They are easy to use, hold big stirrups, and after a few years still as good as new. Think they’re worth the £30 tbh. Definitely saved my saddle as the Jin stirrups I had were intent on destroying it!
FinnishLapphund
There's no cow on the ice
LEC
Opinions are like bum holes, everyone has one.
How amusing as this is my photo from many years ago. Didn’t like oven gloves so switched to HORZE neoprene ones. This must have been taken a long time ago as binned those saddles years ago! Back in 2014 maybe.Your post made me curious, so I googled, and found this photo:
FinnishLapphund
There's no cow on the ice
I hope you don't mind I shared it, I think there's still time for me to edit my reply if you want to. Didn't find it on HHO, otherwise I would've said who had posted it.
Steerpike
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I saw somewhere someone had mentioned kids drawstring swimming bags