Tack cleaning??!!

I know lots will disagree with me, from their personal experience, but that IS the science of the stuff we use on leather.

Yes if you remove grease regularly by tack cleaning regularly you'll not get proper grease jockeys, but if you don't use glycerine you avoid them full stop. I only cleaned my tack, when I had a horse, once a fortnight max (I rode 6 days a week) and when I stopped using gylcerine I stopped getting grease jockeys. I just say why make life harder for yourself?!
 
SBloom - not surprising you got grease jockeys if you only cleaned fortnightly! Grease jockeys are a build up of horse dirt and grease.

In the yard I trained the school pony tack was desperately in need of cleaning - they had beautiful 'jockeys' and cerainly not caused by glycerine.

Science sometimes tells us stuff that in 20-30 years time they adnmit they were wrong. I go by what I see and know.

Grooms have used glycerine on saddlery for a century if not more - lets listen to our old horsepeople that had the information passed down to them from their forefathers.

Know the best method for waterproofing and keeping the leather on your leather boots the healthyest? - good old fashioned boot polish in a tin - the sort you put on with a brush, allow to dry then buff off. Since using that on my jodphur boots they've lastest the longest of any leather footwear I've had in decades.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top