The most useless horsy item you have ever bought?

One of those bucket style grazing muzzles - horse simply had no idea on what to do and how to eat through the hole.

Agree with the comment on Stockholm Tar - leaks everywhere! Bought once - never again !
 
Pink_Lady said:
One of those bucket style grazing muzzles - horse simply had no idea on what to do and how to eat through the hole.
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That's because those are supposed to stop them from eating altogether - at least I've always seen them get used on horses after colics to stop them from eating their bed.
 
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This thread is hilarious! I bought a special hay net to try and slow down my greedy pony's hay consumption! It looked like a canvas duffel bag with a small rectangle of mesh at the bottom to pull hay through. I put it in her stable and watched as she knocked it around like a punch bag looking really annoyed. So I left her to figure it out and went bag an hour later to find her happily muching the entire pile of hay from the stable floor, and the bag still hanging up minus its bottom which she had completely chewed through lol!::D

Also bought a feed ball which she learned to spin at fast speed and empty out all the pony nuts in about 2 minutes flat!!

Oh well back to the drawing board!
 
The H2Go bag comments really made me chuckle! I bought one when I moved my horses at home with me, to make trekking to their stables easier, but all it does is fall flop out of the barrow into the trug... knock that over too and pour water all over the stable floor :D

What else hmm....

A pair of black turnout boot things... not only did they slip, need washing every single time after being all muddied up, but after a few days the silly boy decided that muddy velcro = monster and refused to let me take them off so i had to follow him around his stable for ages covered in mud... fun!

Too many fetlock boots to count, when i hardly ever jump

Agree with the equiping thing, my boy snapped so many of those he's now a leadrope snapper /professional pullbacker, waste of time and money!

Goathair body brush, the softest thing ever but whaaat is the point of it, its so soft it wont even work on the face of my thin skinned anglo arab... sits in the cupboard useless

Beautiful le meiux sheepskin half pad... distorts saddle fit... cannot be washed without serious thought due to the bit of sheep still attached on the back of the wool

Wholesale amounts of bio oil... great stuff but i think the lack of sleep i suffered when my horse got injured affected my brain as i bought 2 cases of bio oil to rub on his scars, 6 months on we finished 1 bottle... of 40.

My latest fail was probably thinking that as my older horse is so happy in her sweet itch bug rug by snuggy hoods why shouldnt my younger horse get the same benifit... over 100 quid later it arrives and i find out the little loony has a massive hangup about being "blinded" while it goes over his head. After a 20 minute trampling session round and round the stable as i try and get high enough to pull it off his 16hh ears we got rid of it by me hanging off his chest while he stampeded like a raging rhino, now we know he doesnt approve of these pull on designs at all, and older pone has a spare bug rug.
 
This thread is SOOOO funny ! Completely agree about the H2GO - miles from the tap, makes the wheelbarrow completely unstable and its a complete fluke if the stream of water coming out goes anywhere near where you intended. My worst was this strange Carl Hester contraption years ago supposed to make you sit up straight - it was metal and went across your back with two loops that you put your arms into - OMG ! Put it on and literally couldn't move - I had to bail out sideways as I couldn't lean forwards to get off the horse !
 
cobden said:
This thread is SOOOO funny ! Completely agree about the H2GO - miles from the tap, makes the wheelbarrow completely unstable and its a complete fluke if the stream of water coming out goes anywhere near where you intended. My worst was this strange Carl Hester contraption years ago supposed to make you sit up straight - it was metal and went across your back with two loops that you put your arms into - OMG ! Put it on and literally couldn't move - I had to bail out sideways as I couldn't lean forwards to get off the horse !
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Do you by any chance remember what the Carl Hester contraption was called? As a child learning to ride my instructor used to use a plastic contraption on me that sounds really similar and I've been trying to find one for years!
 
I like the H2Go bags!
Also LOVE my Suber pad, fab bit of kit!

Have bought loads of useless things... 2 I can think of are a Hi-Viz waterproof saddle cover that has never left my house after being delivered..! And Keratex hoof hardener..its still in the packet in a box up the yard somewhere..
 
GG2B I remember riding with a garden cane across my back under my arms which I am guessing would be the budget option!
 
Pessoa lunging thing - can't be bothered to actually untangle it and put it on.

Black Pikeur jacket as few weeks later bought a navy hat, so won't match :(

A dressage saddle, I don't even like schooling, luckily managed to sell that.

A Mark Todd acupressure pad. Used once and then renamed the buck pad. He didn't appreciate the gentle massaging action :0
 
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GG2B I remember riding with a garden cane across my back under my arms which I am guessing would be the budget option!
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Haha I tried using a whip once but it just wasn't the same. As a child I hated being tortured but these days a long to have a torture contraption of my own :)
 
How funny - I really like my H2Go & my equiping ties ... Two items that didn't come out of this thread very well! :D

I'm not the worlds biggest horsey shopper & Pete only really gets what he needs, so there's nothing I've bought that really regret!

Oh wait: Just Togs boots, utterly rubbish & took them back after a week! I'm a Toggi convert now.
 
One of those stirrup extenders for getting on. Pony used to be a nightmare to mount and once on board would freak if you adjusted the stirrups (ended badly one day when he bolted and I came off so mounting was a highly stressful act for us both!) I couldn't get my foot in the stirrup and hop around at the length I needed for riding so bought one of these. It was big and bulky and very long! Once inserted into the stirrup of my 13.2 pony it was only about 6 inches off the floor!!

Mounting problem solved now and I can not only get on, but adjust my stirrups too :)
 
Goat hair brush...Soooooo soft I appear to have 2....

And a grazing muzzle (bucket one) - Pony wound himself up wicked then once stopped and started sulking worked out how to get off in about 30 seconds.

And those plastic pole covers. They're like bin bags, and don't last as long. One knock from a horse with shoes on and they look like they've been chewed by a hoover :D
 
Anky cobalt saddle pad and bandages. Who was I kidding, hell will freeze over before OH lets me anywhere near any of the boys with it. Still in wrappers, waiting for him to go away for a week, and then I can pretend I'm a dressage diva.

Sue Carson close contact saddle - absolutely no hope in hell of attaching a saddle flask to one of those, and who goes out without port? Worn it twice, when I was ill and couldn't face drinking...
 
Brilliant thread, love it!!!

Mine is one of those field lickits to give him all the vitamins he needs whilst on restriction costs me £35 and he was petrified of it, was like getting a flaming dragon into the paddock and apparently then picking it up to show him its harmless was a really bad idea because as it moved he promptly cleared the fence and ran for his life!!!

He is also scared of the bigger treat balls however the small hexagonal ones are acceptable .... who knew lol ;)

also a small portable main puller just a plastic traingle with a blade on, broke second pull!
 
cheap grazing muzzle - which he chewed threw in a day and a half
field lick to last 6 weeks - eaten in under a day!!
cheap mucking out fork - prongs too far apart to hold poo in shavings bed and too close together to muck out straw
derby house rug = so short my big horse looked like he was wearing a mini skirt, if i hadn't been so cross with waste of ££s I'd have taken a picky it was too funny.
Rubber reins for instructor to compete naughty horse for me (he hated my web ones) - which broke going over a xc fence!!
Lots of others that prove you get what you pay for
 
oh and my lastest purchase at the weekend a cheap shavings fork, had it 2 days and the flippin end fell off! guy at work has done a great job today of fixing it for me :)
 
Love this thread - it's making me feel so much better about the 'highly recommended' tat I've bought over the years.

I adore my H2GO bag - but then I have the luxury of a nice flexi hose to fill it up and a big round trough in the field to aim it at!

Most stupid thing would probably be one of those dangly things that you use to mount with when your legs are too short for the size of horse you're riding. Bought it - put it in my bag - never used it - took it home again, not actually sure where it is now.

Most useless thing would probably be a fly mask with detachable nose cover for my cob - he hates it, just spends ages wiping it on the ground until it comes off and then happily wanders off to get sunburn . . . or the fly mask, that just has a mesh bit to cover the ears and brow with danglies and an elastic strap under the chin - he always ends up wearing it like some kind of weird beard.

Also have a drawer full of jodhs that no longer fit - but can't be ars*d to put them on ebay after the one pair I did sell cost me more to post and in ebay fees than I actually got for them.
 
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I bought one of those micromit things for bathing - utterly useless! My summer coated grey tb looked like he hadnt been bathed at all - back to the body brush style for me!
 
Love this thread and particularly the rubbery suit one!!!

I bought the 'eezee up stirrup extender' - it wasn't easy up at all - because what they don't say is if your stirrup is a couple of feet off the ground on a 17hh you try swinging your other leg over ............I don't think so - easier to start off the ground :D

I also bought (a bargain buy) some of those horse nasal strips - ....just incase I decided to go xc. I think they may look odd at dressage :o

They are the items I will admit to having gathering dust
 
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my PE buster trio rug without doubt. Nice rug just a shame the poor chap got wet when it rained amd he found it wasn't waterproof.
 
So funny Yasand crystal mine are Dennis brincombe fly licks horses or sheep or cattle wouldn't eat them, RS tor never used, barnes buckles, sold them, treeless saddle slipped sold at large loss, some bits never used, jeep Cherokee hated it always going wrong.
 
Cheapie fly rugs that don't last. The worst record is half a day for my traddie......... he'd managed to totally slice the blimmin thing. I don't bother with cheapies any more, its worth paying extra and getting an item that is more serviceable.

Barnes buckles; never used them, gawd alone knows where they are now coz on e-bay they'd probably fetch a bit.

Pair of really expensive breeches which I just can't get into any more (um, actually, never could!!:) - and I hang on to them in the vague hope that one day, just one day, my super-duper diet WILL work and I WILL get my sleek svelte self squeezed into them...... somehow.

A rubber thing for tying up; which snaps as soon as the horse sneezes basically. Total waste of money!

Plus all the useless supplements & fly sprays that sit on my tack-room shelves half used because they were never any flippin good.
 
Lots of recurring themes on here and totally agree with wheelbarrow water carriers and hoof glitter.

My top money wasters are hoof boots (pony simply won't walk in them), a gel back raiser type saddle pad to level out a GP saddle (gave pony two awful pressure marks on his back, now thankfully gone and new saddle on order), waterproof ride on saddle cover (too slippery to sit on), soft fluffy face brush (for a highland?!)...... Etc etc etc ...
 
What a super thread!
The most useless thing I've ever bought (after being told it was wonderful and produced amazing results quickly) . . . . . ............... Megatek. When I bought my Arab mare her mane had been chewed by her previous field companion and it looked awful. I wanted it to grow quickly so bought, at great expense, a bottle of Megatek and religiously sloshed it on as per the instructions. Mane didn't do anything miraculous so I gave up and am letting the mane grow on its own! (which it is doing . . . . . slowly)
 
Chan said:
Something that you put on your stirrup, that's meant to make it easier to get on a naught horse. WELL! it was a bit too long and thankfully for both me and Ned, he was ok, despite me kicking him on the bum and struggling to get into the saddle! Never again!!
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ROFL!!
 
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