What's the most useless horse-related thing you've ever bought?

Hand clippers, bandage roller, and best of all a rubber thing that attached to the wall ring and headcollar for horses that pull back - took Breeze all of 20 seconds to get the angle and tension right and snap there went £20!
 
Rolled snaffle bridle from ebay - thought it would look classy and like a Passier - actually looked like crap and seemed to have been put together by a monkey. I still have it somewhere gathering dust.
 
Well I have had a selling spree on eBay at the moment so have off loaded most of the things I didnt use anymore!

The most useless thing I have bought recently must have been my New Equine Wear XC Boots I bought them in Large and should have been a Medium anyone fancy them going cheap lol

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Flippin heck where do I start...

So much stuff over the years..

Flymasks - my horses have always been able to get them off/ half off (then panic) within 3 mins of being turned out. Plus theres always one who stands there with flies INSIDE the fly mask just buzzing around while the horse stands there tortured.

Dangling Licket holder and Lickets. F*cking horse would bump it and it would swing round and smack me on the head - also when I was mucking out. He lost interest anyway coz he couldnt get a good go on it as it kept moving - so it just gathered flies all summer.

Snackaball - just got rolled around in poo, totally digusting.

Every bit you could possibly imagine, I have one horse FFS.

Loads of stuff -AND EVERY ONE JUSTIFIED AT THE TIME!!!!!
 
Magic melon.... the little likits are hell to get out but I have no perfected the technique with a screw driver and a pair of pliers!

I have bought pretty much every training aid possible to try to encourage my horse to lower her head.... worst possible purchase was a bungee line off ebay..... it arrived... I swear to god it was just an elasticated shoe lace! So thin and stretchy! My horse didn't even know she had it on! So then went and spent twice as much on a better one which didn't work anyway, just caused my horse to resist even more! lol

I'm always buying rugs I don't really need but not a useless buy as I do use them lol.
 
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Dangling Licket holder and Lickets. F*cking horse would bump it and it would swing round and smack me on the head - also when I was mucking out. He lost interest anyway coz he couldnt get a good go on it as it kept moving - so it just gathered flies all summer.

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Ha ! Forgot about the Lickit's....

Put a new one up for Trike on saturday at about 1pm...by 1.10pm it was gone
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Little bugger has worked out he can open his mouth so wide now that he can fit the whole damned thing in and then one bite and it's gone
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I bought a toungue twister each for my three horses.... the fat cob thought it was great to scratch her arse on and ripped it off the wall withing 2 days. My other two can now finish a little likit in theirs in under 3 minutes! lol
 
i though of another. i bought a pair of red and blue western chaps, and i had long riding boots lol. im not in love with my dublin boots and chaps though, very comfy
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LOL!! Yes!!! How did you guess?
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Wish I had've asked - but it's not something that crops up into convo really! LOL!
They are really the most useless piece of equipment ever purchased!!!
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Kate x
 
Hey I also got a set of Polepods with all good intentions, but can't be ar5ed with them. I keep thinking I should dig them out for a riding lesson so instructor can keep them upright whilst I ride - just another of those things I never get round to... I think they are looking to have a 'plug' on it so you can fill it with sand or water - that might help...
 
lunging equip for my last horse, used it once and gave up after he tried to attack me while lunging him!
doesn't fit the new boy, total waste as he's prob go v nicely. also all the rugs bought for last horse as all too small for new chap (he's wearing them anyway for this season and is getting a v wooly bottom
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miniature shetland as a companion but has the worst case of separation anxiety ever - and cob who she was bought for doesn't actually give a damn whether he has company or not!!! Said shetland has also had more accidents/illnesses/ailments than any other ned I have ever owned and the entire yard is run around her needs!!! Am now banned from ever going to auctions where there are small hairy ponies for sale!!
 
I'm another jolly ball victim; also got my horse the hanging lickit thing but he wouldn't have anything to do with it. Worst purchase ever has got to be a hay ball - it's 2 plastic spider things, one at the top & one at the bottom, & you fit drain rod things between them to make a ball... Got one for my mare as she gets tangled up with haynets no matter how you tie them. Whole thing falls apart in around 10 seconds, and then the spider legs tend to snap off. Don't rem how much it cost, but I'd have taken it back if I were brave enough to take things back...
 
Rhino Runna, which is a sort of wheelbarrow for buckets of water. A. The water sloshes everywhere, B. You can't lift a full bucket out of the contraption at the other end, C. The farmer dropped a bale of hay on the d*** thing and squashed it, which was the best thing for it anyway.

A set of Shires travel boots with shiny lining meaning they slip off as soon as the horse moves. Anyone who wants them for the cost of postage, PM me.

A Lidl fleece with peculiar fastenings, also going free for the cost of postage.

Anti-rub vest that didn't stay in place 5 minutes and was too tight round the neck, making it, er.. a rub-vest.
 
Ditto the licket boredom breaker thingy,neither horse will even look at it and I keep walking into it when mucking out.
Also one of those mesh nose nets designed to stop headshaking,have put it on Dermot 3 times and he had a sneezing fit each time.Can't even put it on ebay now as it's covered in snot!
 
A grass muzzle, if it was tight it rubbed his skin, if I loosened it up he could swish his head sideways as he grazed and grab grass at the sides which can't have done his teeth any good, also the straps to attach it to the head collar came undone unless I put electricians tape round them. Then he learnt how to rub the whole thing off - in a 30 acre field, I put a reward notice up and the kids all went and looked for it! Now I am at a yard with restricted grazing and I don't have an overweight horse, the muzzle is at the bottom of my 'things I don't use at the moment box'
 
turquoise event grease, though I didn't buy it and have warned my daughter if she ever uses it again she and the horse will hack home...
It looks dreadful and came off totally within seconds of starting off..
And I hated the funny looks people gave me holding a blue horse...
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I bought an 'anti vice hay net' before the days of horsehage nets. It was the original one. Paid £ 20 for it and my mare chewed a huge hole in it the first night she had it to get the hay out faster.........Doh!!!
 
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