Your clipping failures?

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Ahh someone make me feel better :p last time I clipped, I accidently clipped in to quite a long section at the bottom of my horse's mane; was ok, just combed it over and couldn't tell as he has a super thick mane. Well I am going on the hunt boxing day so wanted to clip in time to look smarter and have a less sweaty horse, I slipped and clipped the mane again in the same place :( now he has a few wispy bits that resembles Gollum's hairstyle. Brilliant.
Anyone else had clipping fails?
 
This year I've had A LOT of clipping failures! Due to dodgy blade sharpening services!

First clipped a blanket with newly sharpened blades and one side looked great 2nd side they'd started to fail on me, so swapped to my other set and just managed to get an acceptable blanket before they blunted on me to! so didn't have neat bits around the ears!

Then I sent both sets away for sharpening and when they came back I decided she needed to have a full clip, due to unknown itching issue! clipped on side clean off, blades didn't feel right, swapped blades, and they were even worse, couldn't get them through her coat, so she was fully clipped one side and half the blanket was gone in a really bad looking fashion on the other side!
so back to the shop I went to return the blades for sharpening again! I then wait 2 more weeks, picked the blades up on the night of a 20% off sale! the next morning, went to clip it all off, STILL they didn't work, I again managed a bit but it wasn't working! I swapped between the 2 sets of blades, I then noticed the man has mismatched the 2 set of blades, so tried them in their matching pairs, still didn't work!

So took them back to be sent back, this time I refused to pay again! but I needed the shambles of a clip gone, so had to spend another £37 on new blades! annoyingly if I had known I could have bought that blades in the 20% off sale! so had to pay full price for them :(

I've just got my other blades back, but too scared to try them because I don't want another nightmare clipping session!

At least she looks presentable now and I'm not embarrassed to let her out for some naked time now!!
 
yes started clipping with my new (second hand) battery clippers about halfway through realised i hadn't put them on charge and they were about to die, poor pony had to sport a dodgy half clip for a couple of days until i had charged them and had time to finish the clip!

a friend asked me to give heir 4yo a little clip to go hunting he'd never been done before and wasn't very happy about it but we managed to get a little bib off and i was just tidying up around his face when he chucked his head up and i took a little chunk of hair out of the line :/
 
My first ever time clipping my old loan mare, I had done a lovely blanket on one side. Went round to do the other, forgot I was doing a blanket and whizzed straight up her backside! Ended up turning it into a hunter clip instead, so nobody knew apart from the guy who was teaching me! :D
 
I currently have one in the yard that looks like a total patchwork quilt from his shouldrrs to his head, his head hasnt been touched and his chest is, how shall I put it ... Moth eaten?!? The horse is a total bar steward to clip and I had no time to get him sedated before he races. My only consoling thought is that he is a racehorse, not a show horse and at speed you dont see things!

Hes not the worst I have clipped to be fair! Not by a long shot! One went racing with a hairy head, neck, chest, elbows, flanks, up round his tail, all the ticklish places and the bits you can't reach whilst holding onto the headcollar itself! That thing tried to kill me! Vertical rears that came thundering down straight at me, bitibg, kicking, lashibg out, barging, smashing, plunging - you name it, it did it! No chance to sedate as it was running 2 days later and no one told me! Needless to say he now gets sparkoed well in advance of racing and is lovely to clip that way :-D
 
Not a clipping fail but I have had a mane rake nightmare

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My first ever clip with my girl went a tad pear shaped, got the back of her blanket clip spot on level then realised she was resting a hind leg, ended up like my mum cutting my fringe when I was little - getting higher an higher trying to get the begger straight lol
 
my bfg said:
My first ever clip with my girl went a tad pear shaped, got the back of her blanket clip spot on level then realised she was resting a hind leg, ended up like my mum cutting my fringe when I was little - getting higher an higher trying to get the begger straight lol
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I am like that with leg points! was so disappointed to see my perfect leg points, were not perfect :( . Thanks everyone, you are making me feel better ! now, where can I find mane extensions? ;)

The half full clip is hilarious ! ultimate rugging nightmare
 
I had to give my pony (who hates being clipped) a full clip due to an all over patchy skin infection. Having done one side it became obvious my clippers were faulty and he spent a week with short, medium and unclipped patches in the other side! Thankfully when I did manage to finish his clip, his skin infection cleared up within a few days!
My old horse was great to clip, but very jumpy in general, and I was just finishing the wrinkly bits inside his front legs, literally the last few hairs and he trembled. Instead of quitting while I was ahead, I thought 'I'll just get those last hairs and then I'll finish.' Half a second later he's whipped round and his knee connected with my face. Lesson learnt the hard way.
 
A friend and I were clipping together trying to get the yard done, so one either side. The mare we were doing was having a hunter clip and I remembered she only ever wore a dressage saddle, she didn't!! She ended up with a half pad instead.
I once sent a horse to Olympia with one clipped stripe on its shoulder. I had run the clippers all over it before starting and it never moved, one stripe and it hit the roof then went berserk. No time to sedate it so off it went!
I hate clipping!!
 
My boss is friends with a rather well known eventer who had hired a new groom. He was raving about her, until the day she was clipping and went far too close to the mane. Voila, half a mane gone, it was so bad said horse couldn't be plaited. Lol
Its just one of those things, but I'm the same with pulling manes, I have to make myself walk away and then come back and check. Else I want to get their mane just a little straighter. :D
 
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GlamourDol said:
Its just one of those things, but I'm the same with pulling manes, I have to make myself walk away and then come back and check. Else I want to get their mane just a little straighter. :D
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I'm the same with manes!

i also had a habit of plaiting and and then clipping/tidying the bridle path and always with out fail managed to clip a bit out of the first plait -_- which is fine while they are plaited but when you take it out the bridle path is just a little bit longer and it just got longer and longer. it then got to a ridiculous point and i had to go through the ugly 'growing out stage' only picture i can find which shows how much i had managed to hog off :L Ooops!

a picture just for you Haffy Christmas!
 
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