Your first rug!

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Something just got me thinking!

Can you remember the first rug you ever bought?

Mine was a Greenham Flax New Zealand and it was the dogs doodahs at the time! :cool: It had a chrome leather strap at the front which wasn't attached, you threaded it through whichever hole fitted best, and leg straps at the back with clips so vicious they could potentially take your finger off :eek:

No such thing as tail flaps, neck covers or movement pleats then, oh and a grey blanket lining :p

At £ 60 it cost me a weeks wages :p

Can you remember yours?
 
Persephone said:
Something just got me thinking!

Can you remember the first rug you ever bought?

Mine was a Greenham Flax New Zealand and it was the dogs doodahs at the time! :cool: It had a chrome leather strap at the front which wasn't attached, you threaded it through whichever hole fitted best, and leg straps at the back with clips so vicious they could potentially take your finger off :eek:

No such thing as tail flaps, neck covers or movement pleats then, oh and a grey blanket lining :p

At £ 60 it cost me a weeks wages :p

Can you remember yours?
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yes yes yes - it was one of them :D
parents bought it though so don't know price :o
 
I had a Worldbeater rug as well but it wasn't my first rug. Mine was a second hand canvas one with leather straps which you had to keep oiling to stop them going rock hard. I thought it was great because I come from the generation where rugs were rarely used, especially on ponies. I didn't get it until I was grown up with a horse and I thought it was the height of luxury!
 
A wax masta new zealand with blanket lining - no tail flap, or neck.

Single buckle at front on a leather strap and leg straps for the front AND back legs. We used to chop the front leg straps off!

I also remember the first hi-tec NZ in the form of a chaskit rug - it was great, that was swiftly followed by a navy with red binding rambo and the world had changed!!
 
Mine was a green canvas heavy NZ self righting thing from Barretts Of Feckenham. It had a grey blanket lining, leather leg straps and a front leather strap.

Thought it was the bees knees 20 years ago and it cost me £55 then. At the same time brought a fab jute rug so I could cram straw underneath it and thatch my horse after hunting. he he
 
It was a green canvas New Zealand rug with leg straps that could lacerate a leg as soon as look at it! It weighed a ton:(
I also had a mega itchy jute stable rug with a very fetching surcingle:D
The two rugs cost me a whole months wage! Not much options back in 19-doodaa!:cool:
 
A Robinson's own-brand 15oz stable rug, black with red binding. Fifteen years ago, and she still wears it in the coldest weather. I used to have World Beater turnout rugs too. Fantastic value for money and as good as any other brand at twice the price or worse. I wonder what became of them because they used to have whole-page adverts in the horsey mags. I always suspected that they were made in the same factories as WeatherBeeta (hence the similarity of names) but without the label and price tag!
 
I can't remember the first rug, but I can clearly remember all our horses having the green new zealands that weight 20 tonnes when wet, and they all had little jute rugs in their stables, which used to stink so bad! haha.

I remember the first quited stable rug we bought, and we thought it was so hi tech and modern. LOL
 
Misinterpreted said:
I can't remember the first rug, but I can clearly remember all our horses having the green new zealands that weight 20 tonnes when wet, and they all had little jute rugs in their stables, which used to stink so bad! haha.

I remember the first quited stable rug we bought, and we thought it was so hi tech and modern. LOL
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I also remember when I purchased my first bag of mix for £2.25. I was so excited, nearly wet myself at the feed merchants. instead of feeding straights for years. I used to have to boil barley and linseed on the stove for hours ha ha. The good old days
 
NELSON11 said:
I also remember when I purchased my first bag of mix for £2.25. I was so excited, nearly wet myself at the feed merchants. instead of feeding straights for years. I used to have to boil barley and linseed on the stove for hours ha ha. The good old days
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Lol, remember when Mollichop came on the scene? So you didn't have to risk life and limb, but particularly fingers, chopping up hay in those awful machines :p
 
NELSON11 said:
I also remember when I purchased my first bag of mix for £2.25. I was so excited, nearly wet myself at the feed merchants. instead of feeding straights for years. I used to have to boil barley and linseed on the stove for hours ha ha. The good old days
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We boiled barley and linseed too! It used to sit on the aga all day, and the house would be filled with the aroma :D Keeping horses back then was so much cheaper!
 
I saved up my pocket money and bought Holly my 14.2hh a £20 stable rug out of the classifieds in the paper (World Beater elephant? I think) when I was 10, then when she had decided to swim through the pond (oh yes swim..with ducks..and Koi Carp!!) her New Zealand was wrecked so Mom went and bought her "one of those new clever rugs that were in Horse and Hound". A RAMBO rug! This was about 18 years ago - pony never had any other makes since - vvv spoilt pony :-)
 
:D Completely useless bit of kit really, and actually it was for a horse called Useless.

Sweat sheet, one of those string vest type things. I just used to put blankets underneath it and use an equally old fashioned roller to hold everything together.

Followed shortly afterwards by a jute and a rigid green canvas NZ. I had that jute until 4 years ago when, aged 30, it finally gave up the ghost and disintegrated completely.
 
I had the same green canvas NZ with the holes to run through the leather strap! It also had a leather surcingle stiched on to it! Then I got a jute and a string vets, we were absolutely the bees knees!
I still have the 1st 'proper' stable rug I bought for Sun when I was 15, so its nearly 13 years old, and going strong!! Thats a weatherbeeta too!
 
Mine was a green New Zealand, I have no idea what make it was. I remember buying my first stable rug from a tack auction in the 80's and being amazed it was a really nice plum colour with silver bindings (all others at that time seemed to be blue with red bindings). Horseware came out with the Rambo around that time and blew us all away, my parents would not let me have one though! I am making up for that one, Mr Darcy now has more then 10 different models of Horseware rugs :p
 
Yup, still got it :) bought for me as an Xmas present the same time I got my first horse - it's a purple FalPro Bulldog turnout with green binding.
 
About 13 years ago i had just bought my first horse who was off the riding school and had this blue and red pollywarmer rugs with more holes in it than not. My parents got me a Fal Pro Sarcen hw, the green checked one they had just come out cost £90 at the time and was the dogs.
I loved that rug and it was still going strong when she was pts last year, abit thinner and a small patch on the back, it was sometimes used as a under rug in the field, never moved, always kept her warm. Was a bit gutted when i sold it at a horsey car boot. My mum said that she would buy me another when i got another horse :rolleyes: as she liked it loads too.
My first t/o was a worldbeeter canvus rug, bright green with bright red binding and fleece inside. I also remember getting a rug with removeable liners like the Duo's now. Think it was a Weatherbeeter but you had to put the liners in like you would a duvet in a cover, abit of a pain but at the time was really cool, shame it leaked and didnt fit very well.
 
I knitted my first rug for my first pony. I kid you not. I even have a photo of it somewhere.
(honestly, there was no way my mum was splashing out on a rug when she'd bought pony, saddle, bridle, numnah - obligatory red to match reins and girth - & grooming kit.)
This was the pony's only rug for 2 years... i think he got a red string cooler rug eventually (fat lot of good they were if you didn't know to layer them!)
 
1st rug i bought my loan horse was a Robinsons own brand "Cranberry and Slate" turnout with no fill.

2nd rug was a Robinsons own brand "Cinnamon" stable rug.

He was 7'3" size so not a lot of choice, especially as I was on a budget as I didn't own him, but it always amused me that they both had edible names as he was huge and liked his grub!!
 
Yes, 31 years ago, it was a stable rug and not only do I still have the rug :eek: but I still have the pony it fitted :cool:

Rug has since been cut down and made into a foal rug and the original wearer will not now be seen in anything other than a top of the range Rambo (the brat :))
 
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