Posted 2005-10-17 4:32 PM (#31868) Subject: Help with Rear Tack...
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Posts: 45 Location: Midwest
Ok my family recently came back with the trailer and i opened the rear tack and ALL of the saddles where on the floor and a few halters, and misc. i was very dissapointed and this being our first gooseneck trailer i need some answers. Ok, do you really need to tie the saddles down, the longest we will ever be hauling is about 100-125 miles. And how do you tie them down? Thank you so much!
Posted 2005-10-17 4:47 PM (#31870 - in reply to #31868) Subject: RE: Help with Rear Tack...
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Posts: 133 Location: Indianapolis, IN
What type of trailer do you have? That isn't normal unless you take curves too fast or you stop or go to sudden. I have had to slam on my breaks and my saddle has fallen sideways in my dressing room, but everyone else that has rear tacks I have not heard on having a problem!
Posted 2005-10-17 4:54 PM (#31872 - in reply to #31868) Subject: RE: Help with Rear Tack...
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Posts: 1416 Location: sc
not all saddle racks are created equal. the ones in my dressing room are crap. i just take a bungie from the top rack to the bottom, holds everything pretty good. havent had any saddle damage from the bungie but i have cheaper(not show) saddles. good luck.
Posted 2005-10-17 6:24 PM (#31874 - in reply to #31868) Subject: RE: Help with Rear Tack...
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Posts: 2953 Location: North Carolina
Just a bungie cord over each saddle and attached to the sides of the rack. Everything always in place at the end of the trip. (even after a full on braking event... idiot pulls in front of me.)
Posted 2005-10-18 8:57 AM (#31905 - in reply to #31868) Subject: RE: Help with Rear Tack...
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Posts: 824 Location: Kansas
I finally had to cave in and use bungee cords too, although I hated the thought of them on my show saddles. You can get a slightly longer bungee and run it under the saddle flaps where any wear marks won't show, then up through the forks and in front of the horn on the western saddle, just join them at the front for an English one and you should be fine. I have done this for years with no particular wear on the bungees. Good luck.
Posted 2005-10-18 12:21 PM (#31919 - in reply to #31905) Subject: RE: Help with Rear Tack...
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Posts: 1011 Location: Oregon
I don't have any problems with my saddles staying on the racks in my rear tack. If you were to use bungee cords, and are worried about scuffing up you saddle, why not use those "fuzzy tube thingys" that they use on halters? Seem like they would be very easy to make. Maybe out of that soft cloth that they use to was cars with? Just a thought.
Posted 2005-10-18 3:23 PM (#31935 - in reply to #31868) Subject: RE: Help with Rear Tack...
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Posts: 143 Location: southeast U.S.A.
We have a 94 Sundowner that has the carpet-like material on the saddle racks and have never had any trouble with the saddles sliding off. We do keep the saddles in the tack room up front and have western style saddles with wool type padding so i'd say that makes allot of difference. I could see a saddle with a slick bottom being another story. I have found it odd to go 100+ miles and find salt & pepper shakers still on top of a small apartment size refrigerater in the tack room. Pretty amazing considering all the rough roads and the slick top of the fridge not to mention the occasionall hard braking. I have seen some of the newer saddleracks that are a plastic like material that looks as if the saddles would slide pretty easy.I'd say that its a trade off cause mine are pretty difficult to take them on and off when you go to ride
Posted 2005-10-18 3:56 PM (#31947 - in reply to #31868) Subject: RE: Help with Rear Tack...
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Posts: 644 Location: Odenville, Alabama
I bought some of that rubber type shelf liner at Walmart, and super glued it to my saddle racks. Nothing slides off anymore. It cost $8. I believe I may have bought it in the camping dept. Bungee cords also work wonders.
Posted 2005-10-18 4:59 PM (#31955 - in reply to #31868) Subject: RE: Help with Rear Tack...
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Posts: 45 Location: Midwest
Thanx for the help!! i actually found it weird they would fall off because i went in the Living Quarters and there were cans of pop and paper and stuff open on the counter and nothing fell off.. but then again i have no idea what is normal and what is not for a gooseneck!?
Posted 2006-04-19 11:51 AM (#40672 - in reply to #31868) Subject: RE: Help with Rear Tack...
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Posts: 50 Location: Delta Junction, Alaska
Also the paint on truck bed liner without the extra rubber pieces work well. I have been very lucky and have not had to use it on my tailer but I know lots of people who do up here in Alaska and Canada.
Help with Rear Tack...
