Bucket Filling Tips & Tricks

Bucket Filling Tips & Tricks

To prevent leaving your hose running, go to the dollar store and buy scratchy material or bright colour scrunchies and put them on your taps. When you turn on the tap to fill your water buckets or barrels, put one of the scrunchies on your wrist. This way you have a...

Saddle Panels 101: Air Panels

Let’s talk about air panels. There are basically two versions of air panels on the market, both trademarked: the Flair Panels and the Cair panels. The main difference between the two is that Flair can be adjusted (air added in or taken out of it) and Cair is a...
Saddle Panels 101: Swiss & Hybrid Panels

Saddle Panels 101: Swiss & Hybrid Panels

These are fairly common panels just not as talked about as often compared to wool and foam. A Swiss panel is basically a tube of felt that is filled with wool. This tube is the shape of the saddle’s panel. It can have gussets (a wedge-shaped piece of leather...
Saddle Panels 101: Wool-Flocked Panels

Saddle Panels 101: Wool-Flocked Panels

Flocked panels or English-made saddles refers to panels that are filled with wool, synthetic flocking, or a mix of both. There are many diffent types of flocking that is used. Some have wool that is raw, has lanolin, has short fibres or long, is coloured brown or...
Saddle Panels 101: Foam Panels

Saddle Panels 101: Foam Panels

Foam panels are usually found on French-designed saddles. For example: Devoucoux, Butet, Voltaire, Calibre, Childric, CWD, Antares, Maurel, Tad Coffin, Delgrange, Hermes, Equipe and PLS. These are made by companies that specialize in show jumping saddles. A few of...