Saddle Help???????????

Question

I bought a saddle bundle off a site that costs me $200 less than how much I pay in a saddle shop for the bundle I got ($979).

This is the bundle:

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But my problem is that when I got the bundle the sturrips and leathers wasn't attached/inside the saddle, and I DON'T KNOW HOW TO PUT THE STURRIPS AND LEATHERS IN THE SADDLE SO I CAN RIDE!!!!!

I tried to take it to the saddle shop near my home but they charge $215 and if they break or damage the saddle they wont replace or fix it.

So can someone tell me or walk me through putting the leathers and sturrips in my saddle???????

Please I haven't ridden in a whole week, because I needed a new saddle.

SO can someone Please Help me!!??????????????

Answer 1

I do not know if it is a English or Western saddle, so let do both, On the English saddle look under the fender flap, there is a piece of metal that hold the leather, it has a snap side that snaps down to slid the strap on to and snaps the snap back. On the Western Saddle, put the saddle on a wooding horse or stand, if you have on. life up the leather fender as far as it go, you may need help, look up under the saddle and you will see a place with a slot and one a little higher on the tree.get a regular letter belt and push the tong up in to the top slot and work it back down and out the other slot.. Tie the setup strap to the belt, and pull the belt back through working the strip strap up and trough the tree slot and out. Bring the strap down, put on the strip and buckle of pin the strap to together, with the fender on the out side, Noe do the other side the same way. I can change a strip strap in about 15 minutes, it is not that hard.

Answer 2

I have a synthetic saddle and leathers and they are a pain to get attached.

The hook that the leathers attach to should (under the top saddle flap) be open on the back end. Loop the leather and slide it into the hook via this open end. It can be a little tricky and you may need a MAN to do it for you, I have to do my wife's for her. Try to lubricate it with some vasaline if you can't manage it. Hope this helps...good luck!!!

Answer 3

take it to your local saddle shop they will do it for u. they might charge u. but it shouldnt be that much. just ask befor u tell them todo it.

Answer 4

If the tack shop can not put the stirrups on for $20 or so then something is seriously wrong (They probably just want you to buy from them).  Anyway take it to someone else.  You will find someone that will put it together for you.  

Sorry, I wish I could help more but I really know very little about English tack and though I could figure it out I would have to be looking at it and handling it to do so.  Not just seeing a photo.

Answer 5

Sure!

Take one stirrup and one leather.  It looks like your stirrups don't have a front and a back (or rather, an inside and an outside) so don't worry about which way it is positioned.  With the bottom side (rough side) of the stirrup leather facing up, thread the leather through the stirrup from close to you to further away from you.  Now that the stirrup is threaded onto the leather, take the pointy end of the leather and thread it through the clip where the leathers attach to the saddle.  Now you're ready to put the leather through the buckle (on the other end of the leather) and you should be ready to go!  Just repeat on the other side.

Answer 6

just look at another saddle just like it  and just put the stirrups on the same way if its to stif then get some leather oil or grease and soften it up if you can break it its not safe to ride

Answer 7

Just slide the stirrup onto the leather and buckle the leather in any hole. Hold it up with the buckle in your hand so that the buckle is up and the stirrup is hanging down like it would on a saddle. Make sure the buckle's toward you and the access leather is hanging straight down and toward you too. Lift the stirrup flap. See the metal safety bar? Just slide the leather in so that it looks like this: http://extension.missouri.edu/explore/im...

Hope I helped (:

If you need anything else, feel free to ask.

Answer 8

Ask a horsie person to show you how, or yeah take a look at another saddle. If you still can't figure it out, first slide the stirrup into the leather and buckle it, than slide one side of the stirrup leather loop under the metal piece near the top of the saddle with the buckle facing OUT.

Answer 9

Maybe that is why it was 200$, anyway if you have another saddle which I hope you do, just look at that, if you don't have a saddle just go to your local saddlery and look at those saddles.

By the way nice saddle bundle.

Answer 10

I have never heard of this problem before. Normally on a saddle there is this metal bar where the leathers go thru that you can flip up and down. If you first put the irons on the leathers and then adjust them on a hole on the leathers so it's a "loop" and then pull them and on to the bar and flip the bar up, it will be attached on. I hope this helps.

Answer 11

Look at another saddle and see how it is set up. English saddles are much easier to hook up than western but it can be done. A saddle that breaks when putting stirrups on is not safe to ride. Just ride bareback untill you get the saddle thing worked out.

Answer 12

ok get your stirrup irons and your leathers in front of you. Now undo the buckles (or if they are already undone) of the leathers. Now thread one of the leathers through on of the stirrup irons (there should be a slim hole in the metal above where you put your feet into). Then buckle it up.

There you have one stirrup iron attached to the stirrup leather.

Now repeat that for the other stirrup.

For attaching them onto the saddle. There should be a bit of a flap on both sides of the saddle where your legs sit. On either side of your seat, there should also be two small flaps. If you lift these small ones up you should find a metal bit with a hinge. if you get your stirrup leather, you should be able to slide it onto the bit of metal. Now to make sure your stirrups don't fall off when you are riding or mounting, you can push the hinge up to keep them in place. However you don't have to do this for safety, for example if you were to get dragged and your foot was still stuck in the stirrups it should slide out, so then you won't get dragged. Does that make sense?

Ok, now do that on the other side. Then you should have both stirrups attached.

If you want the right length for your legs when you ride, the best rule of thumb is to stand with your arm outstretched with your fist where the stirrup leather is attached to the saddle. The end of the stirrup where the iron is should sit under you armpit. So the stirrups shouls be about as long as your arm. I hope this helped, sorry if it's a bit confusing! But good luck! I had trouble with this too when i first got my saddlery package! I had more trouble with the bridle though! lol! Have fun!

Answer 13

Okay so under the small flap at the top of the saddle will be a metal bar. That is what your stirrup leather hangs from.

Put the stirrup iron on the stirrup leather, then run the leather under the metal bar, the buckle should be facing outwards. Then simply pick the length you want and buckle it.

The buckle then needs to be pulled up so that it is under the small flap.

It can be a challenge wiggle the leather under the metal bar, having the safety down on the bar will help alot. I ride with my safety down, and have not had a problem with pulling my stirrups off. The safety down will allow the stirrups to be pulled off if you fall and your foot gets caught.

Hope the instructions make sense!

Answer 14

Very good, simple advice from several posters. However, if you're still confused, feel free to send the saddle to me, and I'll fix it for way less than $215 - how does $50 sound ???  : D