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Tried to make an old, hi-strung Tn Walking Horse into a pleasure riding horse a few yrs back.
Discovered a 6ft Ugly Stick upside her ass a few times worked way better than spurs.



hahaha

Still didn't have much luck with her. Alpo material.

Here in Kentucky we use tobacco sticks for such purposes.

They usually work.

used to have about 2000 sticks in our dark fired barn

BIL pushed all of it down into a gulley to build a new house. Some of those sticks were probably 75 yrs old

I used to raid the barn and get them for tomato sticks....(after we ran outta remington rifles)

No! Cookie took them all away from me.

They're now stored at my girlfriend's house.

Referring back to the pooping in the woods thread. How do you do that wearing spurs?


mike r

meh some people on this forum have had their balls cut off, and even posted about.

Most spurs are for show. Crocketts are for work.

I agree...

Other than the Oscar Crocketts. Those hand forged, hand crafted spurs are pretty valuable.

I found an old pair of spurs hanging in a barn they were going to tear down. I was there to buy a 100 year old anvil and remove it from the barn before they tore the barn down for barnwood.

The old spurs were hanging on a nail on the wall, and had baling wire contrapted spur straps, and had been painted aluminum silver previously. I asked the guy how much he wanted for them. He said just take them. Nobody messed with them for years.

OK Thanks!

Got them home and stripped the paint off them, and found they were marked "O. Crockett"... Got them authenticated and a COA. Put some nice Big Bend Saddlery straps on them and took them to an Old West Memorabilia show in Austin.

First guy that saw them ended up buying them from me for $3500 cash.

That doesn't happen too often. Once in while a blind hog finds an acorn.

nice find

Sweet story Rockinbbar ! I LOVE it when you step in a pile and come out smelling like a rose.

I did that day!

Ended up paying him $1 a pound on a 250 pound Swedish anvil that showed hardly any wear. It was about 125 years old. Sold the anvil for twice that...

I used to deal in old west memorabilia some. Gotta keep your eyes open...

I missed a stack of old Levi's jeans in a dry goods store that was going out of business. Friend of mine went in after I'd been there and asked if I had opened the boxes in the corner of the storeroom. I said no...

He told me he found like 65 pair of brand new 100% condition Levi's with tags and all on them. He paid the store $5 per pair. He sold them for like $200 per pair. Dammit... He rubbed it in pretty good after that.

A couple years ago my dad bought me a pair of Crockett's for Christmas. I've never worn them but of course they are still cool and make a nice 'decoration'.





I also leave the spurs on my riding boots for the dozen or so times a year I actually get on a horse.

Had these for 25 years, my dad made the rowls out of buffalo nickels. I'd feel sick if I ever lost one.

My old Crocketts have about the same size rowels as your working spurs, Sam.
I can fall on my face enough without anything helping (like large rowels)

Just a simple pair of North & Judds with the anchor on them. I can't say for sure when they were last on a pair of boots but it was a fair time ago. My wife now has them hanging on an antique commode towel rack. Truth be known they probably look better there than on any boots of mine as I never did warm up to them.

Your girlfriend likes to be spurred on?

These were made by Alvarez, inmate #12828

Asked the wife when she got home from work what make of spurs she has.

She has 3 pairs of Croketts and some with the anchor on them.

She also has some from Ray Anderson,who also makes bits,he lives in New Mexico.

She does have a lot of them things.

North and Judd had an anchor stamp; not sure about Crockett. Its cool she collects.

my Crocketts




a few others I picked up at garage sales