Mounting aids

[lizathenag]

This aging thing really sucks.

My good horse is fairly tall.

I fell off my horse on Tuesday whiile picking berries (don’t ask) and found it very difficult to get back on.

I usually use a mounting block. I did find a fallen tree but then I was getting stiff from my fall and couldn’t climb onto the tree.

I would so fail a flexion test at the moment.

I think I have seen things that attach to the stirrup iron that give you a bit more length.

Any thoughts?

BTW, although I was riding alone, it was a trail behind the pastures and I could have called for help if needed.

[wateryglen]

My list of “aids”!

Oh my I have soooooo been there! So…here’s my list of places/things to use…when available of course! Amazing how the horse can adjust to these quickly and to your benefit.
Stumps
logs/downed branches
rocks/boulders are better
ditches/stream banks - horse
stands in it and you hop on him
from the bank
hillsides
stairs/ladders/steps
picnic tables/benches
car bumpers/truck beds/trailer wheel
beds
Wood fences/metal gates-takes some
practice
jumps of any kind
trashcans/turned over buckets/muck
baskets
wheelbarrows
wood piles/rock walls
porches
cisterns
Natural things out on the trail are readily available in my area. If you don’t see anything; just lead your horse down the trail and you’ll find a downed tree or stump or hill or stream or something. There’s always something!

[ratherberiding]

has anyone tried the Step-Up Stirrup from Cashel?
http://www.cashelcompany.com/ProductDetails.aspx?C=7&SC=89&ProductID=10453

I am considering buying one for the same reasons … Is it worth it?

[lizathenag]

that looks like it would only work on a western saddle…

[lizathenag]

anyone tried this?

http://www.chicksaddlery.com/page/CDS/PROD/3099/EZM160---ENG?utm_source=amazon&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=amazon%2Bdata%2Bfeed

[Zu_Zu]

Wait ~ what kind of berries ?~

Wait ! what kind of berries ??~

[ako]

Just don’t use a trailer wheel well!! They’re too narrow and often slippery. Tried that. I don’t recommend it and neither does my surgeon.

[lizathenag]

They were blackberries and they cohabitate with the poison oak so one must really concentrate on what you are doing which is why I was not paying enough attention to my good horse.

[Zu_Zu]

LOVE BLACKBERRIES !!! Worth the poison oak risk ~ IMHO ~

LOVE BLACKBERRIES ~ worth the poison oak risk ~ IMHO ~ hoping you picked enough to take home ~

@lizathenag;6435303

They were blackberries and they cohabitate with the poison oak so one must really concentrate on what you are doing which is why I was not paying enough attention to my good horse.

[Bluey]

I have a nylon strap with a plastic western stirrup that hangs directly from the horn down and lower than the regular stirrup.
Works fine.

I also have a little folding stool, but I need to weld some extra length to the legs, it comes a bit short for 4’11" me with a bad shoulder and not that short a horse.

One similar to the strap with the stirrup, first one, the little stool second one:

http://www.bizrate.com/equestrian-clothing-equipment/horse-mounting-aid/

[Capilet]

[QUOTE=lizathenag;6434285]
anyone tried this?

http://www.chicksaddlery.com/page/CDS/PROD/3099/EZM160---ENG?utm_source=amazon&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=amazon%2Bdata%2Bfeed[/QUOTE]

I bought one of these used and haven’t been able to find a way to make it work for my mare and I. I have Spastic Diplegia, so when I lift my leg up to mount, if it is higher than perpendicular to my hip I have no power to push up.

The EZ mount doesn’t drop the distance enough for us (Cay is 16.1). I should find it a new home, but I keep forgetting.

Thus, if I have to get down away from the barn I have to find something and something TALL.