I’m getting ready to outfit my new tack room and cannot find nice looking bridle holders that aren’t just three points, that area actually round.
Where i have them now, i have coffee cans. That works well because in addition to a holder i have a cubby with each.
But it’s not pretty.
Another thought i have is to take my chainsaw and slice rounds off a big cedar limb.
Everything i think of is so hillbilly though…
for what it’s worth, i’ll be hanging 30 or 40 bridles…
any suggestions anyone?
You could take your coffee cans and put a round cutout slightly larger than the can on the front. The slightly larger size would provide a lip to keep the bridle in place (keep it from slipping off).
You could decorate that thinner round any way you like. It could be pretty budget friendly. A quick Google search revealed this one, but it’s not particularly budget friendly.
If you’re handy, you could probably do something that looks like this one
hmm. that second one is doable! Do not know if i would put them on a plank though. Maybe…? It would be so easy to make with a cedar limb, or the trunk of a small cedar. I could take one down, remove all the branches and shave off the bark. I could use three inch rounds and either slice one inch rounds OR…as in your first example, purchase a nice metal plate a bit larger for the face. there are a TON of cedars here on our land, not all of them are where one needs a tree either…
@eightpondfarm Yeah, I figured you could probably mount directly on a wall instead of a board, but it was the idea of a smaller half-rounds covered by a larger half-round. You could add a J-hook underneath for reins if you wanted.
The barn I’m at has bridle hangers made of fence posts, like you are thinking of doing with a cedar branch. I bet you could use a landscape timber too, but they wouldn’t be perfectly round. You could probably get 20-30 hangers from a single pole for fairly cheap.
i don’t really have the kind of wall space i should have for one long plank. Many windows and doors. And very nice built-in shelving takes up most of the clear wall space.They may have to be willy-nilly. Not ideal, but maybe the only way. I’ll take some pics of the place once i’m up and walking again
You can almost put them on top of each other if you stagger them up and down about 6". Here’s my rack at my house.
We have some of those that are very old, made out of logs and horseshoes.
We used to take them with us for the track tack rooms:
great idea! Thanks~!!! I love this one!!!
If you decide to go with a ready-made option, I got a couple of these and love them for my lunging cavessons + lunge lines because the hook holds many loops of rope: https://www.sstack.com/easy-up-coated-metal-rounded-top-tack-hanger/p/41170/
i like that! i have some black powdercoated steel saddle racks to put in there. I think there are 6 per stand and i have 3 stands. These would ‘go’ with those saddle racks.
It’s very nice having options to daydream about!
Love this! What a neat way to repurpose shoes.
You can also make one like that using tuna cans, glued to the board and then painted. We did that in Pony Club
Those look very nice and handy.
In our main barn’s tack room we have these in the main room and in the locker’s doors:
these are the ones i’m trying to avoid. they are not actually round, they are three points…a triangle.
True, but the bridles/reins seem to be of thick enough leather to hang more round than pointy and the bridle top gets more air flow.
One stable had larger coffee tin cans as their preference, to keep bridles shaped closer to horse’s heads, that are not very wide, really.
Every one prefers different aesthetics, is what makes the world go 'round.
your point about airflow is good. If only there were about 4 more little rods making a rounded shape.
I currently use 1pound coffee cans. And they are just the right size. Not pretty though. I really like your turquoise one with the horseshoes. That and the black ones with the hook are current frontrunners.
I still have a LOT to do in that little tack shed. Haul all the stuff auctioneers didn’t want to the dumpster. Vacuum floor, clean floor and then patch floor cracks with mortar. So plenty of time to DIY some fun bridle holders
Paint also helps big time, may make any one design “pretty”.
I have seen those bridle racks made round with little wires connecting a round front to back, sold commercially, will see if I can find them again.
There is also this, doesn’t has to be round, half rounds would work also:
Here is the several wire ones:
you’re right about the half-rounds huh!
I think the multi wire brass ones cover most of the bases… except for 20 or so it would be pricey. And, actually, i like your teal one better. Maybe mostly because that’s a great color…plus horseshoes 
Bet you will come up with something special.
Our race barn colors were a bluish turquoise, black and white and most of our cabinets, chairs, bridle racks, shovels, pitchforks, hammers, feed and water buckets, all was painted the turquoise color, easy to keep track of it this way when moving from winter to summer tracks.
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