I am “this many years old” and just learned about this today. Anyone else with me or am I the last to know this?? 
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Yup, I think I’ve always known that. I prefer the blade style instead.
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I had zero knowledge of this!!
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Geez, I have been using one of these on shedding horses ( also great for knocking caked mud off shaggy coats) since I was 7 years old. That would be…let’s see…57 years.
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I am older than dirt and I have not encountered the swivel style.
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I know about the swivel, but that thing rusts and won’t work within a year haha.
Another swivel example - Most people don’t know that staplers have the option of “ends in” or “ends out” either, if you just swivel the plate on the bottom part around. The benefits of each are lost on me, though.
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I never imagined people did not realize what that plate was for.
Though the stapler I have at my desk (and I looked at a few neighbors at work) seem to not have this feature anymore.
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Here’s more information than I ever wanted to know about staplers. Fun fact - the plate is called an “anvil”.
I never knew this about staplers!!
Growing up on a sheep farm, I used that kind of curry on sheep, after they’d been washed, as I was fitting them up to be shown at the County or State Fairs. It helped pull embedded burrs and grass and straw out of the wool.
That was ages ago!
I also used it on my horse, but I preferred the shedding blade for him.
I mostly use it for removing dried up mud and like you, a shedding blade is superior to removing winter hair off horses.
What was funny to me is that I never questioned or wondered why the tool had teeth on both sides. 
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“Everything old is new again.”
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I always swivel mine when my donkey is shedding because she needs the big teeth to get through her rats nest of a coat.
I rarely use metal curries for anything but shedding and cleaning brushes. Sometimes severely caked on mud in a winter coat.
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I use them for mud or dried sweat.
For actual shedding I use that “hacksaw blade in a piece of wood” tool. Sleek and EZ or something like that? I replace the blade myself every year to avoid buying a new one.
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I never knew this! I don’t own one of these types of curry combs, but I sure used them a lot when I was a kid at the lesson barn. The next time I’m in TSC, I’m totally swiveling one of the brand new ones just for fun.
I have that Sleek EZ hunk of wood with a blade thing. It works great.
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That’s the one! I have the smallest one.
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