SO- Enquiring Minds want to know- has anyone tried this? I have seen a couple of facebook videos of this, but would like to hear about real life experience. It sounds/looks like a fad similar to the duct tape twitch- too good to be true!
It looks brilliant. But I was wondering who in the world discovered it, how, and how many beers were involved :lol:
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My OTTBs would fly straight to jupiter if I attempted this.
If you ever want to waste 40 minutes reading online fights between teenagers, glance at the comments under the toilet brush posts.
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But… but… WHY would you do this? Is it THAT hard to brush your horse? never mind if it got too close to the mane or tail…
Now, for dirt removal, anybody can train anything to get accustomed to a shop vac. But I’d think you’d still want to put the effort into brushing to buff up the shine.
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It’s all fun and games until you slip and get your own hair or the tail tangled in the drill and rip it out. LOL.
The stupid things you see on youtube - apparently eating corn on the cob on a drill was a fun stunt for a while. I saw a girl rip her own hair out. Fun’s over.
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IKR! I saw a video of a male student, who was in a pottery class and making a bowl or something on one of those spinning wheels, his tie got caught up in it and yanked his face into the clay. Luckily he wasn’t injured, just had a face full of clay.
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I think it was made up by lazy people. I always use lots and lots of elbow grease. Still, anyone want to guess how many beers were involved with whoever dreamt this up? :lol:
Palm Beach, I LOL’ed at the mental picture I got with Pottery Guy…
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I think it’s just an idea from youtube. The “stick it on a drill” youtube videos are ridiculous. Seriously - search for the “eating corn on a cob on a drill” videos. I only saw the one but that was enough. My kids said it was some sort of “youtube challenge.”
ETA: here I’ll save you the trouble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-E6yKZxxl8
A guy in my high school lost one eye and the use of one arm for a period of time when doing a similar stunt.
I figure if I do all my own grooming, esp. in winter, I can burn enough calories to eat something yummy at the end of the day.
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I will say something similar attached to a battery operated drill is great to knock the dried dirt off horse blankets 
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Aaaaahhh! I didn’t read your whole post and thought you were linking to the bizarro toilet brush horse grooming thing. Need to find some eye bleach after seeing a girl get partially scalped!
I’ll admit that as I contemplate getting a dirtball yak of a horse clean enough to clip at a boarding barn where I’d make instant enemies by bringing in a shop vac, I can kinda see the hypothetical appeal of power drill grooming (diminish the elbow grease needed at the start of an onerous chore like clipping; portability of cordless drill means it needn’t be done anywhere near other people’s horses). But that video killed any hint of curiosity! Ouch!
The Roto Brush (not a duct tape toilet brush) is an item sold by reputable livestock fitting companies such as Weaver, and RK Supplies. Cattle fitters use it to fluff and train leg hair. Highly effective, variable speed and light weight. I own one in rice root from our children’s 4 H days. Think of a barn preparing for show. Multiple head of cattle rinsed, blown dry, and leg hair fluffed DAILY for weeks! The training of hair, and clipping work is essential for good turn out.
Not sure I would take it near a horse, but then again, the coat is so different I can’t imagine why one would want to.
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LOL had to look up Roto Brush and was a little scared, but it was legitimate. 
I could see it being useful if you had a lot of livestock to groom.
Any time you’re dealing with a spinning tool you have to be really careful. Even using a Dremel nail grinder on my dogs has been tricky from time to time because of the hair on their feet. And then you have to worry about your own hair possibly getting caught.
If I ever wanted to try something like this on a horse I would wear a hat/ponytail or both and also bag the horse’s tail. By then it seems like too much work already and might as well just do it by hand.
and then there’s this oldie but goodie: a large group of guys try to use a tarp to stop a concrete buffer gone wild
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KvxOuC7Bhc
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Saw one of the corn on a drill videos, chick lost her teeth. So no.
Yes!!
Self-justification aside (which I need because I like yummy things, too), I have discovered a grooming tool that works almost as well as the toilet brush and drill, albeit without risking hair or limb. This thing is amazing: https://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.html?pgguid=2e87c4a7-7b6a-11d5-a192-00b0d0204ae5&sfb=1&itemguid=30e089d8-7b6a-11d5-a192-00b0d0204ae5&utm_content=11428&ccd=IFM003&CAWELAID=120295250000092274&CATARGETID=120295250000184485&cadevice=c&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_a2W0oO-3gIViANpCh1neQkPEAQYCSABEgIuQfD_BwE . Other sites have it listed as the “Classic”, and I found mine at our local Tractor Supply. Good grief! It’s like the Haas Schimmel on steroids. My welsh cross lives out 24/7 and is a furry mudball for two thirds of the year. I HATE scraping mud continents off of her on a daily basis, but this thing literally wipes it away - without plastering it all on me. Sorry for the change of topic, but I just had to share. It’s too good to keep to myself.
Toilet brush rotating on an electric drill? OH, HELL NO!!!
I doubt this would win anybody a Darwin Award (but, then, maybe I’m underestimating the ingenuity of the modern American Millennial). Using rotary powered brushed to clean cars, trucks, airplanes, ducts, etc. is a fine idea 'cause none of them are living tissue. And they don’t have long manes and tails just LOOKING for away to get entangled in a rotating brush!!! :eek:
Sometimes with horses you just have to invest elbow grease to get jobs done.
G.
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I have two nieces who are BEGGING to be my working students. hehe
That’s how I’ll get my horses clean. :lol:
I have used a roto brush on a drill, this was as a working student. The bristles were stiff nylon or plastic. When it was stationary they felt stiff, but running at speed they were surprisingly softer.
This was a useful tool for getting dirt and scurf out before body clipping. It also did a good job of desensitizing the horses to a noisy vibrating thing before applying clippers. Since I often body clipped a huge number of horses in cold conditions, many of whom had never been clipped before, many sensitive TBs, this was surprisingly effective.
You do have to be careful of the manes and tails but it wasn’t too difficult.
