I’ve worked with a couple clinicians who use long parachute cord ropes that have a metal ring on the end. They are shorter than a roping rope and aren’t stiff and so are easier to work with. I’m looking to get one but when I google ranch rope I get a roping rope and so don’t know what to call this in order to look for one.
Stiffer ropes are actually much easier to learn to rope with, because you can keep your loop open easier. Soft ropes are harder IMHO.
You sure wouldn’t want to dally up on a paracord rope…it’d melt to your horn.
Haven’t a clue, unless you are talking about the ropes some Clinicians throw at a horse to keep him moving in the round pen.
Parachute cord is not a good idea for any kind of horse use that might actually pull on the rope. Getting burned with it is going to hurt someone or something.
Lariat or lasso is the only category rope I would expect to find under a “ranch ropes” search!
Since I am not much of a clinician follower I’m not sure I know what you are talking about but this is the best I can think of, a nylon braided rope, we call them “snake ropes”.
http://www.nrsworld.com/dub-grant-rope-co_/dub-grant-nylon-braided-ranch-rope-3331
Snort. I just made one yesterday - Soft nylon multibraid general purpose rope (it’s acutally my ‘macate’!) tied to a spare 3" steel ring. I used it to work with the Wild Child this morning, the coming two year old who has been uncatchable and untrimmable. I can touch and scratch her, but she wouldn’t let me restrain her in any way so it was time to start the formal gentling process by ‘roping’ her and working her off the rope so she’d hook up and see that restraint wasn’t something to be terrified of.
I had tried ONCE starting her with my roping rope with the standard quick release honda. But the honda is so small the dang thing wouldn’t release and loosen up on her neck when she put slack in the rope, just what she didn’t need. Making the big ring honda, even with a nylon overbraided soft rope, meant that release would be instant and complete and she wouldn’t get choked. It does require working the rope in hand and making dang sure it can’t get hooked on anything including her, in a safe space, but it was exactly what she needed.
this filly has freaked out so bad at any restraint that we’ve only trimmed her twice in her life, she’s so bad. I actually got her chilled out somewhat with restraint, got her to let me pick up her feet, pick them out!! and make sure she is just overgrown and not truly clubfooted. The key (besides quality time with patience!) was being able to release the rope tension instantly to ‘power down’ if she started feeling trapped. Couldn’t get it done using the regular honda.
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Since I am not much of a clinician follower I’m not sure I know what you are talking about but this is the best I can think of, a nylon braided rope, we call them “snake ropes”.
http://www.nrsworld.com/dub-grant-rope-co_/dub-grant-nylon-braided-ranch-rope-3331[/QUOTE]
Looks like the ‘official’ version of the ring honda is the ‘buckaroo honda’ or the ‘brannaman honda’. No surprise in the names!
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Looks like the ‘official’ version of the ring honda is the ‘buckaroo honda’ or the ‘brannaman honda’. No surprise in the names![/QUOTE]
Never been a fan of the metal Hondas(nor the rawhide ones either), personal preference.
We just cut the rawhide burners off and put on plastic speed burners. They have just a tad bit more weight than the rawhide burner and if it gets wet they don’t get sticky, the speed burners are faster too.
We have roped a ton of horses, never had a problem with them releasing.
And you don’t have to spend $30 on a chunk of metal 
Rope weight also helps in the release as well.
I guess I should have clarified that this is not for roping. :winkgrin: I do have a rope and have played around with throwing that (how on earth do people do that while on a moving horse and hit their target!?:eek: Impressive.).
This is for ground work, when I want something longer than a lead rope. The ring would allow me to loop the rope through the ring so I can start with one long piece, then loop the rope through and have, well, a loop around something. I’d probably use it around the belly, a leg for picking up, around the flank, use it with a snap as a lunge line for double lunging, etc. A rope is too cumbersome for me with the coil that I have to keep track of.
Maybe like Richard Winters’ Ring Rope? Sorry can’t link it from his page - my computer is not happy tonight. I bought one from him years ago and used it some - liked it a lot!!
Parelli (sorry) used to sell a 22’ yacht braid rope with a ring.
Cannot get Richard’s site to open, but I would guess his ring rope would be similar.
OP, do you mean those ropes that appear very long and knotted up in a chain, hanging off the near side of the saddle around where a hill girth would go?
I saw that extra doohickey for the first time at my local Brannaman clinic**…. where people also had regular ropes, get down ropes, chinks and hats on…. all for walking around for 3 hours in an indoor arena. Boy-howdie they were prepared for some work and nasty sun-beaten chaparral.
In any case, I have never seen one used. And I was too shy to ask. To me, it looks like it might be a way to store a lunge-line length of rope, right on your horse/4-legged RV.
**BTW, Brannaman is coming back to Corvallis this July…… just down the hill from your new home. You should come watch. For all the shit I give them, I’ll be there to watch and learn.
Guessing this is what you are looking for?
A friend at the barn has one and uses it to lunge her horse with a flank rope because he can be reactive to the saddle and it has helped her help him get his mind in the right place.
froglander, yes, exactly, thank you. That’s one thing I would use it for - just general desensitization-type stuff.
mvp, I don’t have any idea what you’re talking about! I think I may have found that on my search and it looks like a long lead rope braided and hanging off the saddle? Like maybe you’d use it as a neck rope if you didn’t have a get-down rope and had split reins or something?
I thought BB came to Oregon, but I wasn’t sure. I’ll keep my eye out for the clinic - maybe we could meet up? I’ve been to the one in Red Bluff the past two years and saw the same group of people each time. Might be nice to see some other people, albeit with probably the same problems!
It is easy to get sucked into the shopping and get oneself outfitted like a Rawhide Barbie. I just couldn’t go there with the flat-top hat (I will always wear a helmet), although I did borrow a friend’s chinks but couldn’t wear them more than once because they were custom for her and she’s very short. I did buy a rope to play with, but that’s in the privacy of my own arena where no one will see me make a fool of myself trying to throw that thing around! :lol:
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OP, do you mean those ropes that appear very long and knotted up in a chain, hanging off the near side of the saddle around where a hill girth would go?[/QUOTE]
I think it’s a type of three-legged hobble. In addition to the section that goes around the front legs, some types have a cuff around one hind pastern and a rope that comes forward to the front pair. The rope that comes forward is what gets daisy-chained. It keeps the horse from learning and using the bunny-hop method of schlepping off.
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I think it’s a type of three-legged hobble. In addition to the section that goes around the front legs, some types have a cuff around one hind pastern and a rope that comes forward to the front pair. The rope that comes forward is what gets daisy-chained. It keeps the horse from learning and using the bunny-hop method of schlepping off.[/QUOTE]
Hmm. Haven’t seen one of those and I’d have no idea how to use one.
Hobbling is a big hole in my horse training education, I’m sorry to say. I’ll google around and see if I can find your guys a picture of this daisy chain knotted rope.
Is this what you’re talking about?
http://www.horsecanyon.com/allbayranch/images/products/tie-rope-lg.jpg
Buck has a clinic in Redmond, OR, but only every other year. He will be back probably June-ish in 2016. There’s a facility between Bend and Redmond, neat folks. Lots of neat folks, in fact, and I’ll introduce you around some if you like…next year.
The couple who organize the clinic are from Paisley, sort of in my neck of the woods (or rather sagebrush!)
Pretty sure you’re looking for a ring rope.
Learning to handle coils as second nature is a huge skill for safe rope handling, for rope of any kind. I wouldn’t take a short cut around it because you’re not good at managing your coils.
My horse travels in hobbles…he learned that before I got him. Nasty habit, and really hard to get rid of. To hobble him, I have to use 3-way hobbles which require a rope from a hind hobble to a front one, and the fronts hobbled together.
…at my local Brannaman clinic**…. where people also had regular ropes, get down ropes, chinks and hats on…. all for walking around for 3 hours in an indoor arena. Boy-howdie they were prepared for some work and nasty sun-beaten chaparral.
Well, it’s a bit of a different culture.
I arrived last year, straight from moving cattle up the mountain from BLM to Forest pasture…my horse was still saddled in the stock trailer, and you’d better believe I had all of my accoutrement on the horse.
It’s the Rawhide Barbie types, who have all the right stuff- but it’s all shiny and clean, with no rope marks on their saddle horns or blood on their chinks (from castrating calves or doctoring or whatever!).
People who ride mostly in an arena probably have plenty of spare equipment in their trailer’s tack room. No need to strap a long yellow slicker on the back of the saddle if you can go get it from your nearby parked trailer.
Most working ranch horses (here at the west end of the Great Basin, anyway) get saddled at home, put into an open stock trailer (with no tack room), and driven to the work. You are going to want to have whatever you might need for the day, with you. Except the beer, the beer usually is in a cooler in the nose of the gooseneck or the pickup truck.
