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1. The Oxford English reference dictionary describes a ringer as: a stockman or station hand. I understand the name arose from the days of running cattle on large expanses of unfenced land and catching cattle and using quiet controlled cattle to persuade uneducated cattle into a mob. The use of ring...

Sorry Jonathan,

Correction: I meant there is a chap in the UK as well as NZ making UP's,

Gerard

Thanks Jonathan,

I looked at your website and it looks pretty good. Are you in the UK or US? I note there's a chap making UP's, bridles and head collars and other accoutrements and there's a chap making UP's in NZ.

cheers

Gerard

The days of the surcingle or over girth you mentioned are almost totally gone and perhaps left in secluded pockets wher people might still use a very old styled stock saddle. The most common saddle ringers, stockman and campdrafters use are the new aussie style saddle with swinging fenders. Beastpla...

Hello John M and John Ruf, I was at the Musee de L'Armee last week. I took several hundred pictures of saddlery, artillery, wagons etc. Magnficient. The Austrian/Hungarin army museum is also worth a visit, as well as the Vatican where is some military saddlery on display there as well. The problem t...