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This is Randall Powell and I am here for Expert Village and in this clip, I am going to talk
about the equipment needed for team roping. You need a team roping saddle which is going
to be the most important. You want to find one that has a seat big enough for you. If
you are a bigger guy, you are going to need a 16 inch seat. If you are smaller, you are
going to need a smaller seat. A lot of the heelers prefer a smaller seat so that they
can stay in tight as much as they move around on the horse. You need a rope and saddle with
a really thick horn and you are going to get this rubber. It's called dally wraps and you
can take an old inner tube and cut it up into pieces or you can buy rubber at your local
feed stores or through your roping magazines or whatever you like. Just wrap the rubber
around the horn until it is about this thick and that will keep the rope from burning the
leather on your saddle horn and if you don't use rubber, it will eventually break your
saddle horn off. So you need to put the rubber on your saddle horn and rope is also a good
thing to have when team roping. You need to select a good rope for yourself. You know
if you are ahead and need a softer rope and shorter rope and if you are a heeler, you
need one with a little more stiffness and longer rope. The head ropes are 30 foot and
the heeler are 35. Then you can also use baby powder. When the ropes are new, you can stretch
them and get all the wax off of them and then put baby powder on the ropes and it will help
you to keep the ropes have more action longer. You need a roping glove which is a cotton
glove you put over your hand. This kind of prevents you from burning your fingers or
your hand with the rope if you ever get into any kind of bind and the rope is feeding through
your hand and you are trying to get a dally or something, that glove will keep you from
getting burns on your hands from the rope. So the glove is also very important. A lot
of the team ropers use a breast collar especially if you are a header. I don't' have one on
this horse but it connects right here at this d-ring and goes around in front of his chest
and connect on the other side on the other d-ring. It has a snap that will snap down
here at this ring from the bottom of your horse's cinch. There also needs to be a tie
down. A tie down is basically a nose band with a leather strap connected to it that
will also clip to the bottom of your cinch here. That will keep the horse's head down
and keep him looking at the cattle. The bridle of course you are going to need that riding
anything and you need roping reigns which would be just one reign that connects to both
sides of the bit. Don't need split reigns like I've got on this horse but just a set
of roping reigns. If you drop them or something like that, you are not going to loose them
going down the pen and you just use whatever bit your horse is comfortable with. That is
some of the equipment you need to do team roping.