Engineering

Mechanical Hackamore

Exerting too much pressure with a mechanical hackamore can seriously injure your horse. Because the mechanical hackamore uses shanks and leverage it is not a true hackamore but rather works similarly to a curb bit.

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A mechanical hackamore sometimes called a hackamore bit english hackamore or a brockamore falls into the hackamore category only because it is a device that works on the nose and not in the mouth.

Mechanical hackamore. Rather than pressure being applied in the mouth the hackamore has a special type of noseband that communicates to pressure points on the nose and chin. A mechanical hackamore is a bitless bridle with shanks. However the mechanical hackamore is also unrelated to a true hackamore except to the extent that both are headgear that control a horse with some form of noseband rather than a bit in the horses mouth. Mechanical hackamores should only be used by extremely experienced riders on well trained horses. A hackamore is a bridle with no bita mechanical hackamore is a bitless bridle with shanks. However it also uses shanks and leverage thus it is not a true hackamore. The shanks on the mechanical hackamore provide leverage. The mechanical hackamore fits similarly to regular bridles and the side pull except it uses a metal shanked device in place of a normal bit. A bitless bridle without shanks is called a side pullthese hackamores are sometimes seen on the trail in the jumper ring and western speed games like barrel racing.