Saddles - wood vs metal

[hihobaron]

Ah, my yak Tibetty.  RIP.  Since you wanted to see pics.... I love posting them hehe.




This is her on the trail.  She'd run up and down the trail and get a little hot before she'd settle down and follow like a goat.


Riled her up to make for good pictures.



For training I'd just strap some horse saddle bags over her back.  They fit oddly well with her hump going where the notch in the saddle bags is.  

Since you were interested here is a picture of the old Owahee aluminum packs.  Simplistic design but simple is good.  I've dumped the carpet in trade for nice NorthWest pocket-pads.  Its the way to go with these.  BUT, I'm afraid the guy that made these has recently passed away



Then there's home-made stuff...

Hello Charlie Horse
Thanks for the pictures of your Yak and the pack saddle.
She Sounds like she was a good critter and very much a People Stopper,City Folk or not.
I would have stopped to talk and find out about her myself. 
I have had experience with the Bascure Curly horse bred from the Ural Mountain area of Russia.
Very Cold weather adapted and considered one the the Only horse breeds that could have survived migrating over the Aleutian Peninsula after the Equines were killed off here on the North American Continent by the last Ice Age. 
Moving on: With the dimensions from Nanno and your pictures of the metal pack saddle you had?
I can reverse engineer one like you have/d with improvements. I have worked with metal all my life can weld very good. The rigging set up is strait forward. Actually it looks like car seat belt fittings and web for the most part.
I worked in the Machine Tool Industry for 28 + years there is not much I can not make. If I get good Picture of it.
My goats can be the "Test" subjects,. 
 BTY: Your wood Pack Saddle is a "Work of ART"  To nice to use in my book 
Happy Trails 
hihobaron