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01-21-2016, 07:53 AM
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The wooden crossbuck is a lot cheaper and a simpler design. The down side is that if the rigid tree doesn't fit your goat then there's not much you can do about it. If your goats are very wide with flat withers then I don't recommend the wooden saddle. I had a wide goat and the standard packsaddle bridged horribly and would not remotely stay in place.
The Sopris packs will conform to any goat, wide or narrow. I use the Rookie pack with Intermediate panniers and am very pleased with it. On the other hand, there is a person on this forum who got a Sopris pack that had defective stitching. She had to send it back for repairs, but in your case such a thing would be terribly expensive because of shipping. A wooden saddle, being simpler and having no stitching, is less likely to have defective workmanship. So there are risks to both and you'll just have to weigh them.
The wooden crossbuck is a lot cheaper and a simpler design. The down side is that if the rigid tree doesn't fit your goat then there's not much you can do about it. If your goats are very wide with flat withers then I don't recommend the wooden saddle. I had a wide goat and the standard packsaddle bridged horribly and would not remotely stay in place.
The Sopris packs will conform to any goat, wide or narrow. I use the Rookie pack with Intermediate panniers and am very pleased with it. On the other hand, there is a person on this forum who got a Sopris pack that had defective stitching. She had to send it back for repairs, but in your case such a thing would be terribly expensive because of shipping. A wooden saddle, being simpler and having no stitching, is less likely to have defective workmanship. So there are risks to both and you'll just have to weigh them.