Harness Parts
Harness Parts
A Buggy Breeching or Brichen. This features holdback straps and a cruppered back strap.

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The illustrations on these pages came from two old Harness Catalogs, one from Southern Saddlery of Chattanooga and the other, an Oregon company named Keller Harness. We offer these pictures to help answer questions we’ve received about the difference between work and buggy brichens as well as breast collars versus hame-style.

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A Buggy Breeching or Brichen body with holdback straps.
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Buggy hame and trace (or tug) assembly.
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Buggy breast collar with traces attached.
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An extra heavy Mule gear, with 6 inch Norfolk style wide saddle and two strap breeching.
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Single driving harness gear with shaft loops in the belly band saddle assembly. Includes breeching assembly. Designed to work best with hames and tugs assembly as shown above.
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Complete work harness Breeching for one horse of a team with twin market-tug back straps.
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Same as above with the addition of Spotted Safes.
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A standard team work harness breeching or brichen with twin back straps, quarter straps, and lazy (or mud) straps.
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Heavy duty, spotted, team breeching with single back strap.
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A team work harness two strap Breeching or Brichen with single back strap, lazy straps (or mud straps) hanging straight down, and quarter straps.

Note that these breeching assemblies failed to incorporate or offer trace carrier hardware. These five designs offer the tiniest tip of the iceberg when it comes to the full range of breeching assemblies manufactured then and now. The length of the breeching strap itself varies from breed to breed and from horse to horse.