SELF-FITTING SADDLE. 



133 



SELF-FITTING MILITARY SADDLE. 

 The Austrian Officers' Jointed Saddle Tree (Figs. 133, 134, 



Fig. 134- 



Plan of Austrian Officer's Jointed Saddle Tree on a 

 Broad-backed Horse, 



and 135), is useful for military saddles, because it is to a 

 certain extent self-fitting. It is composed entirely of steel, 

 and the bars are made to revolve on rods which are 



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Fig. 135- 



Plan of Austrian Ofticer's Jointed Saddle Tree on a 

 Narrow-backed Horse. 



placed horizontally in a longitudinal direction. Consequently, 

 the bars assume the slope of the back of the horse upon 

 which they rest, as we may see by comparing Figs. 134 



