Horsehair 'mecate' rope maker | Oregon Field Guide

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98-year old Frankie Dougal carries on a ranch tradition of horsehair “mecate” ropemaking and is passing it on to the next generation in the southeast Oregon town of Jordan Valley.
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@gusgus8134 2 года назад

Oh my land. What a treasure! I have 2 horsehair macartes. My good ol horse's favorite hackamore till he passed at 28.

@OutOfNamesToChoose Год назад

This woman is a treasure. I came here after Googling mecate, and ended up also learning a lot about a lost past and a different way of life. She's one of the precious few threads left holding on what was once a rope tying the past to the present. I wish her and her family the best of health.

@gregroth4696 2 года назад

I’m allergic to horses but I love them. So I visit them briefly, when I have a chance. Make friends, bring them a treat, pay my respects and move on. Not by choice, but have to. Thank you for this wonderful video. Best to all who happily stumbled here like I did. Blessings.

@laraemitchell9064 2 года назад

I grew up on the slightly more modern side of this county, but we would visit these wilder areas regularly. Such a neat lady, and what I wouldn’t give for one of her hackamores.

@grannyhorsetraining878 Год назад

Thanks for interviewing her, what a great story and a great life to have lived

@millawitt1882 5 месяцев назад

Beautiful Work👍🤍

@candaceaustin4258 2 года назад

Loved of grid life would go back in heartbeat. Shes amazing & awesome

@kathyhepler382 2 года назад

Beautiful lady. So. Talented!!!!

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@fracturedfauve 2 года назад

I loved this story. Thank you for sharing it.

@susangrace4732 2 года назад

Love this story. Such beautiful useful art.

@catalina9844 2 года назад

I grew up watching opb never stopped

@marcogomez8754 2 года назад

Que mecates tan bonitos 🇺🇸🇲🇽❤️ I hope she lives many many more years

@vaquero7072 Год назад

The vaqueros trailed cattle from california to Oregon in the mid 1800’s and brought their skills and ways with them and passed them on to others . It’s funny because the most remote pockets of Oregon nevada Idaho and parts of california still hold these traditions as seen in this video . This lady is a treasure and amazing much respect to her and her beautiful craft.

@dianeworley2943 2 года назад

Amazing!

@drata8 2 года назад

Really great story. I think it’s awesome she was so cool about sharing her story on RU-vid and for OPB

@suzannahkolbeck6973 9 месяцев назад

I wish there was someone teaching this skill, twisting mecates. Slowly the old techniques are being lost.

@oldsagerat Год назад

My late father had a horsehair rope. It was a cheaper one. It was what he could afford. It was like handling a cactus. I always wanted a nice one, but never had a reason for one.

@nholbrook1682 10 месяцев назад

They all start out that way, and they soften with time and use. The prickly ones work well for teaching a horse to neck rein because they feel even it's lightest touch.

@angelojeda2146 Год назад

Nice way of life!! Also, mecate is a spanish word for rope. I imaging that the word comes all the way from the mexicans vaqueros from the 19 century, also corral, riata and others that modern cowboys use.

@karenhousley610 2 года назад

I want one !

@allanegleston4931 2 года назад

rest in peace . slilent key.

@enriquet2562 2 года назад

The “mecates” come from the Mexican Cowboys “vaqueros” from the Southwestern Spanish speaking of These United States of America 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇺🇸

@-countingsheep-9790 2 года назад

* sees spurs * * dies *

@BillyMckenzie 2 года назад

Nobody cares of 8

@tylerlepage8619 Год назад

No disrespect to the woman's knowledge, but a "hackamore" is a term used to describe the whole system. The nose band is a bosal, the head gear is called "the hanger", and then the mecate reins and lead rope. All of this together make "a hackamore"

@bradmetcalf7832 Год назад

Terms can differ depending on what part of the country your standing in. At 98 I spect she has seen more and forgot more about the subject than you or I will ever know.

@tylerlepage8619 Год назад

@bradmetcalf7832 like I said, no disrespect to the womans vast knowledge, but just bc you're old, dosent make you right. My moms ancestors have been making mecates and braiding rawhide since before America was born. A bosal is a bosal, unless it's a bosalito. Hackamore should never be used to refer to only the nose band. These things are rooted in Spanish tradition, matters not where you use them. The bastardization of Spanish words like vaquero to "buckaroo" and mecate to "McCarty" has come to be accepted, but to grab a bosal noseband and tell someone that alone is a hackamore is just incorrect.