I'm Sonia Brotherton and this is Don Theriot we're here today to do the planting with threat video we're going to be doing the golf ball type slash today so the very large balls that sit up high on the neck and have fewer plants in the net so first of all we'll show you what kicked we've got with us Thomas I'm going to use some fly spray help keep the flies off the tool kit the belts way around the ways that have 10,000 they were cutting expect we'll still secure the ends with plastic bands various ledge four different colored horseshoes so this will grow and spread there which would be for a chestnut horse black thread for Dante Jane hello you see my trusty clip just pins the hair back up away if you don't want to buy the big reels and swears you can get these smaller ones for there's white thread there for gray horse we've got blunt ended scissors for trimming any loose spray fits hair and then the team I mentioned it in before in another video I use this toolkit generally for stitching on lost buttons and whatnot so I've got normal needles and needle and thread there but for plastic I use a really large needle it's got a very big eye that's reading your platen threading because platting thread is very thick one would suggest is you never ever do thread plat statement with bedding because if you do drop your needle you're not gonna find us again and that's obviously a danger to the horse so we're going to plaque today wash box I drop the needle it's gonna go on a rubber matting and I'll find it easily there we go but in sorry it wasn't that exciting I'm quite short so I stand up on a box just so I can reach him better first thing I'm going to do is comb out the mane now I want to give it a really good wetting if it was the winter of the using warm water and really try not to get any down his neck so the way to the better it really does help if you make the main very wet in a fly spray if you put it on before you start off so you've got the benefit fly spray the classic hair but also he's less likely to shake flies off while you in the middle of platting so still an even number including the forelock but for these big golf ball type flirts we'll be looking for a lot fewer even or dante who's been having 18 up till now i think 10 is going to be appropriate for dante and with these we do start them a little bit smaller at the top chunkier in the middle and smaller at the bottom but not massively so don't want them to be tiny at the top and they're huge i'm going to use a combs width and then bunch them on for ready to plant it really does help with these plants if the main hasn't been recently cold and it's not too short it's much easier to do these if you mainly look a bit long you so I made me to do really neat lines with my kind and check the numbers is a go so I end up with an even number one for the forelock two three four five six seven eight and then I've got real effort two more at the bottom now so they were party with thread I'm going to secure the ends with with bands so for these sort of plaques we're not going to do as tight as we were the top section needs to be quite least so that it ends up forming an archway so separate it into three equal segments and they really do need to be equal because you want to be able to plat right down to the end make these top turns quite loose so that the plaque can eventually go up into an archway you know once they get to about halfway down I'll start to them flat tight so lose to halfway and then once you don't then can flex height to the end so if done nine polat's in the neck some of them are tucked under because they're thinner at the ends hands I've left just like this these are going to be really chunky gold balls needle and thread I'm going to secure it in the end of the plat and we're going to roll the platter and secure it be very careful not to push the needle into the horse's next we're not going to go round the loop because I don't want to spoil the look of those so come back down into the plant again being very careful not to stick the needle in the horse come back down up you can put it nice and tight you don't really need to do not now I've got up through the place and back down again enough times there's no need to time not in your thread it will be secure there's one more so secure the needle and thread into the end roll it into a ball put your needle through the ball into the arch piece I'm very careful not to stop sneeze secure the needle through the end of the plaque notice I've got quite a long spread here okay so we've secured a thread on the end of the plant roll it into a ball and these don't matter if they're a little bit loose the plats themselves all the owners are secured and we don't want to damage this nice arch defect so I'm going to come back down the one good thing about doing this sort of plat is you do have more of a bog to lose your frayed ends of the platen they kind of hide hide them a bit secure your thread in the end of the plat roll the plat into a ball push the needle through the bottom of the plat not into the neck up through the middle of the archway and then come back down into the ball again out out of the bottom of the ball back up we go a little bit to the right and back down we're going to come out through the left and that way you've just secured it move it from both sides slightly different angle to it give it another little wet to go to your French a French plat into the forelock so take a segment on the top at each side and one from middle I bring the right hand one over the middle one and then the legs count one over that bring the right ones in with a new teeth left one in within these heads I mean bring in a new piece and when you get to the base of the forelock you can just plop down to the end okay so we've got French plat the end of the needle roll it up push it through be very careful not to stab him in the brain with it again it keeps lightly from the right this time to the left back up again it's really really the needle well away from his face and I'm just going there we've got nicely Pollock plaited and Nick done this some God for that today I think you think we've done tale it's very smart to these I do like these big golf ball that's not least because they don't take is long good boy you