Swivel Post Toppers - The Safer Way to Teach Horses to Tie Calmly
How the swivel top patience pole works
Teaching a horse to stand tied is not just about restraint, it’s about creating a learning environment that builds patience, confidence, and emotional regulation. The Swivel Post Topper is engineered to make tying safe, low-stress, and educational, giving horses the freedom to move without fear while guiding them toward stillness as the correct response.
Unlike fixed ties that create direct backward pressure and panic responses, the Swivel Post Topper rotates smoothly with the horse’s movement. This eliminates the straight-line pull that triggers resistance, pulling back, rearing, and fear behaviors. As the topper follows the horse’s motion, pressure is redirected laterally instead of backward - removing the “fight response” and replacing it with calm problem-solving. Horses quickly learn that movement doesn’t lead to escape, and standing quietly becomes the easiest and most comfortable option.
This system allows horses to move in a controlled circle, which reduces stress, prevents tangling, and promotes relaxation rather than confinement anxiety. The result is a mentally settled horse that processes training, regulates emotion, and develops true patience, without trauma, force, or mechanical fear conditioning.
Why the Swivel Post Topper Works
Promotes stress-free tying through movement, not restriction
Reduces pulling back, pawing, panic, and resistance behaviors
Redirects pressure safely to prevent fear responses
Builds patience, confidence, and emotional regulation
Creates calm, transferable tying behavior (barn, trailer, cross-ties, picket line, wall ties)
Installation & Setup Guidelines
Post Compatibility: Can be mounted to properly anchored wood or steel posts of sufficient strength for the size of horse and use environment
Recommended Height/Depth: Typically a 14' post with approximately 4' in ground and 9-10' above ground to the base of the Swivel Post Topper
Tether Setup:
heavy duty" chain included
Link joint at the top, bull snap at the bottom, you can add a quick release if desired
Quality fitted halter advised
Chain weight naturally helps prevent wrapping and promotes forward positioning
Length Adjustment: Long enough for natural head carriage, short enough to prevent leg entanglement
Real-World Training Benefits
Horses tied with the Swivel Post Topper are allowed controlled movement, which prevents fear-based reactions and creates faster emotional settling than fixed ties or cross-ties. The free-moving swivel absorbs pressure, removes the direct backward pull, and guides the horse into lateral positioning, making pulling back physically and psychologically unrewarding.
Once trained on the Swivel Post Topper, horses consistently demonstrate improved tying behavior in all environments: trailers, barns, picket lines, grooming stations, and wall ties. It becomes a transferable skill, not a location-dependent behavior.
This system is especially effective for:
Young horses and older horse alike
Barn sour / buddy sour behavior
Anxiety-based behaviors such as pawing
Horses that struggle with claustrophobia stress when tied to a wall or cross ties
The Swivel Post Topper includes mounting hardware for wood posts and a tie chain with snaps. A standard lead rope may also be used if preferred.
This isn’t just restraint training, it’s emotional regulation training.
The Swivel Post Topper teaches horses how to self-settle, think through pressure, and choose calmness as the correct answer, safely, consistently, and without fear.
What’s Included:
✅ Post topper with swivel
✅ Mounting hardware for a wooden post
✅ Chain and snaps. Can also choose to use a normal leadrope.
Note- post not included. If you wish, the topper can be welded to a metal post.
💲Price: $200.00 plus shipping