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To date, our customers hike and work with 1563 Packsaddles, 510 saddles Batines, 702 collars Colissons, 164 Escargolines

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Every now and then we receive a lovely photo of our donkeys, our pack-carrying equipment, or simply a beautiful snapshot of the trek.

This week’s photo shows a little ‘Escargoline’ on the Camino Francés, the Way of St James in Spain, somewhere between Burgos and León. A vast expanse of grain fields, few trees, no shade. Three couples who were friends had vowed to walk to Santiago together. But then: one of the friends passed away, and another suffered a stroke. Never mind: those who remain decide to honour their vow, hire an Escargoline pulled by a little donkey, and set off, travelling for three weeks to a month each year…. The pilgrim who can no longer walk enjoys the comfort of the Escargoline. This autumn, they will finally complete their wonderful journey and arrive at the Plaza del Obradoiro, in front of Santiago Cathedral.

The Escargoline is our little machine for spreading happiness

Our equipment for donkeys, mules, horses, ponies and goats…

The whole shop on one page

All the equipment of the Randoline catalogue

The main Randoline products at a glance

The ‘Ready to go’ Kit with a special price

Randoline has developed the ‘Ready to Go’ Kit for those in a hurry to set off hiking with their donkey: a Balaïtous hiking packsaddle, a self-locking pack mat, Carrélines saddlebags, a Polichon transport bag, leather suspension straps and, last but not least, a Longerine hiking double-length lanyard.

Packsaddles for donkeys, mules, ponies, horses, goats

Since 2009 Randoline has taken up the torch of the old traditional packsaddles, those which roamed our mountains and our countryside before the cross-framed packsaddle from across the Atlantic came to disrupt the course of things. Our packsaddles are built in our workshop, after a long drying time in the barn. They are cut from ash wood, a noble wood, which gives them strength and flexibility. They are adjustable, in order to adapt to the body size of each animal. They are stable thanks to an enveloping harness. They are comfortable thanks to the movable pads and never hurt the animal. They are eternal because they are assembled in interchangeable parts.

Escargoline , pour personnes à mobilité réduite

Escargoline, for hiking of disabled people

The Escargoline is a small revolutionary cart, placed on 3 wheels, pulled by a donkey, mule, pony or horse. It can also be towed by one or two men, like a Joëlette.

The Escargoline allows disabled people to hike and walk with great comfort, thanks to its cable suspensions.

The Escargoline can carry two adults.

Please note: this is not hitching. The Escargoline is piloted by 2 people. A person leads the animal to the tether. The driver walks in the rear and ensures the safety of the machine and passengers. It brakes on descents and activates the SSU in an emergency.

The SSU (emergency separation system) allows the Escargoline to be instantly decoupled from the animal.

Hiking with his horse or mule and the Bassador

We welcome His Excellency the Ambassador, the most beautiful pack saddle for horses and mules ever built, to these pages. And it’s at Randoline…

Saddles for children

The Bâtines find their inspiration in Belgium where a grandfather was looking for a saddle to take his grandchildren on a picnic. This was followed by a long study work in order to create a product meeting the need for a comfortable saddle for the animal and for the child, able to carry a small additional piece of luggage, easy to use.

The Bâtine is a saddle pad (integrated cotton and felt pad) with a real comfortable saddle for the child (ergonomic, covered with toupee) and respecting the morphology of the animal.

The child is safe thanks to the grab handle, and the technicality of the fabric which ensures perfect immobility: The Bâtine does not capsize.

The animal comfortably carries the child and the picnic bags.

Bags for packsaddles

Five models of saddlebags are available in the range which correspond to Randoline packsaddles but they also fit all other packsaddle models.

1 – Bagagines Grizzli, unrivaled bags recognized for their design: a semi-rigid structure allowing optimized storage, waterproof thanks to the inner liner skin, outer tarpaulin fabric very resistant to friction from brambles and barbed wire.

2 – Bagagines Marmotte, with the same structure as its big sister, Bagagine Grizzli, except that the inner skin is made from a lighter technical fabric.

3 – Carrélines take inspiration from the qualities and experience of Bagagines. Approved sealing and shape-maintaining techniques have been taken over.

4 – Bouquelines are specially designed for the Cabriette goat packsaddle. Their resistant fabric ensures the protection of the load. Their capacity of 10 liters each respects the carrying comfort of the animal.

5 – The Polichon designed to hold light but bulky items (sleeping bags)

Tortillon, longerine, cordelle, Randoline

Small hiking equipment

Randoline has designed a range of small hiking equipment, the result of experience encountered on all terrains, however rough they may be.

We discover the Longerine, intended to guide the animal during the day. There is also the Cordelune, which will avoid having to hold the tether during the night, the Chevillette, an interesting alternative for attaching the animal to the pastern, and the Tortillon, a solid metal stake which penetrates the most rocky soils.

There you can see the Capucine, a solid shell-shaped tarpaulin which will protect the entire luggage against the rain, and an equipment maintenance kit, with needles, hooked thread, awl, pieces of leather, ox foot oil and flaxseed oil.

Hitch and Work Collars

Randoline markets traction collars called Colissons. These collars come from Portugal, a country with a long equestrian tradition.

They are made from two rolls of leather stuffed with rye straw, assembled and stiffened by a metal hoop.
They open from the top, which is more pleasant for the animal. They are flexible and comfortable, and adapt perfectly to the movement of animals when they pull or give the famous “collar snap”.

They have always been used for pulling carts, handling agricultural tools and market gardening, as well as for hauling wood.

The sizes offered are 32-34-36-38-40-42-44-46-48-50-52-54-56-58-60. On the collars page is indicated how to measure the size of the collar suitable for your animal. Size 32 corresponds to a very small donkey, size 60 to a horse.

All Escargolines are currently towed with Colissons. One of them traveled 2,500 km without causing any injury to the donkey.

The Balissandre, pack-saddle for long distance hiking and farming

The Balissandre is Randoline’s historic barge. It has been touring the world’s trails since 2009.

It rests on the animal’s back on 10 articulated tracked runners mounted on a rubber pad.

Made from 40mm-thick ash, it is extremely robust and totally indestructible.

The Balissandre will be used for long-distance trekking and agricultural work..

Bastillon, bât pour âne, fabricant matériel randonnée

The Bastillon, a packsaddle for hiking with child

After 4 years of testing and work, the Bastillon finally arrived on July 14, 2021.

It is a revolutionary packsaddle on many points, which will make its cousin with braces very jealous.

Inspired by the packsaddles of Balagne in Corsica and the packsaddles of the Ariège in Pyrenees, it allows you to carry luggage and a child in the greatest comfort.

The weight rests on 2 long and wide articulated tracked pads, each of them composed of 5 independent elements mounted on a rubber block.

For the first time in the world, the packsaddle permanently adapts, every second, to the morphology and position of the back of the walking animal, and not the back which suffers under the board.

The Balaïtous, the softly-priced packsaddle

Many expected it, Randoline did it.

To create a pack-saddle with 1,000 qualities: robust, stable, inexpensive, practical, comfortable and easy to use.

The first pack-saddle to be adopted by a novice donkey driver.

The Balaïtous rests on the animal’s back on 8 articulated tracked runners, which pivot at every step to lie perfectly flat.

The Cabriette, packsaddle for goats

The Americans did it before us, but the French goat shoe finds its place in hiking equipment.

Hiking with goats is developing. The Randoline packsaddle provides a quality technical response.

Drawing on its donkey experience, the team designed a packsaddle made of noble materials: ash wood for its robustness, entirely leather harness as well as a scratch-resistant saddlebag fabric.

The particular design of the harness ensures stability of the load and comfort for the animal whatever the antics of the goat.

The Couvetons Randoline, packsaddle pads

Randoline has developed a range of saddle pads known as the Couvetons.
These Couvetons consist of two flaps joined by a padded fabric. This fabric is water-repellent, so rain rolls off it without soaking the felt inside.

The Colibri Couvetons contain two horizontal felt panels.

The Pélican Couvetons also feature one or more vertical felt strips to accommodate the animal’s packsaddle and form a connection between the pad and the packsaddle.

Our values, our history, what we are…

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Randoline equipment …

Randoline builds equipment specially adapted for work, hiking and walking with horses (and since 2021 with goats): packsaddles for donkey and goat, packsaddle for horse and mule, hiking bag, saddle for donkey, child seat, pack rug, protective tarpaulin, attachment stake, lanyard, carrying tool, collar, pastern attachment, linseed oil for wood, neatsfoot oil for leather.

Our profession and our happiness: we are manufacturers of equipment for donkeys, mules, horses, ponies and goats.

All these materials were designed in our workshop, where we manufacture all the wooden parts. Our packsaddles for donkeys, ponies, mules and horses take up the principle and qualities of old traditional products: solidity, stability, durability, comfort.

Since 2024, we have also been making all our harnesses from leather, which we choose ourselves in a very old tannery in the Montagne Noire (south of France).

These articles are the result of a very long experience of hiking with a donkey.

Proof of our know-how: more than a thousand Randoline packsaddles travel the hiking trails of old Europe as soon as the sunny days return.

The most beautiful for our carrier animals

At Randoline, we believe, once harnessed and ready for hiking and work, that our animals should be beautiful. Why would a rider give his horse the best saddle and the finest leather, and why would our carrier animals look like rags?

It is for this reason that our equipment for hiking, working with a donkey, a mule, a horse, a mule are designed to be both robust and aesthetic. Of course the first quality we look for is comfort for the animal.