Q: Do you need special clippers to clip a horse? Or can you use human clippers?
A: Although human clippers may work, it’s not a good idea to clip horses with them. Horse clippers are specifically designed to remove large quantities of thick hair, over a much wider area. Human clippers are not designed to remove such huge masses of hair and are designed to be used over a tiny area, in comparison with the surface area of your horse.
It would take hours to clip a horse with human clippers, and the clippers would almost certainly overheat, running the risk of burning the horse or just cutting out.
Human clippers could perhaps be used to do small areas where the hair is finer, such as on the head, but ideally you should just be using horse clippers.