Everyday Shoeing

Ground the heels in before I threw them in the fire. I cheat. Then ground after as well to safe and box. Did not grind on the heels after

i did. with the grinder

Can't grumble too much about those for one heat.

On my computer they looked rough, but I don't doubt your word. Great job for a 1 heat shoe. Doubt if I could do so good.

I just barely took the edge off. I kind of forgot in forging

So, now I'm a hero. Last week one of my customers won the Danish Quarter Horse Pro reining event. Next week she goes to the Danish NRHA show, so will see if I'm still a hero or a zero.

Ok for fun. The only thing really glaring at me is the heels look sharp, like cut your finger sharp. They are a nice shaped heel just looks to have razor edges and even a hook on the bottom shoe.

I will post two I did recently and you guys can pick em apart.

I thought I got a picture of both shoes but I didn't sorry. Hi/lo horse. this time I tried forging the heels.

front reset on a Morgan mare

So I am posting those shoe pics that I promised forever ago. I'm a procrastinator sometimes. Anyway you can tell by the rust I manufactured these babies back when I originally posted about posting them. Haha. The real crappy one is the one I made after a several month absence of building shoes, all summer. (Shame, shame, shame). I know I need to be frequent in building shoes to get adept at it. The next shoe is the one I did the next day. My goal is to build one a day but I have been slacking. Partial excuse. I have been very busy this summer with shoeing.

That looks pretty hefty section for the size of shoe, Tejun. You'd have to have a horse with pretty thick walls to be able to nail them on.
Did you fit them, or was is just a forging exercise?

Those look like they were made for a Haflinger.

Just a forging exercise, using up the last of my gigantic metal stock

Today I did my first super fast application.



I have never done it before so this was all new to me. I had a tough time with the mixing nozzles. I heard it gets to hot if you put a whole mess on there so I applied a bead at a time, but inbetween beads the nozzle would clog up completely... I took six mixing nozzles to complete the job.






This is after rasping the SuperFast down. It is a little messy because the horse took a couple steps.


Obviously this is before rasping.



Before rasping


Both feet rasped and finished... The whole reason this came about is because the right front was horribly cracked, extremely thin soles and clubby. The horse would not stand for any nailing at all. We even sedated her for this stuff. She walked away totally sound.... but admittedly she was still drugged. Will check tomorrow.



After rasping

Never made a superfast shoe. I'll look forward to the results.

try practising with cheapo bathroom sealant

... on your Mrs's horse!

silly bugger , on anything , it gets you used to squeezing the gun and moving in a nice controlled way

better explain better , get an old tube and nozzle , clean them out and fill with cheapo gunk and use an old shoe in an appropriate position to practice on