dealing with cracks

What do you do when dealing with cracks
this one is a 3yld never anything done to it

I cleaned the crack out the best I could
try to balance up a bit and made an ali h/bar
from 15 1/2" of 1 x 3/8 aluminium

Your fighting the weaght of the horse on thet one smitty. Trim the larger section of hoof flat and taper the smaller from about 1/4" shorter then tha other side of the crack back to the same hight as the meadil side of the hoof at the heal. Nail the medil sid normaly the other side as far back as you dare .cover the crack with glue if it lives in a aira where debre can get in the crack . The weight of the horse will close the crack insted of opening it .works every time for me on cracks near the toe

I think you missed the hyper focal distance there, Monty.

As you can see im no artist or photogripher yes i googaled it

John, the H bar will get weight off the toe and floating the area on each side of the crack would help. I would have had the nails and shoe a bit further back.
I'll bet anyone who can make a shoe that nice probably picked up a few skills as to fitting and repairing a hoof like that too. Beauty.

Its cracks at the back half of the foot that give me hell .never met a toe crack i couldent fix but old Quarter cracks are with out a dought my worst nemises.

I normally make a bar-shoe and float the area monty

Saw a shoe in a old text some were with a clip drawn at the inside of the heel wher it would ride between the frog and heel pressing out and forward .any one tried this

I have forge 2 clips one each side of the crack and set down in between the clips

Me to John but im only fixing about half of them . My bars arnt neerly as nice as yours but they do the job.(well half the time)

I think truly unloading a heel is nearly imposible do you use a heaver stock in your bars John

It all comes back to the foot you preper for the bar shoe
Then you need it fitting well, if its a well made shoe for that foot
is what counts, everything else is a bonus imo

Depending the foot thats in front of me monty
I will make what ever is best for the situation

Have one ive ben fighting for years it was closed when i got to him and jambed neerly half a inch .it has never re cracked or caused any soundness probloms but it will grow out with verring degees of gap mind you he is worked hard and on way to long of cycles .anny ideas?

Whats your sucses with these John . I would love to see a pick of your trim befor the shoe is applied .how aggresive are you getting with floating the heel?

Get to the horse sooner and good trims

Ime floating bolth sides of the crack will cause outward presher on the crack when the foot is loaded and hinder healing

Your not going to win every battle monty
but I have done well in the past

keeing on top of the problem, seeing whats working and whsts not

Wish it would sheer then i mightbe able un jamb it and maybe help blood flow or convince the owners to shorten the cycles