Everyday Shoeing

I build the banana shape into the hoof. Its easy when hot shoeing with steel if ya have a small bit of hoof to play with. I have done it with alu plates cold but find it very difficult to get it sitting level. I always a wedge pad I do one horse with a grade 4 hind and use a 3deg wedge on him.

Why were you exhausted Linda?

Purpose of the wedge?. . .just so you don't have to banana the shoe so much or just for alignment after you knock all the heel off?

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The hoof aligns itself anyway without the wedge, it just leaves less of an air gap with the wedge. Possibly un-nesessary but I just think it looks better than the massive air wedge.

I savvy

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that makes the angle of the club foot look a lot better.
Is the banana shoe just an ordinary shoe rolled up at the heels?

Yea Gary an ordinary shoe just gently tapped with the hammer from toe to heel on each branch to give a gradual curl from toe to heel, in that photo it looks like its just the heels curled up because he is rocking forward on it from the tendon pull

I've heard Jim Poor talk about shoeing club feet. He'd trim off the heel but wedge them back up.

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Does he roll rocker the toe as well? George Geist posted a video on his forum from the farriers convention of a talk on shoeing club feet and same as that the guy just said remove the heel and wedge back up. In my experience with the heel down and a 3 deg wedge a grade 2 will still have too much tension in the dft forcing the tip of p3 and the toe downwards so ya have no sole growth or toe wall growth and get the lip and demineralisation on the tip of p3 from the pressure.

I asked Ronald Aalders about the wedge as I thought he said they were necessary. This was his response. Reposted with permission.

Ronald Aalders
Hi Kim, I think wedges necessary. Often a wedge is needed in low pa cases but I think they're needed in clubs a well. The reason is that a banana allows rocking forward effortlessly, but backward as well. I feel the ddft, but also the straight and oblique ligaments caudally of the pastern need the extra strain. The wedges in my experience takes care of that. Thanks for asking Kim! Ron

If i remember he'd wedge what was needed.

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Mr. Alders. His positions are , in many ways mine, do what it takes to get 'em in the ring. Long usage of Redden philops can and will be detrimental; IMEs

I've wondered that about long term use of a banana shoe, while the hoof might be growing well with the set up like with most things is it a trade off and something somewhere else in the limb is suffering?

I wish it was from getting very happy ...............but it's from shoeing and working in the forge at night .

New shoes for Sherman today. Percheron x Arab - does carriage driving and fox hunting. Full web rolled toe - doesn't show up very well in images.

Looks like Sherman can go on the march with his purple people eaters!! Looks good Tom. Same thing on the backs?

Tom, you are going to have to give up your Man Card if you are using a hoof jack on the fronts..

Percheron x Arab eh? That would be an interesting date, whichever way you look at it!
Nice job Tom, do you know what those feet measure?

"Percheron x Arab"- did numerous years ago. Endurance just outside Middleburg, Va. Better at Dressage than endurance.