Everyday Shoeing

Reset from today heel and feather

Front I sat on Thursday.

Mikel why do you punch toe nail holes
and say you dont use them?

Looks machine made to me ...
What sort of environment is that horse kept in Mikel? It's frog and sole have an odd looking texture to them. Does it spend most of it's time in on shavings or something?

I just took it was a hand made

looks like a good everyday job to me

Gary, Thanks for the good looking job compliment, yes homemade. Smitty, I guess because it helps me gauge where to set my holes. Yes the horse is stabled on shavings, thus the color. Chris, yea, just an everyday job.

I think chris said that, just to keep some chat going how do you think
the shoe is on the foot mikel? And heel cover?

Smitty I've been told leading edge of caulk should parallel to leading edge of the shoe (in line of travel). I noticed yours is not, is there any reason why or does that not matter? Just looking to learn. Thanks.

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Thats the old fashioned way josh
I was thought that way in the duckett days

in recent years styles have changed
when I was an app we had to make 16 pair

a day and this is the way we done it.
all I can say josh is we shod most every horse in the early days

with c/w so you can imagine how many thousand got them
got no complaints.

nice to see you posting

i might have knocked the heels in a tad more , but i was not there

Nobody (including me) does any rocker toes around here. Tried to do one last friday on this mare at the riding school

Fredrick: Just a question but why the toe clips with a rolled toe? I found that any time I rolled the toe and hot fitted the shoe stayed in place quite well, (almost like it was glued there) even before I nailed it on
Rob Johnson

Right Rob, I was taught the way you describe it. Just happened to watch a Youtube video of a big Welshman doing it like this.

Frederick: I misspelled your name earlier won't happen again. The only time I would use a toe clip is far a hard pulling horse, they pull more on the front feet and dig, i.e. toe clips so they don't shear the nails off and walk out of their shoes. Smitty (Did you know the first choice on spell check for your name is SMUTTY ) or someone else with more blacksmithing experience than I probably has different thoughts ?

Frederick: Took another look at the picture, was that a cold fit?

Was it that bad?? Nope, hot fit.

Frederick: NO I think it was that good, no burn marks or scorching like you would see on some of my work, sometimes I maybe get the shoe a little hot.

One from today
lami pony, droped soles not going great
made a pair of deep seated aluminium bar shoes
cut 13 1/4" for this foot and 12 3/4"for the other