How many karats?
WOW! That's a lot nicer than anything I got my horses for Christmas. ;)
I have the Handbook of Horseshoeing by Dollar and Wheatley. Very impressive hand illustrations for the anatomy and a good historical reference....
Did any of them ever shoe horses for a living?
I never thought much of their tires either.
The guy (Dave Crew) came to my area about 8 years ago. I attended his seminar along with a few other farriers. He seemed like a nice guy and the...
I find it amusing that the soils horses live on where I see this phenomenon are very much lacking in pumice content. :confused:
Roight back atcha Redfella! :)
Paddy, many doctors are educated beyond their level of intelligence. Centuries ago the farrier and the veterinarian were one and the same...
Usually it doesn't work out very well when a horse owner tries to instruct their farrier based on information from an Internet forum. Some...
Didn't you look at the picture I posted?
tr.v. pum·iced, pum·ic·ing, pum·ic·es To clean, polish, or smooth with pumice. They could have picked a better verb.
First we need to eliminate the perspective distortion and image tilt from taking a picture of the picture on the computer monitor with diverging...
Short shoeing, leverage, and gravity all working together.
Really????? [ATTACH]
I've heard this hypothesis before regarding horses overreaching as they learn to "balance." I'll counter that hypothesis with this - Unless there...
I've heard that the transit had a solid suspension - one of my clients is a senior mechanic for Federal Express - he likes the Transit a lot....
But Travis only charges $25 to drive 150 miles each way and shoe a draft horse all around with hand made shoes and gives a $20 discount for resets ....
On this side of the pond we call it a "shoe spreader." It allows you to spread one or both heels of a shoe while it is nailed on a horse's foot.
That's why I put that stamp on the shoe. With our forging styles being so similar, I know people would have to look twice to tell it wasn't one of...
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