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Farrier shoeing a horse.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...955#post171679
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...811#post156168
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...486#post151188
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...557#post128165
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...217#post145916
Wow! I've never seen anyone hot set a shoe like that! He had it on there for an awfully long time, and the flames looked pretty intense. But he seems to know what he's doing.
And ol slew foot has had this done so many times he looks bored while the guy is re fitting the shoeQuote:
Originally Posted by schuylergrace
Doesn’t it hurt the horse?
Ours were always good like that, but we had one mare who'd use a little passive-aggressive move on me when I'd trim her back feet. She'd lift up her hoof just fine, but when she got tired of/bored with me working back there, she'd just start to sit on me (and snicker, I'm sure). She'd never put her full weight down, but it was clear she had better things to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
Not if you do it right, but that's true of the whole hoof maintenance process. Hot setting actually smoothes the hoof where the shoe meets it and makes it more comfortable for the horse and less likely to injure their foot. Since the hooves are basically fingernails, they don't have any nerves until you start getting close to living tissue, so neither this nor driving nails hurts the horse, as long as you know what you are doing. I had just never seen a shoe so hot or the process spitting out so much flame, but it does smoke (stinky, like hair smoldering) and burn some. Our horses were always on pasture or dirt, so we didn't bother with shoes.Quote:
Originally Posted by mdhatter3
No, actually it is good for the horse to have its hooves cleaned, trimmed and periodically re-shod. Domesticated or horses not in the wild benefit greatly by this practice.Quote:
Originally Posted by mdhatter3
Their hooves can grow so long and become thin and brittle it the edges and split once a hoof splits small rocks can become embedded and their weight cause it to tear and they will become lame.
Years and years of generational breeding has caused the feet and hooves on horses to become smaller, the exception being draft horses still being bread as working animals and ranch or range horses since they are still regularly worked and often worked hard. Show horses and stable pets can require lots of attention to their hooves. ranchers will leave most of their heard of horses unshod, only putting shoes on the ones they use for working.