Posted by JDseller on January 15, 2012 at 20:44:32 from (208.126.196.144):
Well guys we have had horses now for about two weeks after not having any for over thirty years. Several issues have come about. Not the ones I had concerns about. The girls are having a blast. Plus my Wife is in heaven with the girls being around so much more. So that is the one real bright spot as her health has not allowed much joy the last years.
1) I have not gotten to sleep in past 5:15 AM any morning since they came here. Reason??? My grand daughters come by the house at that time on their souped up gulf cart. Blowing the horn to let Gran Pa know they are here.
2) Said gulf cart got traded in for my John Deere XUV 4x4 Gator when it snowed. They got stuck coming across the field from their house. They swiped my Gator to pull the gulf cart out. Gulf cart was parked where my Gator usually sets when I got home. They commandeered my Gator!!!! The youngest one says the cab and heater are Soooo much better. LMAO NO JOKE!!!
3) Spent all day Sat remembering how to shoe and trim horse's feet. My maternal Grand father and maternal Great Grand father where both black smiths. They both taught me how to shoe horses and trim their feet. I started when I was thirteen and did it most Saturdays until I went into the service. They only charged $25 for a trim and all new shoes(mid 1960 dollars). So they had a lot of people bring them their horses on Friday and Saturday. It did bring them in some extra income. The last horse I did any work on was in 1969 when I was home on leave from the ARMY. It took longer to dig out the forge and tools than it did to do the work.
4) Sister-in-law did not know I could do farrier work. I Really DID NOT want her to know either. DARN. So now she wants me to shoe her four horses. HECK NO!!!! I told her I would show my brother how to do it. He was enough younger that Great Grand Dad had passed on and Grand Father had quit farrier work due to his age.
I just could not let the one horse keep walking off balance like he was. I could tell someone had trimmed his feet wrong. His right rear foot was twisting as he walked. Sure enough some fool had it trimmed at an angle. Plus they had done a real poor job of fitting the shoes. The shoes where too little and they had stretched them wide but then the shoe was too short front to back. It made the horse kind of tippy toe around. I may hate horses but I am not going to let one go lame just because some fool did not know what he was doing.
It took me several tries to get the right shape on the shoes. I had to make them from scratch since I did not have any blanks. I ended up using 1/2 bar stock and flatting it after I formed the curve. Holes are easy. My Grand Dads used to make them out of bar stock when they wanted a harder shoe for winter snow/ice. The kept high carbon bar stock just for that. They both claimed that it made a higher quality shoe after you heated it and hammered it flat.
So the one needed a complete new set of shoes and its hooves trimmed. The other two I was able to reuse the shoes but they both needed trimmed and re-shod. The only good thing is that all three have a better gate now, seem to be riding smoother.
These horses are going to be the death of me yet. LOL
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