LAA I just made one set for the larger horse. The other shoes I was able to just resize and use them. They actually where a high quality shoes just the farrier was a dud. He did not fit them.
As far as shoeing four horses in 6 hours that would have been slow when I was doing it every weekend. The Grand Dads ( Great Grandpa and Great-Great Grandpa) both could make a shoe complete from bar stock in less than five minutes. They would race each other making blank shoes and could flatten the bar, rough shape the U, and put the holes in. I have seen my Great Great Grandpa do 15 in an hour. The thing that is more impressive about that is he was in his mid seventies at the time. He never wasted a stroke with the hammer. He never stopped the hammer. If he needed to look at the work he would bounce the hammer on the anvil rather than waste the energy to catch and hold it. That man forget more than I have ever known about black smithing.
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