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Is The Craft Of Horseshoeing Developing A Generation Gap?

By Pat Tearney posted on May 1, 2002 | Posted in Education
It's no secret that farriers are considered a pretty handy lot. Besides their horseshoeing skills, it’s not unusual for farriers to be able to make and repair their own tools, forge decorative ironwork, build, modify and repair their own shoeing rigs and to have a few special gadgets in the workshop that they built themselves.
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Back To The Basics

Simplifying Aluminum Welding

Learning proper techniques will help you solve the mystery of this process
By Chris Gregory posted on May 1, 2002 | Posted in Forging
As is true of iron, many farriers think welding is one of the most difficult things to do with aluminum. However, as with iron, if aluminum is handled correctly, the welding process is no harder than any other aspects of forging.
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Using Spring Shoes To Treat Sheared Heels

A shoe forged from a car’s leaf spring puts a damaged hoof in traction
By Robert Sigafoos posted on March 1, 2002 | Posted in Therapeutic Shoeing
Sheared heels is a colloquial term used to describe proximal displacement of the medial or lateral heel bulb when referenced to the opposite heel of the same hoof. It’s also often loosely used to describe proximal displacement of the coronet band anywhere cranial to the heel bulb up to the lateral or medial side of the toe (Figure 1).
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Modifying Keg Shoes

Well-Made Trailers Need to Fit the Shoe and Foot

When adding trailers, make sure you don't lose sight of the rest of the keg shoe
By Pat Tearney posted on January 1, 2002 | Posted in Forging
Putting trailers on your keg shoes isn’t a particularly daunting task according to Danny Ward — at least as long as you keep the big picture in mind.
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Shoeing For A Living

If It's Monday, This Must Be Indiana

Hoosier-state farrier also shoes horses in Ohio and Michigan
By Pat Tearney posted on December 1, 2001 | Posted in Shoeing
It's a gorgeous autumn morning in October as Tim Tritch and I climb aboard his shoeing rig in Angola, Ind., in the extreme northeastern corner of the Hoosier state.
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Shiny New Shoers

Graduates of the Minnesota School of Horseshoeing can be forgiven if they think that nailing on a keg shoe is a form of animal abuse
By Pat Tearney posted on December 1, 2001 | Posted in Education
After all, they’ve just spent 10 weeks under the tutelage of Richard Duggan, American Farrier’s Association Certified Journeyman Farrier and, with his wife, Nancy, owner of the Ramsey, Minn., school.
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Modifying Keg Shoes

Kick Up Your Heels!

Knowing how to add heels to your keg shoes is a useful and profitable skill
By Danny Ward posted on December 1, 2001 | Posted in Forging
If your customers or climate require even the occasional use of calks, it makes sense to stock a variety of heeled shoes in your shoeing rig.
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Could You Forge This Shoe in 12 Minutes?

Follow minute-by-minute as former reserve world champion blacksmith James Blurton forges a front pleasure shoe
By Frank Lessiter posted on December 1, 2001 | Posted in Forging
Turning a bar of steel into a finished shoe in 12 minutes certainly takes plenty of forging skills and the ability to work fast.
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Remembering Red Renchin with Mark Ellis: Part 3

Remembering Red Renchin with Mark Ellis: Part 3

In this episode, Mark Ellis, a Wisconsin farrier who learned the ropes with Renchin, recalls Red’s relationships with area veterinarians, his legacy and the second career as American Farriers Journal’s technical editor.

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