In this video I shoe a horse that has recently developed a slight lameness with his left front. I also ran into another farrier, Seth Noble, at the barn and got to visit with him as well. Hope you enjoy the video!
My first cousin was a farrier. An excellent young fellow. His mother thought he should be a college educated professional. She hated his pickup truck and his name and farrier painted on the door. He finally took a job on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico to make money to go to college as his mom wanted. He worked on the drilling deck and was killed by a steel board falling a couple hundred feet from the top of the rig and crushing his skull. Sad, sad end of a fine young man!
Wow. That’s an interesting but sad story at the same time. Sorry about your first cousin. I actually thought I was going to be a diesel mechanic before I started shoeing horses, believe it or not.
@@USAfarrier-pnwfarriershow This happened in 1973. His father was a supervisor over two joined oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. I worked for my uncle in the fall semester of 1964 to get money to return to LSU and finish college. My cousin was just a good kid. He loved my mom’s mashed potatoes and he would stop by and visit with her and feast on her mashed potatoes. He told my mom that he had a premonition that he wouldn’t live long and he didn’t.
Love the commentary with your videos! I know nothing of shoeing horses so hearing what you have to say is so nice! Almost all other farriers on RU-vid don't say a word and I'm like, "why did u do that?" Lol great videos :)❤
You are great, know what u r doing and provide lucid analysis. I’m really IMPRESSED BY YOUR ABILITIES. PLUS YOU LIKE THE HORSES WHICH IS THE POINT REALLY. THANK YOU.
`Thanks for your commentary with the videos. It helps to understand what you are doing. It also shows how involved you are in your work. Your videos are the best.
Been loving your videos for extra information, im an apprentice in northern Pennsylvania, your work is very well done! especially some of the draft horses the way you define the bars and shape the sole is always such nice work!
Great explanation! Note to owners--please be kind to your farrier and pick your horse's feet b4 the farrier gets there if you can. It's a gesture of respect to your farrier and shows how you care about your horse!
That is very helpful and appreciated when they do it! But not always necessary or a demand from me to the client especially since I work on a lot of horses without a client present. Thanks for watching
You make it look so smooth and easy compared to other people videos i have watched.Just love looking at these types of videos good going and good job enjoyed it
I just want to say that I enjoy watching you shoe your favourite horses I have been watching you for a long time but I never subscribed I thought I did so my opoliges mate.anyway I have subscribed now and I will be enjoying watching your videos all the best mate kind regards Gregory Lee from Melbourne Victoria Australia 🇦🇺 😃👋👍
Trouble with pads like that is that debris gets in between the pad and sole and can be problematic . I started using the vetec silicone pads with the mesh . They give the sole an even distribution of weight , you can fill them to the top of the shoe or just below it . They don’t fit between the sole and the shoe so shoes tend to look tidy for longer seeing as nothing is compressing with each step . That’s a good looking shoeing you done there and I hope your charging plenty for it . Remember often horse owners only have loyalties to you until a new guy comes to town .
The Rancers name was Ed Goslin. I suspect that his kids still own his ranch. Thanks for the reply. The way it works on the National Forest is that several Ranchers May share a grazing area for the summer . As an interesting aside, I helped move 160 head of horses and pack mules to Ola for the winter. A 15 YEAR OLD LOCAL GIRL PICKED OUT A HORSE AND RODE HIM ALL WINTER. Y ou are correct. I just turned 92.
I have a new appreciation the art of shoeing. I will say that I would like to have a bungy cord attached to my upper body and then to the stall and make it adjustable so that when your bending your back doesn’t get tired and supports you because that position is going to cause severe back injuries and quickly. Just a thought
Yes and No. Ideally, you want to squat with your knees to take some strain off your back to help share the load but it is like anything else, the more you do something your body will develop muscle & strength from doing something repeatedly. When i first started my career, my legs and back were not conditioned and it was very exhausting trying to shoe. But, after almost 13 years, my body is pretty well conditioned for shoeing. It definitely is something I think about though longevity wise. Thanks for the thought!
Hallo junger Mann, Ich habe mir dein Video mir großer Bewunderung angeschaut. Hab ganz selten so schöne Arbeit gesehen. Bleib gesund und bis zum nächsten Video. Die besten Grüße aus Deutschland.
Hey gidday mate hows it going i hooe all is well with your work.i just want to say that your one of the most professional farriers i have seen do there work on the horses.i always wanted to be a farrier but i was to busy showing them i showed horses most of my life except when i went into the Australian army and that took up 25yrs of my life i served all over the world on active service overseas Iraq and Afghanistan Malaya,east Timor and alot of overseas deployments anyway thanks for the show kind regards Gregory lee from Melbourne Victoria Australia. 🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🖐
I watched a Cow Boy re secure a loose shoe on a horse with some nails he carried and used a glass Coca cola bottle as a hammer. 6 of us were on a cattle allotment on the Boise National Forest near Ola Idaho.
I would call that, l being resourceful! I remember when I was in college my shoeing instructor would say you could tack a shoe on with a rock and some nails if you desperately needed to. And sounds like that’s the position this guy was in. Cool story, thanks for sharing!
I always had leather pads on my horses, but the farrier always left them full and squirted silicone in the pad. Great way to keep debris put and have an extra cushion.
I think with the leather pads inside the shoes should be done on all horses i think it will protect any horses from getting anything stuck in the frog of the foot ! 😉 even if there's nothing wrong with the horses foot just incase?😮
Very nice tidy job 👍 please tell me that's your pulloffs and not hoof nippers for nail blocking 😂. I do mostly full or rim pads with leather, but once in a while frog cutout just as you did. I find it helps to soak the pads for a few minutes. And also drill through the nail holes and pads to make nailing easier. Keep up the good work!
Owner/farrier might just wait and see, and keep an eye on it? Arthritis is often from an injury, but maybe a horse could get it in other hooves as they age 💖
Excellent workmanship as well as informative …..one suggestion, shine up your Hammer and hand tools,you’re a true Professional make your too how it as well…
Thank YOU for showing. PLACE yourself a little more near to the horse. the innere roatation and the muscle is to tight fixed. you have to look more backwards to the head, not side
The biggest thing is to make sure the client doesn’t use a hoof pick underneath the pad during the cycle. Basically once leather gets a little moisture, it’ll naturally form to the contour of the sole. But if you hoof pick underneath it, it’ll mess that form up and you’ll get rocks/debris underneath it. I don’t think you can get this affect with a plastic pad though since it’s not malleable like leather.
How much does it cost to shoe and how often does it need to get done? Thinking about getting a horse and want to know what regular upkeep expenses will be.
Not necessarily a cushion. It’s more like the heart of the foot. When loaded, it sends blood supply through the foot and limb. You don’t want to trim it too short because that can cause pain but you also don’t want to leave it excessively long either because it can lead to bacterial infections with crap not being able to clean out easily.
I’m not denigrating your craftsmanship (if that’s not the right term, I certainly apologize) but I was going to ask how wild horses seem to not have hoof problems, is it because they roam for miles or it’s not documented?
Without packing, how much 'crap' for lack of a better word, is going to get trapped up next to the sole. I can't thing that anything other than dry sand would be detrimental to the health of his feet. It does look like a very clean stable but he's going to be stepping in excrement. Even turnout onto grass, loam and compostable dirt will hold moisture and I'm thinking that's a recipe for thrush. Fine gravel could easily work in under that pad and be difficult to remove. So put my mind at ease - am I seeing problems that that don't occur without packing this pad?
@georgegoertzen So the biggest thing is for the owner to not get there hoof pick underneath the pads during the cycle. With leather, it is malleable so it actually molds/forms to the sole really quickly creating a natural bond between the two providing a layer of protection to the foot/sole allowing it to grow and not be debrided so much without the pad. Generally thrush likes to thrive in commisures and frog area so it is important to have the pad cut out enough in that area allowing the foot not to be packed full of crap creating a hostile environment for anaerobic bacteria. Now if it was a plastic pad, I would think all those points you brought up would happen because plastic/rubber won't naturally form to the sole. Those are all valid concerns or questions and the biggest thing is to not rupture the bond between leather pad & sole during the cycle and you won't have issues. I've used this method many years now and haven't had any issues yet(knock on wood lol).
Hey man. If you don't mind, I'm curious about the economics of being a ferrier. I am a fine cabinet maker, so I assume our industry rates are similar for a professional. I charge $120 an hour for fine custom cabinet making (in California), and it looks like there is an equal amount of craftsmanship in this kind of work. What kind of hourly rate do you guys charge as ferriers, and how long does it take for a single horse?
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what’re you getting up there per hoof for that job? (trim, shoe, pad, clinch, etc.) or is it just the $300 you denoted somewhere else here no matter what, no extra for the leather
I don't have much experience shoeing gaited horses so I don't really have a good answer for you other than I would shoe the horse's feet the best I could with what I got.
That would be quite the experience! I don’t foresee myself being able to do that anytime in the near future but you never know what could happen. Thanks for watching!
Yeah, they haven’t progressed not one bit from 300 years ago! It is amazing how far behind major Countries are when it comes to things like this. They treat their animals like complete garbage and it is sickening to watch!
Well I see why you all have Barn dogs around. And why they're all chunky, helps you guys on clean up because they eat all the shavings off the hoofs.😂😂
