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Jul. 8th, 2010 08:17 amEven if it's not horsey, still awesome. I love pictures done in paint -- they always look hillarious. ^_^
Jul. 8th, 2010
Shoes. Shoes?
Jul. 8th, 2010 09:10 pmHad the farrier show me how to pull a shoe tonight just because I haven't done one and wanted to know how.
Step 1. - bend the clinches back up to straighten out the nail (or to just break the clinch off), which gets folded down toward the ground after the shoe is nailed on. When you are done, let the horsey rest. :)
Step 2. - start at the very back of the heel with your shoe pullers (ha, don't remember the name of them, but they look like nippers) and put them into the crevice between hoof and shoe.
Step 3. - squeeze together the handles of the pullers.
Step 4. - Push the shoe pullers across the hoof so that they slide all the way under the shoe (looks like the pullers are laying on their side now).
Step 5. Move the pullers toward the toe a bit, repeat. Once you are done with one side, do the other side.
Viola, I removed my first shoe.
Trudi was quite awesome, she stood there and mostly held her foot up for me.
I straightened up and smiled at the farrier. "That'll be $15 please." His assistant snickered. :)
Got to ride for the first time in 2 weeks- there were some big rolls of plastic wrapped insulation piled at one end of the arena, and I snuck Trudi in past them before she noticed them. Closed the door as she saw them and managed to do it in time to keep her from booking it back out (I clearly saw the thought cross her mind). But she was a good kid. We walked around a bit but it was sort of uneven, so I took her outside and tried a little trot in the round pen. She seemed ok but it's too early to really tell. Still, nice to be on her. :)
Step 1. - bend the clinches back up to straighten out the nail (or to just break the clinch off), which gets folded down toward the ground after the shoe is nailed on. When you are done, let the horsey rest. :)
Step 2. - start at the very back of the heel with your shoe pullers (ha, don't remember the name of them, but they look like nippers) and put them into the crevice between hoof and shoe.
Step 3. - squeeze together the handles of the pullers.
Step 4. - Push the shoe pullers across the hoof so that they slide all the way under the shoe (looks like the pullers are laying on their side now).
Step 5. Move the pullers toward the toe a bit, repeat. Once you are done with one side, do the other side.
Viola, I removed my first shoe.
Trudi was quite awesome, she stood there and mostly held her foot up for me.
I straightened up and smiled at the farrier. "That'll be $15 please." His assistant snickered. :)
Got to ride for the first time in 2 weeks- there were some big rolls of plastic wrapped insulation piled at one end of the arena, and I snuck Trudi in past them before she noticed them. Closed the door as she saw them and managed to do it in time to keep her from booking it back out (I clearly saw the thought cross her mind). But she was a good kid. We walked around a bit but it was sort of uneven, so I took her outside and tried a little trot in the round pen. She seemed ok but it's too early to really tell. Still, nice to be on her. :)