Posted by John Redditt on September 26, 2003 at 23:44:14:
I am in the early stages of a land purchase to allow customers to bring their horses to me. My business is great for my so few years of shoeing, coming 4 yrs. I went to school at OFC, and have no complaints about my education there or from the great, accomplished farriers that have taught me more since then.
I have never shod a horse in a set of stocks. I've seen it done. With a little more study, I'm believe I could do it. As the most accomplished farriers do, I turn down the horses that lack an education to the point of not standing for the farrier. With a set of stocks, I believe that I could keep horses lined up, to shoe. I don't think that I'd turn down so many. I just wonder what problems I'm going to run into with that expansion. Will it be tough to become efficient using stocks when they are needed? Am I being greedy? Thanks in advance, John