Posted by Frank on August 09, 2003 at 00:25:16:
In Reply to: Draft Horse Clinches posted by Arthur Jones on August 08, 2003 at 15:20:48:
: Recently I spent time with 2 different farriers learning about draft horses. They both do a lot of drafts. One makes small square clinches and files them smooth reducing their stregnth much as I always do with light horses. The other makes long rectangular clinches and does not file them. The later farrier feels that the long clinch has more surface area and will bend away easier if a shoe is stepped on than a small square clinch. The former feels that the filed small square clinch is the way to go to avoid hoofwall damage if a shoe is pulled off.
: I am curious about what type of clinch those on the board who do drafts are using and why.
: TIA
: Art
: Art's Farrier Service
Art
I use a long nail set as high on the foot as possible I try to get them as level as possible too and use a long clinch hammered not a clincher that way there is as much nail as possible holding the nail in place with setting the nails high lost shoes don't happen very often because it is the bulk of the nail that does the holding of the shoe not the clinch this was drilled into my head by the master farrier I apprenticed with and I just helped him do his show string with scotch bottoms won a good number of firsts and seconds and best shod. He always says the best nail to hold a shoe is a high one, Hammered clinches and level playing field(M/L balanced) are the basis for strong shoeing
I try to do that but he can drive a 12 nail like nobodies business into a poor hoof and still get a good hold
Frank