Quote: So, did you draw the one inch down to 3/4" on the branches and just leave the toe one inch, or did you bump it up? I just drew it from 1". The shoe has a slight wedgeto the toe tapered to the heels. Also narrowed the heels of the medial and lateral slightly from widest point back to kinda get the heels to sink in the ground a little. Went out to do the other horses at this place today, and it is night and day difference in the way this horse is getting around now.
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Put this on a 32 yr old retired saddlebred. He was knuckling over at the fetlock. [attachment] [attachment]
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Quote: I got to wondering about this lack of "diagnosis" from R&R. Is it possible they wanted the client to have the horse shod (similar to what you describe) by their own podiatry staff at the clinic when the radiographs were taken, and then have the client return every six weeks to have more radiographs and reshoeings, all to the tune of $500 to $700 per shoeing? Could it be possible they don't prescribe a mechanical solution for the independent farrier to follow because they are more interested in protecting their "business interest" rather than helping the independent farrier help the horse? OR could this horse have been sedated when the radiographs were taken? From what I have read, in bits and pieces, Dr. Myers has some interesting on-going research indicating sedation could possibly skew alignment? Maybe R&R has also found that to be true and do not make recommendations of a mechanical nature based on possibly skewed results?? Just wondering..... Very possible!Very, very possible! Whether sedation skews alignment I don't know. All the sign's of NPA and other pathologies are visible to the naked eye without x-ray's. Whatever it may be, I just want to get these people back showing. They haven't been able to all year. BTW, the front rad's taken by a different vet clinic, also showed NPA. No prescription or suggestions for shoeing from them either. I normally don't suggest x-rays, unless I can't get them better in a reasonable amount of time. But, this client had them taken anyway. Which was helpful, but I had pretty much told them what was wrong and needed to be done. The rad's just confirmed it. The good new's is I have sure picked up lot of business in Southern Indiana. :) Gabino, I may try a rocker bar, if he doesn't show improvement after this set.
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I will call the client with a follow up call this week and see if there is any more improvement. I forgot to mention all 4 feet were extremely high in the medial, hinds were the worst. A lot of flare on the lateral side as well. Looked liked a haflinger or draft shod with scotch bottoms. He also landed toe first pretty bad on the RH. After the wedge and rocker, he was landing flat. I think we will see an improvement in him in the next coupe week's. I hope to eventually get him out of the wedges, but only time will tell. I wish I had got some pic's. I will when I go back in 5 week's. I also onioned the heels of the shoe as well. On a side note, I found m new favorite hind shoes. The workmens are awesome. They have a lot better toe in them and forge nicely.
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Yes, I asked the client what they said about the rads and the client told me they said they looked normal. JPT, the gelding is extremely lame in the hind end, more so on the right hind. I wedged it to get get a little better alignment in the bones, and rockered the toe just slightly, not much to help with BO. The foot is bull nosed pretty bad, so I didnt set the shoe back. I can control the front of the foot better with a rocker toe fit flush. The hoof capsule is twisted laterally from the coronary band. He really needs to be fit fuller medially then I have him fit, but they live almost two hours away. 3 vets have looked at two of the horses that this guy owns and none can tell him what the problem is. Both were lame with pretty much the same issues, haven't been able to show all year. The farrier work was atrocious, but these horses are in southern Indiana and I guess they don't have a big choice to choose from. The other horse I shod, that is similar to this one, they are now riding,not hard yet, but first time they have been able to all year. We were kind of wishing the vets could find or diagnose or even give an opinion on what to do or throw an idea about shoeing out there, but it hasn't happened. I am starting with what worked for me a lot of the time, and then going from there. His front end was really lame and when we got that fixed, the hindend lameness became really apparent. I have all knds of crap on his front end too. :S :S
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Client was told by vet everything was normal. I wedged with a rocker toe, and he seemed better. Was very lame.
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Thanks for the replies. I told her I wasn't going to mess with it.
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No. They are Tungsten. They are used on the TWH, and they way a ton. I have Titanium on a hunter I shoe right now, they are really lite. I got tired of the ali wearing out at 4 weeks, so went to Titanium. Gotten 3 resets so far. Tungsten is a whole nother ball of wax.
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Hi,

Has anyone ever forge welded tungsten, or is it even possible?

Thanks.
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