That's too bad for if there were only one answer/one way to do it, we'd all be doing it that way and Gene & co. would be very very wealthy. In reality, much of what I have learned with regard to the NB trimming protocols is stuff that I was long ago taught/learned. Not as codified, but there nonetheless. Its interesting to me that so many who disparage NB actually employ its tenants,often unwittingly, though they call them by different names. Balancing the foot/shoe around the COR/COA, hoof proportions of 50:50 or 60:40 etc based on the widest part of the hoof, frog-ground engagement, breakover location, setting shoes back off the toe, combinations of blunt toes, rolled toes, rockered toes, set back shoes, recognizing differences betweeen front and back feet and their purpose and function, etc ad infinatum.

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I can find Duckett's Dot on Google Maps . . . right over the kitchen sink.

That's too bad for if there were only one answer/one way to do it, we'd all be doing it that way and Gene & co. would be very very wealthy. In reality, much of what I have learned with regard to the NB trimming protocols is stuff that I was long ago taught/learned. Not as codified, but there nonetheless. Its interesting to me that so many who disparage NB actually employ its tenants,often unwittingly, though they call them by different names. Balancing the foot/shoe around the COR/COA, hoof proportions of 50:50 or 60:40 etc based on the widest part of the hoof, frog-ground engagement, breakover location, setting shoes back off the toe, combinations of blunt toes, rolled toes, rockered toes, set back shoes, recognizing differences betweeen front and back feet and their purpose and function, etc ad infinatum.

I sincerely hope that time will prove this to be an inaccurate assessment.

As a POI, how many of those farriers you mentioned have actually been through and successfully completed the NB certification courses? I ask because never during the courses that I took was NB ever touted to the students as the be all, do all and/or end all for hoof care. In fact, I don't remember ever hearing Gene make such a statement when he lectures or is asked about the NB approach.

Have you, individualy or as the collective, ever attended a conference, seminar, meeting, or even just worked with someone else, where some new method, approach, concept, appliance that really resonated with you? Such that when you got home you started touting it as the new best way to deal with "X,Y,Z". And then you start using the method/appliance, at least for a time, almost to the exclusion of all else? So it is I think with many of those who are touting NB as the "second coming". We saw/see it in the barefoot movement and we saw/see it amongst farriers too. For me, NB is a tool, like all the other tools I have in my kit which has taken me a lifetime to acquire. IMNTBCHO, knowing when, and how and where to use those tools(physical and otherwise) and why, is what elevates us up out of the gutter and makes us professionals

To you too.

Are you shoeing to the flare?:confused:

Dot is just behind 50/50 and to the left of center.

Yes. Due to my experience in the marine industry, I use SOLAS flares!

PORT, dammit, port is to the left . . . ya landlubber. :cool:

Sorry, Port. I'm allways getting my port/starboard mixed up.

LOL,

Are those the replacement for Iodine Crystals?



Sorry, Port. I'm allways getting my port/starboard mixed up.

LOL,

Mr. Burten: Sounds like you've some experience with this...........

yes I actually have had some experience in this area hearing Ralph Casey, Walt Taylor, Chris Gregory, yourself and Et Al, speak publicly I have found that regardless of the linguistic skills the person has they are still full of BS .......... or as my brother was fond of saying when he was trying to pickup the average buckle bunny, " If I cant dazzle them with my brillance then I will baffle them with BS "