Because you have no credibility, character and need to see a mental health care specialist.
And you are calling the kettle Black?- Who just back out of and from a challenge HE proposed- class? Yep you are in a class all by yourself:D

Phil Armitage wrote:
Phil, you have to stop this craziness. First you make a challenge, everyone's making plans. Then at the last minute you bail. If you want a match, I'm not far from you. Nobody needs to know. I'll video tape it and put it on youtube.

Rick Burten wrote:

Haven't join as of yet, want too, though, got to get info, and send it in. Never knew GPF was near me, until the Delmarva hammer-in 7-14; which I attended and swage in front of the guys alittle.
Maybe grandfathered in; but I still would make the shoes.
I wouldn't anyone to think I was given special treatment, because I was a woman.

Darling,
For 44 years old, I am NOT fat!!
Muscle weight weights more than fat.
You haven't seen my "muscled-out" arms, ...or yet....my Booty!

Ps: typo dear - Athletic was the word.

Phil;
October 27-28 Vermont Farriers Association Forging Contest.
Middlebury Vt @ Eddy Farm.

Come down and compete. We have 2 divisions,open and novice.

I will personally video you competeing and post your standings and pictures of your shoe's on this site.

a few hours drive from Maine and you know all of us already so no bulls--t or harrasment, just an honest chance to show your work on shoe making.

Bruce :cool:

Phil Armitage wrote:
Too bad your back is not as strong as your mouth!!!

Bryan McElwee wrote:
Man, I wish it were. How long have you been shoeing?

Phil Armitage wrote:

8 years....why you going to challenge me then back out?

I just saw this looking back through the thread... Any response Phil? C'mon, Eric is as docile as they come and he's not really that far. I'll even play too.
(you know that'll be funny, I can't make a decent shoe to save my life...)

Phil Armitage wrote:


someone erased something typed, didn't they? I read before it was changed, dear?.....That was a low blow to that other gentleman, Phil.

He could have been older and on his 2nd career, like me.
I started shoeing at 27 years old. I'm 44 yrs old now and still shoeing.
Just hurt and more sore now that before.
So, Phil how many years have you been shoeing? and at what age did you start?
OH!!....AND........Phil, I have shod Draft horses, ground tied; NO holder, NO stocks; and "without" a hoof stand, too!!...
..... have pics to prove it!!!..................Love, Linda

I think Phil took heed to the advice given by Smitty in another thread...Just an observation but maybe a change in direction for Phil. Sometimes we have to take stock in ourselves. I know I do.

Brian Purrington wrote:

Thanks, Brian;

Phil needs to tone it down.

Even I know that I have a lot of learning to do, and where I need lots of improvement in my work. Since, I am getting more out of the racetrack shoeing; I'm learning how to shoe showhorses, and different ways of doing things, you "do not" see at the racetrack!!
So, I go to as many different clinics as I can; keep my eyes and ears open and my mouth shut, unless it is to ask a question about shoeing or application of a shoe on a horse.
Using my racetrack shoeing knowledge does make me a more rounded horseshoer too!

PS and don't comment on another horseshoer work, because you don't know how rank that horse was to shoe.

We ALL let our mouths (keyboards) get away from us now and then....

Phil is that the lad that is riding with you

I don't know what you meant by adding this to your post, but I comment on farriery in general and not specificaly about another farrier's work. We all have good days and bad and because I know that, I have tried to be careful in pointing fingers at anything or anyone. :confused:

I will continue to comment within my experience and knowledge base in order to first help and second to compile input form other perspectives that may or may not give validity to my comments. In which case I will be further educated by gaining the validity or seeing things through another's experience. :cool:

This forum was set up specifically for that/these reasons. I have had farriers comment on my work both solicited and unsolicited and have learned from it. I welcome any constructive critisizm of my work and or procedures that can be applied in my daily practice. Therefore if I feel like I have something to contribute, I WILL, and if I'm out of line, there will be someone there to let me know....

Regards,