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RE:Heel Checks 24 Oct 2008 23:29 #31

Bill Adams OFFLINE Master Posts: 4185 Thank you received: 9 Karma: 6	oatey_hocking wrote: weakin? Smoothing out dead materal? Thanks, Jarred Yes. The dead material is an integral part of protection and suport.
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RE:Heel Checks 24 Oct 2008 23:32 #32

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oatey_hocking wrote:

Hope everyone knows this is so I can learn. All in good nature.

I don't question to just press what I think, if I do so thought I will get more back for you all.

I am tought by an insturctor how to perform said job, if I don't question him and others I am just along for the ride and I don't want to just say ok that works for me.

We had a 30min talk in class last week about differn't things and one of which was that we have a farrier program and horses that need hoof care but we can only do one horse and week! This school is spread it's self thin and can't cover all the equine parts e nuff to suit me which is why I may no longer be a student and will continue my education elsewhere be it another school or on my own threw clinics and people.

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RE:Heel Checks 25 Oct 2008 00:36 #33

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T. Wm. HALL wrote:

Jake,

I've been shoeing this horse (my horse) since I got him back in February. Upon fitting these new shoes, the nail holes were set differently and I fit the shoes fuller than the previous SX-7's that I had on. I could have used the front of my nail pattern, but never have liked doing so. I just didn't want to run them up as high as I had been.

The horse has great feet, nice thick walls and is great to fit a shoe to. This has been the 3rd pair of shoes that he has had in 6 weeks now. I need to leave these on for 8 weeks and let the old nail holes grow out. He grows a lot of foot quickly also.

Would it have been possible to hammer heel checks back into the shoe, to support the heels, and keep a broad heel surface? I didn't really grind out too much material, just penciled out the heels. I really liked the fit prior to grinding them out, but I though I would try it and see how things ended up.

Thanks to all for the advice thus far. It is greatly appreciated. I'm just experimenting with different applications on him, and seeing what works best.

Trevor

Trevor, Jake and I had a discussion about this a couple of weeks back. We were talking about st. croix eventers and grinding in heel checks and how they came out to sharp just like yours. He said he liked the eventer extras since they had more material in the heel and if you ground them you wouldn't comprimise strength or make the heels pointy, which as clinker suggested got me to thinking about shoe boils, or on the hinds, weapeons in the case of a kick. Those points could do some damage. I had some ev. extras and looked them over, Jake was right, more material to work with and a better looking heel check whether ground in or hammered in. So I have been looking at shoes trying to find something I like comparable to the eventers with more heel material for some horses. Also working on putting the checks in with the hammer trying not to remove material and make them pointy weapeons. Work looks good, just another thing to work on, it never ends does it?

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RE:Heel Checks 25 Oct 2008 01:07 #34

Gary_Miller OFFLINE Master Posts: 2565 Thank you received: 1 Karma: 0	I use Triumphs all the time I have found no reason to put heel checks in to them as they seem to have a pretty good check built into the shoe. OTOH I have foound that heel checks are cosmetic only and usually don't check any of my heels.
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RE:Heel Checks 25 Oct 2008 01:11 #35

Jaye Perry OFFLINE Guru Posts: 5653 Thank you received: 1 Karma: 0	Gary_Miller..... OTOH I have foound that heel checks are cosmetic only and usually don't check any of my heels. Takin Red's line~~~"Guess that's check, mate":p
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RE:Heel Checks 25 Oct 2008 03:57 #36

Patty Lynch OFFLINE Senior Member Posts: 331 Karma: 0	Jarred, I started a thread in the balance section so as not to hijack Trevor's thread any longer.
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