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TOPIC: tempering pritchells

RE:tempering pritchells 02 Nov 2009 16:14 #76

dieselfarmer OFFLINE Senior Member Posts: 211 Karma: 0	Craig, Maybe you could do a video on dressing pritchels on your website? I know it's really basic stuff but this thread proves that many of us mortals need it. I have trouble not making a taper on the end of my pritchels. thanks -Jason
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RE:tempering pritchells 02 Nov 2009 17:56 #77

SlowShoe OFFLINE Master Posts: 3229 Thank you received: 2 Karma: 0	Craig could we see some pics of your pritchels?
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RE:tempering pritchells 03 Nov 2009 14:47 #78

Craig Trnka OFFLINE Senior Member Posts: 295 Karma: 0	Jason & Josh, Why don't you guys load up all your pritchels, head stamps, and general tools that are in disrepair and we will doctor on them in West Springfield in a couple of weeks. I can't think of a better way to show you then show you! Craig
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RE:tempering pritchells 03 Nov 2009 14:57 #79

Cyber Farrier OFFLINE Master Posts: 1624 Thank you received: 3 Karma: 0	Craig, it would be great if you would video some of that action, so it could be posted in the Video section. Baron Tayler
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RE:tempering pritchells 03 Nov 2009 14:58 #80

Craig Trnka OFFLINE Senior Member Posts: 295 Karma: 0	Will try! Craig
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RE:tempering pritchells 03 Nov 2009 15:04 #81

Cyber Farrier OFFLINE Master Posts: 1624 Thank you received: 3 Karma: 0	Thanks! Baron Tayler
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RE:tempering pritchells 03 Nov 2009 15:19 #82

SlowShoe OFFLINE Master Posts: 3229 Thank you received: 2 Karma: 0	Craig Trnka wrote: Jason & Josh, Why don't you guys load up all your pritchels, head stamps, and general tools that are in disrepair and we will doctor on them in West Springfield in a couple of weeks. I can't think of a better way to show you then show you! Craig Craig, Sounds like a good idea. I need a camcorder.
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RE:tempering pritchells 23 Sep 2010 13:52 #83

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¡Whoa! This reply has been copied and placed in the proper thread: "Altering Tools to Suit your Needs."

A few things I've done for my tools. I forged my own clinch cutter so it looks like a small hatchet, and I left off the pritchel-like projection that is found on manufactured ones. I SLIGHTLY dulled my clinch cutter with a file. I drew out 15" hoof nipper reins so the overall length was 16". I made the rein ends a little sharper than store-bought but with softened edges, so I could better clean the hoof bottom. I took a needle file to the cleft of the driving hammer claw and filed it a little wider so that wrung off nail stubs would not stick in there. I purchased an old "battery plier" and ground the jaws, so it could be used as a crease nail puller. I took a length of garden hose and slit it lengthwise, so that it fit over the near edge of my shoeing box; less noise and it protects the tools. My clinch block is made of 1/2" thick spring steel which is a simple rectangular shape with radiused edges for the hand hold, hardened and tempered.

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Re: RE:tempering pritchells 28 Mar 2012 22:40 #84

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smitty88 wrote:

Jake Whitman wrote:

Patty , is Tool Maintence part of your schooling program?

Dressing up stamps and pritchels are very basic stuff
its strange to see alot of people on here dont have a clue

useing grinders and the likes
i think we need an online appsip course starting from

day one on the job thread

break it up into stages giv 1 month to each

stages you might have a bit of head way in 2 years

and if you were to join in it would be a help only thread

It seems that the "complete" farrier is a rarity; the competition guys think you're retarded if you ever use a cold keg shoe on a horse. Some guys see no sense in a forge. Some shoers hate horses, some guys are talented trainers. Some guys build their own tools while others thrash them and just buy new ones. We have purists and gamers, "natural" shoers, and barefooters that wear shoes.
I just try to bite off a new hunk and learn it, then move on to something else. I guess we all just have to accept each others' foibles and shortcomings, learn what we can, and move on.

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Re: RE:tempering pritchells 29 Mar 2012 03:05 #85

Travis Morgan OFFLINE Very Senior Member Posts: 521 Thank you received: 6 Karma: 1	What about dressing them with a fine file? Might be easier to keep flat.
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