fortunato wrote:
Hi HoustonFarrier (that's rather anonymous isn't it?).
Unfortunato(sic)(and double entendre') you lack the ability to read and comprehend. How do I know this? Simple, At the end of each reply, HoustonFarrier signs off with his given name. To wit: Steve.
As I do Cytek
Where shall we send the sympathy cards? We'll need the addresses for both you and your clients.
I don't think there's much point in posting any pics as you reckon you know all about it and the result would be very predictable!
Enlighten us O Cytec Guru. What more do we need to learn or know about the product beyond the facts that it is heavy, unshapeable, has poorly designed and sized nail holes and is a blatent poorly copied imitation/rip off of the NB shoe? Did I mention that because of its fatal flaws, it requires the individual who applies the shoe to either only find horses with feet that are that exact shape or to apply the product to feet that don't conform to its shape and then whack off any non-compliant hoof?
Please jump in at any time to correct any misconceptions or wrong observations I have or have made about this piece of junk masquarading as a worthy orthotic.
Not that I mind that but I don't see the point in going out to buy a digital camera specially!
Right. you can't even provide photographic substantiation. How convenient. The point would be that it would enable others to best understand the virtues of the product and your adherence to the 'Cytec way'.
Has anyone discussed with you the concept of personal accountability and credibility?
Yes I mean the rim shoe as in what is currently in common useage today. The shoe that comes in various widths and thicknesses that is shaped to the rim of the hoof. Just a point of interest, the plate shoe continued long after the Romans and these were nailed on.
Whatever is your point. What you are describing as a rim shoe is merely a bent piece of steel with holes in it, fullered from end to end. Its not a horseshoe until a competent farrier conforms it(as in
shapes it) to and for the needs of any individual hoof.
Now I realize that the concept of shaping a shoe to correctly and properly fit a hoof is an alien concept for one of the Cytec persuasion, but you seem to possess a modic-u-m of intelligence, so perhaps you can in fact grasp the concept of shaping vs. not shaping.
As I re-read the description of what you are calling a rim shoe, it occurred to me that you might infact be referring to a shoe that is perimeter fit to the hoof. Since demonstrably, not every shoe is shaped as a perimeter fit shoe(and we are discussing perimeter fit as it pertains to the area from medial toe quarter to lateral toe quarter, right?) which is why, unlike the unshapeable Cyteck foolishness, these shoes are shaped by the farrier to meet the specific needs of any given, individual foot.
Now, I don't know what they teach over where you live and/or apply the Cytec contraption, but here in the good old USA , farriers are taught to shape a shoe to the shape of the inner edge of the white line. You get extra credit(and believe me you need all the credibility you can muster)if you can tell me/us why. Once said shape is accomplished, the shoe is applied , as previously stated, according to the dictates of the individual hoof.
Hi Rick - I'm just wondering why you feel the need to hide behind your aggressive persona (as in your chosen motto at the end of all your postings).
Well
HI yourself, Unfortunato(I have twice taken the liberty of refining your nom de plume as in light of current information it seems to suit you better)
I didn't realize I was hiding

Silly me, I thought I was real upfront and honest. Tell me O Cytec Guru, jut what is my true persona and how have you devined this? I'd really like to know.
Perhaps others can chime in and help that poor ****** schmuck out. (the door is Thatway > or Thataway < or Thataway ^ or every which way.
The pride you take in portraying yourself as such a bad tempered old buzzard suggests you are using that as your shield.
"I am what I am and thats all that I am, said Popeye the Sailor man. Tweet tweet."