i dont think you ever forget
you might get slower doe

how do you find billys shoes
i find alot of machine shoes or keg shoes

as you call them
the clips let them down

has billys clips inproved

some years back when his shoes came out
i was at a compitition and he asked me

what i thaught of his shoes and i knocked the clips
i dont think he was inpresed

as a matter of interest jason what can you bye them
for over there

one reason i dont use them they cost to much

The clips are bob punched and nice, maybe a little small. They are more consitent than my bob punched clips, though. The hind shape is a bit bluntish for my taste, and requires a resetting of the toe to fit all but the bluntest hind feet(like an upright warmblood hind). If you fit under the toe alot behind, they would be nice and not require putting a toe into them. The fronts are A1. To me, they are the best keg shoe available here in the states, for the money. I pay about $5.50 a pair unclipped and about $6.00 a pair clipped---but multiply by a little more than 3 and charge that for the shoe on top of the shoeing job. Buying concave stock is expensve here as well about a $1.75 a foot, then the cost to turn them.
Any more, I only cary the Crothers, and a few sticks of 5/8, 3/4, 7/8 and a peice of 3/8 x 1. If the concave does not work, I'll poke six holes in the appropriate stock and nail a plain stamp. Saves me the fullering...
Jason

here is a couple of views of a 3/4 fullered front straight
bar shoe

made from 15 inches of 3/4 x 3/8 bar stock

I think you all will find the following pictures interesting:

http://www.msnusers.com/MyWebDo***ents

Click on pictures and then Europe trip.

A friend sent these to me stating this is one way tourist coach horses, traveling on cobblestone streets, are shod in Czechoslovakia. These were taken near Prague. I hope the site comes up. You might have to type the site in because "Do***ents" must be spelled out. I have no idea why it won't spell out here. d o c u m e n t s

cant get into the page donnie

Smitty - the page has expired so I will try to post them here sometime in the next few days. Keep checking.

Smitty - I finally had time to resize and post the picture.

the pics are very small donnie

There are shoes around like that one in the US too. I forgot how they are called. Can you tell a bit more about this shoe Smitty? History? Intended use?

IME you do need to be carefull using this kind of shoe. A banana should have an eclips like shape, rather than a pivot point in the middle of the shoe. With that sort of pivot a horse will have no option than to rock forward or backward depending on the DDFT pull and the spot of the pivot. If raising angles is what you're looking for you'd better use wedges.

The big advantage of the banana is that it allows horses to undo the lift by rocking back. That's why Redden calls it a Rock 'n Roll shoe.

A correctly applied banana allows support that can -within margins- be increased or decreased the horse. If think this ability to choose is one of the biggest assets of the banana.



Ronald Aalders

ronald its a rocker bar shoe

for horses with ankylosis (joint problems)
i never fitted one yet

Smitty - hopefully these pics will be better