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A Fast And Inexpensive Shoe For Navicular Cases
| Pete Rosciglione, the young farrier from Defiance, Mo., who was featured in the Shoeing For A Living article in the January/February, 2009, issue ofAmerican Farriers Journal demonstrated how he builds a shoe in his workshop for horses suffering from navicular pain. |
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Rosciglione starts by taking 2 shoes that are the same size. He cuts the heels off one, just behind the third nail hole. He tapes the two together with electrical tape to stabilize it. |
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He tacks the shoes together just behind the fourth nail hole using a mig welder. |
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This placement makes it easier to use a creased nailed puller to remove the shoe. He then removes the tape. |
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Next he runs a weld across the heels. |
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He places the shoes in a vise to make sure it is perfectly flat. |
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With the shoes still in the vise, he finishes welding them together. |
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He smoothes out the welds and safes the shoe using an angle grinder. |
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Final touching up is done with a belt sander. |
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The finished shoe. The entire process took about 15 minutes. |
COMMENTS: 1
making it better
Posted from: neil duede, 5/13/10 at 10:02 PM CDT
adding a rocker or atleast rolled toe would help out alot as would using the welder to make the wedge agnle not a ninety degree change that can get caught on something and if it angles into the wedge it will reduce the strain placed on the heels when they contact the ground not to mention it would look much nicer too this could also be done at the anvil if the farrier has a forge
