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Make Shoeing a Business, Not an Alternative Lifestyle

Freedom is great, but you have to manage your income and expenses to earn a long career and a comfortable retirement
By Ron Perszewski posted on November 1, 2006 | Posted in Business Practices

Even if you love shoeing for a living, remember that you’re in it for the money, warns farrier Brian Robertson of Owosso, Mich. “When you wake up in the morning, you have got to be a businessman; from the minute you wake up until the minute you are off the clock,” he says.


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Jim Poor's Shoeing Almanac

Check out these valuable shoeing tips from one of the country’s most skilled farriers
By Frank Lessiter posted on March 1, 2003 | Posted in Education
Few farriers have had more success in both shoeing horses and in forging competitions than Jim Poor. Here are a few of the shoeing philosophies and tips that the American Farrier’s Association Certified Journeyman Farrier from Midland, Texas, shared last year during a clinic at Centaur Forge in Burlington, Wis.
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Forging By the Marshall Plan

Attention to small things, breaking job down, among the lessons taught by anvil master
By Pat Tearney posted on January 1, 2003 | Posted in Forging
Bob Marshall holds a shoe up to the light and checks the toe after a couple of quick blows.
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Briefings

November 1, 2000 | Posted in Business Practices, Education
One key to both his medical and shoeing success that Michael Miller would like to pass along to other farriers is the importance of keeping fit. “Since I used to do long distance biking as a hobby, I asked an exercise therapist to put together an exercise program for me,” says the Trussville, Ala., orthopedic surgeon and farrier. “As it turns out, those exercises that are best for a biker are also good ones for a shoer.
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Farrier Education: Heartland Horseshoeing School

Farrier Education: Heartland Horseshoeing School

Farriery requires knowledge and skills to provide proper equine hoof care. In this series, sponsored by VICTORY, American Farriers Journal visits Heartland Horseshoeing School in Lamar, Mo. In this edition, Chris Gregory discussed his journey to becoming an educator, his focus in teaching farrier students and the state of farrier education.

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