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Bar Shoe Tips

Bar shoes can provide needed relief and promote healing, but choosing the right one from the wide selection can be confusing

Jim Ferrie ranks among the world’s best possible sources for advice about bar shoes. He’s earned his way into the International Horseshoeing Hall Of Fame during his more than 30 years as a farrier, and he specializes in therapeutic shoeing while working in Newmilns, Ayrshire, Scotland.


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Back to Basics

Building The Z-Bar

Two methods work well in building this useful therapeutic shoe
LAST ISSUE WE had a case history about the use of the Z-bar shoe (See American Farriers Journal, May/June, 2004, Pages 54 to 58).
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TORCH WELDING
Ways Of Welding

Welding Options Force Farriers To Make Choices

The familiar oxyacetylene torch welding has its advantages, but so do the various methods of arc welding

DECISIONS. DECISIONS. When it’s time to weld a horseshoe, farriers have more than one option for getting the job done. And for most shoes, oxyacetylene torch welding and the various types of electric arc welding will all produce a strong weld.


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Back To Basis

The Z-Bar Factor

Unusual shoe fits the ticket when you need to get the weight off one side of a badly injured hoof

THE Z-BAR IS an interesting shoe to apply to a horse’s foot and can be extremely effective in the right circumstances.


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Calgary Stampede Art

Be Creative

Select any item you want to forge and enter it in a new Calgary Stampede event without leaving home

BUILDING ON THE 4-year success of the mail-in forging exercise that’s co-sponsored by American Farriers Journal, the Calgary Stampede has introduced a similar blacksmithing program this year for creative forging.


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