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Q&A: July/August 2017

What are your best tips for repairing or maintaining your farrier tools?

July 3, 2017 | Posted in Equipment

A: I use a Dremel tool with a cut off blade to knurl the head of my driving hammer. This helps prevent me from bending nails. I only have one good eye and without the knurled head, I’ll bend too many nails.

2015 International Hoof-Care Summit

[Video] How-To Clinic: Helpful Tool Tips

March 1, 2015 | Posted in Education, Equipment

Bob Smith, courtesy of China Horseshoes, gives tips on better maintenance and use of hand tools.

Tool Tips

Tool Tips Even A Non-Tool Guy Can Use

Hall Of Fame farrier Danny Ward shares things you can do in a few minutes a day to extend the lives of your tools

By Pat Tearney posted on January 1, 2014 | Posted in Equipment

Danny Ward, the farrier from Martinsville, Va., might be as well known as a "tool guy" as he is as a horseshoer. But the member of the International Horseshoeing Hall Of Fame, says at least some of his penchant for tool repair and maintenance is a matter of necessity.

Tool Tips

Farriers Never Short On Tool Tips

Shoers excel at tweaking tools and finding new uses for them

By Pat Tearney posted on April 1, 2013 | Posted in Equipment

It might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the traits that best define a good farrier, but adaptability is something a lot of them have in common.

Peak Moments of WOW from the 2012 International Hoof-Care Summit

Veteran farrier says there is still a lot to learn

By Red Renchin posted on March 1, 2012 | Posted in Education

Just as the smell of coal smoke in the air brings back memories of farrier events of the far past, the chatter of conversation sprinkled with words such as bad quarters, underrun heels and white line disease brings back more recent memories.

Q&A: Rebuilding Farrier Tools

November 19, 2011 | Posted in Business Practices

What advice do you have for other shoers on how they can get more life out of their tools. Should they rebuild tools or buy a new one?

Tool Management

Tool Time!

Taking proper care of your shoeing tools will make your work easier, help you earn a good living and make it easier to pay the bills

By Frank Lessiter posted on April 1, 2007 | Posted in Equipment, Trimming

Danny Ward has always believed a person with a good work ethic can do almost anything with about any tool.

A Half-Century’s Lessons On Working Smarter

Hall-of-Fame shoer Lee Green shares lessons he wishes he’d learned earlier in his career

By Lee Green posted on September 1, 2004 | Posted in Business Practices, Education, Equipment

While he’s learned many things in his 51 years of horseshoeing, Lee Green continues to analyze shoeing techniques and how to work smarter to make more money, save time and minimize labor. He encourages younger farriers to learn from older farriers’ war stories and to avoid the mistakes they’ve made.

How To

Handling Your Hammer Doesn't Have To Be Hard

Customizing tools fit improves efficiency, eases strain

By Michael Austin posted on April 1, 2004 | Posted in Equipment

WHEN BOB SCHANTZ buys a new hammer, he doesn’t just head for the shop and start pounding away.

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Equine Reciprocating Systems: Connecting Tendon to Bone

Using Clips as Needed, Not as Trends Dictate, Will Enable Farriers to Improve a Horse’s Hoof-Health and Performance

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Mapping the Equine Hoof

Lubbock, Texas, farrier Blane Chapman demonstrates Professor William Russell’s hoof mapping technique, which he utilizes on each of the horses that he shoes.

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Michigan Horseshoer's Assn. Contest and Clinic

Date: 01/02/20

Location: Lansing, MI

The Michigan Horseshoer's Assn. is hosting its 51st annual Contest and Clinic in Lansing. Chad Chance is the clinician.

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