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 Porta Potty Pants
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| I know this is silly … and I know I should already know how to pull a shoe but I didn't .. until this morning. … My horse bent his shoe yesterday playing. I called the farrier and left a message, no response by bed time and I was concerned that it might make him sore or he might catch it again and rip his hoof, so I watched emergency shoe removal videos on YouTube, got up this morning and bought a rasp and nippers and pulled it myself! I won't be going to farrier school anytime soon, but it's nice to know I can do it! I'm so proud of my horse too, he stood there like a champ and was so patient with me. I may need to find a new farrier because I still haven't heard from mine but I'm so tickled with myself. 
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | Good for you! Little o'er me has a hard time pulling a shoe but I'm getting better at it and I also use those lesson videos on how to trim a horse. My hands aren't large enough to shoe a horse and I couldn't hit a nail if I wanted to. So I have saved my horses feet by trimming myself and look better than than they have in long time.
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Porta Potty Pants
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| No way I would try to trim one or put a shoe on, but at least I know I can pull one if needed. It was a chore, but I got it done!! LOL
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The Advice Guru
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| Buy a set of nail pullers, much easier |
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Location: North MS | I've accomplished it with a flat headed screwdriver to unclinch nails and straighten them. Pair of pliers to pull the shoe with the help of the screwdriver. Another bent shoe situation. You do what you have to do! |
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Location: Montana | bluerose2001 - 2014-12-28 9:29 PM I've accomplished it with a flat headed screwdriver to unclinch nails and straighten them. Pair of pliers to pull the shoe with the help of the screwdriver. Another bent shoe situation. You do what you have to do!
This sounds kind of like my version! Try pliers and side cutters. Whatever it takes to get the job done, right??? |
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Location: SE Louisiana | The most important thing is dealing with the clenches. They can either be straightened or rasped off but they are a must. Otherwise they can rip the wall all the way down to the ground. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | It's funny what excites us horse people! I did the same thing a few years ago. Youtube was my friend when my farrier wouldn't answer! Yay for you!!
Edited by IRunOnFaith 2014-12-30 5:33 PM
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 I Don't Brag
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| All that I can say is my shoer makes rasping those clinches off MUCH easier than I can manage. I try holding the foot in between my knees like they do, but after a few minutes I resort to sitting under the horse on my backside, trying to rasp those rascals off. very entertaining, if you happen to be in the area! Then I loosen the shoe, have to hammer it back on, so that I can assault the clinches once more. If I am lucky, there is enough clinch to start with, that I can cut them off. If even luckier, I can pull the nails with a crease nail puller.
It's very entertaining if you happen to be in the area.
I carry a set (not the best of tools I confess, but tools they are) of shoeing tools with me. I have had mayn a guy tell me that they could "reset that shoe, but I don't have my tools with me", so I got tools. But more often than not, I just pull the shoe myself and wait for my shoer to make an appearance.
Just typing this makes my poor, old back hurt! |
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Location: SE Louisiana | rodeoveteran - 2014-12-30 6:41 PM
All that I can say is my shoer makes rasping those clinches off MUCH easier than I can manage. I try holding the foot in between my knees like they do, but after a few minutes I resort to sitting under the horse on my backside, trying to rasp those rascals off. very entertaining, if you happen to be in the area! Then I loosen the shoe, have to hammer it back on, so that I can assault the clinches once more. If I am lucky, there is enough clinch to start with, that I can cut them off. If even luckier, I can pull the nails with a crease nail puller.
It's very entertaining if you happen to be in the area.
I carry a set (not the best of tools I confess, but tools they are) of shoeing tools with me. I have had mayn a guy tell me that they could "reset that shoe, but I don't have my tools with me", so I got tools. But more often than not, I just pull the shoe myself and wait for my shoer to make an appearance.
Just typing this makes my poor, old back hurt!
The crease nail pullers are not made to pull nails. Their function is to pop the nail heads up high enough to grab with a set of pull-offs. Used properly you grab the head of the nail and squeeze the handles together until the head pops up. With a cheap set like Diamond you will have to rock the pullers back and forth to get this done. With a good set like GE you will not. |
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