It is Tuesday and our Equipment Highlight to continue on this August 23rd. For this edition we look at shoes for your horse. So farrier tools take the spotlight.
For the uninitiated there is more to a set of horse shoes than meets the eye. It takes talent, skill and the right tools to become a farrier. They date back to colony days in the USA. A farrier used numerous tools to craft a set of shoes. The farrier also had to be part veterinarian to understand the proper care of the hoof.
But onto the tools of the trade.
Farrier Tools
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Clinch cutters are used to straighten and cut the old clinches prior to pulling the shoe from the hoof. Clinch undercuts (gouges) are used to remove a tiny piece of hoof below the exit holes of nails just prior to clinching the new shoes.
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Use a clincher to flatten tight clinches with very little effort. Our clinchers will work on high or low nails. Alligator, Curved Jaw, Straight, Saddlehorse, Farrier, and Gooseneck are some of the farrier clincher styles available at great prices.
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Prime brands of hammers for the professional.
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One of the best selections of driving hammers on the internet.
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Good range of stands and prices aprox. between $60 and $300
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Most testers are stainless steel but check individual descriptions
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Selection of professional quality horse shoeing knives and various sharpeners.
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A range of magnets for use on tool boxes, hoof stands, hammer handles, aprons etc. and for hooves
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Range of mallets and hammers from Garland who are a U.S,A. manufacturer
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Nail Nippers or Nail Cutters. They are the same thing with different names. Check our selection and find the one that suites you.
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Again we offer a great range of nippers and a variety of prices, all are professional quality.
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top quality products buy top companys
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Large rasp selection including the Vallorbe rasp from Switzerland
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You will like the large selection of quality rounding and turning hammers.
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Top companys producted
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MFC Clinch Gouge Right Hand
Horse Head 8oz. Driving Hammer Partially Polished
Diamond 10″ Nail Nippers
These sample offer an idea of the wide range of tools. There are two other tools that are a must when ones career is farrier. An anvil and fire, actually a forge!
Start with an anvil, the farrier apprentice or one in the trade knows that the right anvil makes all the difference when forging the shoes.
You have the tools, now for the forge
Here are coal powered options
There are also numerous gas forges available as well. If you yearn for the blacksmith shop from colonial times then coal is probably your choice.
Variety abounds when it comes to choosing the tools you need to be succeed as a farrier. So get fired up!