Better basics, better horseshoeing : a step-by-step approach to mastering farrier skills /
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Brookfield, Wis. :
Lessiter Publications,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Starting out on the right foot
- A farrier's responsibility
- Winning the mental game
- Select "right" hammer handles
- Securing your hammer handles
- Tong position, forging zones
- The simple front shoe
- Personalizing anvil height
- Hoof trimming and the wooden Indian
- Where there's smoke, there's hot fitting
- Hot tips for hot shoeing
- Simple tricks for setting shoes
- Rocker toes ease breakover and maintain support
- Prefecting the useful art of hammer clinching
- Drawing clips
- Fitting clips
- The art of heel fitting
- Heel practice tips
- Anatomy of a nail hole
- Nail lacing
- Firing up the forge
- Welding aluminum in a coke fire
- Forge welding made easy
- Measuring feet for handmades
- Practice makes the shoe fit
- That finishing touch
- Handmade shoe helps
- It pays to get upset
- Tips for working concave stock
- Square-toe forging and fitting
- Overcoming your fears of aluminum
- Simplifying aluminum welding
- Longer life for your aluminum welding
- Longer life for your aluminum shoes
- Building a user-friendly hospital plate
- Forging the patten shoes
- The Z-bar factor
- Building the Z-bar
- Forging your shoe display
- Passing the bar
- Raising the angle
- Square-toe shoes with trailer
- Getting a grip for safety
- Toe clip and pad finish your shoe board