4thGenBlacksmith

My grandfather was a cavalry shoer in the Spanish-American war. He always called it " the Philippine Insurrection ". When I acquired a cavalry forge 40 some years ago, he said the forge was filled with mud. The fire bowl could the be shaped to fit the fire. Round for shoes, long for a trough fire for long stock. Sometimes took a lot of cranking when the fire was made of dried manure!