DSW Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 A member on another site posted this and I though some here might enjoy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogsoldat Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Wow, bet you have to lay a bead down awfully fast and cool before you give a good case of hot hoof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaughnT Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Ha! He's hard-facing the shoes!!! That's actually a rather brilliant idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clinton Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Sounds like a sure fire way to get kicked to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Turley Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 "The smithy's the kitchen; the smith is the cook." Tom Bredlow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anachronist58 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 I don't recall it happening to me more than once, but has anyone out there had to throw a blanket over the Customer's head to keep Him/Her calm whilst you do the job? DSW, excellent picture and story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 I e sent more than one to the house to get me a cup of coffee wile me and old socks does used who's feet those were... One can't help but notice the demenitive size of the horse, I think welding on a shoe comprises of 22" of 1/2 x 1 1/2 might be another matter ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaughnT Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 He's probably doing like they do on heavy equipment and only putting dots of hardface around the shoe. Gotta leave the nail heads exposed so the horse can throw the shoe and bring in more business..... Sounds to me like this is something we need a daring farrier to experiment on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John McPherson Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 It does say for use on icy and paved roads, so I think it is like the borium brand rods used nowadays to make "golf spikes" on the horse shoe BEFORE putting them on the horse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 I'll head the horse for you Vaughn. I have 911 on speed dial ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 He was using 1/8" rod so putting a fast narrow bead the full length around a shoe wouldn't heat it near as hot as a "hot shoe". It's the flash and buzz of the welder that'd take a little horse handling to deal with. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSW Posted March 18, 2014 Author Share Posted March 18, 2014 Sounds to me like this is something we need a daring farrier to experiment on. I think the farrier might get a bit upset if you tried to weld shoes on HIS foot. Probably need more than a blanket over his head. LOL :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 I'm NOT a farrier but I often offer to hot shoe hecklers! I tell them it's the last set of shoes they'll ever need; cause they wear like iron! If they ask me if it will hurt I tell them "No; I've got industrial hearing protectors *and* earplugs, won't hurt me at all!" Funny nobody has ever taken me up on the offer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 The truth is "hot shoing" is actually a reference to forging a shoe or adjusting a keg shoe hot, to fit the horse. Generally one can better adjust the shoe to fit a horse hot. One can hot set a shoe, by briefly touching th black hot shoe to the hoof, burning in clips, and as hiring that the shoe and hoof are mated properly. The shoe is not nailed on hot, it is either quenched or allowed to cool until it can be sadly handled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Now Now Charles, You know that and I know that; but it's shut up many a d@%$#& heckler in the last 30 years... The other tried and true method is to hand them the hammer and have them demonstrate their greater knowledge. If they have been real annoying giving them a sacrificial piece of high carbon steel to work with can be amusing as it's harder under the hammer and they can never forgo the quench at the end---tink TinK TINK! (Now if they really are another smith you get the raised eyebrow and the what the heck is this stuff?) Wrought iron will work too and even some smiths don't have any experience with it. Now ifn I was heckling another smith, something I would never stoop so low as to do---Be Quiet Patrick, Ian, Adlai, Pep, Thom,Flaxy,James,..., would be taking some sparklers and carefully removing the active coating and mixing it up in their coal supply so they get the "Your piece is burning up" effect when it might not even be glowing yet...and please feel free to forget to remember my name on that trick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSW Posted March 19, 2014 Author Share Posted March 19, 2014 I remember a friend of mine getting one of those clamp type stingers and giving his young son sparklers in them so he could "weld like daddy" LOL :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Tommas, your do have a sick sence of humor.... I do offer the lady's pedicures wile I do their horses ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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