pete46 Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 1. Horses Are Large Animals With The I.q. Of A Retarded Dog. 2. I Love Horses Anyway! 3. I'm Look'n At Tucker's Hoof; Bigu'n Don't Like Tucker! 4. Bigu'n Chases Tucker . 5.tucker Spins Me Into The Ground Like A Lawn Dart! 6. Yep I'm Look'n At Surgury # 3 On The Old Right Knee! 7. Moral Seperate The Horses And Tie Them When You Play Vet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian C. Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 And people ask me why I dont shoe horses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzonoqua Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Sorry about your knee Pete46 Been a while since I had one of my own so this one will do for the moment. She doesn't kick, rear or bite, but is not half as fun to ride... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnr Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Colleen: As always beautiful work. I love seeing what you are making! Finnr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Sells Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 my little brother and his wife raise Morgans. they also have, for pleasure a paint, an arab, and a southwestern buro (looks a lot like me and little brother I am told) Why it is the people see you in a forge and assume we can shoe their horses? I dont mind helping my sister in law and brother. but they say they need size oo or 5 to replace what is on there now, or whatever and I get looked at funny when I am clueless? Just a fast rant.... I feel better now , Sorry yer Lame Pete, do we have to shoot you now ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete46 Posted March 23, 2008 Author Share Posted March 23, 2008 Thanks Everyone .colleen I Agree With Finnr That Is Fine! Steve: Maybe I Could Just Be Put Out To Pasture For A Year Our Twenty:p ps I'M NOT A FARRIER EITHER,BUT THEY HAVE MY RESPECT! DEALING WITH OTHER PEOPLES HORSES IS LIKE DEALING WITH OTHER PEOPLES KIDS ! SPEAKING OF KIDS !MY 5yr.old niece Riley ;thinks uncle pete is soooo fuunnyyy! The way he flops and beats his head on the ground! OH I WAS BABY SITTING THAT DAY!:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzonoqua Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Thanks, guys... my horse is not a patch on the real thing though! I nearly became a farrier, well, I went so far as to enrol in college for it back when I was in Canada- before it was due to start they informed me they were no longer going to run the course due to lack of interest... (apparently I was the only one who enrolled!!) I used to ride and show Appaloosas, and sold my last horse an Appaloosa/Quarter horse mare named Jammer and used the money to go travelling, that was over 15 years ago. (and consequently I only discovered Blacksmithing 9 years ago) The point of this story is that Jammer was born with a slightly turned in rear right hoof, which when I took her on at the age of four, (she was gifted to me as a ''problem child'' with a penchant for rearing) I discovered that it could have been corrected if she had been properly shod, but as it had been neglected was now permanent. She wasn't a "problem child'' really, she just needed some extra attention. Moral of this story- Farriers have my respect also. oh yes, and if only I had a penny for the number of times people come into my shop and see all the ornamental stuff and still ask," so how do you like shoeing horses?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete46 Posted March 24, 2008 Author Share Posted March 24, 2008 The Second Thing Out Of My Mouth When I Say 'i Do Blacksmith'n " Is "i Don't Shoe Horses" ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 My smithing hat has the horseshoe with the red circle and slash on it front and center and I usually get the same comments/questions My stock answer is: "Horses are *bigger* than I am and *dumber* than I am and that's just too scarey a combination for me!" If they are really interested in the differences I can go into the history of the crafts and that on the american fronteir there would often be only one smith and he did a bit of everything. For older folks I can remind them of the *old* westerns where there was both a blacksmith shop and a forge at the livery stable showing the split of the crafts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete46 Posted March 25, 2008 Author Share Posted March 25, 2008 Very Good Idea I Should Get A Stack Of T- Shirts Like That! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentiron1946 Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 I get the same thing when folks see my anvil. I have the cards of two very good farriers that I hand out. If any of you are interested in taking a course in shoeing horses I can recommend Mesalands Community College in Tucumcari, NM. Their email address is Mesalands Community College . It is a wonderful small college. I was there two weeks ago for the annual iron pour. They also have a very good foundry arts program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KYBOY Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Theres an excellent farrier school here in Ky if anyone is interested. Real farriers are rare in my part of Ky as many horse owners around here shoe their own. Just part of living in a very rural area..Kentucky Horseshoeing School Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welder19 Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 I would love horses......if we were still living in the 19th century, I think they are a beautiful animal and all but I have a truck so I don't have much use for a means of transportation that you have to feed even though your not using it....but to each his own. Kind of like snail boats....just not real useful in this day and age. No offense to anyone who likes snail boats or horses, just my opinion. welder19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose Gomez Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 welder19, If we use that logic the same could be said about blacksmithing.... I would love smithing......if we were still living in the 19th century, I think it produces a beautiful product and all, but I have a hardware store and a walmart, so I don't have much use for a means of making things that you have to work so hard at, even though you can buy it for a quarter of the effort it takes to make it....but to each his own. There is not always a well defined "use" for the things that people often chose to occupy their time, but if you look closer you will see that horses are used to work cattle, assist in search and rescue opperations in otherwise impassibe terrain, work crowd controll operations durring events like Mardi-Gras, and the US Border patroll still uses them to patroll large sections of the border that cannot be acessed by any other means. Horses roles in american history run nearly paralell with smithing by todays standards. The presence of both horses and blacksmiths are allmost entirely unnecicary by many standards, yet here we are keeping the dream alive.... I took no offense at your opinion, but just thought that I would share a diferent point ov view. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Jose; you still have more than a dozen of them four footed converters of high grade feed into low grade fertilizer? My neighbor is trying to build up a paint stud farm for when he's retired from being a commercial pilot. Why he was sad to find out that I wasn't a farrier when I talked with him about putting a smithy in. And why he laser levelled the field between us to grow alfalfa. Lots of working horses out this way as they are still one of the best ways to get up into the hills/mountains to find people or cattle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucegodlesky Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 1 horse+1 rabbit= great kielbasa (BOG) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose Gomez Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Thomas, we are down to 14 horses of 5 different breeds (5 stallions and 9 mares), 6 miniature horses (2 of which are stallions), 2 goats, a llama, 3 dogs, 5 cats, 2 turtles, 2 canaries, a rabbit, and a platinum fox! I keep telling everyone that I am using my smithing skills to make all of the hardware for the ark that Noah is building behind my house!! Does anyone know where I can find a partrige in a pear tree? One nice thing about horses is that you can get 80 miles to a bale, which will be usefull if gas gets any more expensive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete46 Posted June 3, 2008 Author Share Posted June 3, 2008 JOSE: We may all need to at least learn how to trim a hoof or four.:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose Gomez Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 You know the funny thing is that I trade blacksmithing, welding work, and tool sharpening for trimming and shoeing from a local farrier so that we both get to stick to what we are good at.... or at least willing to do!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete46 Posted June 3, 2008 Author Share Posted June 3, 2008 I think my farrier likes to come out ,just to see what kind'a new crazyness I got goi'n on. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Jose, I'd think I'd be willing to put up with some more Livestock if I could have that harem of powerhammers you have in your shop! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose Gomez Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 That's the deal that I made with my wife. She gets the horses and I get hammers.....I just forgot to tell her that I ment Power Hammers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Einhorn Posted November 16, 2008 Share Posted November 16, 2008 Interesting discussion. We used to have horses. To make a long story short we gave up one after it kicked me and tried to stomp me to death, and found a home for another one when we finally figured out that it was too hot for us to handle. Right now we have just empty stalls because of current finances. When people ask about shoeing horses, I just tell them that my wife would never let me try to shoe hers, but if they bring theirs by I would be willing to give it a try. That has always ended the horse type comments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollieolson Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 (edited) Horses are my bread and butter. When I'm not shoein them, I'm carving leather, and braiding cowhide for them. My wife trains them, and teaches leassons, so without the, we'd be nothing! When you think about it, without the horse, civilization as we know it would be nothing. Something to think about... :rolleyes: Edited December 11, 2008 by ollieolson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave English Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 The natural progression to farrier would most often come from people who work with know and love horses, not from blacksmith to farrier. I don't care for large animals that like to bite, kick or walk on your feet. Hats off to those who do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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