January 7, 20251 yr I stopped to chat with my closest shoeing friend last week and got to pondering the "organized chaos" in his shoeing trailer. He's the kind of person who is pretty meticulous about almost everything - except his work trailer. Think piles of shoes everywhere; heaps of grinding/forging slag; and pads stuck in any crevice that will hold them. So I built him one of my pad racks as a belated Christmas gift - and I'm going to hound him about using it! Matt.
January 7, 20251 yr Maybe a pic of yours with pads in it? I don't get the idea of how it's mounted or used. Does it keep them sanitary? Frosty The Lucky.
January 8, 20251 yr Author Frosty - most shoers carry a wide variety of plastic and leather pads; we nail them on with the shoe to absorb concussion, provide support or keep snow from balling up in the shoe. This is just a nice, 6-compartment rack to keep the pads sorted and stored laying flat. This one is built to mount on the trailer wall - the back of the rack is 1.5" taller than the front so you can self-tapper-screw it in place. Also the end-caps are bent with a flange for extra screws. Matt. Here's a 2-compartment pad rack in my trailer with snowball pads nestled inside.
January 8, 20251 yr I was envisioning it mounted vertically like shelves for some reason. Pads were common where / when I grew up, it was hard to go riding anywhere outside an arena without having to ride on pavement for a good distance. Do you still use medicated pads? Frosty The Lucky.
January 8, 20251 yr Author Frosty, my apologies if I over-explained pads - should have known you didn't need that. I can't find the old medicated pads anywhere these days, at any supplier. But there are some really good copper-sulphate mixtures that we've turned to for treating funky stuff. Here in NY several of us kind of panicked 2 years ago because our favorite thrush treatment - actually a dairy-cow mastitis treatment in a handy syringe - was suddenly declared "by vet prescription only". We were pretty anxious - and ticked - until we figured out a decent replacement. Matt.
January 8, 20251 yr Naw, that wasn't an over-explanation I haven't dealt with horses in more than 5 decades. It was good to have my memory sparked. IIRC the farrier would swab the hoof before shoeing if any funkiness didn't trim out sufficiently. Frosty The Lucky.
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