How To Pull A Horse Shoe

How to pull a horseshoe!

Dammit, your horse twisted and tweaked a shoe. Luckily, I know a horseperson (me) and a farrier (Ernest) that both have experience with pulling shoes. Ernest helps us out hither with the technical side of things, and I stick to the funnies.

If you own horses, work with horses, or even wait at horses in a book, yous will need to do this at one point or another… Pull a shoe yourself.

This inevitably volition happen when you are far from the befouled, it's cold and/or rainy, and your Farrier is taking a holiday. Farriers are like Grooms – they deserve vacations, even if they are few and far between!

Have your farrier give you a lesson at your horse'southward next date for new wheels! I do not like this method of grabbing the shoe without having taken the nails out.

Why and how to pull a horseshoe.

Yous will sometimes see shoes that are tweaked a bit, peradventure the finish is pulled abroad from the foot. Sometimes the shoe is twisted, and sometimes there are crazy nails and clips going everywhere. In all of these situations, the shoe needs to exist pulled to prevent injury and the nails/shoes from causing damage to the legs or nose or abdomen.

In an platonic situation, you need the following farrier tools:

Prison cell Phone.
Farrier.

If you don't have one of those handy, a well-prepared hoof emergency kit will have:

Shoe puller (logical proper name)
Mallet
Clinch Cutter
Pucker Nail Pullers

At bare-bones minimum, delight have a:

Shoe puller

Remove the horseshoe without causing further impairment.

Start, yous will demand to remove the nails. The smash is first driven through the hoof, then the tip is bent over and rasped smooth, this helps concord the shoe on. Then offset you volition need to bend those hooks up to go far easier for the smash to come out of the hoof and cause less damage.

So once you lot have crawled under your horse, into that lovely position that your farrier enjoys all 24-hour interval, apply the mallet and sure-fire cutter to become underneath the clinch of the nail and tap the assure back straight from the bottom up. The boom will and so exit the hoof wall much smoother and cause less damage to the hoof wall.

Second, remove the nails. The pucker nail pullers are ideal hither, they can get into that groove that the boom sits in (called the crease, thereby "crease nail pullers") and grab that blast. This is the safest mode you can pull a shoe of without causing damage considering you are simply pulling the boom out straight and not putting whatever stress on the wall of the hoof.

If yous don't have one of these creased nail pullers, utilize pliers or your shoe puller. Likely, if the shoe is tweaked, you can bang the shoe back towards the hoof and the nails volition poke out a little and will be easy to grab and remove.

At this point, if you are able to get all the nails out with the boom pullers the shoe with basically fall right off. If at that place are all the same nails in the shoe or y'all don't have crease smash pullers, a pair of shoe pullers can also be used to pry off the shoe. Using this tool works all-time if you follow a simple pattern, insert the shoe pullers around the shoe towards the heel, grip tight, and push inward towards the toe. Remove and echo on the opposite side of the shoe. Keep repeating this procedure moving the shoe puller forrard an inch or and so each time, ever pushing in towards the foot. This volition assistance prevent damage to the hoof. When you go to the toe pull side to side and that shoe will fall right off. Belongings on to the leg and bracing the hoof against your human knee when using the pullers volition make this whole process much easier and more than effective.

And we all know how to pack and wrap a hoof, right? Having a roll of duct record on your trail ride tin not only help protect the foot while you ride dorsum with no shoe on but can also be used to tape a shoe back on that is partially loose, enough to get you back to the barn.

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