. The art of horse-shoeing : a manual for farriers . ork loose and then become bent anduseless. If used on the inside heel of a shoe, they consti-tute a danger to the opposite leg, should they bend andprotrude from under the shoe. As a temporary provi-sion against a sudden frost or fall of snow, they areuseful, but they are only a make-shift. ROUGHING. 93 The more permanent and effective system of rough-ing consists in removing the shoes and turning down acharp chisel projection at the heels. In very bad weather,a projection edge is also laid across the toe of the shoe. The diagrams show the m
. The art of horse-shoeing : a manual for farriers . ork loose and then become bent anduseless. If used on the inside heel of a shoe, they consti-tute a danger to the opposite leg, should they bend andprotrude from under the shoe. As a temporary provi-sion against a sudden frost or fall of snow, they areuseful, but they are only a make-shift. ROUGHING. 93 The more permanent and effective system of rough-ing consists in removing the shoes and turning down acharp chisel projection at the heels. In very bad weather,a projection edge is also laid across the toe of the shoe. The diagrams show the method of sharping afront and hind shoe at the heels only. The hind shoe,having calkins, is not much altered. The smith simplyconverts the square calkin into a sharp-edged one. Thefore shoe, having no calkins, is turned down at the heelsto afford enough iron to form the sharp. But thisshortens the shoe, and if it be rej^eated two or threetimes, as it often is, the bearing-surface is spoiled, andthe slightest carelessness in fitting the shoe causes a. -Heels of fore and hind shoes, sharped. bruised heel, Roughing is generally done in a dozen horses reach the farriers shop at one time andall desire to return to work with as little delay as pos-sible. The work is perforce hurried through, carefulfitting cannot be done, and bad-footed horses sufferaccordingly. The dotted lines in Fig. 67 show theoriginal length of shoe, and the shortening which resultsfrom a second roughing. All horse-owners know how many lame horses resultfrom the repeated roughings necessitated by a week ortwo of wintry weather. Some of this is inevitable fromthe rush and hurry which cannot be prevented. Valuablehorses with weak feet should not be submitted to anysuch risk. They should be shod with removable mere fact of removing a horses shoes perhaps fiveor six times in a month must injure the hoof. Add tothis the shortening of the shoe, the raising of the heel bythe roughing, and the irregula
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