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ParticipantWe’ve got 2 mares that wait until they’re in a clean stall….. or so it seems!:mad:
JohnParticipantGeoff,
How was the auction? Prices, weather, crowd, items????
JohnParticipantTie those poles on top, lash them fore and aft, with some padding and good ol’ duct tape where they’re going to touch the roof…. they’ll ride fine and get lots of looks!
JohnParticipantAll 10 of ours are always barefoot. If you’re worried about too much wear, keep an eye on them, and if it gets to that point, put some shoes on. I too, am a firm believer in barefoot for soundness!
JohnParticipantWe’re not going to make it again….busy with foals, and the mares just wont squirt them out on OUR time schedule! haha Too bad, as that’s a great time and I’d have liked to at least got to say HI.
Have fun and don’t buy it all….
JohnParticipantLooks great John! We’re almost ready to start a bit of that here…scattering the manure on the winter feed ground. Then it’s off to spreading the manure from the corrals…. good work for horses!
JohnParticipantYep, seen LOTS of lodgepole pine poles…. I like Douglas Fir if I can find it. I wouldn’t waste the money going to hardwood out here…I’m sure I can find a better use for it. That being said, the people in hardwood country can most likely get that cheaper than they can get what we use….. so for the original poster, I’d just use what you have available and enjoy!
JohnParticipantYes John, we’ve still got over a foot of snow, and it’s freezing every night and snowing at least once a day…typical March! Snow, freeze, sun, rain, sleet, wind, hail….. just a typical hour in NW Montana in March!:D
JHParticipantYah, saw that too…. can’t wait to get enough time to sit down and read it! I loved following it on here, and it deserves that attention for sure! Nice job!!
JohnParticipantLove it John!! What’s all that green stuff on the ground?:confused: Ours is white.
ParticipantWelcome! Where at in ND?
JohnParticipantJohn,
Gene Ovnicek used to live here in the valley, and has been a family friend for years. When I’m too busy to do our trimming, his nephew does ours. Here’s what his whole “barefoot trim” boils down to…
Trim down to about 1/4″ of the live sole, bevel the toe, keep the outsides nice and smooth and round the wall a bit at contact point. Same thing that’s been said in this thread a bunch of times, basically.
It sure works for us, and I’m with you, they move better and are much healthier! If we find there is a need for iron, we’ll use it, but we haven’t had to put a shoe on a horse here for the last 7+ years.
The show industry and their “scotch bottom” shoes have screwed up alot of good horses! I don’t have a huge problem with the basic shape of the shoe specifically, but have a huge problem with the way they have the shape of the shoe and hoof so exagerated and flared! Any shoe that has the nail holes more than an inch in from the outside edge is just plain abuse in my book!
Gene was one of the first to get the “barefoot” stuff going and put it out in the public. He took alot of ridicule, but stuck to his guns on what he saw in the wild horses. He’s a good man, and a master farrier, and I always grin when he admits “we did things the wrong way in the past” to people.
As far as you getting told your horses feet are too small by “show” people, that just means to me that they’re about the right size!! Like I said earlier, the show industry has screwed up lots of good horses, and their “judges” usually have never spent a day working a horse in their life. (I don’t consider running a horse around in an arena, working)
JohnParticipant@jac 24516 wrote:
Drill for oil in deserts and out at sea… fine.. but the Rockies !!!!!:eek: I have to agree with Geoff on this one..John
Thing is John, this isn’t about drilling. It’s about a bunch of coke drums and parts being hauled to an already existing refinery in the Southern part of Montana. No drilling involved. Amazingly, the news station in Missoula, MT did a question/poll last week on the subject of letting them haul the parts through MT and over 78% replied YES! and Missoula is a pretty “green” town. I just don’t see much of a justifiable argument for not letting them haul it, personally. The road has already been there, was put there a long time ago, and has been a pretty heavily used truck route for many years (I hauled hundreds of loads over the route, grossing well over 100,000# along with LOTS of other trucks). There is minimal impact caused by the hauling of these parts, other than a bunch of people getting all riled up and causing delays with frivilous and costly (to me as well as all taxpayers) court battles and such. If there were damage being done, or drilling, or something like that, I’d be much more apt to agree with them…but it’s not.
Just my opinion. I’ve tried to keep my mouth shut about how I feel, as I’m sure it’s going to result in a rave from a few, but the false info needs to be addressed.
JohnParticipantI’m not trying to start a huge argument here….but what’s the hurt of having the loads run down the hiway? I’m not sure what the exact reasoning is here. The few trucks are going to pump out less pollutants than the mess of cars and motorhomes that roar through there all summer long… they’re going at night to try to lessen traffic impacts, the only changes that are going to be made are to enlarge and strengthen a few pullouts, to minimalize the impact of them being there…. I just don’t get it.??? It’s not like they’re going to fire up the coke drums enroute or anything. What part am I missing? We all hate to pay more at the pump for gas, yet we complain and stand in the way of any attempt to become less dependent on foreign oil. I must be missing something.
JohnLike I said, I’m looking for an explaination, not a fight.
ParticipantThat’s what I’ve done, Tim. I don’t use the jack for only trees, so I’ve got a plate with a steel tube welded to it, that just slips over the jack stem.
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