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I concur with Jason’s assessment of Game of Logging. It has made me much safer and more effective in the woods. It is also an excellent compliment to horse logging b/c you can’t just push the tree over with a skidder or tractor. Highly recommended.

George

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I’ll get a picture of it for you. It seems like a lot of work to me, as I wouldn’t know where to begin. We just got Miller’s mower handbook, and it seems quite thorough, but quite a time investment. I’m so glad to be closing in on our equipment needs, because it has taken a lot of either time or money for each piece. We have looked around a bit for a #9 and now have one. It seems you can pick one up that has been totally rebuilt and ready to go for $1100-$1300. the fixer-upers are $400. I feel lucky that we found a $400 mower that was used 2 years ago and only needs a once over. If I were you, with I assume limited time available and a preference to spend that time with the horses rather than the equipment, I would get something ready to go. If you knew someone who enjoyed that type of thing maybe you could hire them to fix up a mower for you. that is what we were planning to do before we found this one.

The single horse mowers are less common, but didn’t I read somewhere on here that you can cut down the cutter bar and put shafts on a team mower?

My two cents, but I dont’ know much about them.

Kristan

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Thanks for all the good replies, it’s makes a lot of sense that this was caused by physical stress from too much frog at the heel. I did go and trim the frog down so the actual heel was bearing the weight, but i didn’t dig in there and clean it out, and I didn’t trim down to the base of the crack. I’ll try to go in and be a little more aggressive today, but it does seem tender. It is quite deep, I actually noticed it from working behind him. It took us several months to get this horse comfortable with us working on his feet, I’m a little nervous about causing him pain while doing it. There is no smell to it and I don’t notice any lameness, I was hoping if I kept the pressure off it would grow out without really getting in there and boring it out.

thanks again for the input, I had no idea what we were dealing with. You are all so helpful

Kristan

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Thanks Geoff. After searching for months, I finally found a reasonably priced #9 in good working order. I am going to look at it next week. Excited to mow!

George

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I switched my horses over to a Liverpool bit and they are like a different team. My bit has three settings and I drive them on the second one down. I use very light pressure and they are very responsive. We purchased them as 5 year olds from a dealer, so I don’t know what they were trained on (I assume a curb-type bit given their lack of respect for the snaffle). After struggling for year with different snaffle bits, we switched bits. They now stop on a dime, not from the pressure of the bit but perhaps from the knowledge it is there. Not sure, but I am sure that they drive better with these bits.

George

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@Happy When Hitched 7253 wrote:

And you might try Eqyss micro-tek on it.

Thanks for the reply.

Where can I get it?

George

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Thanks Jenn,

What you say makes a lot of sense. We’ve kind of been thrown into hoof trimming with this horse. We bought him quite good in harness, but kind of a nervous wreck around people on the ground, and he’d always been trimmed in stocks. Our farrier has only managed to do fronts on him after a lot of shenanagens. He is comfortable with us and falls asleep hacking away at his feet, so we have since taken the trimming over, but we have kind of subscribed to the natural shedding of the frog managment with only light trimming of it. Another piece of infomation is that this foot is quite crooked on him, we have to trim it very regularly, the inside grows long and he wears the outside and his foot twists slightly as he lifts it, kind of smearing the frog, it actually grows out in a smear if you can imagine what I am talking about.

We will try to find those products. we had bought some betadine to throw in there but maybe will try something more agressive. We feel fortunate to have some good high and dry ground here as well since we live on gravel, we just need to set up a fence away from the immediate barnyard which tends to be a little messy this time of year.

thanks again, Kristan

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Thanks for the replies. Here’s an attachment of the foot

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After unsuccessfully trying to post the picture in the main document, I tried to attach it as I have done in the past – no go. Maybe the server Carl? So far I have not called a vet. Within reason, I like to try to address the problem myslef. Given their is only ternderness to probing with a pick, it hasn’t risen to that level yet. I plan to do some betadine soaks in adittion to some of the aforementioned suggestions and get him on dry ground.

Donn, the photo started on my desktop, then I uploaded to Picassa. How do you link to a certain photo once it’s on your desktop?

George

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I noticed the picture didn’t upload. I tried to “Insert Image” with the picture icon, copied and pasted the “Picassa” http: address. No go. Am I missing something? I have seen folks post nice clear images, not thumnails / attachments, right in the body of their post. How do you accomplish this wonder?

George

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Is there a distinct disagreeable odor? Is the area soft, flaky or pasty when you pick the hoof out?

No odor and no flakes or pastiness, just tender. Thanks for the other responses.

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Thanks for the replies. I am going to surge onward and hopefully post a few pictures when it is all said and done.

George

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Geoff:

I also like the to have my horses untied while harnessing. This summer I set up a “roundish” pen outside and attached to the barn where I harness. It was a simple affair of step in posts and one strand of poly wire. If my horse(s) moved while harnessing, I sent them on a couple of laps. They learned quickly and stood well thereafter.

Recently, they started moving again while harnessing so we will go back to the round pen for a reminder. However, that will have to wait until spring when I can get posts in the ground and reset up the pen.

Good luck.

George

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Maybe it’s time for a bidding war 🙂 I’m also interested.

George

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Dan:

I plan on mowing hay this summer and might be interested. What do you want for it?

George

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