This movie describes the successful clinical treatment of a dressage horse that sustained a fractured pedal bone. The movie shows the original radiographs, the therapeutic shoeing techniques, more recent radiographs and finishes with the horse returning to full work. Running time: 7 mins 58 secs
This movie shows Darren Bazin A.W.C.F. demonstrating how he dresses a hind foot for the application of a quarter clipped, machine made, concave shoe, and is part of the sequence of shoeing a hind foot. This movie relates to element 3.2 of the National Occupational Standards in the U.K for farrier apprentices. Running time 6 […]
Steven Beane A.W.C.F demonstrates how to build a ¾ fullered hind shoe with a hammer drawn toe clip from 11 3/4 inches of 3/4 x 3/8 flat steel, hammer finish. This shoe is designed to be fitted to horses that work on hard surfaces, for instance driving horses. The fullering provides some grip whilst the […]
Darren Bazin demonstrates how to forge a tool drift from 9 inches (225mm) of 7/8 inch (22mm) round tool steel. The drift is used for creating an oval hole in stamps, fullers and other tools where a wooden or riveted handle is required. Running time 4m 15secs.
Darren Bazin demonstrates how to forge a flat bit tong rein from 8 inches of 5/8 inch (16mm) square, using forging techniques developed in earlier exercises. Darren shows how a basic tong rein can be forged. This exercise forms part of the UK’s forging certificate for pre-farriers. Running time 7m 22secs.
This movie shows Darren Bazin A.W.C.F. demonstrating how he hammer clench’s a front foot shod with a toe clipped, machine made concave shoe, and is part of the sequence of shoeing a front foot. This movie relates to element 3.4 of the National Occupational Standards in the U.K for farrier apprentices. Running time 5 mins […]
Gary Darlow demonstrates how to build a concave caulk and wedge hind shoe from 13.5 inches of ¾ by 7/16 fullered concave steel. This shoe is a traditional British hunting shoe and is used to provide the horse with grip when working at a fast pace over uneven ground, the shape of both the caulkin […]
Steven Beane A.W.C.F demonstrates how to build a ¾ Fullered front shoe with a rolled toe using 12 inches of ¾ by 3/8 flat steel, hammer finish. This style of shoe is commenly used on driving horses that need the breakover point brought back and may help horses that suffer from stumbling, with the toe […]
Darren Bazin demonstrates how to forge a square section from a horseshoe. Concentrating on keeping all four sides parallell to create the square section which is at least 8 inches long. This exercise forms part pf the UKs forging certificate. Running time 5m 48secs.