Shoeing at its best!
Brad has been shoeing horses for over 30 years. At age 15 Brad apprenticed with two different shoers for several years in Minnesota. He attended North Texas Farrier's School when he was 20 years old. During his 17 years in California Brad worked part time shoeing horses and developed a very strong shoeing business. Brad had several of the biggest most prestiges dressage and jumper barns in the San Diego area. When he moved to Tennessee and respectively on to Florida Brad limited his shoeing clientel to only those horses he had in training. These days Brad is limiting his training business to only a couple of nice horses and is enjoying shoeing horses full time. His years of shoeing experience combined with his horsemanship and riding skills allow him to be a well rounded and extremely skilled shoer. Brad is not shoeing by volume but rather attention to detail and extreme quality. Please feel free to call for an appointment.
Pictures of Brad's shoeing work!!!
This is a very big Friesian gelding that started out with very poor feet. Its hard to get a feel for really how big this foot is... about the size of a dinner plate.
This was just a bad hoof that just needed to be fixed...
Before ... After....
These are some Warmblood dressage horses.... handmade shoes, (handmade hinds and clips).
These are quarter horse hunters... the second photo is showing an acrylic application where the entire front of the foot was almost gone.
This was a badly broken out quarter area. The repair was fairly easy... trim and apply a straight bar shoe. Apply a pour in sole guard pad which distributes even pressure throughout the hoof to allow that broken portion to grow out. About two shoeings later this was gone and we were back to a regular shoe.
This reiner was stopping very wide so I modifed his shoes to encourage him to stop straight. The basic idea is to make the inside of the shoe have a little drag by leaving more trailer, leaving the toe blunt and leaving the nail heads slightly raised while shortening the outside trailer, rolling the outside toe and grinding the nail heads and the entire outside branch completely slick. In this case it worked right away to get him stopping much straighter. Horses like this usually work out of needing this much help as they get stronger and learn to hold themselves in position through the stop.
The pictures below are showing a rocker shoe I created from a regular aluminum front for a nevicular horse. The rocker minimizes the joint movement. Then there is a spider plate and a pour in pad to give protection and spread the concussion evenly throughout the foot.
More pictures to come....