✅ SOLVED What was this shoe for??

[worldtalker]

I pulled it out of my "junk" box...waiting for it to warm up a bit before I hit it again.


GOD Bless

Chris

 

[Reed Lukens]

Record ID: SWYOR-3AED61 - MEDIEVAL horseshoe - Database

 

[releventchair]

An egg bar shoe used as "corrective" in most cases. Though not correcting really, it gives greater weight bearing surface. Some other special applications too.

Shoes are , depending who you ask, hard on a hoof as it restricts its flex, bloodflow and damages material..Sometimes a shoe helps a problem or reduces its effect.

Hoofcare and Lameness Magazine Archives -- Egg Bar Shoe Seminar

 

[worldtalker]

An egg bar shoe used as "corrective" in most cases. Though not correcting really, it gives greater weight bearing surface. Some other special applications too.

Shoes are , depending who you ask, hard on a hoof as it restricts its flex, bloodflow and damages material..Sometimes a shoe helps a problem or reduces its effect.

Hoofcare and Lameness Magazine Archives -- Egg Bar Shoe Seminar

It appears to be an early version....yes? Kinda looks like both.

 

[BosnMate]

Looks like it's for a front foot, and has caulks that were probably for ice traction, seem to be a bit thin for ordinary caulks used for traction on farm animals. There
are a number of reasons to use a bar shoe, such as correcting a foot problem or protecting the heels or helping to heal a foot disorder, or the foot -- hoof wall -- is
broken up and the farrier is unable to get enough sound nails. The rust makes it look like an early version, otherwise nothing different is happening to a horses hoof
that hasn't happened for centuries, and that style of shoe is being nailed on a horse somewhere every day. It's very difficult to say a horse shoe is from a time period
by looking at it. The best way to date a horse shoe is to find it in conjunction with other identifiable relics from that same site.

 

[Tony in SC]

Bar shoe with lugs for mud/traction. Tony