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Post by sue5000 on Nov 25, 2014 19:08:55 GMT -5
"nail biters and a clenching iron" OUCH!
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Post by imamess on Nov 25, 2014 19:20:40 GMT -5
Nail biters are specialty nippers to 'bite' the ends of the nails off after they come through the sides of the horses hooves, then you hold the clenching iron on the top of the nail and tighten the shoe with a hammer to bend the cut off nail over so it doesn't catch on the horses' ankles or legs and cut them and so it doesn't pull back through the hoof. If you are taking the shoe off, you use the nail biters to 'bite' the clenched part of the nail off so you can pull the shoe and nails back through the hoof. There are usually 4 nails on each side of the shoe unless it is a very small one. The nails have a front and back side and must be put through the shoe in a certain way. That's for you Sue, 'cause I knew you would ask
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Post by sue5000 on Nov 25, 2014 19:28:09 GMT -5
imamess, you know me pretty well! Thanks for such a detailed explanation/description. Does a horse mind having shoes put on? Does it hurt?
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Post by imamess on Nov 26, 2014 5:17:29 GMT -5
It doesn't hurt the horse if you know what you are doing and put the nails through the outer hoof. I have been told and have read that the outer hoof is like our fingernails and toenails. The inner hoof is soft and has blood flow, so if you trim too deep, or put the nail in the wrong place, it does hurt them and is called 'quicking'. That makes the horse move around, naturally, but the movement makes it harder to complete the task and can wrench the farrier's back horribly. When a colt is trained, part of the training is to condition it to being handled and to pick up its hooves and let someone hold them up for a while. Even when not being shod, it is essential to keep rocks, clods etc. from getting lodged in the hooves, and if something of that nature is found, a hoof pick is used to get it out.
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Post by sue5000 on Nov 26, 2014 23:07:03 GMT -5
Wow, imamess, you sure know a lot about horses! I don't know anything about horses. Riding a horse at least once is on my bucket list thank you for writing out more interesting details
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Post by larataylor on Nov 26, 2014 23:51:56 GMT -5
I keep my nail biters in my mouth.
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Post by survivorofgrief on Nov 28, 2014 9:36:46 GMT -5
I searched for an envelope with a prescription in it that the pharmacy claims they mailed and that the Post Office claims was delivered on September 20th.
I do not lose things like prescriptions because I am very careful with those, but because of the degree to which I have stacks of untended mail, I began to doubt myself and so I almost tore the house apart on Wednesday looking for that item. I did not find it and I can't think of any place else to look. I honestly think the Post Office delivered it to somebody else, (they have been know to do that in my neighborhood), but I could not prove it if anyone saw the disarray in which I live. Oh sigh!
I am working on my house and this search did help me unscramble one small area. It does not look much better yet, but I am one step farther on my journey.
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Post by larataylor on Nov 28, 2014 10:02:07 GMT -5
survivorofgrief - I just wrote recently about how I appreciate a mini-crisis that moves me forward … at least when it's over. My fridge stopped working -- I had a spare one in the basement that I was working on getting rid of -- it was cleared out but not clean -- so I scrubbed it out and moved all the food into it, and then pulled out the fridge and cleaned the coils, the fan, and the gaskets -- I wouldn't have done all that without the mini-crisis. A major crisis, though, I can live without. Yesterday I was searching for my purse, and it was really weird. Our living space is so uncluttered now that I could look around all the rooms in five minutes and establish that it wasn't there. It was in the back seat of a car … and the cars are still cluttered.
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Post by brenda on Nov 29, 2014 13:25:19 GMT -5
Winter gloves and boots. For some odd reason they were not kept in the back closet with the rest of the winter items. We found my boots, but not hubbies one pair of gloves I have never seen before and two odd gloves along with the hats and scarves. No clue where the gloves and dh's boots are and the strange thing is our storage spaces are all relatively tidy.
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Post by jendela on Dec 18, 2014 21:26:43 GMT -5
Uh oh, searching for another overdue library book, again! I really need to get on top of stuff so this doesn't keep happening.
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Post by razy on Dec 19, 2014 0:50:10 GMT -5
I can't find my duster! This means I can't do any dusting! A cloth simply will not do. For some reason, because I can't dust, I want to dust!
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Post by lucie on Dec 19, 2014 4:01:06 GMT -5
There should be one more box of Christmas decorations somewhere...but where?
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Post by dayeanu on Dec 19, 2014 10:18:03 GMT -5
Okay, so my living spaces are pretty darn uncluttered, and pretty well minimized … but there are still things that don't have a definite home. Things that I find myself searching for when I need them. Especially things that are, and perhaps ought to be, stored in the less organized/decluttered/minimized areas of the house, i.e., basement, garage, addition. I've decided that whenever I have to go looking for a thing, and it's hard to find, I need to make a home for it, then and there. DD asked me for some staples. I've seen staples and staplers around, but they don't have a home. Officey, desky stuff … paper, envelopes, hole punchers, staplers--all that kind of stuff is just all over the place--some in DD's room, some in the upstairs bill-paying area, some in DH's office downstairs. There is no *one* place to find staples. Eventually I found a stapler with some staples in it, in a random drawer, so I gave her that. In the interest of streamlining our lives, and making our tomorrows easier than our todays … maybe we should make homes for these things that we obviously need and use, or we wouldn't be searching for them right now! Finding a Place For Everything can be a really long process. But finding a place for whatever I needed and had to look for *today* may be a good way to prioritize the process and get the most bang for my effort. I love this concept!
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Post by dayeanu on Dec 19, 2014 10:22:08 GMT -5
stupid ball peen hammer. I know I used it to hang a picture, cause I could not find the regular hammer. Now where is that dam thing? TOOLS are still an unorganized category here! There's lots of them out in the addition (used for building out there). DFIL's old stash is still in the garage. The ones we've actually found and *used* have ended up in the house, mostly in one drawer, but some have wandered into the basement, too. We still have way too many … but it's been three years, so maybe I could safely get rid of the ones that haven't found their way into the house. I like a bucket to store tools in (like hammer, screw drivers, etc.) then when I need tools I take the whole bucket with me. That way I have any extra tools handy if I need them, and I can put what I used away immediately. And a bucket is easier to find than a hammer.
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Post by dayeanu on Dec 19, 2014 10:31:00 GMT -5
This is a very good thread!
I had started doing this a little, recently. This thread clarifies it.
When there is something I can't find, and it's important I try to assign it a home, and then all like things can go there.
I did this with my jewelry recently.
I know this is gonna blow your minds, but I decided I needed to find one safe place to keep all good jewelry!............so I bought a cheap jewelry box!!!!!!!
And I assigned a bathroom drawer for costume jewelry!
NOW I have a specific place to put all my jewelry!
And *most amazingly*, now that I know where it belongs, now that I have a clearly defined place for it ----- every time I take it off, I put it there!
Who knew sanity could be so easily obtained!
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