Rational Horse Shoeing and Wagon Making
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with rules, tables, recipes, etc., useful to
manufactures, blacksmiths, machinists,
well-drillers, engineers, liverymen,
horse-shoers, farmers, wagon-makers,
mechanics, amateurs and all others who have
occasion to perform the work for which this
book is primarily intended.
shoe. The shoes are now already shaped, creased and partly
punched, so all that is needed is to weld on the toe calk and
shape the heel calks.
Heat the shoe at the toe first, and when hot bend the heels
together a little. This is done because the shoes will spread
when the toe calk is welded on, and the shoe should not be too
wide on the toe, as is mostly the case. If the shoe is narrow at
the toe it is easier to fit the same to the foot and get the shoe
to fill out on the toe. Many smiths cut too much off from the toe.
Before the toe calk is driven onto the shoe bend it a little so as
to give it the same curve the shoe has, and the corners of the
calk will not stick out over the edge of the shoe. N ow place the
shoe in the fire, calk up. Heat to a good low welding heat, and
use sand for welding compound. Don't take the shoe out of the
fire to dip it in the sand, as most shoers do, for you will then
cool it off by digging in the cold sand, of which you will get too
much on the inner side of the calk. The same will, if allowed to
good deal of time, as the new place is not at once so hot as the place from which the shoe was taken; besides this, you
might tear the calk off and lose it. When hot give a couple of good blows on the calk and then draw it out. Don't hold
the heels of the shoe too close to the anvil when you draw out the calk, for if you do the calk will stand under, and it
should be at a right angle with the shoe. Do not draw it out too long, as is mostly done. Punch the hole from the upper
side first. Many first-class horse-shoers punch only from that side, while most shoers punch from both sides.
There is no need of heating the shoe for punching the holes. Punch the holes next to the heel first, for if you punch the
holes next to the toe when the shoe is hot, the punch will be hot, upset and bent. If it is a large shoe, punch only two
holes on each side for the toe calk heat. These holes to be the holes next to the toe when the shoe is hot, and then
punch the other two when you draw out the heel calks, and the shoe is hot at the heel. The heel calks should be as
short as you can make them; and so should the toe calks.
Coronet, Quarter, and Bars
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