Barefoot trimming with grinder

Trimming for Bare foot

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Barefoot
• trim

[Appaloosakisses]

I have a few legitimate questions that I would really love you to answer for me. 1)Through the whole video I did not see you sight down the hoof to check the level, did you? 2) By the end it is quite obvious by even a novice horse person that this horse is extremely toed in when you show your "finished" shot. Why is it that you did not try to resolve that issue through corrective trimming?

[linustheferret]

@Appaloosakisses I might not have looked for balance while filming. This is NOT a edited film clip what so ever.But a totally valid question. For the other question I do not agree with you. A toed in horse has conformation that is the way it is and if I put a straight hoof on a crooked leg I will end up with a lame horse eventually.

[linustheferret]

@Appaloosakisses Oh and one other thing. I have had enough horses X-rayed to know that I trim for total balance. ( You do not trim for outside looks but to alaign the bones correctly in a balanced way and I do achive that.

[Appaloosakisses]

@linustheferret Yes you can lame a horse whose actual confirmation is off but you can also get a toed in or toed out result in a hoof that has not been trimmed level and you can't tell the difference in a video without the camera sighting the foot or posting a corresponding Xray. Maybe you could write a note in your description stating the horse as having toed in conformation so as inform your viewers.(just a suggestion) Could you post some of your vet's radiography. I would love to see those.

[linustheferret]

@Appaloosakisses You are right there. I agree with you. The thing is no matter what you write you will have left out something else and the thing will become endless. One of these days I might make another one and think more about what I say and write. This video is old. But you are right. I tell my clients that ( As an example here) A horse can end up with a club foot from a bad saddle fit. The feet reflects the entire horse and we sure can mess up,

[linustheferret]

I can make one if you like. I angle the disk just like a rasp and come from the bottom of the hoof rather than from the top. I go to the top after and take off flares. But the flares are first taken care of distally to take the pressure off the flare. I just clean up from the top.

[patriciabarlowirick]

There are good educational resources on the web for learning to trim with a grinder elsewhere. Just google abrasive hoof trimming. You can learn to do this! But there are some tricks you need to know so you can't learn it from this video. So, LinusTheFerret, you have done a great job here in demonstrating this. The people that are frightened by it should not even try it.

My animals love the grinder and I couldn't even begin to nip their desert dry hooves with a set of nippers.

You rock!

[seabisquit45]

I wish there was a better camera shot of you doing the top of the foot and applying a mustang roll.

[linustheferret]

@CountryHouseGent  LOL

[CountryHouseGent]

I CAN NOT believe for the life of me that you (and others), trim your horses hooves with an angle grinder.

You should use an Oxy-Acetylene torch, like me.

[lisaande51]

Please tell me exactly what you changed the grinding wheel to? I bought a sanding conversion kit but it is so thin with the fiber disc on it, that it doesn't look like yours. I have been barefoot trimming in MN for 2 1/2 years and am ready to use a grinder, but want to put the correct attachment on. I have a Makita.