I'm gradually clearing out the old workshop and moving across to the new one. I came across a horse shoe in a corner and am surprised how big it is - 175 x220mm. Is this going to be a genuine one or something made just as a large shoe ?
Rob
robgraham gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
Elephant shoe?
Shires get pretty big feet wise.
Though it might be a Smith's special for decoration.
Shire horses have big hooves... Not sure they are that big though but wouldn't be surprised.
If you hang it up somewhere make sure the prongs are facing upwards so the luck doesn't run out.
My own feet are a foot long, so why should I expect horses to be any smaller?
This seems big for a contemporary saddle horse, but not if it's old and originally for a larger draught horse.
Quite normal for a shire or similar draft horse. Now for really big feet try an Ardennes horse.
The Clydesdale that trod on my foot the other week has VERY large hooves, fortunately he's not shod and it was on softish ground seeing he weighs in at a tad under a metric ton
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Ah, but that way the witches can get in, hang it cockeyed.
One of our two riding horses (they are fairly big as riding horses go) has shoes which are getting on for 200mm across so 175 x 220 doesn't really seem all that big. Police horses could well be that size and big shires would probably be be even bigger.
Surely you need to face the prongs downward so the devil can't sit inside it ...
'orse I learned to ride on had feet that the print made I could stand inside with an inch or so around the outside of me boots and I have size 9s FFS !
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Or for the luck to pour out of the prongs all over you. There are many superstitions about horse shoes but luck falling out of the prongs is consistent. Of course the only really lucky horse shoe is a used one that you have found by accident.
Not so lucky for the horse, though?
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember robgraham saying something like:
From a shire horse, some of them have hooves the size of dinner plates.
Many thanks guys - I reckon this could well have been a Clydesdale then as I'm in Scotland. I can't remember when and where I originally found it but there's been a fair bit of earth moving around the house, so I will take the luck for finding it. The logic that such a big animal would have feet as big as ours is fairly persuasive.
The various myths are good too. I had tiny horseshoe in the old workshop which had it's prongs up the way - it would have been a pretty small devil to have sat inside it.
Rob
LOL! Unlike my wife's sister who trod on my unshod foot. She was shod, and caused some nasty bruising.
MBQ
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Dave Liquorice" saying something like:
But the one about making sure the nail you hang it from is a good, sound one, is consistent. Nothing more unlucky than being clouted on the head by a falling horseshoe.
That's a reasonable size for a heavy horse
Ive got one from a Noriker-Suffolk Punch cross.
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