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Aug. 23rd, 2011 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hellisonMorning all! Today, very excitingly, I am getting a new roof on the kitchen. So far we have discovered that the existing roof was quite a bit more fucked than it looked, with the thrilling
find of a large puddle of water having leaked in right above the electricity box! Which was nice.
Going to leave them to it shortly and go play with Ziggy and test out her fancy new shoes - she got used in a farrier's competition at the weekend which means she now has a lovely new set of handmade, made to measure shoes. For free!
It was fascinating to watch them work, making the shoes from scratch and fitting them on - and it never ceases to amaze me how the noise, the heat and the smoke don't bother the horses one bit - the same creatures who can be terrified by a plastic bag, or a white rock on the roadside...
Anyway, some photos!
As I said, fascinating to watch them work ;p
How this doesn't bother the horses, I will never know
But it really doesn't. That big chestnut at the end slept through most of the afternoon!
What the photos don't (well, can't!) convey is the heat - 4 furnaces on the shoeing level and more downstairs where they had the shoe making rounds. It did make some of them very shiny tho ;p
Some, but not all ;p
Shiny men aside, it really was incredible to see the process of making the shoes, each round was an hour and in that time they had to shape and fit one shoe to the horse
while at the same time make a sample shoe to a specific (and fairly complicated) pattern from scratch, going from this -
To this -
to finish with this!
Of course the other thing the photos don't get across the the smell of burning hoof, but I guess they either grow to love it or their sense of smell gets burnt out early...
Horses again, supremely unbothered by any of it!
and now I must be off to test out the shoes, and hopefully have a lovely new roof when I get back (even more hopefully it doesn't rain in the meantime...)
find of a large puddle of water having leaked in right above the electricity box! Which was nice.
Going to leave them to it shortly and go play with Ziggy and test out her fancy new shoes - she got used in a farrier's competition at the weekend which means she now has a lovely new set of handmade, made to measure shoes. For free!
It was fascinating to watch them work, making the shoes from scratch and fitting them on - and it never ceases to amaze me how the noise, the heat and the smoke don't bother the horses one bit - the same creatures who can be terrified by a plastic bag, or a white rock on the roadside...
Anyway, some photos!
As I said, fascinating to watch them work ;p
How this doesn't bother the horses, I will never know
But it really doesn't. That big chestnut at the end slept through most of the afternoon!
What the photos don't (well, can't!) convey is the heat - 4 furnaces on the shoeing level and more downstairs where they had the shoe making rounds. It did make some of them very shiny tho ;p
Some, but not all ;p
Shiny men aside, it really was incredible to see the process of making the shoes, each round was an hour and in that time they had to shape and fit one shoe to the horse
while at the same time make a sample shoe to a specific (and fairly complicated) pattern from scratch, going from this -
To this -
to finish with this!
Of course the other thing the photos don't get across the the smell of burning hoof, but I guess they either grow to love it or their sense of smell gets burnt out early...
Horses again, supremely unbothered by any of it!
and now I must be off to test out the shoes, and hopefully have a lovely new roof when I get back (even more hopefully it doesn't rain in the meantime...)
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Date: 2011-08-23 12:53 pm (UTC)But the shiny ones were lovely ;p
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Date: 2011-08-23 01:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-23 01:15 pm (UTC)