r people would be waiting for me that day. Sometimes there’d be several horses waiting and then as the hours would pass more and more people would show up for me to shoe their horse. Not quite sure but my best day there may have resulted in 11 or 12 horses being worked on. It’s a tough job but somebFirst off, on the humorous side let’s just clear something up right now. Shoeing horses is very arduous strenuous work and as a result it may very well be “Joy” is the last thing you might be feeling while shoeing. Mostly you’re just sweating and praying the horse behaves – at least that’s my take on things.

As a Farrier part of my job is to accept an enormous amount of responsibility. Responsibility to keep my clients horses free from lameness. In fact my reputation depends on it. Fortunately from the beginning of my career I discovered a method of shoeing not taught me in the school I attended or in any textbooks I’ve ever read which has produced for me a 16 year 100% track record- Not One Single Lame Horse. I hope you can realize how good it makes me feel to have this track record. Personally I don’t know how long I would have continued to shoe horses if I were responsible for horses coming up lame due to my shoeing methods.

Well I have been the Farrier for a ranch in Palo Alto California for about 16 years. It was one of my very first accounts. For years I would faithfully just show up every Saturday morning right at 9:00am on the dot. I never knew how many horses or people would be waiting for me that day. Sometimes there’d be several horses waiting and then as the hours would pass more and more people would show up for me to shoe their horse. Not quite sure but my best day there may have resulted in 11 or 12 horses being worked on. It’s a tough job but somebo

n things.

As a Farrier part of my job is to accept an enormous amount of responsibility. Responsibility to keep my clients horses free from lameness. In fact my reputation depends on it. Fortunately from the beginning of my career I discovered a method of shoeing not taught me in the school I attended or in any textbooks I’ve ever read which has produced for me a 16 year 100% track record- Not One Single Lame Horse. I hope you can realize how good it makes me feel to have this track record. Personally I don’t know how long I would have continued to shoe horses if I were responsible for horses coming up lame due to my shoeing methods.

Well I have been the Farrier for a ranch in Palo Alto California for about 16 years. It was one of my very first accounts. For years I would faithfully just show up every Saturday morning right at 9:00am on the dot. I never knew how many horses or people would be waiting for me that day. Sometimes there’d be several horses waiting and then as the hours would pass more and more people would show up for me to shoe their horse. Not quite sure but my best day there may have resulted in 11 or 12 horses being worked on. It’s a tough job but someb

attended or in any textbooks I’ve ever read which has produced for me a 16 year 100% track record- Not One Single Lame Horse. I hope you can realize how good it makes me feel to have this track record. Personally I don’t know how long I would have continued to shoe horses if I were responsible for horses coming up lame due to my shoeing methods.

Well I have been the Farrier for a ranch in Palo Alto California for about 16 years. It was one of my very first accounts. For years I would faithfully just show up every Saturday morning right at 9:00am on the dot. I never knew how many horses or people would be waiting for me that day. Sometimes there’d be several horses waiting and then as the hours would pass more and more people would show up for me to shoe their horse. Not quite sure but my best day there may have resulted in 11 or 12 horses being worked on. It’s a tough job but someb

orses coming up lame due to my shoeing methods.

Well I have been the Farrier for a ranch in Palo Alto California for about 16 years. It was one of my very first accounts. For years I would faithfully just show up every Saturday morning right at 9:00am on the dot. I never knew how many horses or people would be waiting for me that day. Sometimes there’d be several horses waiting and then as the hours would pass more and more people would show up for me to shoe their horse. Not quite sure but my best day there may have resulted in 11 or 12 horses being worked on. It’s a tough job but someb

r people would be waiting for me that day. Sometimes there’d be several horses waiting and then as the hours would pass more and more people would show up for me to shoe their horse. Not quite sure but my best day there may have resulted in 11 or 12 horses being worked on. It’s a tough job but somebody’s got to do it.

Interestingly enough sometime in 2006 I started to get the feeling I was being taken for granted at the ranch. Maybe because I made it so easy for people to have me as their Farrier there by just showing up every Saturday on time the boarders could just expect for me to be there. So I’m not immune to getting my feelings hurt so I just decided to stop showing up on those Saturdays at all. My reasoning became “Ok if they want or need me they can just call me and make an appointment”. Problem was I had changed cell phones and most of the people there didn’t have a way to get in contact with me.

It was about 7 months before I decided I kind of missed the ranch and one day I was in the area and decided to stop by to say hello. Well to my surprise I was welcomed with open arms, it was as if everyone was and had been looking for me. While I had been gone people were forced to use someone else as their horseshoer. Some of what I heard was along the lines of “well we thought that other horseshoer was good” – but then something happened and my horse doesn’t seem to be traveling too well – or my horse is coming up sore etc. And we need you back.

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