✅ SOLVED how old is this

[bountyhunter2013]

Found this horseshoe what kind is it and how old...never seen one like this.

 

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[bountyhunter2013]

Kuger is right, it's a corrective shoe for a hind foot. The cleats on the rear aren't there for traction or ice, the horse was having
problems with the heels on that foot, so the shoer put those there to stand the animal up a bit more on it's toe, to make it easier
for the foot to break over at a walk. Again, something was wrong with the horse's heels at least on that foot, indicated by the extra
thickness of the heels on the shoe, but there is also the bar, so there is more wrong than just low heels. Bar shoes have two major purposes, one is if the foot is broken up badly and the farrier can't get enough good sound nails. Usually if that's the case, there will be clips drawn on the shoe, (a portion of the shoe heated red hot, and on the anvil, using the rounding hammer, metal is drawn up forming a clip, which is burned into the hoof wall) along with the bar across the back. The other major use of the bar is for contracted heels. The frog is located at the back of the bottom of the foot, and this will cause the heels to expand as pressure (weight) is put on the foot. For a number of reasons if the foot won't or can't expand, the horse goes lame, so to cure this, a bar is welded across the back of the shoe, then when nailed on causes constant pressure on the foot, spreading the heels, and getting the expansion feature to work again. Also horses that have foundered need lots of corrective shoeing, and is another important use of a bar shoe with raised heels, but I'm not into that much typing right now. As far as the age of the shoe, the easiest way would be to date it with other items that have been found in the same location. I was shoeing horses in the 60's and 70's, and used shoes just like that one. Now days there are lots of much more modern and from the looks of it, better things that the horseshoer is using for the same cures, but that's not to say that that style of shoe is not being used, even with the modern stuff that is available.
<img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=873623"/>Showing the clips on a shoe is easier than trying to explain. Note he only got two nails on that side.
<img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=873624"/>Here's a bar shoe that has been nailed on. The V shaped part of the foot pointing toward the toe is the Frog.
I don't know what's wrong with the foot, but he only got two nails on one side, so apparently the foot is broken up a bit. He has the bar far enough back that it doesn't look to me like he's trying to put extra pressure on the frog, it's more like he's trying to keep the shoe on the foot for 6 weeks to two months, to get some growth to the hoof wall. Hopes this helps.

Wow thank you for the info rly helps

 

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You actually thought I was serious? Sigh

..Seems someone is still bitter about not making the Clogging Team in 5th grade...lol

 

[Breezie]

Kuger & Bosnmate are spot on! Here's one I found about 4 yrs. ago:
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/158201-strange-horseshoe.html

Breezie

 

[kuger]

Kuger & Bosnmate are spot on! Here's one I found about 4 yrs. ago:
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/158201-strange-horseshoe.html

Breezie

...can be difficult to date shoes Breez',but I venture to say yours has some "age",on it and likely period

 

[BosnMate]

Kuger & Bosnmate are spot on! Here's one I found about 4 yrs. ago:
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/158201-strange-horseshoe.html

Breezie

Breezie, you found a mule shoe, and the heels on a mules front shoe can be left sticking out past the heels on the animals front foot and they don't step on them like a horse would. Your shoe probably has the bar to help hold it on and the caulks were turned for traction.