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Are these horseshoes round, or is there a bar across the open end
of the horseshoe?
At 11:49 AM 7/11/2001 -0400, you wrote:
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>John,
>I recently visited a working blacksmith shop at waterloo village in NJ
>with my family. I was surprised to see many examples of horse shoe types
>and shapes that he had on display there. He explained that these were
>for various functions much like changing tries on a car for racing or
>snow, etc. Round horse shoes may have given more traction than the
>traditional shape that most of us are familiar with.
>Bill Allen
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>John R Hyett wrote:
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>> From a late 19th cent to early 20th cent old blacksmiths site several
>> round, as distinct from "horseshoe" shaped horseshoes have been found.
>> Can anybody help with what these would have been used for? It has been
>> suggested that they were used to confuse trackers when chasing outlaws
>> but I think they would slow any half decent tracker by about quarter
>> of a second. So why would they have been used?Thanks!John
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>John,
><br>I recently visited a working blacksmith shop at waterloo village in
>NJ with my family. I was surprised to see many examples of horse shoe types
>and shapes that he had on display there. He explained that these were for
>various functions much like changing tries on a car for racing or
>snow, etc. Round horse shoes may have given more traction than the
>traditional shape that most of us are familiar with.
><br>Bill Allen
><p>John R Hyett wrote:
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>a late 19th cent to early 20th cent old blacksmiths site several round,
>as distinct from "horseshoe" shaped horseshoes have been found. Can anybody
>help with what these would have been used for? It has been suggested that
>they were used to confuse trackers when chasing outlaws but I think they
>would slow any half decent tracker by about quarter of a second. So why
>would they have been used?</font></font><font face="Arial"><font
size=-1>Thanks!</font></font><font face="Arial"><font
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