Re: RC: Toe length

[Trishmare@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/15/2000 1:43:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
RDShoe4U@aol.com writes:

<<     What I shoot for is to find the center of the coffin joint which is 
 usually somewhere about a 1/4 back from the point of the frog.Once I find it 
 I try to get half the foot in front and half in back making this joint the 
 true center of the foot.Doug Butler has an excellent book called Shoeing In 
 Your Right Mind which has wonderful suggestions in balancing a foot. My two 
 cents. RD >>

Your customers are lucky to have such an intelligent farrier RD, and 
doubtless, your customer's horses are happy (and SOUND) ones . . . wish every 
farrier was both the scholar AND craftsman you seem to be!

Trish & King David (whose got a great farrier too!)
Grand Blanc, Michigan