IF a set of steel shoes lasts 6 weeks of being worn
24/7, that’s over 1000 hours. Since the horse only
wears the boots while being ridden, it’s easy to see that they will last
much longer than 6 weeks. I have a
set of EasyBoots that Sonny has been using, on & off, for
nearly a year, as we go barefoot when the footing allows. I have had to replace
a lost boot, and had two cables replaced, but the boots show little signs of
wear. Our trails are hard packed dirt & rock, and sometimes we do several
miles of hard packed gravel.
OTOH, a friend was also using boots, used too big a size which twisted
and caused the horse to drag it a bit, and actually wore a hole thru the front
after very little trail time.
