Check out these antique hoof boots!

[PurBee]

Whilst searching for 2nd hand boots on ebay i came across these torture devices!:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Antique-...123694?hash=item264ba8feae:g:dL4AAOSwhXBfhEzg

I can’t get over the heel bulb bracket and screw to keep them on the hoof! ?


While on the subject - is the sizing all the same for all makes of hoof boots? Is cavallo size 4 the same size as Easyboot size 4? Or do i have to know the specific sizing system of all hoofboot makers?

 

[ester]

nope sizing is different.

 

[paddy555]

amazing, I use my horse to mow the lawn so obviously he needs a pair of these.

every manufacturer uses a different sizing system.

 

[Equi]

Those shoes are fascinating and hardly torture devices, the screw didn’t go into the horses hoof ?

I believe I’m right in saying they would have clamped into the back heels of the shoe.

 

[Melody Grey]

Those shoes are fascinating and hardly torture devices, the screw didn’t go into the horses hoof ?

I believe I’m right in saying they would have clamped into the back heels of the shoe.

Presumably to stop the horses normal shoes cutting up the lawn whilst using a horse-drawn mower?

 

[PurBee]

Yes equi - that big steel plate, tightened with the massive screw, would have clamped into the heel bulbs. Not literally the screw went into the heels!

 

[hobo]

They are very unusual ones I would have to look back but 30 years ago my horse wore a pair to mow the lawns for The Victorian Flower Garden program they did not have the screw. He got paid £150 for half a days filming and I got a free lunch at the pub! The camera men thought my horse was very demanding as I would say you have to film now I can not hold him any longer, he was also a lot faster than the average lawn mowing pony!!

 

[rabatsa]

Those over boots have leather pads for the horses hoof too. I have used a large felt pair that buckled on with a donkey at an old place one open day.

 

[Equi]

Yes equi - that big steel plate, tightened with the massive screw, would have clamped into the heel bulbs. Not literally the screw went into the heels!

Heel bulbs of the horse? No. The caulkins of the shoe. The clamp would not have touch the foot of the horse.

 

[Rowreach]

Heel bulbs of the horse? No. The caulkins of the shoe. The clamp would not have touch the foot of the horse.

The lawn slippers I had were similar and had the adjusting screw and a leather strap round the pastern. They were felt-lined. No idea where they got to come to think of it.

 

[PurBee]

Heel bulbs of the horse? No. The caulkins of the shoe. The clamp would not have touch the foot of the horse.

Ahhh, i see - i thought maybe the leather padding was missing from this pair to cushion the hoof held in the boots.
I’ve never seen such boots before, quite the invention!

When i bought my place i found many old farm horse-pulled tools buried in the land, old shoes, even an old all iron sythe hay cutter buried in thick ancient brambles....even a handmade leather womans shoe with a metal horse shoe nailed to the sole! I like antique tools and never knew that hoof boots even existed back then!

 

[laura_nash]

When i bought my place i found many old farm horse-pulled tools buried in the land, old shoes, even an old all iron sythe hay cutter buried in thick ancient brambles....even a handmade leather womans shoe with a metal horse shoe nailed to the sole! I like antique tools and never knew that hoof boots even existed back then!

We've found quite a few implements, tools etc buried on our place too, everything from a plough to a tiny stirrup. Its fascinating getting that glimpse into history.

We've had a few of the (human) leather shoes of different sizes and I was told that (whilst they look very similar to horse shoes) the metal re-enforcement on the sole was actually made specifically for the purpose.

Hoof boots existed before nail-on shoes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippo... soleae ferreae,and written about by Xenophon.

 

[SEL]

Wonder if they come in Ardennes size?? (Might have escaped on to YO lawn ??)