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I mean, to find 1 lost shoe in an area that is about an acre, well grazed but with odd clumps of 'loo area'/thistles?

I don't think I have EVER been able to find the damn things... they really need an invention of some sort of tracker device or be florescent yellow?! I swear I'm the most 'not been able to find it' person I know!!!

Can you/do you find lost shoes?
 
I feel your pain!

There's 3 shoes somewhere in our field - I spent 2 hours walking back and forth searching for them last summer, and nothing!! Finally came across one of them last week (and I know for a fact that I looked there before!!).

Same goes for fly masks too!
 
Mollie doesn't wear shoes but when she did, she lost one in the field. The farmer doesn't like horseshoes lying around in his field. It was a very big field but I glibly told him I'd find it. :eek:

Aged of walking up and down that field, I found a shoe. Trouble is, it wasn't Mollie's. :D

I gave it to the farmer, and told him I'd collected a shoe from the field so had done my bit, sort of, so we were quits. :o :D
 
I have found some outside the field (after searching in the field for hours) - it must have pinged off and flown through the air :o
 
Go out in flip flops or bare feet with no intention of looking for shoes at all.

The things will bite you on the toes then! ;):)
 
Tell me about it! i walked up and down and around the field for ages the other week because the farrier wanted to put the shoe back on for our client and it had stud holes already in it.
i could not find it and was getting really peeved off as it was the hottest day of the year and i was wearing jeans and a jumper (i wasnt prepared for such weather, it is england after all!)

the next day i harrowed and found it caught up in the chains. If only i had thought of that when the farrier was here!
 
My horse managed to pull two shoes off once in one day. Goodness only knows what he'd been doing out there :eek: The ground was frozen and I managed to find them both. It only took me three hours of walking up and down the field :rolleyes:
 
Haha, my sister was lunging my wb on day when she heard her overreach and pull a shoe but couldnt find it in the pen with 3 of us looking for it.......1 month later i found it about 7ft out sid of the pen when taking a horse out to the feild :D
 
We were looking for a stud with the magnatised end of a dressage whip (think they do this so they hang from the stands in the shop). I'm sure if you walked swinging the whip by the end you'd notice it deviate if it found metal.
 
It will turn up the day after you pay for the farrier to put a new one on. Its the law.

Similar thing at Bramham, we let the dogs off in the woods away from everyone and I managed to drop one of the leads in all the weeds. We searched for ages then I had to walk half a mile back to the tradestands and buy another one. When I finally walked back up my stepson had found the original one!

I'm with you. Mine came in with one missing today too.
 
I am going to sound a bit weird now :o

If it's a well grazed field and I can't find the offending shoe (and I seem to be lucky at finding them generally) I find lying flat on the ground, so you are looking at the ground sort of at eye level nearly always works. They seem to sort of stick up out of the ground and are much easier to see. Yep, I'm weird but it's worth trying if you are desperate!
 
OK, appylass - I bet you'd have not found the 1st one that Big Fuzzy lost in her 3rd week with me ;)

I tramped round for ages - it was mid November & cold & wet.......
Did not find said shoe, very cross as farrier was on long term sick & not due back to work till Janaury. He had never met BF either so had no idea of shoe size...

I tramped/sploshed round again... and again... na-da:(

Long story short - Farrier came out 2 days later & fitted a replacement shoe to BF.
As I turned her out afterwards, we stood at the gate having a cuppa, when farrier says 'what the hell is that?' :confused: we both peer ...........


.........Hanging on a branch of an oak tree, 10 bloody foot from the ground, there was a shoe! :eek:
I got a rake & knocked it to the floor & farrier checked sizing/type - yep, it belonged to BF :o now - how the bloody hell did it not just come off but end up on a tree? :eek: :rolleyes: :D

Farrier was convinced I had scrap-metal mad squirrells :D:D
 
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