around here if you think the TB's are going stand still long enough; or the trainers/grooms hold that horse long enough -- your out of your mind; 15-20 mins per horse....and when you have 60 in barn, 45 in another barn, 23 in another, and 34 in this barn, over 100+ and at different tracks and on the outside at a TB farm in a 35-50 miles from your house; plus all the others in glueing, changing shoes, new horses coming in and going out and changing shoes; all in a 2-3-4 weeks shoeing schedule. it's a nail up then dress below the nails afterwards; and sometimes in the same old nail holes; and the grooms try to out of the barn by 11 am.....and a lot of the time you are there to 5 pm at the track trying to get most of them done during the dark days; and during racing; the with hotwalking; you do shoe in a stall/or outside under a tree. 1 plater is at the training center at 4am and under his first horse; and gets home at 11 pm everynight. 6/7 days a week; and has about 300-650??on the books at different times of the seasons, and his travels 50 miles from his house to do the yearlings and 2 year olds in training in the afternoon; and then there are the ones at 1 track, and travels to another track that need to be done as well. he makes great money; but at a price.....
Easy to do 300 head on a 3 week schedule: 300/21 = 14+ head per day working 7 days a week @ 20 minutes per horse your only working 4.8 hours / day
Holy shit...14 head a day and home by 12 to fix lunch huh..lmao..the more im around this trade the more I see all farriers are destin to greatness and im a hack..
Linda has told us she gets 100 head ..14 a day 7 days a week..that around half a million a year ..she been doing this 20 years cause she was the first girl in this trade..linda can I interest you in a book on financial peace. .the day im turning half a mill a years yall will see me for about four years then yall will never see my fat axx again I can assure you that..from the money I see thrown out on this site ..farriers have gotta be the wrost money managers on the face of this planet...
Well I guess I'll never make the big money list. I did my less than 14 head today, got home, made 3 pair of shoes, did my book work and sat down to Mexican lasagna topped with salsa. I don't work weekends, unless its for the wife.
no, and never did......18 was the most I ever did in 1 day, never again. did 33 mini's in 1 day at 2 different farms and it took all day and into the evening.
it took years; but I own my own home, paid off shoeing truck; and enough shoes to for the next few years to shoe with. few vacations per year, and Lynn was in private Catholic school for 2 years; and paid for daycare too.
is there any of you done a hard days work in the forge making sets for stock or making them for the horses that came to the forge to be shod
