THE PRACTICAL HORSESHOER. 



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Making a Clincher. 



The clincher shoAvn in the accompanying* illustrations is one 

 that I have never seen described in any paper. The handles 

 are drawn so as to taper both wa3^s, because that allows 

 them to pass each other easily in drawing* down a clinch. 

 The piece B, shown with the fulcrum £' in Fig. 15, is fullered 

 so that the nail head can be admitted into the depressions. 



Fig. 14.— The Shoeing Stand. 



There must be a small space left betw^een the keyhole in the 

 fulcrum and the jaw, so that B can move up and down. 

 Use for the key the point of a nail that has been nipped off 

 in shoeing, bending it so that it will not come out. If the 

 piece A has the proper curve, anj^ clinch can be caught. In 

 using the tool it should be pulled up, instead of down, as 

 you would the ordinary clinch. 



