THE PRACTICAL HORSESHOER. 



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A Tool for Drawing Clips and Sharpening Toe Calks. 



I will endeavor, with the aid of the accompanjang- en- 

 graving's, to give your readers an accurate idea of a tool I 

 use for sharpening" toe calks and drawing clips on shoes. 

 In making the tool I first take a piece of 1^-inch square steel 

 about 8 inches long, and draw it out on one end, so that for 

 about 3 inches it will fit in the square hole of the anvil. I 



Fig. 29 shows the Post of the Shoeing Stand. 



then hammer it down in the anvil until it is a solid fit, and 

 then heat it again put it in the anvil hole and by ham- 

 mering against it bend it square, turning- it to the side of 

 the anvil opposite that Avhere I stand. ^ I next take my cuttei- 

 and cut it down, beginning three-quarters of an inch from the 

 side of the anvil, so as to leave a stem about f-inch square 

 coming out from the center of the bottom of the tool. This 

 stem is to support the shoe while drawing on the clip. I 



