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SCIENTIFIC HORSESHOEING. 



Fig, 195. Russell's Foot 



Testers. 



Explained on page 135. 



Fig. 194. Russell's Hand Vise, for Hot Rasping Shoes. 



A, Set screw to fasten the jaw, B, on shoe. 



C, Bed plate, shaped like a front foot shoe, on which to lay the shoe, to 

 hot or cold rasp it on the bevel of the heels and quarters. 



D, Lower projection, to catch in the jaws of stationary vise. 



E, End of jaw to grip the slioes. Length of vise, 16 inches. 



This tool is indispensable to all shoers who shoe light horses, as by its 

 use the thinnest shoes can be filed without springing. 



