Rebar horseshoe

[@Livefreelivesteong87]

Well i feel rotten now. Asked for a rebar shoe and now our mate is standing out in the cold freezing his marbles. Lol thank you mate. You helped he get through farrier school in Vancouver BC Canada. I would watch your videos when I was having trouble with forging projects. I appreciate you sir. I am working on building my practice now, and I still apprentice under some one while I do so. Thank you for the video, it was a treat. Cheers

[@garyhuston]

Any time!

[@shortfuse43]

Gary, you definitely still have the touch!! BTW, as a side, some farrier and blacksmith friends of mine have said that down in Mexico where they have so much rocky terrain and regular steel to make horseshoes is expensive, lots of folks make the shoes out of rebar. It's usually so much harder than the normal mild steel shoes are made from, that rebar horseshoes wear much longer.

[@FarmsteadForge]

Nicely done Gary, I use a lot of the same techniques for building shoes. I've recently found myself really struggling with my hands so I find myself building a lot of tooling for my power hammer. Thanks for the video.

[@dircia7754]

Nice to see you trying a request. I have been a subscriber for years. Always enjoy your work.

[@garyhuston]

Thanks, I hope you continue to enjoy even now my uploads are infrequent.

[@matttaimuty5397]

Like riding a bike. You never forget. Nice looking shoe.

[@garyhuston]

Thanks

[@jackdawg4579]

Flawless example of a shoe, can't complain about that after 4 years!

[@TheChipmunk2008]

Good to see you uploading again Gary, hope you are doing well, happy new year to you and yours!

[@garyhuston]

Thanks, you too!

[@springwoodcottage4248]

Fabulous, so delightful & useful to see how you did the job in such hard metal. I made some wall hooks out of 12 mm rebar & it resisted every blow Thank you for sharing!

[@andrewchant7862]

Should have made a pair Gary and got back into shoeing again ! Be interesting to see what the wear was like after 6 weeks lol

[@pokerladyhoule9710]

❤ Awsome. My dad use to make Horseshoes back in 1960's for The Ranchers in Manitoba Canada.

[@thedude8046]

Gary has his own little shoe store where the shoe's are made from scratch!👌👍

[@garyhuston]

When I was an apprentice that’s all there was, the machine made shoes at the time were so bad you couldn’t put them on!

[@tropifiori]

Gary I have noticed in last couple of years that stuff I bought as mild steel certainly sparks like it has some carbon in it. Perhaps it is poor quality control at the mill. Glad to see you back in a video Frank

[@garyevans8116]

Nice job. I should think that would outlast a normal horse shoe. I’ve often said about rebar having a quality / hardness and I said to an old black smith years ago about this very subject. And he said it’s obviously rubbish because it just gets put in concrete. So you have verified. What I have thought Thank you. Gary. From Gary.

[@mamaswrongagain4555]

I once made a pair of slide plates from a full width rasp. Oofdah! Hard stuff

[@garyhuston]

But I bet perfect for the job!

[@ohhpaul7364]

Is your shoulder doing better now since your surgery? Nice to see you, Gary. thanks for the videos.

[@garyhuston]

The shoulder I had fixed is great, my hands are dodgy and my other shoulder is now playing up! Age doesn’t come alone!

[@frenchcreekvalley]

I just found this: Common rebar is grade 40, basically A36. Grades 60, 80, and 100 are equivalent to roughly 1045, 1060, and 1070 and can be hardened.

[@anthonyrigley4402]

I remember some time ago you made a ram's head walking stick top it was amazing

[@garyhuston]

@@anthonyrigley4402 I did, thanks.

[@Shadeskast]

Gary. It’s like riding a bike after 40 plus years of shoeing. You could probably do it in the dark.

[@garyhuston]

I guess you’re probably right Pete. How’s it going with you?

[@Shadeskast]

@@garyhustonI’m pushing through. I had to take on apprentice 4 days of the week. The aches and pains are taken their tole as you know. I’m averaging 8 to 12 shoe jobs a day. The problem is now everyone is showing all year. No one takes the winters off. I use to get the month of February off Not anymore.

[@putteslaintxtbks5166]

A thought just came to me while watching this, that the anvil horn was probably first designed for making horse shoes. And now thinking on it, it seems obvious.

[@absmith666]

When you said half an hour I thought wow you’re not messing around. 😮then you mentioned your power hammer. I’d forgotten that you have a tyre hammer. I’ve just received my spring and plans and I’m curious if you use the adjustable height much? Thanks Gary it’s nice to see you .

[@garyhuston]

I don’t use it a great deal as most of my materials are between 13 and 30 mm which can be done on the same height but it’s great to have when you want to upset something a bit bigger that would be impossible with a fixed head.

[@absmith666]

@ thanks Gary. I’ll make my hammer adjustable as well.

[@fredschmidt6802]

Shoe looks good . Have not seen one of your videos in awhile . Say what ever happened to the motorcycle you bought the Yamaha that needed fixing

[@garyhuston]

Not had much of any interest to video really. The bike never came back he still has it. I just put it down to a life lesson.

[@Rich-on6fe]

Did it knacker your rasp?

[@garyhuston]

No, the rasp is fine..

[@messylaura]

i remember few years back you trying to move that rebar and at the start of this vid thought, "i bet thats the *** tough stuff"! hows it going with the arcdroid, any fun stuff?

[@garyhuston]

I should learn my lesson with rebar, it can be a pig! Yes, the Arcdroid is going great. I use it at least once a week for something. Even today I was mending some windows and the bottom hinges were shot, I was going to just lay down loads of weld and grind them up. Then I realized they are only folded 3mm sheet so I used the trace feature on the Arcdroid and a few minutes later had two new hinges!

[@bc65925]

Bob's you're Uncle.

[@qaqashuseynov6294]

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