Switched to a 2-inch hoof knife and my trimming time dropped by 20 minutes per horse.

I always used a 1.5-inch blade because that's what my mentor taught me, but after trying a wider knife on a draft cross with thick soles near Lexington six weeks ago, I found I could peel off layers way faster without losing control, has anyone else noticed a big difference just from changing knife size?

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roses691d ago

Oh yeah, 'kind of insane' is exactly what my old mentor called it too, right before he told me I was overthinking a half inch of steel. But look, size DOES matter, just not in the way people joke about. I figured the same as you - a blade's a blade - until I had a Percheron with soles like shoe leather and the 2-inch just scooped it out like butter. Now I keep both sizes in my truck and switch based on the horse. It's not a huge life change or anything, but when you're doing five horses a day, twenty minutes per hoof stack up to a real lunch break.

park.tara1d ago

Ngl that's kind of insane you saw that much of a difference from just a half inch bigger blade. I always figured the size didn't matter that much but now I'm second guessing everything.

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