What kind of Horseshoe ?

[DWild]

Never found one like this before. Maybe for traction in soil??

 

[Old Longhair]

It's a shoe for driving horses working on ice.
Nowadays we use screw-in studs that allow us to adjust traction to suit the specific conditions, and the only modification to the actual shoe are holes that are drilled and tapped for the standardized 3/8"-16 threaded studs.

 

[Ronstar]

I was hoping it was a specially designed shoe used on the Mounted Patrol to leave a specific evidence mark on the forehead of a well known street terrorist group as they stepped on them.

 

[Old Longhair]

I was hoping it was a specially designed shoe used on the Mounted Patrol to leave a specific evidence mark on the forehead of a well known street terrorist group as they stepped on them.

It would do that.


Seriously, I'm old school enough that I drift my 5/16" stud holes rather than drill them, so I don't have to think about whether there's electricity available or not. And I don't have to deal with drill bits or the mess that drilling those holes makes. But, as old school as I am, I'm still not old enough to remember seeing horses shod with that style shoe. They pretty much quit using them in the 50's, about the same time creameries quit using horses for deliveries and went to trucks. The man that taught me shod creamery horses to put himself through college, and he had shoes like that one in his collection.

 

[Ronstar]

An interesting side note..... local Historical Society has a couple of pictures of horses on snowshoes. They had to cross a low level pass (so to speak) in order to get mail from the last post office in our county over to a neighboring town in the next county. I cant even grasp how you figure out the size to be appropriate let alone training a horse to walk with them. Amazing!!!!

 

[Old Longhair]

An interesting side note..... local Historical Society has a couple of pictures of horses on snowshoes. They had to cross a low level pass (so to speak) in order to get mail from the last post office in our county over to a neighboring town in the next county. I cant even grasp how you figure out the size to be appropriate let alone training a horse to walk with them. Amazing!!!!

They used something similar on horses in my neighborhood. I'm surrounded by muck farms. It's all deep black muck that conventional tractors would be instantly stuck in. These days it gets farmed with track equipment.

 

[Scooter23]

While we’re on the topic…found this one and was wondering about the age. I think it’s a draft horse shoe

 

[Old Longhair]

While we’re on the topic…found this one and was wondering about the age. I think it’s a draft horse shoe

That is another ice shoe (Rt. hind). It originally had screw-in studs that had wide blades similar to the OP shoe, but they could be replaced and/or removed to be resharpened. Most were machine made, and they were popular from the late 20's to the early 50's.
Judging by the dimensions, it was for a small draft or a "chunk" (<-a descriptive name given to draft horse crossed with a light horse).

 

[Draco]

Yes, they are ice horseshoes. There are still places where they sell them.

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