Your farrier can nail these shoes on just like metal ones. No need for your farrier to bring the anvil or special tools. These shoes need only common horseshoe nails, hammer, rasp, and nippers. When finished nailing, rasp or trim the excess plastic for a custom fit, and that’s it— all without moving the anvil.

Steps for Easy Application of
Ground Control Horseshoes

1. Trim, clean, and smooth the hoof making sure you have a flat balanced surface.
Proper hoof trimming is essential to the health of the horse's hoof .

2. File the horse’s toe area, matching the angle on the Ground Control Shoes.
This will help with the rollover motion, will prevent toe stubbing,
and will keep the shoe from sliding backwards.

3. Trim any extra urethane from the shoe.
Place the shoe over the hoof and determine if some of the shoe needs to be trimmed.
Use the trim guide line to help or trace around the hoof onto the shoe with a sharpie marker.
A little extra shoe should be left on the back and sides for support.
Then cut the extra urthane off with hoof nippers, a rasp or a knife.

4. Hammer the first nail into the outside of the white line at the proper angle.
Repeat on the other side, then hammer in the other nails.
Make sure that the nail head is down into the nail channel.
Use a nail set or bang hard on the last hit. Use three or four nails per side.

5. File the shoe with a rasp for a smooth fit to the hoof.
Leave a little extra urethane around the back edges to allow for hoof expansion.
Also leave enough urethane to support the heal.

6. Use clinchers to clamp down nail ends.
Make sure they are good and tight.

Here's a tip for taking off the Ground Control shoes:
After cutting the clinches, use your nail pullers and take out each nail one by one.
The shoes flex, so if you try to muscle them off by pulling the shoe itself to
pry off the nails with the pull offs, it will be more difficult.

Using Studs for Icy Conditions
Ground Control Horseshoes perform well enough on their own over asphalt, rock and dirt, but when you need a cleat to dig into ice, then applying studs during the application process may be your best solution. We currently do not sell these studs, but they may be purchased through:

http://www.easyboot.com under the accessories page.
Front view with studs in place. Back view with studs in place.


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