Horseshoeing is very very hard work. I graduated from Oklahoma Farrier’s College back in 1973 and shod horses in NM, Colo, OK and Ark for a few years. I shod my last one in 1977.
The work is backbreaking and a killer in Ark-Ok summer heat!
I still do some blacksmithing for odds and ends and verious steel fabrication.
Still have my tools, anvil (Peter Wright) and a home made forge with which I burn OKla coal!
On a cool day forge work is fun!