A machine-made (drop-forged)
front shoe, ground-surface.
Fig. 134.
A machine-made toe-weight front
shoe for a harness horse, showing
ground-surface. Punching good.
For these reasons we cannot approve of machine shoes.
2. Finished Cast Shoes.—They are of four kinds,—ordinary cast shoes, cast shoes with rope buffer, cast shoes with fiber buffer, and cast shoes fenestrated to hold a rubber buffer. Ordinary cast shoes of correct form and proper punching designed by Grossbauer, of Vienna, are sold by Hannes’ Sons, of that city.
Fig. 135.
Fig. 136.