She’s hilarious! I love the six pack abs! 
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I wonder if the farrier video craze is related to the dynamics of the carpet cleaning video craze. The custom cleaning is of horrendously dirty area rugs, some antique and imported, so encased in filth and grime that the color and pattern are invisible. Some retrieved from garbage dumps. Some having been on a family’s floor for decades. Etc.
The idea is that the meticulous, repetitive process of cleaning one carpet, by a human using hand-held machines and tools, is relaxing.
The few channels I’ve seen that publish these videos can have up to 2 million subscribers!
Some videos are an hour, some can be several hours. The carpets range from small round up to the size of a large room. Viewers become accustomed to the cleaner’s individual workplace, tools and machines. And apparently look forward to seeing and hearing them! (If the sound is annoying, try it without sound.)
Car cleaning inside & out is another stream. And the guy(s) who clean & cut people’s untended backyard/front yard spaces, that are totally overgrown.
Short example …
My current farrier had no horse experience. The farm’s farrier where I board has horses and has qualified for national rodeo classes. There is a reason I don’t use the farm farrier with horse experience. Lets talk about 2 hot nails and a high nail all in one summer, all that resulted in an abcess and 2 weeks down time each time.
The farrier that had no horse experience when he started, never owned horses, still does not own horses does a much better job than the farm farrier. He understands angles, has never had a high nail or hot nail on any of my horses. He is good with the horses. He views the shoeing as a combo of science and art. He views shoeing as a challenge to get it right. Even though he wasn’t a horseman he is just one of those people that does well with horses, dogs, cats. He would probably do well with cattle, goats and sheep. He just understands and has a good vibe with animals.
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Uh ok? I was just pointing out to a previous poster that many current farriers had no horse experience when they started and it’s nothing new. No need to go on the attack.
My brother is a farrier. While he never rode, he worked with horses a lot before going on to farrier school. He’s had a lot of apprentices- some that had no horse experience but most did. Of the ones that didn’t have horse experience, only one has stuck it out for any length of time. I really like his previous apprentice but after 2 years she decided that, as a very petite lady, it was too hard on her body and she was going to school to be a firefighter instead
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Oh wow. 
I live near a firefighting school. I would have suggested that she preview their curriculum before deciding that firefighting would be physically easier than farriery. 
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She’s been a volunteer firefighter for a few years, she says it’s still easier lol
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Nate the hoof guy that trims cattle has a huge following,… and he only does voiceovers on his videos, so its not only about the muscles. 
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I dread the day my farrier of nearly 30yrs retires.
His son works with him & hopefully will take over.
I know Sr went to Purdue & assume that’s where he learned.
Son may have gone to School of Dad & that’s fine too.
They’re both good with my 3:
horse, pony & mini
They tagteam the mini so neither has to spend too much time bent over that far.
Pony was given to me by farrier as a companion.
He’d driven him, had a couple crashes & wisely decided to leave it there.
I tease him Mrs Farrier probably told him one of them had to go… 
Dad has experience driving - as a young man he drove a 6 of Hackney ponies - his wife trains & shows ASB.
Both in their mid-late 70s (or more?).
In all the years I’ve used him he has never ghosted me or cancelled an appt w/o a good reason or rescheduling at the same time.
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My longtime farrier was a bronc rider and raced chariots when he was younger. He’s broken most of his bones at one time or another. He said the way his dad trained chariot horses was to hook up a newbie horse with an experienced horse, and away they’d go. He said when he was a kid, it was his job to run in front of the racing horses to stop them. No wonder he was always in pain!
He was also very empathetic with humans and horses, and would sit on the ground to trim my elderly mare. She loved him and never hurt him even though she could have easily injured him terribly. He never complained about trimming my two ponies, and they also loved him.
He came to us on a friend’s recommendation after I’d been ghosted by farrier #1, had to fire farrier #2 for picking fights with my mare, and #3 had no horse experience and only lasted a few months. I was thrilled with #4 and he was with us for a long time, until we moved out of state.
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I am sorry you felt I attacked you. I was just sharing my experience that no horse experience prior to starting the career was not a bad thing. I apparently misunderstood the point of your post to be that no horse experience is not a bad thing and not new. My bad.
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Before this guy I had the (sadly) usual run of No-Show shoer’s, Prima Donnas, Those Who Only Spoke to Trainer, etc.
We’d moved barns & I knew the bigshot shoer from former barn wouldn’t come just to trim our two. So we went with the barn’s choice - locally well-liked & did a decent job for a couple sessions…
Until he didn’t 
Came to the barn, led my TB out of his stall & heard the unmistakable sound of a shod horse on cement 
DH’s horse was also shod. Both all around.
Both had been barefoot for at least 5yrs w/o issues.
I Evented TB barefoot
Shoer had 5 different ph#s he could have called.
When I called him, he said he “thought they needed it” & offered to come back to pull shoes.
I turned down the offer, called my vet to ask if he knew a shoer…
& was referred to present guy.
The End
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I’ve only had to dump a head-up-their-butt farriers a couple of times. Farriers who performed one quality for their favorite customers, and absolute sh*7 for the rest.
Each time the next farrier, found by word of mouth, was one of the best.
Some farriers act as if there is no other choice. As if owners who want to explore other options will be left hanging in the wind. So far that has never been true for me. Of course where any farrier is scarce, it may be different.
My pet peeve is similar. The ones who have the ability to shoe well but say “it’s good enough for this horse” really frost my cake. My dear farrier takes the same amount of care and pride in the older horses as he does his world champion horses. Class act all the way…and I’m grateful.
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My last farrier was the one my BO in South Carolina used. I didn’t know anyone, so I went with her guy. He did a great job and my horse liked him. Then I found out the farrier showed Big Lick. I did not know what to do as I think it is cruel. My pony was well into his 30s by then, so I just let the situation go on. My pony died not too long after I made that discovery.
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