Iāll be interested to follow along with your experience!
Of course right after my last post, saying the Wolf-Busch tabs were working well, my mare came in with a shoe ripped clean off, and all tabs still in place. Canāt blame the superglue for that one. I decided to try the shoes without a pad, and see if that helped with retention. She was sore the next day (had the shoes off for a couple days), so I packed them in with Magic Cushion. I think going forward, Iām going to just do this if I shoe without pads (with pads, I use the Luwex DIM). It seems like a good way to keep gunk out of the space between the shoe and sole, and she was comfortable the next day.
For heat guns, Iāve been happy with my SeekOne from Amazon. It comes with a reducer, so it works for welding, and has a digital temp adjustment, so Iāve used it for drying feet as well. I found my creme brulee torch and used that last time and my mare was NOT impressed when she smelled a bit of burning. Thatās it, momās trying to set me on fire!
Iāve read on the FB group that some people are doing a couple wraps of saran, and then the electrical tape over it. Iām going to give that a go next time since I always end up with a few spots of tape glued on the tabs/hoof wall - itās just a cosmetic issue, but slightly annoying.