Eureka Reporter | 1905-04-21 | Page 6 | Horses' Shoes Get Hot

horses shoes get hot i popular mechanics says that a horse shod with metal shoes should not be driven rapidly on an asphalt pavement the heat produced la painful to the animal and may be in purlous it cites an instance where two men indulged in a friendly horse race on asphalt one of the horses cast a shoe and when the rider picked it up it blistered his hand and did not cool off for several minutes at each step the horse slips a little and this constant friction of the metal shoe under weight upon the sand in the pavement generates a high degree of heat