Actually you gotta come at them flat or you'll gouge the concrete.

Wait, they're actively turning away people with cash in hand at the door?

Good on him for keeping it running, but I wouldn't call a 2005 machine old. Real old iron from the 70s and early 80s is way more reliable than that stuff.

Huh, I actually don't see it that way. Yeah the 90 degree ones work fine for most stuff but sometimes the right angle ones give you way better clearance on certain jobs. Not every tool has to be a home run for every use case.

Hugo, I gotta give you props for jumping into barefoot trimming, it's a whole different animal. But one thing that sticks out to me is that you said "let the hoof tell you where to go." I'd be careful with that approach, because sometimes the hoof will tell you all sorts of bad habits if you don't have a solid understanding of the anatomy first. Like, I had a horse with a really long toe and underrun heels, and if I had just followed where the hoof looked like it wanted to go, I would've kept taking off way too much heel and leaving the toe too long. You gotta have a target in mind based on the live sole plane and the coffin bone position, not just "what feels right" in the moment. Did you ever run into a case where trusting the hoof's "look" led you wrong?