Quick Steps For Keeping Your Clinchers In ServiceTaking the time to clean and maintain your clinchers will provide a longer life for the tool

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Not every horseshoer uses clinchers, but those that do find them to be a vital instrument. Despite the importance of this tool to many farriers' practices, its care is often overlooked.According to Dan Bradley, giving some care to neglected clinchers can improve their effectiveness and give a long-lasting, efficient tool. The farrier and G.E. Forge & Tool clinician from Lucedale, Miss., delivered clincher tips at the 2013 InternationalHoof-Care Summit.How do you know it is time to work on clinchers?"It will start raking down the nails or slipping," says Bradley. "So, if you just clean it up, nine times out of 10 it'll be fine. But it is typical of what we do — just let all that material stay in there and that's just going to make it slip on you."