A cold morning in January showed me my rasp angle was all wrong

I was finishing a quarter crack repair on a draft horse, and the owner, an old timer named Frank, just watched me work. After about ten minutes, he said, 'Son, you're fighting that rasp like it's a saw.' I realized I was holding it almost flat, just skimming the hoof wall. He showed me how to tip it to a sharper angle, letting the teeth really bite and pull. The difference in control and the finish was night and day. For those who learned on their own, what's one basic tool move you had to unlearn?

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matthew7035mo ago

That's funny, I actually learned it the other way around.

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john_sullivan25mo ago

Yeah it's wild how these things get flipped around! I was just reading about how old math textbooks taught the order of operations differently. Like some 1920s books would have you do division before multiplication left to right, which changes the whole answer on tricky problems. Makes you wonder if our "right" way is just the one that stuck after a bunch of arguing.

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