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What’s it like to be a Farrier?
Farriers inspect, trim and shape horses’ hooves and make, fit and nail
horseshoes, or racing plates or ‘tips’ for racehorses.
Farriers spend a great deal of time travelling to attend to horses, mainly in
country or outer-metropolitan areas. Weekend and after-hours work is often
necessary. They must work very quickly and have the ability to handle horses,
which may at times be unpredictable or agitated.
Farriers usually wear protective equipment.
How much can I expect to earn?
Full-time employed Farrier earn an average of $1173 per week. The [average
annual salary for this job is $60996 excluding super.]
Personal requirements
- able to cope with the physical demands of the job
- good eyesight and hearing
- enjoy working with horses
- awareness of personal and industrial safety
- good hand-eye coordination.
This job also involves:
Full use of hands/fingers
Use of precision or semi-precision tools or instruments or deft hand movements
are required for these occupations. Included are jobs where poor co-ordination
or incomplete use of hands or fingers may make tasks dangerous or difficult to
undertake.
Good vision for detail
These jobs require you to be able to see clearly to examine items close-up. It
covers jobs where poor vision e.g. tunnel vision, could make the work place
unsafe or the job difficult to undertake, e.g. draftsperson working with
detailed drawings; checkout operator reading dockets; work requiring good
hand-eye co-ordination for working with precision or semi-precision tools.
Physical effort
The main duties and tasks involved in these jobs require daily physical
exertion, such as bending and twisting, lifting, climbing, pulling, pushing,
carrying or other effort where physical fitness is required. People with
heart, back or other conditions who should avoid physical strain may wish to
avoid these jobs.
Reading or writing
These jobs require moderate or better reading and writing skills. Workers may
be expected to prepare, understand or act on written materials, such as
letters or reports. People may wish to avoid these jobs if their reading or
writing English skills are limited to a small range of words or phrases and
symbols. Jobs remaining may still require very basic reading or writing
skills.
This occupation offers jobs at the following skill levels:
Skilled Trade Jobs
These jobs do not usually require completion of secondary education, however
further part-time study usually at Certificate III level, and on-the-job
training offered as an apprenticeship, is required.
Study requirements
At school, you can study these subject(s) to get a good foundation for this
occupation:
Biology
School subjects that include some aspect of BIOLOGY provide a useful
background to these jobs. In some cases a biology-related subject is a pre-
requisite for entry to courses that provide the training for the job.
Physical Education
School subjects that include some aspect of physical education provide a
useful background to these jobs. In some cases a physical education subject is
a pre-requisite for entry to courses that provide the training for the job.
Rural Studies
School subjects that include some aspect of RURAL STUDIES provide a useful
background to these jobs. In some cases an rural studies subject is a pre-
requisite for entry to courses that provide the training for the job.
Duties and tasks of a Farrier
Farriers may perform the following tasks:
- inspect horses’ legs and hooves while they are stationary as well as in motion to check for irregularities, interference, peculiarities in gait (how the horse walks) or abnormalities in size and shape of hooves
- talk to the horse owners or trainers to decide on types of shoes and nails required
- remove worn or faulty shoes and note wear patterns, foreign bodies, bruising, infections or deformities
- examine, clean, trim and shape hooves using knives, hoof cutters and rasps
- measure hooves, take a template of each hoof on a piece of cardboard and estimate the length of metal required for the shoes
- select and cut metal according to type, size and weight of shoes and type of horse
- hold shoes against hooves to determine the amount of shaping required
- heat shoes in a forge, shape them on anvils and hammer them to size
- place and nail shoes to hooves and check that clips and clenched nails are smooth and lined up with the walls of each hoof
- remove steel shoes from horses before they race, replace with light aluminium shoes or ‘tips’ and replace the steel shoes after the race
- work in the areas of corrective or surgical shoeing.