Then why in thunder, Blaze," exclaimed Whitley, "did we start without calks on the shoes of our horses?
Without calks on thar shoes our hosses are pretty shore to slip on the ice and break theirselves up, or fall down a cliff an' break themselves up more.
In some cases a high, narrow shoe, resting only on the wall, or the ordinary plain shoe with side calks welded close to the outside edge and the shoe dished well from these as a foundation.
Moreover, the shoe with its calks increases the length of the leg and adds to the leverage on the hock, by virtue of such added length.
The subject may be shod later, with heel calksthat raise the heel moderately and a protracted period of rest should be enforced.
By shoeing with high heel-calks considerable strain is taken from the inflamed tendons because of the changed position of the foot which alters the distribution of weight on different parts of the leg.
On city streets, horses shod with shoes having long calks get caught in frogs of street railways or by slipping on rails, and phalangeal bones are often broken.
Sharp shoe-calks afford a means of infliction of penetrant wounds which may occasion open joint and infectious arthritis.
The practice of applying shoes with extended toe-calks for the purpose of "stretching" contracted deep digital flexor tendons (flexor pedis perforans) cannot be too strongly condemned.
Excessive leverage as furnished by long toes, long toe-calks and low heels increases the normal tension on the posterior ligaments of the pastern joint.
By keeping the heels as low as possible and shoeing without heel calks a more comfortable position is made possible.
There is little if anything to be done in case the cartilage has become ossified except to shoe without high calks but preferably with rubber pads.
In the Goodenough shoe, the calks are supplied, and the weight so distributed that the objection to the old method does not exist.
A horse set upon heavy shoes, and those armed with calks at toe and heel, such as are usually inflicted upon large draft-horses, has his whole weight placed upon the unsupported sole.
The effect of heel-calks and their accompaniment of corns, making a sore in each heel, is often indicated by the horse to his regardless owner by bending his knee.
It is a favorite theory of this class of shoers that they are able to correct the errors of Providence in the horse's construction, and piece him out with heel-calks and bar-shoes!
Another common cause of contracted heels is to be found in faulty shoeing, such as rasping the wall, cutting away the frog, heels, and bars; high calks and the use of nails too near the heels.
The wall of the foot should be spared from the abuse of the rasp; the frog, heels, and bars are not to be mutilated with the knife, nor should calks be used on the shoe except when absolutely necessary.
Horses wearing shoes with sharp calks are liable to wounds of the coronary region, either from trampling on themselves or on each other.
Note the short shoe, heel calks inclined forward, and the rolled toe.
The top and outer-heel calks cut at right angles, and the inner-heel calk is slender and blunt.
Leave the quarters long, shorten the toe, give the shoe rolling motion, and either put short heel calks on the branches or thicken the branches.
For the hind feet a long-heeled shoe with calksseems to do best.
These shoes, covering the margin or wall of the foot, show slight traces of having been beveled on the lower surface, and contain two bent calks very superficially placed.
Aside from the peculiar shaped nail holes, the characteristic of the Hunish shoe consists in the changes of the calks for summer and winter shoeing, as well as in the sinking of the nail heads.
Sometimes both shanks were sharpened in this way, or were provided with blade-shaped calks well set forward.
The calks were next placed forward, perhaps from an uncultivated sense of beauty, or from the high bending up of the hind part of the shoe, which would necessitate a high and heavy unsightly calk.
It was a worth-while sight to see them strike theircalks into the ice and brace themselves against the shock which they clearly expected when the cutter started to skid.
The calks in these climbing-irons were about an inch and a quarter long; we wished they had been two inches.
They are not so safe as step-cutting, and there is the ever-present danger that unless one is exceedingly careful one will step upon the rope with them and their sharp calks sever some of the strands.
Either the heel or the toe calksmust find a crevice somewhere.
But when it comes to wet asphalt--your calks will not help you there.
He could tell, merely by glancing at a rise in the roadway, whether a slow, steady pull was needed, or if the time had come to stick in his toe-calks and throw all of his two thousand pounds on the collar.
At the foot of the hill as we came up, the Cardinal caught a stone between the calks of one of his hind shoes, and Jud got off to pry it out.
Old Christian sprung the calks on the horn of the anvil, and returned the shoe.
He thrust the calks on his bootsoles into the log and the shreds of bark and small chips flew as he stamped to get a secure footing for his work.
The boy sprang from log to log, the calks making the chips fly, and with a canthook pushed off a log that had caught and swung upon a small bank.
I didn't draw the calksfor I exercised 'er each d'y, I did.
Her calks threw bits of ice-crust behind her, and she never slipped nor slid.
But her sharpened calks gave her a grip on the frozen snow that the wise mare quickly understood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
