Horse-flippers? Have any horses from history, ever been fitted with horseshoes that improve their ability to swim?

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• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh, I thought this was going to be about refurbishing and reselling horses.

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  • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My expectation was that one might rotate an equine on an axis other than yaw.

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    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Like drink the beer, and then flip the horse.

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  • MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m going to use this as a confusion-inducing insult:

    Yeah whatever, horse flipper.

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  • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ‘It’s got solid bones, but the inside’s a mess’

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    • Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ‘We’re gonna have to gut it’

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  • ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d watch that show

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  • AyuTsukasa@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So I read it and thought oh I read that wrong what the hell is a horse-flipper how would you do that? Then I read the rest of the question and was like oh wow I was right the first time but also still wrong because I thought they meant the verb instead of the noun.

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  • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought it was for people that flip off horses for no reason, they just don’t like 'em.

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• The_v@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well…spit… growing up on the ranch we had between 13 to 18 horses around all the time. Everything from Arabians to some workhorses.

  Now we only shoed them in late summer for the fall when we were working cattle.

  Now swimming is an interesting topic. During the hot days in the summer we would hop on a few hoses bareback and race across in the ponds.

  You would think the massive workhorses with their oversized hooves would win. Poweful, strong animals with big flippers on the bottom. Unfortunately they were the slowest in the water. They were stiff and inflexible, dumb and slow. They tended to swim a few feet, decide it was too much work, turn around and find some nice grass to eat.

  Now the Arabians with the smaller stature and dainty little hooves were by far the fastest in the water. The fastest was horse named ugly. He was a swayed back ill tempered little guy with a massive chip on his shoulder. He just had to be first everywhere. He was almost as vicious as the Spawn of Satan aka “Shetland pony”. Now Spawn of Satan didn’t like the water because brimstone and water don’t go together so we never got him to swim.

  What’s curious is after they were shod and their hoofs trimmed down, they all seemed a wee bit faster. I guess the smaller hoof works better for their swimming mechanism.

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  • ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for sharing your lived experience. Your characterisations of each horse gave me a good laugh.

    That is very interesting that they would be quicker after being shod. Not sure why that would be. Less apprehensive of kicking something underwater perhaps.

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  • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know what accent you intended to communicate, but I definitely heard it in my head

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I thought he was a fraud until he spit.

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  • KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I 100% expected this to turn into a Hell in the Cell meme

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    • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same!

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• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes, here’s a video when this was done in 2008.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    God dammit…I gave you a good faith upvote, and then clicked the video for what I assumed would be an amazing horse swimming video.

    …dammit Rick Astley! Stop dressing up like a unicorn!

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  • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Instructions unclear, there is now a banana in my ear.

    …I miss old youtube.

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    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You are the bo-nana king.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He doesn’t need flippers if he rides the magical leopluridon.

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  • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Goddammit you got my hopes up

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  • MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This gave me some serious flashbacks but I’ve no idea when or why I would have watched it

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  • ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hehe, thanks Charlie.

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• SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  seahorse intensifies

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• lqdrchrd@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Incredible. I have no idea, but I love this post. Keep it up.

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  • ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks, when showerthoughts take on a life of their own.

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• ta_leadran_orm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Flippers wouldn’t help really given how horses actually swim, they kind of kick back with each of they’re legs in a sequence similar to a trot. Their hooves already have a bit of a hollow which likely helps with swimming. Honestly though horses are pretty good swimmers, because they have huge lungs which helps them stay afloat with ease

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  • ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Regular flippers would not help.

    But some little hinged wings on the sides of each hoof could work.

    They fold down on the upstroke flat against the hoof, then fold out horizontal with the downstroke.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I could never imagine a horse swimming

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Luckily with the magic of the internet, your imagination need not be an issue.

      You can just see them!

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4mZ6CAz0aI

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    • ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also the underwater view here:

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=WThHDbfL8yU

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• mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Me, wondering how much money you can make buying horses on the low and reselling them with a fresh coat of paint: 🤡

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  • KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same! First thought the title was a typo!

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  • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can make some hay doing that

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    • ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Make it while the sun shines ; )

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• ownsauce@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

  Give em some of these withe the neck rest. Imagine amphibious roman chariots. Or a horse powered pontoon boat.

  There’s a lot of cool images here …tamu.edu/…/hoofbeats-over-the-water-ina-research…

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  • ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They are cool images, what a concept!

    I did not previously know that horse-treadmill-ferries were a thing.

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• thesporkeffect@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the exact question this subredd- er, community, excuse me, was made for

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• logos@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think you’d have better luck with a small, rear-mounted outboard motor.

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  • lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for the incredibly funny mental picture!

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• Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In historic times, people knew horses were land animals. So, I expect we will see this invention in about two more weeks.

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• Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait tho. That two-legged rear kick thing horses do may just need a uni-fin mermaid thing to create a true sea speed stallion.

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• TheHotze@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was trying to figure out what they meant by swimming houses for a minute.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m doubtful that giving a horse flippers would even help them swim.

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  • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And the movement they make doesn’t benefit from slippers.

    Humans can shift their body forward and kick their legs which flippers can amplify.

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think my neighbor has a horse? I guess I could ask.

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  • lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ooh! Keep us posted!

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    • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The horse said “neigh”.

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• essell@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  youtu.be/74kqIRP5U28

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  • ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I promise that this post is not research for an intercontinental horse swim.

    (I like this sketch, just heard The Goon Show for the first time 2 months ago, and am in that mode :)

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