| 摘要 |
A horseshoe cleaning tool and method for cleaning under a horseshoe shod to a horse's hoof. The tool includes a blade portion having a blade neck with proximal and distal ends, and the blade portion has a substantially thin and planar tip portion adjacent the blade neck distal end. The tip portion has left and right wing-type extensions each extending laterally outward within the plane of the tip portion and respectively having a left and a right pointed tip remote from the blade neck. The left and right wing-type extensions respectively form left and right notches of about 90 degrees adjacent the blade neck distal end, and the tip portion is substantially rounded intermediate the left and right pointed tips. The tool has a handle grip spaced from the plane of the tip portion, and a blade mounting segment extends upwardly and rearwardly from the blade neck's proximal end and joins to the handle grip. The method comprises grasping the handle grip with a hand, raising the horse's hoof above the ground so that the horse's hoof no longer supports the horse, then placing the tip portion of the tool under the horseshoe and between the horseshoe and the horse's hoof, and then moving the handle grip from side to side and forcing debris from under the horseshoe by using the wing-type extensions to engage the debris.
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