That cheap rasp covered in rust cost me 3 hours of work

I ordered a budget rasp off Amazon for $18 thinking I was being smart. First use on a draft horse hoof and the thing started chipping after 5 minutes. I spent the next 3 hours trying to finish the trim with a dull tool and ended up cutting the horse twice by accident. The owner was NOT happy and I had to comp her $50 off the visit. Anyone else fall for cheap tools from online deals?

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carr.willow4mo ago

lol oh man, that brings back a story my buddy learned the hard way. He bought a set of "diamond" files for $15 online to use on his horses' hooves and the coating literally peeled off like a bad sunburn after two passes. He spent the next 4 hours trying to get a decent edge back with a hand file he found in his truck, and the horse was so over it he had to reschedule the other two he had lined up that day. Ended up losing way more money than if he'd just spent $60 on a real rasp from the feed store.

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wren_smith444mo ago

Gotta be honest, I'm not sure I see it as that big of a deal. I mean, yeah it sucks that the files peeled off, but four hours to fix one hoof? That sounds like a bit of an exaggeration. Maybe it's just me but a hand file from a truck isn't exactly some pro level tool either. And the horse got over it after one reschedule, not like the world ended. People act like one bad buy ruins their whole week, but idk, seems like you just learn from it and move on. I've used $10 diamond files for light work before and they held up fine, so maybe it's more about how you use them than where you get them.

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