Man who makes living with horseshoes wins $1M Powerball prize

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lulu1feather — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 00:55:14 GMT

The cost of nails, shoes, tools, and fuel(and usually a truck pulling a trailer), the amount of actual profit really isn't that great. Then insurance and the toll it takes on your body being hunched over and occasionally getting kicked, bitten, or holding a horses foot between your legs- while it thrashes about. If you're lucky, their legs even covered in mud!

In the rain, snow and sleet, or pouring sweat in the heat.

Some of my best friends are farriers. Poor suckers! hahaha

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TheMeatman2005 — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 14:40:03 GMT

NAY

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LiveInGreenBay — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 14:13:13 GMT

Use your horse sense.

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TheMeatman2005 — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 13:24:43 GMT

How the BUCK am I to know what you do or DOE n't know.

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LiveInGreenBay — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 03:05:00 GMT

You think I didn't know that? I do live in Wisconsin you know.

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TheMeatman2005 — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:55:52 GMT

Actually the doe is the female deer...not the buck (male)

I caught your doe n't

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LiveInGreenBay — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:41:52 GMT

Sure...If you doe n't mind.

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TheMeatman2005 — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 22:58:16 GMT

Apparently you missed the pun LIGB. The guy that won , his name is Joseph... hence Average Joe Do I need to explain the reference about the bucks too

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LiveInGreenBay — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 21:10:04 GMT

Yea...I'm so glad a lawyer or doctor didn't win. Not that I have anything against doctors.

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TheMeatman2005 — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 20:54:23 GMT

It's nice to know that an average Joe ... pun intended, can win on a whim with a few extra bucks. I wonder if he shoed those bucks...LOL

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LiveInGreenBay — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:56:47 GMT

According to a publication called the Farrier Guide the average (full time) Farrier salary is $92,623 per year. And Farrier's who shoe racehorses make over $200,000 per year. Seems I'm in the wrong occupation.

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noise-gate — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 17:40:27 GMT

Congrats Joseph.

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Raven62 — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 17:32:00 GMT

One of them was a Lucky Horseshoe

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hearsetrax — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 16:01:32 GMT

sounds like a song cue to me jejeje

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Todd — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 15:27:48 GMT

It would be fun to make a living playing horseshoes though.

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sully16 — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 15:18:48 GMT

WTG Joe

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music* — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 15:02:25 GMT

The Yanish family will enjoy a mortgage burning party. Congratulations

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rcbbuckeye — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:38:38 GMT

Ahh, I missed that.

Shoes horses. Now that makes more sense. LOL.

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Bleudog101 — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:33:46 GMT

Plenty of farriers, I'm sure, in the Saddlebred Capital of the world, Simpsonville KY.

Congratulations on your win. I'm scared to death of horses and they know it. Seems like a well deserving win to me.

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LiveInGreenBay — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:03:33 GMT

Says he's a farrier . Had to look that one up in the dictionary. He shoes horses. LOL

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rcbbuckeye — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 13:19:44 GMT

Well that's gotta be a first. A guy making a living playing horseshoes???

Another nice story of lightning striking on an impulse buy.

Man who makes living with horseshoes wins $1M Powerball prize

Lottery Post — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 13:01:42 GMT

For years, horseshoes have been bringing a steady income to Minnesotan Joseph Yanish. Last week, the luck that the horseshoe symbolizes brought him a $1 million payout.

Yanish, a farrier who lives just west of the Twin Cities in Litchfield, won the $1 million prize on an impulse purchase he made at a Casey's General Store in St. Cloud.

I just had an extra couple of bucks and decided to buy two tickets at the last minute, he said.

Yanish, 33, discovered his win a couple of days after th... [ More ]