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In today's warfighting environment, planners aren't worried about the availability of horseshoe nails but about items such as thermal batteries needed to ensure that rockets can operate under harsh cold-weather conditions, or the stockpiling of rotary heads for combat helicopters and propeller aircraft.

The missing horseshoe nail in this situation is the basic understanding of how these devices work together.

This is kind of a backwards variation of Ben Franklin's "For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail" only on a much larger and more lethal scale.

TGA Perksons is to move from Lye, where the company was founded as a horseshoe nail manufacturer in 1861, to Willenhall.

Other than lack of moisture, the major cause of hoofwall breakup is the size of the horseshoe nail. The standard horseshoe nail for pleasure horses is much thicker and broader than a racehorse nail of the same length.

For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; For want of the shoe, the horse was lost; For want of the horse, the rider was lost; For want of the rider, the message was lost; For want of the message, the battle was lost; For want of the battle, the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

One type of hog ringer used pieces of sheet metal that had been cut out with tin snips, and another used a common horseshoe nail for a ring.

"Some of the farming articles found during the sweep included horseshoes, horseshoe nails, pieces of horse drawn farming equipment, buttons, a knife blade (designed to clean the hooves of horses), a lantern base, saddle rings, harness parts, and a 1905 'V' nickel," said Karen Davis, an assistant in the city of Lowell's Administration Department.