Common sense and shoeing tools are the only requirements necessary to tack on a plate without calks.
Leaving that island, we turned back in order to find a suitable place to calk the ships, for they were leaking.
We had stripped her to her girt-lines, calked her, decks and all, from her hold up, and painted her inside and out.
Those not able to do hard work stripped palmetto leaves to use in the place of tow for calking and rigging.
These barges were constructed of planks strongly corded together over a frame, and calked and pitched.
Our line was sixteen miles long, the shape of a horseshoe, with the hind calking resting on the river.
When used for calking on a vessel they must expand and contract with the temperature and not crack or come loose.
The subject may be shod later, with heel calks that raise the heel moderately and a protracted period of rest should be enforced.
