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#41
02-16-2010, 03:42 PM
AND THE HAY RIDES!!! My gawd! That was the bomb! Snuggling down with Suzie T! Blonde hair, blue eyes, Mmmmmmmmmmmmm! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
And Maggie! Harriett! Margie!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Hay rides were fun! :lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:
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#42
02-16-2010, 03:49 PM
:block: Oooooooooh!! Stop it! STaawp IT!!! You're making me homesick! :tears: :tears:
Oooooooh for the day's of burnt cowhide, sidestepping roping horses, angry Mama cows, bawling calves! :tears: :tears: Cutting horns off with a hand saw. Cauterizing those wounds with a hot iron, when the cut was made wrong and blood started gushing! Castrating! Oooooooooooh the fun! Ooooooooooooh! The mud, the blood....THE BEER!  Damn.....................If I only looked now, like I did back then! :tears: :tears: :tears: I didn't know it, but every last one of them hay bales was good exercise! I just thought it was something that had to be done every frigging day, from the 23rd of October until the 3rd or 4th of June for 10 years !!! Horses, bulls, barb wire, lodge pole pine! Now those were the days! Of course...............the ranch was how I learned to drive a truck! Backing bull racks up to the loading-shute, was the first step to being a truck driver! King ropes, Carhartt calf-skin gloves, Stetson hats, Levi's with the button fly and Tony Lama boots! Those were standard tools of the trade. (I wore a pair of oiled Nacona boots during branding time! I also had an oiled hat for when it was raining!!) My saddle was handmade in Montrose Colorado! Drove all the way down there from Montana to get measured, then when it was finished, drove down to pick it up! That sucker is collecting dust in a barn up there right now! :tears: :tears: :tears: I miss the work...sometimes!
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#43
02-18-2010, 03:48 AM
Originally Posted by Orangetxguy
Oooooooh for the day's of burnt cowhide, sidestepping roping horses, angry Mama cows, bawling calves! :tears: :tears:
Cutting horns off with a hand saw. Cauterizing those wounds with a hot iron, when the cut was made wrong and blood started gushing! Castrating! Oooooooooooh the fun! I didn't know it, but every last one of them hay bales was good exercise! I just thought it was something that had to be done every frigging day, from the 23rd of October until the 3rd or 4th of June for 10 years !!! Of course...............the ranch was how I learned to drive a truck! Backing bull racks up to the loading-shute, was the first step to being a truck driver! I've been around it my whole life, and I've never gotten used to that burnt hide. Pew! They make a "cable" now with a handle on each end for de-horning. Like taking a knife through hot butter. It's amazing how smooth and how quick that cable cuts off them horns. A problem with a lot of "cross breeds" is that they sometimes have horns that grow in weird directions. Sometimes, one will curl back towards their head. You wanna cut that horn off.. You got her in the workin chute and trying to hold her head still, while someone is cutting that horn off. She jerks her head, and your elbow hits that chute. Ouch! :eek2: I've had my hands smashed a 'few' times. I like round bales. :thumbsup: You just sit there and work the hydraulic levers.  That's how a lot of guys learned how to drive. I learned how to drive on a Chevy C-60 grain truck. Remember the 5speed-2speed? You push in the button to get back on the low side... clickclickclick (push on the gas) ping!
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#45
02-18-2010, 08:33 AM
Ya mean.... like this?  or this..................  
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#46
03-03-2010, 02:27 AM
Well dude, you asked for, and now have, the precident of states rights over federal laws. Now the laws change as you move from state to state. The cell phone issue is the least of the problems. The special conditions section of the road atlas has a ton of them. It's life. The playing field is level, and we all learn to adapt. (AKA get over it).
#47
03-09-2010, 04:39 AM
Case of ID theft ?
Well dude, you asked for, and now have, the precident of states rights over federal laws. Now the laws change as you move from state to state. The cell phone issue is the least of the problems. The special conditions section of the road atlas has a ton of them. It's life. The playing field is level, and we all learn to adapt. (AKA get over it).
#48
03-22-2010, 01:04 PM
hey!!! Kevin.....where you hiding there buddy??
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#49
03-31-2010, 01:23 PM
Maybe when Kevin thinks of cowboys and ranches he's getting the Bunny Ranch confused with the other livestock ones?
To the person who doesn't understand why all drivers don't shower all the time, some of that might be because of companies having drivers fuel up at the yard and not at truck stops to save money. Yes, many of the yards have showers and the time management is a driver issue, but I personally always hit the yard in the middle of a trip and didn't want to take the time out of the 14hr day to take one. To me it was much better to do so when pulling off the road, and after going for a walk or whatever. Without fueling at the stops the showers run $7+ a pop. Let's face it, not every day requires a shower, but you'd also never see me get out of the truck chased by bo either. That I don't understand.... |
