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Always good to love your job😁 ![[Linked Image]](http://keysborougheggfarm.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/beef_cuts_diagram.jpg) This is my kind of cow!!!
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Campfire Tracker
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Damn. Haulilng water sucks. Might as well be a dairy farmer. In both situations, you are married to those cows.
You need a dog to keep those cows off the tanks until you have them filled up.
Last edited by Tarkio; 07/30/17. Reason: Apparently, I cannot spell the word, "dog" correctly.
Montana MOFO
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Campfire Kahuna
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I should take one of those knothead dogs with me.
I am MAGA.
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Campfire Ranger
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Looks like you have a tasty life.
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Oracle
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You talk big, Jim, but I can tell you really love them cowies!
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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Campfire Kahuna
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Drought is a depressing SOB.
After ranching in the desert for years, and during the horrible drought, no less, I have learned a thing or two about water and cattle.
If you need a couple of methods as alternative to hauling water, shoot me a PM. It doesn't take long to get tired of cost and trouble of hauling water, for sure.
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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Campfire Regular
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They do look tasty!
Great videos! Hookin up the "tree inch." LOL.
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Campfire Oracle
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That's what happens when you try to grow cows where it doesn't rain (that's what more than a few of the 'Fire would think)
Wishing you rain
"Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"
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Campfire Ranger
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some years ago, very hot summer, and uncle rode out with his son in a water truck for the cows. While son was out of the truck, uncle was in theh passenger seat and had a heart attack. That finished him. We always thought it was kind of poetic for an ol cattleman, to kack while watching the cows water.
THE BIRTH PLACE OF GERONIMO
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We bought that trailer about a month ago, just knowing that it was going to get bad.
Now people are scrambling for trailers.
It holds 10,500 gallons and is really short. Terribly overweight on the highway, but handy on the ranch. And super handy in case of a fire..... Not as handy as them cows. Enough there for everyone to eat on if there is fire.
Camp is where you make it.
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Campfire Ranger
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Where are you getting water? Is it a long haul?
Never holler whoa or look back in a tight place
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Campfire Kahuna
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Not too far. Pumping out of a drain ditch next to town. About 16 miles round trip.
I am MAGA.
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Campfire Ranger
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Dang! I hope you guys get rain soon and lots of it. Just not all at once of course.
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Well Jim, we might be hauling water as well. Just a small bunch though, not near on your scale.
We have 40 pair in a little pasture close to home. Spring fed creek runs right down the middle of it and for the first time anyone can remember she is getting scary low.
I was up there yesterday moving them back where they are supposed to be(some assshole snuck in a left a gate open....) and couldn't believe how low it is.
This is just a fuucked up deal all the way around.
But hey, crop adjuster said we might average 8 bushel on the spring wheat!
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I saw FIVE clouds today. Not plumes. Clouds. Saw plumes YESTERDAY.
Sheesh. Wish it would rain. I hate this.
Up hills slow,
Down hills fast
Tonnage first and
Safety last.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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It can rain on Thursday.
We've got a 100 acres of hay to bale up first!
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Even by Montana standards, doing that sort of work while walking on your hands is a bit showey, no?
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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Campfire Kahuna
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It can rain on Thursday.
We've got a 100 acres of hay to bale up first! Never fails...  Cut hay, or wash your pickup.
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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Jim has always been unafraid to show off....
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