Those farms back in the midwest are something else. Sounds like a diversified outfit.
Sam,
That is nothin! Around here, there is sections upon sections of corn. Some fields meet other farmers fields that are all corn and they all stretch as far as the eye can see.
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...
Sam, We’ve got that same Danuser post hole digger. I spent a lot of time standing on top of it as the auger bounced through football sized stones in gravelly ground.
Originally Posted by 16penny
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
Sam, We’ve got that same Danuser post hole digger. I spent a lot of time standing on top of it as the auger bounced through football sized stones in gravelly ground.
Shhhhhh...
That is an ice auger...
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...
Rooster, well, if you have been around cows and still want to do that kind of work(full-time) you are sick in the head......grin
Sam's right! I don't miss running cows one bit! Especially this time of the year. I do, however miss the horses.
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
Can be expensive to feed but a high energy source.
You can cake cows solo if the pickup idles through the snow on flat ground.
I hang a short piece of 5/16's chain on the bottom of the steering wheel to keep the pickup going straight.
Roll the windows down in case the dog locks me out, pull it in gear(auto) jump on back when the cows get close(they come running) and start shoveling. Trick is getting them spread out evenly so they all get a fair share.
I cracked out on vids today.....
Rooster, I was just thinking how much work it would be to irrigate that many acres!
-17°F! Our cows have it made, they get locked in the barn when it gets anywhere near 0°F. We only keep a small fraction of what you have. Thanks for the videos! I always enjoy them.
Originally Posted by 16penny
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
The cake we always fed was cotton seed based. Cows love it. Back when we fed it, our cows would flat run over your ass if you shook it out of the sack while on the ground. Was fun to turn a city boy loose with a sack full in the middle of our herd of black angus. Of course, we fed it from a feeder mounted on the back of one of our old Dually one ton pickups.
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
Sam, We’ve got that same Danuser post hole digger. I spent a lot of time standing on top of it as the auger bounced through football sized stones in gravelly ground.
After buying a Danuser bucket mounted auger, I won't go back to a 3pt. You can add all the downforce you can wish for and when you hit a big rock, just lift up on the bucket, reverse the direction, and back right out. You can also drill hole at a 45 degree angle for setting heavy brace posts.
Ed
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Ed, that would be the cat’s ass. I’ve considered converting it to hydraulic drive and fabricating a mount. At this point I haven’t been sufficiently motivated to get beyond the daydreaming phase.
Originally Posted by 16penny
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
Rooster, we don't have that problem out here in the desert!
Kings, the old angus cows are born and bred to handle this. Keep em' fed up and out of the wind!
C, oh yeah, once cows are cake broke them come running. We have a cake feeder but I don't like it. Works fine but it lays the cake out the side(in the snow), I try to throw it in the rut....
And it takes up too much room on the bed to I can only haul one bale. Pain using two pickups to feed.
AP, I'd love an auger on a skid steer for corral work. Looking at buying a loader mounted pounder.
Sam, we feed cake to our cows too. Dad would usually buy 3 or 4 tons of it. Before we fed it, we would empty a sack into a sifter box, and sift any powder out of it and sack it up in flour sacks. He used this to feed sick cows and calves. Dad didn't like the truck mounted feeders either, so we would load sacks in the truck the walk with the sack, spreading the cake.
Feeding cake is also what ended my father's cattle ranching. His cows were like pets and like being hand fed. While hand feeding some cake, a young heifer cut the line to get a hand out, and one of the matron cows objected pushing the heifer right over the top of Dad, breaking his hip. He was 76 yrs old, and decided it was time to retire. I sure don't miss shifting the cake though.
My biggest fear is when I die my wife will sell my guns for what I told her they cost....
We had a old neighbor Rancher that made the mistake of feeding two of his two Bulls in the lot one day with a sack of cow cake. He was nearly 80 and one of the Bulls knocked him down and trampled him. He damn near died. Spent the next 5 years in a wheel chair before he passed away.
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