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Sam’s 5/16 chain auto pilot setup trailed by a herd of 1800lb. cake junkies immediately had me daydreaming up a better way. I feed into the herd bro. Roll bales out in strategic positions in hopes up evening out the incoming cows. The older cows that don't move and eat quite as fast are always at the tail end. I throw them a couple extra scoops before quickly driving back up to the lead cows and distract them long enough to let the oldies finish.
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You got any old irrigation pipe that you can split to make bunks? I bisect aluminum irrigation pipe with a non ferrous blade in a circular saw. It cuts like butter. Just be sure to deburr the edge and cut it somewhere the cows won’t ingest the chips left on the ground.
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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No, nothing like that around here.
I looked up the lightweight feed bunks just now and they are about 175 bucks a piece.
Website said I need 2 feet per cow. Is that for the whole bunk or just one side I wonder.
I could try running that safflower on the ground and see how they do.
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Been meaning to buy a big hydraulic cake feeder for that safflower, but I think I have to go to billings to find one big enough.
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Winter is killer here Sam.
Holed up here in the shelter Ed...... ![[Linked Image]](http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e78/montanasam/A%202017/IMG_3091.jpg)
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Sparkling apple juice and Jack Daniels?
Yowsa!
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Jim, I am drinking the spring water(far lower left).
JD earlier?
Woman got into the cider.
Ran out of Hot Damn.....damnit!
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Oh, I missed that at first!
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Is that a shot challenge?
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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. . Oh yeah, save the dust and crumbs! We mix in 3/16"s pellets for the feed yard ration.
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Haha....Still have 3/4's bottle of Hot Damn!
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Winter is killer here Sam.
Holed up here in the shelter Ed...... Bliss Sam.
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Winter is killer here Sam. ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/5OQkB7Z.jpg) Ed, is your house solid rock all the way through? I mean, not stick and veneer? If so, do you think the same thing would have enough insulation value in Idaho? I'm assuming that's your Hill Country digs.
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The Texas Hill Country house pictured is 2x6 walls for all of the exterior (either stone or stucco or both) and any interior wall that has plumbing. It's 4600 square feet with about 500 on the second level as a game room. Ceilings run from 12 to 15 ft. It is now all LED and we use about 500 gallons a year in propane (house heat, water heat, drier heat and cooking heat) and about 1/2 - 1 cord of oak a year in the insert.
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Just caught the Idaho question. It, too, is of 2x6 construction with a formed foam/concrete foundation/basement with a 4 foot crawlspace. There we have a 60 kbtu Quadrafire gas fireplace, a 60 kbtu Jotul wood stove and a vintage Monarch cooking stove. The bedrooms and bathrooms also have electric base board heat that we rarely use. The Monarch in action prior to Thanksgiving this year... ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/olGX1Tj.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/K5orgrj.jpg)
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My house is all brick with 2x6's and full basement. Ceilings are standard 8'. Not as big as yours and probably use twice that amount of propane. Full insert fireplace with blowers will heat the whole house but if you want it comfortable in the back rooms you have to supplement with propane-and you could wear yourself out cutting wood and probably never vary by more than 100 gallons. Built in 1980. Mine is very well built but needs about 100 grand in renovations.
I'd like to build a native stone house in the Hill Country style.
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I'm a little confused on this whole time thing. How many beers it takes to complete, I understand. Whiskey in the cold . Only in MO, brandy up north F A G..........grin
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Just caught the Idaho question. It, too, is of 2x6 construction with a formed foam/concrete foundation/basement with a 4 foot crawlspace. There we have a 60 kbtu Quadrafire gas fireplace, a 60 kbtu Jotul wood stove and a vintage Monarch cooking stove. The bedrooms and bathrooms also have electric base board heat that we rarely use. The Monarch in action prior to Thanksgiving this year... Sweet, the one time in forever that you had friends.
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Well, beings that I'm am out of Hot Damn it looks like whiskey is going to be the afternoon anti-freeze.
These damn holidays are annoying. Parts store isn't open today or tomorrow. Fuucking annoyed!
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