How'd it go today?

[MasterBlaster]

Regal them with some soothing down low!

 

[Stumpshot]

Stump grinding today -- had to go out for a few hours, since Friday was a non-starter. 4 new pockets and all-new teeth after hitting that guy wire anchor made things go great, ripped right through the stone-dead rock maple we had taken down earlier in the week. Also a mature amur maple in record time!

Yesterday was great, family day at the beach (of course, not the ocean in KS, but Clinton Lake). Littlest had a great low key day digging in the sand for hours!

 

[Joezilla11]

Croatia beat Denmark, good day what a game!

 

[FireFighterZero]

Going to brand calves tomorrow.

Gathered today. Complete wreck.

Had it not been for the Herculean effort from yours truly.......it would not have turned out.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Don't you hurt those 'lil baby bovines!!!

Now I wanna damn burger...

 

[squisher]

Well make sure you get a good nights sleep.

 

[cory]

Gathered today.

How does that work, this CT boy got no idea. Thx.

 

[MasterBlaster]

4-wheelers, maybe? Horses? Drones?

 

[pantheraba]

Tin pans and spoons

 

[MasterBlaster]

I don't remember that from Rawhide!

 

[pantheraba]

Maybe that was the chuckwagon call???

 

[Fiddler]

just imagine a long rambling rant on city traffic and the incompetence of drivers during rush hour, a turn on the old phase "you can't get there from here", description of shops being closed, needed but forgotten paperwork, and a lament over not accomplishing a damn thing after 3 hours of city driving and you have my day pinned down perfectly...

 

[FireFighterZero]

How does that work, this CT boy got no idea. Thx.

You just gather a pasture by taking a hot lap around it with a four wheeler. Run the perimeter and start funneling pairs to the gate you want them to go out of.

Yesterday was terrible. We had cows and calves going back. Lost 10 calves from the bunch.

We will let the cows back out today and hopefully they will head back and pick their calves back up.


Maybe we can cut them out and brand them later.

We were pretty happy today.

Normal calving season starts the the first of March. This year it was the first of May.

We pastured calved on green grass. Only had a 2 percent death loss.


Others in the area had 10- 40 percent death loss by calving earlier in the cold.

That is not normal, even when calving early. Damn tough winter caused it.


But for turning the cattle out and not having anything to do with them......2 percent is phenomenal.

Not to mention the saved fuel, labor and hay.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Best pick up a fiddle Dave.


Otis will understand.

 

[Fiddler]

Good deal Jim

He usually lays on my lap while I play (so I can be toooo bad right?)

We spent some time out walking enjoying a cooler day for once...fiddle is next on the agenda...

 

[Raj]

Extreme heat up here 30-40deg C. Been like this over a week. Prepped a 4ft log to get milled this morning. Chipped a cedar some HO dropped himself, and now ay the shop waiting for car A/C custys. A few topups, I hope.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Almost there.

 

[Grendel]

nice one Butch.

So. . . FML. Just settling in tonight when one of the employees calls me on the radio. "Um. . . can you come over to the store."

It was Dan, and Dan doesn't call me for stupid shit, so I knew it wasn't going to be good. . .

One of the seasonal employees went to move a mini-van at the end of her shift. Some kind of panic ensued with the shifter and the arrangement of the pedals, and she basically ran the god damn thing through the wall of our store.

Looks like the tumblers, coasters and napkins will be in limited supply this year. . . oh, and syrup, syrup bottles exploded.

Three hours later I had it in passable shape. Had to get bottle jacks under it and lift the whole building about 3 inches before I could 5:1 the logs back into place. Now, tomorrow, instead of enjoying a day off I get to figure out if we're going to fire this poor girl. F.M.L.

I want to go live in a van down by the river and just cut trees. . . I'm holding that in reserve. lol

Everything actually went back together pretty well once I got some time alone with it. . .

 

[cory]

Nice, Jim. I figured ATVs were involved at some point.

Dayum, Sam!

 

[FireFighterZero]

Dangnation!

 

[FireFighterZero]

Cory, we made the switch from horses to atvs about 15 years ago.

 

[pantheraba]

Charley Foxtrot, Sam! Glad no one was in that mess.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Has anyone ever had to yell "stop drawing on your nutsack!"?

Daniel boy is a honey badger.

 

[pantheraba]

Hahaha... that IS a new one.

 

[squisher]

What's the process without horses for the actual branding Jim? I get the gathering part. Here riders rope out individual calves and drag them to the fire. Barbaric I know!