Corrals and Chutes Contest

the_jersey_lilly_2000 · Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:13 pm Post subject: Corrals and Chutes Contest

1. HorseShoer

2. Tumbleweed

3. Lilly

4. sw

5. Jassy

6. Northern Rancher

7. MsSage

Faster horses · Rancher Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 19605 Location: SE MT

groan....some really neat pictures again!!! Shocked

Thanks for entering folks, just wish it wasn't so hard to decide
which to vote for!!!

OldDog/NewTricks · Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:38 pm Post subject:

Great Photo's - now to choose Sad

#2 is Old West

Ranchy · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:43 pm Post subject:

I see that my new job has already cut into my "life".......I didn't even have a chance to go through pictures, or go take a picture, for this category............

Maybe I'll try to get one in for next week, over the weekend, unless I peel chile all weekend long. Got a 25# box peeled today, by myself..........got 17 small bags and almost another one from it. The extra I just stuck in the freezer of the fridge, and we'll use it first.

kolanuraven · Rancher Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 9981

Makes wanna go out and tear mine down and re build....they all look so nice and neat!!

IL Rancher · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 7:57 am Post subject:

Makes me wonder how many cows are running in those or makes me think that my coral system is woefully small (Well, it is a bit smaller than I would like but.... We redid a good portion of ours last year with guardrail, rubrail and railroad ties... A lot more secure than it was with the rotting wood, fence wire and a prayer that was holding it together before.

WE have a 3 acre pen next to ours, maybe I need to find a way to incorporate that into the handling, works great as a backgrounding pen after the calves have beenw eaned for a couple weeks.

Big Muddy rancher · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:07 pm Post subject:

I like#2 . We loaded out yearlings from Big Beaver for many years. I think we were probably one of the last in Canada to ship by rail. I'm 51 how many my age have loaded cattle out by rail. I think one of our biggest single shipments were 19 cars at once. it was the early 80's when we had to switch to trucks only.

IL Rancher · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:18 pm Post subject:

I was talking to one of the old timers in the area befroe he died this past spring. He was only 80 years old but had been in this area for ever.. The farm we live on was actually swamp ground, undewater until the core came in and drained the place somehwer around 1900-1910. Folks used to have to take the boat to get from one town to another during the spring floads...

I digress but where it all goes is they used to drive cattle down to Mineral back than to load onto the train in the fall/winter. Every little town out here had a little stockyard around the rail and they moved the cattle into Chicago or wherever the packer was. Than the tractor was invented and than the hybrids of corn and development of the ag chemicals changed the whole area.

Lots of old livestock barns that haven't had cows/sheep/pigs in them for 60 years.

Faster horses · Rancher Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 19605 Location: SE MT

Mr. FH just took a look at the pictures. He noticed the deep tracks
where many horses have been walked on the hot walker.

Did anyone else notice that? I missed it, til he mentioned it.

Jinglebob · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:55 pm Post subject:

Mrs.Greg · Rancher Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 7488 Location: Alberta

I'm with Kola...corral rebuildings in order,greg says "Why, Just built them...27 years ago"Hes serious Confused

Love nu.2

the_jersey_lilly_2000 · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject:

Yeap I noticed that too.

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