Recent content by KevinL

Maybe I should have started another thread, since the initial topic is old news.

Thanks a lot for all your answers. Feeling much more confident now. As to the rope: I bought some nylon rope, the ranching guy called a "kiddy rope" so he wouldn't let me rope with it. So he gave me a decent rope with a metal honda and the rope felt heavier. I don't know what material it was, I...

Today was the first day of my ranch roping course. My right shoulder is a wreck. Much like I expected, everybody understood the drill better than I did, everybody was able to get the loops right before I did, everybody was 6 lessons ahead of me all the time. I'm really slow. It's with...

Anybody knows good books on contemporary ranching?

@Gomez: "Walden" is a good one :D I'd like to suggest one I mentioned somewhere else around here: "The Cowboy Way - Seasons of a Montana Ranch" by David McCumber, in which the author, a journalist, spends a year working on the Galt ranch and writes about his time there. Maybe interesting for...

Hey :D I had a look at that exchange organization big muddy rancher suggested, and I found that it is only for people that are doing agricultural stuff in any way - so it is not for people liek me who don't know anything about it. Too bad. The program sounds great. I don't know if it is a...

Oh, I read about Galt Ranch. It was a book by David McCumber, who spend a year there, learning how to live and work on a ranch. It was very interesting. And, no, I don't expect much traditional cowboying. Thing is since I live in Europe it will not be that easy to befriend any american...

The cakes look too good to eat :D I always hestitate eating beautiful aarranged cakes. I enjoy looking at your pics, soapweed 8)

I keep coming back to the ranching-issue time and time again. I have phases where I can't stop thinking of being on a ranch, working on a ranch. Then I tell myself "not gonna happen", and go on with my life. I was telling a friend about how to achieve dreams, how to make them come true. I say...

Thank you for your comments. :D For a few days I dropped the whole idea, cause you people really had a point there: I don't know anything about ranching. I was sort of discouraged, and then I found out why. There is no way I'm gonna write this novel out of my city-living-point of view...

Wow, thanks for all of your anwers! I think you're right, I should experience ranch-life in order to get a feeling for it. At least some feeling. I will keep that in mind. I had no idea 2900 acres was way too small for the ranch I was thinking about - thanks for bringing that up, this was...

Hello ranchers I'm writing you today in need of some answers concerning livestock and ranching... but let me start differently: unlike you all I'm no rancher at all, in fact I'm from the city, so it happens I don't really know much about ranching and livestock. I'm planning on writing some sort...