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400 miles Lost!!!!!

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I went up to work several loads of calves this morning...They told me that they would have them corralled, worked and sorted by 10AM...Since I usually try to get there an hour or so early to help work them (get a better look at all the cattle)- I was there by 9.... Thats when I learned that while several loads were going to local feedlots-- one was going to Minnesota-- and when they contacted the trucker earlier that morning he had ended up in BOZEMAN-- only 400 miles away :shock: :roll: :roll:

I loaded up the local ones- and got out of there at 2PM-and got the paperwork lined up for the Minnesota cattle- but understand the truck didn't make it until 4PM- so never found out yet what the story was of how a truck headed to northeast Montana, can end up closer to Idaho ..... :roll:
 
After embibbing with Lazy Ace the poor fellow phoned ME (of all people) for directions.... Sheesh. I'd say you were pretty lucky to get him there at all! :D
 
Judith said:
After embibbing with Lazy Ace the poor fellow phoned ME (of all people) for directions.... Sheesh. I'd say you were pretty lucky to get him there at all! :D
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Ok-- with you and Lazy Ace involved I can see anything happening...I even made the comment that I really don't think I could drink that much to miss my location by 400 miles :shock: I'm heading west of Roundup for a bull sale this weekend-- hope I don't end up in North Dakota.... :roll: :shock: :P :wink: :lol:

Anyway-- good thing-- it was a beautiful fall day-- NO WIND-- and a lot of good stories were swapped in some of the dead time..... :D
 
Maybe he had the rig on cruise control and he fell asleep :) I hear alot of people make that mistake :)
 
You are ALL wrong.

I'm going with a 99% chance here that this truck driver was man.


Now do you think he'd dare ask for directions thereby admitting he was LOST????? !!!DUH!!!

!! NO!!


Man, you girls missed this one by a long shot!!!! :lol: :lol:
 
I forgot the rest of the "interesting" happenings of the day....On my way back to town- the highway was solid cattle trucks and stock trailers going one way or another...About 10 miles north of town- I come across 2 calves lying in the road - with broken back legs....And see several more wandering down the road limping and all scraped up-- so I called ahead to have the Sheriff get someone out to the highway and stop what I figured was a truck with an open door....

Directed traffic around until I could get the calves pushed off the road-- about then the owner showed up with his tractor and loader...Said he just got going down the highway when the door on his stocktrailer came open--dropping calves down the road...Called off the Sheriff- and helped him get his calves back into his yard...His butchering help was just showing up as I got out there....

One of the reasons I wrap a 1/2 inch link chain around my trailer doors several times on all my trailers...I've seen those doors pop open too often :shock: :(
 
Several years ago I loaned a good gelding to a friend - - - When the man got home from a cutting contest the sliding door on the trailer had slid open and the gelding had a rear shoe almost ripped off.

The only lasting damage from this was you could not get this horse to back out of a trailer - - he would still walk right in but if he could not turn around it was almost impossible to get him out.

I think we were very lucky - - I believe he started to back out going down the road and could have been crippled or killed.
 
Instead of wrapping chain around the door every time why not weld a short section of chain to the door with the hook on it and a metal loop on the trailer frame to hook it? A few times on my Donahue that's saved my butt when someone "slammed the door shut".
 
I remember reading about Heather Smith Thomas losing calves out of their trailer once. It was a bad deal. Those people had a lot of problems, it seem to me, with anything they did with a cow critter.

You know, I don't much care for the stuff she writes. They have more trouble than 10 big ranchers.

I'm really sorry about her daughter being injured, although I can't remember what happened to her for sure.

But after reading all those sickness problems over and over for years and years, I finally called her up and asked if they ever fed mineral to their cattle.

They never had.
 
Faster horses said:
I remember reading about Heather Smith Thomas losing calves out of their trailer once. It was a bad deal. Those people had a lot of problems, it seem to me, with anything they did with a cow critter.

You know, I don't much care for the stuff she writes. They have more trouble than 10 big ranchers.

I'm really sorry about her daughter being injured, although I can't remember what happened to her for sure.

But after reading all those sickness problems over and over for years and years, I finally called her up and asked if they ever fed mineral to their cattle.

They never had.
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A lot of people on here live and die with their vigortone mineral. Mineral is a neccessity but Vigortone isn't worth a crap unless you have a thorough vaccination program. If dumping expensive lick tubs and expensive mineral out is easier than investing in decent working facility and a good chute then more power to you. Expensive mineral will not solve your sickness problem. Personally I feed a loose mineral that is formulated by my vet that costs half as much as Vigortone, but follow the sheep if you must.
 
Work Hard and Study Hard said:
Faster horses said:
I remember reading about Heather Smith Thomas losing calves out of their trailer once. It was a bad deal. Those people had a lot of problems, it seem to me, with anything they did with a cow critter.

You know, I don't much care for the stuff she writes. They have more trouble than 10 big ranchers.

I'm really sorry about her daughter being injured, although I can't remember what happened to her for sure.

But after reading all those sickness problems over and over for years and years, I finally called her up and asked if they ever fed mineral to their cattle.

They never had.
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A lot of people on here live and die with their vigortone mineral. Mineral is a neccessity but Vigortone isn't worth a crap unless you have a thorough vaccination program. If dumping expensive lick tubs and expensive mineral out is easier than investing in decent working facility and a good chute then more power to you. Expensive mineral will not solve your sickness problem. Personally I feed a loose mineral that is formulated by my vet that costs half as much as Vigortone, but follow the sheep if you must.
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WHSH, you are like a breath of air, but it certainly isn't fresh. :x
 
Reminds me of kids when I went to school.................................some worked hard and studied hard........................they could just never grasp it.

To some it comes easy................I guess we all know who doesn't fit that category
 
I want to thank you all for this thread....a chain on my stock trailer is an item I have neglected...I am on the way to town, the calves you saved may just have been mine,

PPRM
 
I don't like those chain's in my opinion the are a safety item for a shitty latch system.The trailers we build have a slam latch plus a butterfly latch plus a spring loaded safety latch if they are built right there is no need for a chain but I've seen alot of sorry latches in my shop.
 

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