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a couple of pictures from today

R A

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ear locking :) I love it when a mess of them are walking up a hill to me
in a group. heads and ears a bob'in. You would think they would get all
tangled up together.
 

R A

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How am I going to answer this without writing a book on here. :)

You never know who is looking at these message boards. Wether they are like me and go try every thing they see, how broke their horse is,etc,etc. I wasn't tieing off like that on those little heifers....just the first one for pictures. That horse and I have worked together like that for 11 years now. I wasn't even tieing off. I do tie off like that on bigger, wilder stuff. Sometimes 3 half hitches. See, in that move, their front legs became free. It is just around their neck and around their back legs. You have to get them to go down. When you get off and are on the ground, they can easily get up. Sometimes they really get to jumping and thrashing and making the rope bounce. I don't want any slack getting in the rope or they can easily step out and there you are with something just roped around the neck and might be mad. I want it to hold tight. Tieing off like that has always held for me.

100 different ways to do stuff. Everybody has their own way.

Brahmas are very very bad about laying down in the chute. If I don't brand them as babies, I like to brand them that way in the pictures. Works great! My brahmas don't like strangers, so I can do it by myself....nice, easy and quietly. Adults get branded in a chute at the vet. I don't have a chute.
 

Big Muddy rancher

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The cowboy way is to get the job done. What ever works for you. On this board we have everything from table users to guys that head and heel the calves to some that just wrasle them to Soapweeds Gizmo. If it works for you and doesn't mistreat the animals who can complain.
I noticed how that Hfrs stood with the rope loose around her neck. Not many cattle would do that I'm thinkin'. :D
 

R A

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You are exactly right Big Muddy rancher!

Yeah, I have been roping my heifers in a nice quiet manner all spring. Just now decided to go ahead and slap the brands on them. They don't start out like that one bit. Especially my brahma and high percentage brahmas. They really bawl and fight like mad, flip over, just a mess..... but see, they are getting broke to it. If I have to rope them later in life, they are easier to handle for sure.
 

leanin' H

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We doctor now and then out on the mountain. It's catch as catch can and get er' done. Everyone does stuff how it suits them like BMR said. When a cow or bull gets on the fight, sometimes a guy has to take away a little air to change their mind a little. The old guys back in the day used to rope wild cattle and neck them to a cedar tree for a day or three. Gentled them right down. I am impressed that RA works his cattle in a way that works for him and his stock. You can have a wreck in a chute or a horseback. But when done right, working cows like RA is a pretty efficient way to get finished before dark. :D Tie your rope anyway you'd like and carry a sharp pocketknife. :wink:
 

Northern Rancher

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Saw a wreck that could of got bad at a rodeo last week-calf roping horse stepped over the rope. Didn't look like anybody had a rope knife handy at the time. I'm not handy enough to manage that much rope about forty feet is all I can keep out of trouble-when I tie off I usually just dally than pull a loop back through-is your horn slick or wrapped.
 

R A

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leanin' H- yep, been known to choke a few down myself.

NR- no problem. On that particular saddle, I run with rubber sometimes or just the mule hide with a track I burnt in it on there. I like switching back and forth for what I'm doing in that particular situation. I don't use reatas (yet), so of course my 'ol nylons can take the grip of rubber. I hate to admit I ever put rubber on a slick seat wade tree saddle, but I do. The grip rubber gives me is great to have sometimes and being able to slide dallies is nice on cattle and horses. I really like to tie off like I have pictured when I'm slick horned.

I'm not good at typing this stuff into words. Especially since I don't ever think about how I do it or why. So I apologize if none of this makes sense. I started team roping out of high school and after I bought my first 60 foot rope.....well... I never team roped again and have no desire to.
 

Northern Rancher

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I thought you might of been slick-we've got a half dozen studs to cut here I think we might just stretch them with two horses-we sometimes brand our yearlings like that rope a head and one hind then tail them down.
 

R A

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:) I know nothing about farming, but I can imagine. I wouldn't even be able to start the tractor. :) Around this area right here it is basically just corn and soybeans being farmed..... what do you guys get into???? wheat??? corn???
 

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