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A variety of pictures, April 24, 2008

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Soapweed

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Went to Rapid City on Tuesday. While at Walmart, I struck up a conversation with this gentleman, who was waiting while his wife was shopping. I introduced myself, and surprisingly we had the same last name. We had heard of each other through the years, but had never met, and are not related as far as we can tell. It was fun getting to meet him and his wife.
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Peach getting ready to drive
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Looking out across town
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A great place to eat. It is a buffet, so it is Atkins diet friendly.
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Peach driving; I'm taking pictures. :wink:
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We had a ferocious wind last night.
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It blew the middle section of this windbreak quite a long ways.
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What happens when you run over a porcupine
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At least the tire didn't go flat.
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Black gold. Posts are high as a cat's back.
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Taking life easy
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In charge of child care
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Showing off their new brands
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Wild turkeys on the meadow
 
the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
Looks like your greenin up Soapweed. Nice lookin bunch of calves all goin <- direction.

Does it ever cause flats to run over a porcupine? Glad we don't have them critters here.
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I'll bet it would if you ran over one with a bicycle. :wink:

It might even cause a person's foot to get punctured. Would that make a person "flat-footed"? :roll: :-)
 
LOL @ flatfooted. I don't know what it'd make em....but it'd make me cry.

Right now we are dealin with snakes. They sure have come out since it's warm and perdy weather. Lil Lilly stepped out the back door last night on her way to feed horses and found a copper head layin right there about a foot from the step...didnt take long to jump back inside...and start hollerin "snake!!!!"
 
Soapweed,I always look at your pics and totally enjoy them although I rarely comment.Often I think when your showing your groups of people how comfortable greg would be there. Way more cowboy hats and western shirts in your area then ours.

Like the porcupine quills better in that tire then in our horses noses :? :wink:
 
Mrs.Greg said:
Like the porcupine quills better in that tire then in our horses noses :? :wink:
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That is precisely why I ran over it. They can make a real mess in cows, horses, dogs, and tires. You'd think they would hurt each other enough that there would never be any baby porcupines, but somehow it doesn't work that way. :roll: :wink:
 
Soap.........Kinda curious to the price of fenceposts in your country? What kind of treatment do they carry? Creosote has been banned here for years & we get kinda suspicious of black posts as they may have been just dipped in used oil! We use green treated posts & they'll probably run us close to $4 for good 4-5 inch 6 foot posts from a reliable processor.
 
I just priced green treated post's.

4"x7' =$4.15

6"x12' =$22.90

6"x14' =$27.94

5"x6"x18' pole's $38.81

if I buy bundles of 2nd's they would cost

7' post mixture of sizes $2.10 ea.

8' post mixture of sizes $2.36 ea.

8' large post's $3.75 ea.
 
The green posts are usually white pine. They are "cleaner" and more fun to work with, but they sure don't last as long as the creosote-treated yellow pine. You can buy them "dowelled" so they are completely round and the same size all the way through. These are real nice to work with, but you don't get as much actual post that way either. When you buy a 3" creosote yellow pine, they are 3" across on the small end but probably 4"-5" across on the bottom. You just naturally get more post this way than when buying one that is dowelled and 3" across all the way through. Another interesting little tidbit is that a 3 1/2" post has 36% more wood than a 3" post.

When checking on post prices, there was quite a bit of difference between the three sources I called. It just depended on who had got the last load delivered, because each load is higher priced than the one before, due to the continuosly rising price of fuel. (On the bright side, raw crude oil was down from $118 to $116 per barrel yesterday, and locally, gas went down 2 cents per gallon and diesel went down 6 cents per gallon).

I only priced the black creosote southern yellow pine posts.

5" x 8' corner posts varied from $15.75 to $16.99.
3" x 6 1/2 feet line posts varied from $4.89 to $5.35.

I ended up buying a bundle of corner posts from one source for $15.75, also benefitting there from a 3% cash discount, making those posts cost $15.28. The line posts I bought at another place of business across town, for $4.89. We might not need them all right away, but they will probably only go up in price.
 
Puddles! You've got puddles... please take more pictures of the puddles! Glad to see you got some good rain. Last night it snowed about 2 inches here, and this morning it is 28 degrees with a north wind. BRRRR! Hopefully more moisture is on its way tomorrow.

I like Rapid City. A few years ago I went up to watch the South Dakota Reined Cowhorse event. Got to see some nice horses.
 
nice pictures as always, i seen the one of the tire and thought at first that was quite a wind to drive all them toothpicks into that tire :lol:
 
WyomingRancher said:
Puddles! You've got puddles... please take more pictures of the puddles! Glad to see you got some good rain. Last night it snowed about 2 inches here, and this morning it is 28 degrees with a north wind. BRRRR! Hopefully more moisture is on its way tomorrow.

I like Rapid City. A few years ago I went up to watch the South Dakota Reined Cowhorse event. Got to see some nice horses.
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The "puddles" you see in the pictures are mostly natural lakes and ponds. The water by the blown down windbreak is run-off from a windmill. We did get a quarter inch of rain night before last and a quarter inch of snow last night.
 
I suspect that your tire did not go flat YET! I'll just bet you ruined that tire because the quills will keep working in, and you will never get them all out. Maybe newer tires may not be as bad as the older bias tires, but I ruined 2 that way, and swore that if I ever hit another porky, that I would replace the tire immediatly, and save myself some grief.
 
Shortgrass said:
I suspect that your tire did not go flat YET! I'll just bet you ruined that tire because the quills will keep working in, and you will never get them all out. Maybe newer tires may not be as bad as the older bias tires, but I ruined 2 that way, and swore that if I ever hit another porky, that I would replace the tire immediatly, and save myself some grief.
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Thanks for that uplifting message. :-) It is Peach's pickup, so as long as her cell phone works we will probably take our chances. I must confess though, it was I who ran over the porcupine with Peach's pickup.
 
Soapweed, I really enjoy looking at your pictures. I used to work on the U Cross 15 years ago. The pictures bring back fond memories
 
skeeter said:
Soapweed, I really enjoy looking at your pictures. I used to work on the U Cross 15 years ago. The pictures bring back fond memories
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Glad you like the pictures. That U Cross was quite a ranch. I first saw it on August 13, 1966, when John Burton, his son Mitch, and I pulled into the ranch in a heck of a rainstorm. John was driving a little Allis-Chalmers tractor pulling a haysled, with a two-horse sweep on the haysled. I was driving a mismatched team of one bay horse and one roan, hooked to a wagon. Mitch rode in the wagon, and kept our camping gear from falling out.

John Kime was managing the U Cross at the time. He was killed in February of 1968, when the helicopter he was piloting went down between the U Cross and the Star Ranch.

On that August day in 1966, we had dinner with the ranch crew. The very large old horsebarn was still in full use at the time. Later it burned down when some kids were playing with matches.

The heavy downpour slowed down to a light drizzle by early afternoon. As we hooked up the team again and headed on our way, the U Cross ranch crew rode out to brand some late calves. I remember when they left the barn, there were 14 riders and one cowboy was leading an extra horse for John Kime to ride later. He was driving a pickup with their branding supplies. These 15 men were all regulars working on the 65,000 acre ranch. There were no neighbors helping with the branding. In those days, all of the haying on the big hay meadows was done with draft horses. The whole experience that day was one of the highlights of my life.
 
skeeter said:
Soapweed, I really enjoy looking at your pictures. I used to work on the U Cross 15 years ago. The pictures bring back fond memories
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The U Cross is now owned by Ted Turner and surrounded by bison high fence. They have ripped down the house at the old U cross and set in a double wide home there and another at the main place. It is so different. The Milligan family who owned it before they sold to Turner kept it very nice mowed up and well maintained. Now it's not so much.


We have to old bunk shack that was pulled by draft horses when Buck Buckles did they haying over there. My understanding is his wife has the cook shack. It has ligting in it ran by propane and a propane heat stove. Inside various hay wadies of the day signed the walls and even some drawings are on the walls.
 
Those porcupine quills are like nails. Ten years ago our big male collie tangled with one. Jane and I spent 3 days nursing and pulling quills out of that old dog. Old dog lived a couple more years but he sure slowed down after that.
 

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