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At one of the Neighbour's

Jigger Boss

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I don't know if I should really be posting this or not. I'm quite ticked off at the whole situation.
Idiot neighbour decides to break the ice on the pond for his cows with his skidder.
What do you think would happen? :roll: :roll: :roll:
All he said was " I turned around and seen water in my tracks, I don't know what I was thinking, but I just kept going." :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:
This had taken place on Tuesday. Hubby and one of our friends went there to try to get it out, but after breaking the winch cable on the cat about 3 times they gave up. Ordered in a new winch cable and got it today.
Here are the pics from today.
Now, the neighbour that did this is not seen in any of the pictures because he was in town all day and not helping out on his own farm.
Hubby and our friend was there to do it all.

Getting the cat (International) warmed up
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Skidder
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Getting hooked up and cutting the ice
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Ended up having to pull from the back.
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This was as long as I could stay... had to go to work :x
Amazingly they did eventually get it out. Its ruined now, water all through it.
What disturbed me the most is we all told him to get the frickin' cows out of that pasture and away from the pond. He didn't do it .... and yes, you guessed it.... drowned calf when we got there this morning. :mad: :mad:
No excuse for stupidity!!
 

Soapweed

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Thanks for posting, as that was quite "interesting." We all get lessons in life--sometimes we are the windshield and sometimes we are the bug. Looks like that poor bug got hit and drowned at the same time. The sad thing is that the innocent suffer with the guilty, and your husband and his friend were innocent but had to do plenty of suffering.

One time in the middle of a cold hard winter (1978-1979), I tried to take a shortcut across our meadow. I was driving an IHC 1066 tractor with duals on the back pulling a stackmover with a hydra-fork mounted on it. It had been 20 below zero for two weeks, so I thought that the swamp I was about to cross would be frozen solid. It wasn't. :cry:

There was a foot of snow on the swamp which kept it from freezing over. I got that tractor and stackmover out in there far enough to get big-time stuck. There was no front-wheel assist on the tractor, and cell phones hadn't yet been invented. The temperature was well below zero, the snow was deep, and the wind was howling. It was not a pleasant walk to where my dad was in the pickup caking cattle, about a mile away.

We drove back to the tractor to survey the situation. We had nothing bigger to pull out the tractor, and it was many miles from civilization to get anyone else to help. We ended up going back to the ranch and getting some big eight-foot corner posts. These we chained onto the dual back tractor tires cross-wise, so that they would aid in getting the tractor backed up through the frozen mud. When you do this, you really need to be careful that the chains don't snap off the valve stem on the tires.

Anyway, we perservered. Two or three feet at a time, then unchain, re-position the posts, chain them again to the tires. It took a long time, but we finally got the outfit out. I felt bad that my dad had to suffer just as much as me, out in the cold nasty wind. It was my stupidity that got the feed outfit stuck in that mess, and his brains and know-how that got it out.

Like they say, anything that doesn't kill you makes you a better person. :wink:

Thanks again for posting the pictures, Jigger Boss.
 

sic 'em reds

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Its been getting warm enough make the snow real slick around here. I have a little Mazda pickup I run around in it gets stuck if it sees snow. I was checking for calves the other day and got the passenger side tires stuck in a circle track. I went almost all the way around the circle before I could get good traction to pop out. Irritating!!
 

rustynail

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JB that must be one special neighbor for you to spend almost two days and the money on a new cable to pull that out of the pond and him not even there to help. It just goes to show what a good neighbor you and your friend really are. Just remember that a jewel was added to your crown for your unselfish deed. Wish I still had neighbors like you all, most all of those people around here are gone now, just the city people moving into the subdivisions who are too busy to even care. I still say good job.

G3
 

Jigger Boss

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alabama said:
Way too cold for me.
How do y'all stand it?

Everyone climatizes and adapts to the temperatures and area that you're in :) .
I spent a week in Missouri in September several years ago, I just about died in the heat. I sure wasn't used to that type of heat and humidity. I could hardly breathe, the air was even hot to breathe in. I couldn't understand how anyone could live in that kind of climate either. :wink:

It wasn't bad at all that day. It stayed right around the freezing mark, give or take a degree or two either way. Rather pleasant actually.
Can't really say how our friend faired out being in the water and ice all day, his shirt was pretty soaked. Took them 8.5 hours non stop to get it out.
 

Jigger Boss

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rustynail said:
JB that must be one special neighbor for you to spend almost two days and the money on a new cable to pull that out of the pond and him not even there to help. It just goes to show what a good neighbor you and your friend really are. Just remember that a jewel was added to your crown for your unselfish deed. Wish I still had neighbors like you all, most all of those people around here are gone now, just the city people moving into the subdivisions who are too busy to even care. I still say good job.

G3

Just picture the movie Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men, that is exactly the way they are with each other .. all 3 of them :roll: :lol: .
We spend quite a bit of time bailing out this same guy from quite a few crisis. I personally think he'd be better of with about 5 or 10 acres growing vegetable and flower gardens.

We went through the same in Alberta. There were too many city people moving in and all the good 'foundation farm/ranch' neighbours either moved away or had passed away.
 
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