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Blue Monday Moment, January 21, 2008

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Soapweed

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The snow was deeper today
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Even on their backs
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String of hay
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Here was my blue moment. I had loaded two bales of hay and pulled through the stackyard gate. As I got out to shut it, I slipped on a frozen cow chip. Unknowingly at the time, when I caught myself on the door, the electric door lock was pressed. When I tried to open the door of the running pickup to get back inside---I couldn't. :( The temperature was about on the zero mark, and the wind was blowing. Fortunately I had on a heavy coat with a liner, my chaps, warm gloves with liners, and a cap with earflaps. Real fortunately I also had my cell phone. :-) I gave my welding shop son a call, and about thirty minutes later he and a friend showed up. With proper tools and expertise, in mere moment they got the lock up so I could get in. It was a good lesson. A guy should always have a spare key hidden somewhere on his feeding pickup. :wink:
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Where I waited out of the wind for about thirty minutes
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The spot where I marched in place, to keep my feet warm.
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My kind benefactors with tools of their trade
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The rescue vehicle
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One more snowy cow picture
 
See- now if you had dogs you'd already have an extra set of keys in your pocket and another key hid out on your rig.... :wink: :P :P My dogs who accompany me feeding love to operate the electric locks...
 
Oldtimer said:
See- now if you had dogs you'd already have an extra set of keys in your pocket and another key hid out on your rig.... :wink: :P :P My dogs who accompany me feeding love to operate the electric locks...
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I should get a dog. At least then there would have been someone else to blame the stupidity on. :-)

Last year on another cold day, I accidentally hit the door lock. With the cell phone, I called Peach Blossom to hopefully find and bring another key. While standing on the other side of the pickup out of the wind, I realized that only the driver's side door had locked so was able to get in after all. A quick call made Peach's trip unnecessary.
 
Faster horses said:
Sorry you had the "BLUES" today, Soapweed, but thankfully you were dressed for it. As you say, "all's well that ends well."

Good photos, of course.

Oh, glad you had your cell phone. Did you have your camera in your pocket too? :P
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Can't you tell? :-) On the days I forget it (there aren't many :wink: ), I go into withdrawls. I reach for it the same as some folks reach for a pack of cigarettes, and it is just as addicting. :-)
 
Really glad you didn't have a walk. Just curious, how far home? Cell phones are great, but I sure get aggrivated when they don't work. It is a wonder they work at all--I mean no wires out in the middle of nowhere and all.....
 
Shortgrass said:
Really glad you didn't have a walk. Just curious, how far home? Cell phones are great, but I sure get aggrivated when they don't work. It is a wonder they work at all--I mean no wires out in the middle of nowhere and all.....
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I was about seven miles from home and a little over six miles from town, but only about a quarter mile from the highway. Hitchhiking would have been an option, and what I would have done without the phone. I did have a leatherman in my pocket, and could have cut some wire off a fence and dabbled with my fishing ability. It was just easier having a "professional" attend to the job. :wink: Peach Blossom wasn't home, or I would have suggested that she try to find an extra key and bring it to the location.
 
Sorry to hear about your misfortune...However, I thought you were gonna say that you fell and hurt yourself. 2 years ago, just two weeks into calving season, I was trying to get a cow in and she changed directions quickly as I did. However, I, too, tripped over a frozen cow pie and landed my wrist on concrete and was in a cast for 6 weeks. :cry: We live so close to danger in this occupation. Glad to hear you were rescued none worse for the wear :D

I see posts rot off in the Sandhills, too :wink:
 
Even though I complain that my pickup is old...no power anything, I am glad now that I don't have power locks...good thing you had a windbreak to help keep ya out of the wind.

I got to walk aways today in the brisk morning air...had about 8 fall calves get through the gate on me, then they took off down the fenceline,,needless to say that driving them back in with the pickup wasn't gonna work, so me and my trusty dog Jazzy, got em turned around and walked em back to the gate, then had to walk back to the pickup..it wasn't all that far, but my face sure was getting numb by the time I got to the heated truck...Not exactly a fun day to be out for a joy walk!
 
This morning it was 24 below f with the windchill factor throwin in..And of course i had a super B lined up to come pickup a load of oats.Very cold for standing around.. A few yrs back i went out to cut a water hole for the cows ,they were still grazing in dec.and it was cold and blowing, cell phones dont work much in our area snow was deep,I didnt want to walk 2 miles in it ,wife was at work so knew she wasnt gonna come look for me so i broke a vent window so i could open the door. That was one long sentence eh?
 
My 2001 Ford F350 used to lock itself outmatically if you started it and got out to open a gate and accidently shut the door. I bitched and moaned to our ford dealer constantly to get them to fix it and they said they couldn't. I don't know if they couldn't or wouldn't, but I fixed it. We took the door panel off and cut the wire to the lock accuator. Who the heck needs a lock to feed the cows anyway. Was the stupidest thing I've run across. I guess











ford went down the tubes when they started hiring lady engineers.
 
I order a new f250 every 2 years. They have to have crank windows rubber floor mats and "no" auto door locks. Oh yes I also keep a magnet key some place on the pickup. The salesman at Woodhouse said my trades don`t set on the lot long.
 
I drive a Chevrolet....... it won't let the doors lock if the key is in the ignition :lol: Now however if you pull the key out slightly to stop the incessant dinging it will let the doors lock.
 

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