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Branding photos from Friday

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Soapweed

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We did another bunch of 145 in the same corral, on the following day.

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Easing the bunch into the corral
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Dust in the air
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Got milk?
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Yeah, I got milk. :wink: :-)
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Putting them through the gate
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Saddletramp on Chalk-eye
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Pulling the calf into place
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Giving it the works
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Getting things set up
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Hanging by his heels
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Peach Blossom gives the shots
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Saddletramp branding a calf
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Calf held in place
Dinnertime.jpg

Noon break
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Dinner table
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Chips ahoy
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Waiting their turn
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Life's a holiday on branding lane
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Not too terribly stressful
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The end of the day, Sundown over the Swan Pond
 
Saopweed-thanks again for the show! Really great pictures and what a crew! Peach Blossom really set a table of food also plus all her cattle work! Well, at least you have a good start on branding. We have a start and that is what this week will be about! One of my favorite times of the year other than calving. Have a great day :)
 
Looks like good cattle & good help soapweed,your weather must be breaking,looks like a good day for a brandin................good luck
 
...and at the end of the day, ya turned 'em out into the sunset...could life be any better ?

:wink:
 
Impressive such a small crew could do that many calves. Did it just take you the morning? We still brand with all the neighbors coming over and helping. However as more of the neighbors are getting older last year we used a calf wrestling devise that one guy holds it and puts it on the calfs neck then the roper holds the feet. The problem being faced now is at some of the brandings my Dad who is almost sixty is one of the young guys. It isn't like when i was younger and all the high school kids were in the country to wrestle.
 
the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
Soapweed, yer such a good "one handed cowboy" lol cuz the other hands always got the camera in it.
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Truer words were never spoken. I've just gone from being a "hand" to being no kind of a hand. Now I'll have one hand holding a camera, and the other arm is in a sling. Had the misfortune to dislocate a shoulder yesterday, while trying to get the hobbles off of the ol' baldy rinky-dink cow. She jumped, and as I lurched back, my left arm which was braced against an upright pipe in the squeeze chute bent wrong and the shoulder dislocated. This wouldn't have happened, except that I had a horse go over backwards with me in 1987. At that time, the shoulder dislocated badly and the top of the humerus bone got chipped. The same shoulder dislocated again in 2000, when a cow charged through the squeeze chute rapidly. This brought the head-catch handle up too fast. My arm holding the handle went up and the shoulder went out. It ain't the years, it's the miles. :wink:
 
Yikes,thats too bad Soapweed!Once a sholder goes out it can happen again and again.My nephew has to wear a special brace because of his sholder.I'm sure Peachblossom will make sure you look after it!
 
Soapweed said:
the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
Soapweed, yer such a good "one handed cowboy" lol cuz the other hands always got the camera in it.
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Truer words were never spoken. I've just gone from being a "hand" to being no kind of a hand. Now I'll have one hand holding a camera, and the other arm is in a sling. Had the misfortune to dislocate a shoulder yesterday, while trying to get the hobbles off of the ol' baldy rinky-dink cow. She jumped, and as I lurched back, my left arm which was braced against an upright pipe in the squeeze chute bent wrong and the shoulder dislocated. This wouldn't have happened, except that I had a horse go over backwards with me in 1987. At that time, the shoulder dislocated badly and the top of the humerus bone got chipped. The same shoulder dislocated again in 2000, when a cow charged through the squeeze chute rapidly. This brought the head-catch handle up too fast. My arm holding the handle went up and the shoulder went out. It ain't the years, it's the miles. :wink:
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I feel your pain.... :(
 
oh man soapweed, I"m sorry to hear that, hope you have a speedy recovery. I've dislocated a shoulder once, and took a while to git it back goin again......

peach blossom...take good care of him can't have our photographer outta commission too long LOL
 

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