Continued compulsive camera clicking

[Soapweed]

Ready to gather a bunch of cattle to brand calves

View from a high hill

Pushing cattle to the windmill

Some of the crew

Coming in with the cattle

Get along little dogies

Three cowpokes

Big bird up above

The calves will soon go from generic to specialty branded

Wilson Lake in the background

Circling for the final approach to the corral

Cows are now separated from the cavles

Getting vaccinated

Kadoka on call to drag calves

Chow time on the prairie

Horses on lunch break

Waiting their turn

Calves branded and the cattle are turned out to fresher pasture

The grazing is good

Posies of the prairie

Getting ready to put another bunch on new grass this evening

Life's a holiday on Primrose Lane

The calves are also enjoying the fresh new grass

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

The counrty, cattle and crew are all lookin' good.

 

[wdcook]

Soapweed, I am curious as to how you sort off the cows. Do you have two pens? How often, if ever, do you lose a calf out with the cows? thanks

 

[Hooks]

I take it that the Kadoka horse doesn't like to "dress for dinner" :lol:

 

[Soapweed]

Soapweed, I am curious as to how you sort off the cows. Do you have two pens? How often, if ever, do you lose a calf out with the cows? thanks

The best system (if we take the time and trouble to set it up with portable panels :roll: ), is to have a lane to run the cattle down. A pen at the end for calves to be caught in helps a lot. We let cows out, and then put any wayward calves that come by into the pen.

When we are short of panels (if we need about all of them to just corral a bunch of cattle), sometimes we just "break" open the panels, and come in with the ends. This forms a sort of heart-shaped affair, with the top of the heart not quite joining. This gives the cows an opening to come out, and the calves can be persuaded back into the round parts of the "heart."

Every occasion is different. We just have to adapt to the situation at hand. Sometimes it works better than others; and yes, we do occasionally spill a calf. We usually just try to drive them back around the same route we came in where wings are set up. Someone guards the opening until the calf arrives. Sometimes we have to rope them out in the open, if all else fails.

On one of our brandings a couple weeks ago, we had one old panel that didn't have a safety latch like all the new ones did. We "intended" to go back later and wire it "just in case." We all forgot to do this, and the panel bounced open spilling about ten calves back in with their mothers (out of the 25 that we were branding at the time). Six of them had already been processed, but four were still slicks. Saddletramp and I each roped two of them out in the pasture to bring them back. It took a little time, but that is about the only major wreck that has happened in this year's brandings, so far.

 

[efb]

Your picture posies on the pararie could have also been " A Soapweed sodhouse" for someone.

We're glad you have a " Camera, co-dependent" condition.

We'll, I've got to worm mine today so I'd better close down this computer and get to work.

 

[alabama]

Once again great pictures. thank you very much.
I have a question about the windmill.
Does it pump water 24-7 or does it have a flote valve. And if it works off a float does it just stop the flow of water or does it feather the windmill?
I would think if it just turns off the water it would put too much back presseur on the pump.

 

[Mike]

Once again great pictures. thank you very much.
I have a question about the windmill.
Does it pump water 24-7 or does it have a flote valve. And if it works off a float does it just stop the flow of water or does it feather the windmill?
I would think if it just turns off the water it would put too much back presseur on the pump.

Ours used to pump all the time if the wind was blowing.

Had an overflow on the trough that drained out across the pasture.

 

[peg4x4]

Your picture posies on the pararie could have also been " A Soapweed sodhouse" for someone.

We're glad you have a " Camera, co-dependent" condition.

We'll, I've got to worm mine today so I'd better close down this computer and get to work.

How do you worm a camera?? :???:


:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[jkvikefan]

There is one person in the chow picture that has really good taste!!!
He is wearing a Husker tee shirt!!
GO HUSKERS

 

[jigs]

There is one person in the chow picture that has really good taste!!!
He is wearing a Husker tee shirt!!
GO HUSKERS

that t shirt is in case of a bathroom emergency.....

 

[Soapweed]

I have a question about the windmill.
Does it pump water 24-7 or does it have a flote valve. And if it works off a float does it just stop the flow of water or does it feather the windmill?
I would think if it just turns off the water it would put too much back presseur on the pump.

Our windmills pump water whenever the wind blows. When the tanks fill, the overflow goes onto the ground, the water soaks back into the earth, and the whole process starts over again.

Underneath the windmills, water pumps from a simple concept. Most of our wells take two three-inch leathers. There is a poppet affair on top of the leathers, and down about thirty inches is the bottom check. Both the plunger and the check have valves. As the top plunger goes down, the poppet allows water to come up over the leathers. As the plunger goes up the water goes up, and water is sucked up above the bottom check. When the plunger goes back down, the poppet on top of the bottom check prevents water from escaping. Most of our windmills have eight foot wheels, and pump an eight inch stroke. It is really an ingenious, energy-efficient system that has changed very little in the last hundred years.

 

[alabama]

I have a question about the windmill.
Does it pump water 24-7 or does it have a flote valve. And if it works off a float does it just stop the flow of water or does it feather the windmill?
I would think if it just turns off the water it would put too much back presseur on the pump.

Our windmills pump water whenever the wind blows. When the tanks fill, the overflow goes onto the ground, the water soaks back into the earth, and the whole process starts over again.

Underneath the windmills, water pumps from a simple concept. Most of our wells take two three-inch leathers. There is a poppet affair on top of the leathers, and down about thirty inches is the bottom check. Both the plunger and the check have valves. As the top plunger goes down, the poppet allows water to come up over the leathers. As the plunger goes up the water goes up, and water is sucked up above the bottom check. When the plunger goes back down, the poppet on top of the bottom check prevents water from escaping. Most of our windmills have eight foot wheels, and pump an eight inch stroke. It is really an ingenious, energy-efficient system that has changed very little in the last hundred years.

I know it depends on the wind speed but about how many gal/hour do those things pump.
Thank you