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Corrals and Chutes Contest

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1. HorseShoer
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2. Tumbleweed
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3. Lilly
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4. sw
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5. Jassy
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6. Northern Rancher
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7. MsSage
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I see that my new job has already cut into my "life".......I didn't even have a chance to go through pictures, or go take a picture, for this category............

Maybe I'll try to get one in for next week, over the weekend, unless I peel chile all weekend long. Got a 25# box peeled today, by myself..........got 17 small bags and almost another one from it. The extra I just stuck in the freezer of the fridge, and we'll use it first.
 
Makes me wonder how many cows are running in those or makes me think that my coral system is woefully small (Well, it is a bit smaller than I would like but.... We redid a good portion of ours last year with guardrail, rubrail and railroad ties... A lot more secure than it was with the rotting wood, fence wire and a prayer that was holding it together before.

WE have a 3 acre pen next to ours, maybe I need to find a way to incorporate that into the handling, works great as a backgrounding pen after the calves have beenw eaned for a couple weeks.
 
I like#2 . We loaded out yearlings from Big Beaver for many years. I think we were probably one of the last in Canada to ship by rail. I'm 51 how many my age have loaded cattle out by rail. I think one of our biggest single shipments were 19 cars at once. it was the early 80's when we had to switch to trucks only.
 
I was talking to one of the old timers in the area befroe he died this past spring. He was only 80 years old but had been in this area for ever.. The farm we live on was actually swamp ground, undewater until the core came in and drained the place somehwer around 1900-1910. Folks used to have to take the boat to get from one town to another during the spring floads...

I digress but where it all goes is they used to drive cattle down to Mineral back than to load onto the train in the fall/winter. Every little town out here had a little stockyard around the rail and they moved the cattle into Chicago or wherever the packer was. Than the tractor was invented and than the hybrids of corn and development of the ag chemicals changed the whole area.

Lots of old livestock barns that haven't had cows/sheep/pigs in them for 60 years.
 
Faster horses said:
Mr. FH just took a look at the pictures. He noticed the deep tracks
where many horses have been walked on the hot walker.

Did anyone else notice that? I missed it, til he mentioned it.
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I missed that also. Man, we are talking a lot of walking! :shock:

Poor ol' pony never got a chance to get out much evidently or there was lots of them that needed exercise and no one to ride them to do it.
 
I'm with Kola...corral rebuildings in order,greg says "Why, Just built them...27 years ago"Hes serious :?

Love nu.2 :)
 
http://www.1880town.com/index.htm

There were sure some pretty pictures in this contest. Number 1 was real pretty with those mountains in the background. It would be fun to gather and work cattle there.

I took the picture of the chute and cattle car about a month ago at the 1880 town east of Rapid City along I-90. It's pretty unussual to see anything like that anymore. There's also a set of corrals with the chute leading up to the car and a depo with everything I believe that goes with an old time train station. My dad tells about trailing cattle from home to ship them on a train when he was younger and he is 88 now. I only remember having them hauled out of here on trucks.

I put a link at the top of this post to the home page for 1880 town if anyone is interested. I think it is really well done and all the buildings are museums of the things they would have had in them years ago. There is more to the town than you can see in the photos and it only cost 7.50 to spend the day. If a person is interested in oldtime things it's a good place to spend an afternoon.
 
I used that photo for that reason. The walker seemed to call all attention. Then after you looked at it you saw why. Wonder how many horses have walked that path.
Thinking it is in Co. but I want to go back to my cd and look at the other photos around it.
Well since it is Sat I am going to....

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Great photo Shoer :) :) :) 2nd entered and 1st win WWHHHOOOOOOO

For you
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That cattle car brought back memories of as a high school kid working out at the local stockyards loading out cattle...Almost everything was shipped by rail then...Double deckers for hogs, sheep- which were fun loading :roll: ....But I think the worst job was out there at 20 below chipping the ice and frozen sh*t out of the rail doors so you could get them to slide and close...I was never so happy in my life, when I was no longer low man on the totem pole and got a different job- altho loading those hogs wasn't much of a promotion :wink: :lol: .........
 

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