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cows and the oil patch (not for those with a weak stomach)

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Here are some photos of a cow with a thread potector off of a drill stem from earlier this summer.
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As you can see we had a tough time getting the darn thing off as the foot had swelled around the hexagonal hole in the thread protector. The thread protector was left in the feild by a careless oilpatch worker when they were drilling a well and the cow stepped in it. We pulled these cows this past sunday and she will be culled as there is irreversable damage to the foot. We successfully treated the infection with antibiotics after the removal of the thread protector.
 
When was the well drilled? And why didnt the oilfield company put a fence around the location? That's standard proceedure around here. That way cows can't get to anything around a well site. The fences they build also make great hay traps after the company leaves. And it's perdy much always accessable since they use caliche(sp) for the pad site.

I do believe I'd be lettin em know, and showin them these pictures...not that it will do you any good monetary wise, but it might make them pick up their stuff a lil better in the future.
 
Jersey we dont know where or when this thread protector was left on the prairie. The oil company was sent these pictures and is cooperating very well with us (no pun intended). It is good to carry a camera!
 
This reminds me of something that happened on our place a number of years ago.

We were moving a bunch of pairs to fresh pasture. It was in early June and the calves were not big. I noticed a calf that didn't look as sharp as the others. Mainly just gaunt, he was more skittish than the rest of them and I couldn't get a close look at him. The more I watched him from a distance, I realized that something was wrong with his mouth.

After settling them in their new pasture, I located this calf and roped him to identify his problem. Wedged onto his lower jaw was what later proved to be a rusted out portion of a muffler from a Honda motorcycle. It looked very similar to the thread protector elwapo has pictured here. This calf had been unable to nurse or eat grass. A few maggots were getting started, but after removing it he looked to be otherwise OK, so I let him go. He recovered quickly.

Since we have never had a motorcycle on this place, it must have come from someone who lost it many years before this curious victim found it.

I believe that we will never live long enough to see it all!
 
JF Ranch said:
This reminds me of something that happened on our place a number of years ago.

We were moving a bunch of pairs to fresh pasture. It was in early June and the calves were not big. I noticed a calf that didn't look as sharp as the others. Mainly just gaunt, he was more skittish than the rest of them and I couldn't get a close look at him. The more I watched him from a distance, I realized that something was wrong with his mouth.

After settling them in their new pasture, I located this calf and roped him to identify his problem. Wedged onto his lower jaw was what later proved to be a rusted out portion of a muffler from a Honda motorcycle. It looked very similar to the thread protector elwapo has pictured here. This calf had been unable to nurse or eat grass. A few maggots were getting started, but after removing it he looked to be otherwise OK, so I let him go. He recovered quickly.

Since we have never had a motorcycle on this place, it must have come from someone who lost it many years before this curious victim found it.

I believe that we will never live long enough to see it all!
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quite possibly this was industrial sabotage by the Japanese. once they realized this "muffler Mouth" was not going to influence world trade , they developed BSE.
 
Looking at those reminded me of the many I've found in snares that some despicably low moraled trappers left all over the country years ago......

Not so much of a problem now since they changed the laws on use of snares and really cracked down on these guys that didn't ever check them or pick them up....
 
A word of advice. When the landman calls to put wells on your land remeber it is not all gravey. We have had a terrible time in the area with the oil patch this past summer with gates left open and cows mixed in neighbours fields. As a matter of fact we are still missing three pairs. The service people working in the patch just dont care about the land owners.
 
When signing contracts with oil field company's.......insist on having gated cattle guards.....perdy much ends the problem of a gate bein left open and cows goin somewhere they aint sposta be. It can be shut or left open..either way...the cows aint goin across it.

People don't realize, that you as the land owner have final say so on how things get done. Put it in the contract..n they hafta comply. What's $800 more dollars here n there for a cattle guard to be put in to these big oil companies? Fences around their sludge pits and or the whole well location....
 
elwapo said:
A word of advice. When the landman calls to put wells on your land remeber it is not all gravey. We have had a terrible time in the area with the oil patch this past summer with gates left open and cows mixed in neighbours fields. As a matter of fact we are still missing three pairs. The service people working in the patch just dont care about the land owners.
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Lillys right about the Texas's gates,when bargaining with Oil company this year over a proposed well on our place,the company agreed to put Texas gates in our gate openings.We've had some problams with the service men in past but oil companys have gone out of thier way to correct it,we find if your reasonable they'll be reasonable,if you get thier backs up they are downright miserable. In Alberta a person can refuse to let an oil company in BUT they will go to abatration board,the land owner usually comes out the loser,with less money then they offered in the first place.
 
This company out and out refused to put cattle gard gates in last negotiation. Things will change next time around believe me
 
ranchwife said:
Judith said:
Ouchy....
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I second that!!!!!!!!!!




:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:




OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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We "third" it..............ouchy, Ouchy, OUCHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :shock: :cry: :mad:

Careless folks make me just want to hunt up a rope and a tree (which isn't too hard to find in our neck of the forests......... :roll: )
 
We live in the middle of an oilfield and we see our fair share of about everything. We have had a couple with those pipe ends on thier feet, we also lose one or two to hardware which if we can prove they will pay us for. One heiffer this summer died at the head of an oilwell and they paid for her. No idea what she died from but whos gonna argue. I have learned that we get way more done by being nice, you have to be assertive at the same time, but not mean and nasty. My dad hated the oil companies and they never would do a thing for him, but I have found that they are watching out for them and if I watch out for me we can meet on middle ground, MOST of the time.
 
I agree with you heel fly. There are lots of people that try and take advantage of the oil company's or get on the fight. Proper negotiations are essential just like any other business transaction. Many ranchers are emotionally attached to their land and livestock.
A neighbour of mine went to war with the oil company and they simply put the wells on adjacent land and directional drilled right under him.
 
elwapo said:
This company out and out refused to put cattle gard gates in last negotiation. Things will change next time around believe me
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Was it the City of Medicine Hat ?? They are the cheapest so called Oil Co. around
 

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