will likely end up feeding for an open-range outfit where I'll spend upwards of an hour and a half driving around just LOOKING for cows through fog/iced-up windows...and then once I find them, get out, crawl up on the flat-bed, wait for 'em to gather-up, make a rough head-count, jump down, raise the little door on the cake-feeder, get back in...do a little math, figger out how many 'clicks' I need, put 'er in 4-LO, 2nd gear, watch the left rear-view mirror and try like hell to get most of the cake to drop into the tire-track.
On a sheep-outfit, spend THREE hrs tryin to locate them in the snow, beeping and flashing lights like I'm leading a funeral/wedding procession down 5th ave...once they see me, stop...wait for 'em to gather...hope like HELL I got all of 'em (unless a coyote came through and scattered them in multiple flocks which are scared to death of each other, and will likely STAY in separate flocks for the next two or three days, till they figure out that other sheep are NOT a threat to them) together...then put 'er in 4-LO 1st gear, tie the wheel to the window pillar handle (so she stays in a rough-circle) jump out...crawl on the flat-bed, drag a 100 lb sack of corn/pellets to the end of the flat-bed...rip the tie-string off, and shake/pour a steady-stream of feed into the tire-tracks, while swatting the head of the STUPID-A** ewe who keeps following right behind and sticking her fuzzy-head into the feed-stream, which has the effect of 'spraying' feed to the OUTSIDE of the tire-tracks, thereby wasting all the time, effort and feul involved in feeding sheep on open-range.
That's my feed-routine till calving starts, and then I'm usually stuck in the barn, day-calving till the night-calver twists-off in the middle of the night, leaving wherever I'm working for, short-handed.
If I'm LUCKY, I get to sign-on with an outfit where the foreman stays in the truck and drives (hopefully NOT like a maniac) while I'm on the flat-bed flaking off large-squares.