How to work up a sweat at 30 below

[Big Muddy rancher]

Use this crow bar to chip ice away from the watering bowl.

These guys are waiting until I was done.

These one aren't waiting.

These ones don't care, they have hay to eat.

This is my Electric over wood throttle I use on the dodge feed truck. Nothing but the best. It needed a little more warming up this morning.

I just wedge the stick in and move the electric seat ahead to bring up the revs.

 

[Anonymous]

I used to have an almost identical throttle with my old feed truck... :lol: This "new" one I don't need it....

 

[jodywy]

warm springs takes a couple days of -35 to freze across

not so warm creek

 

[Hereford76]

that must be a A1 operation with an electric seat in your feed truck

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

that must be a A1 operation with an electric seat in your feed truck

The truck is 16 years old.

Should be able to drive it's self.

 

[Justin]

i even had to bust some ice this morning. those tire tanks that i was bragging about never freezing were iced over this morning. :shock: :? must have been a little chilly last night. :wink:

 

[burnt]

Whew! Talk about working up a sweat!

I just got in from gathering up a few stray golf balls in the hay stubble. They were left out there after our last go at driving a bucket of balls last fall.

Half of them were embarrassingly close to the T-blocks. Those were the ones the kids hit. Honest.

:liar:

Last week they were buried under a foot and a half of snow. Today, bare ground. :shock: :?

 

[gcreekrch]

Your steers are growing well BMR, are you going to need my assistance to help you carry your deposit to the bank this spring?
Bodyguards are expensive you know.

Our waterers are the same as Jody's, only one that I have to open every day.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Your steers are growing well BMR, are you going to need my assistance to help you carry your deposit to the bank this spring?
Bodyguards are expensive you know.

Our waterers are the same as Jody's, only one that I have to open every day.

Probably the six bankers that will be my pallbearers will help me carry the money to the bank.

 

[lazy ace]

Geez Big Muddy at first at thought there would be pictures of you wrestling with your carharts putting on your boots for chores. :wink: That takes a pretty good effort somedays.

happy new year and

have a cold one

lazy ace

 

[Soapweed]

Here is one of our "non-windmill" winter watering systems.

Submersible pump, with float for nice weather or we can just turn it on while we feed hay on the bitter cold days. At least it doesn't necessitate chopping ice.

Thirsty three-year-olds

 

[gcreekrch]

Dad had a bowl built for the top of a 48 inch well casing. (culvert in a 30 foot shallow well)

A submersible pump was turned on after he fed and shut off a few hours later. The overflow went back in the well. This setup work for the last 20 years he ranched.
The pump was a lot cheaper on power and trouble free compared to what a heated tank would have been.

 

[cowboyup]

I put a timer on my pumps. On at 8 and off at 4 so the cows have water and I don't have to chop ice

 

[Dylan Biggs]

Here is one of our "non-windmill" winter watering systems.

Submersible pump, with float for nice weather or we can just turn it on while we feed hay on the bitter cold days. At least it doesn't necessitate chopping ice.

Thirsty three-year-olds

Soap, up here, unless you were able to estimate exactly the amount the cattle would consume so they emptied the tank each time you pumped you would end up breaking ice. It isn`t out of the ordinary up here to have 3 or 4 weeks of continuous -15 F day time highs.

 

[Dylan Biggs]

Dad had a bowl built for the top of a 48 inch well casing. (culvert in a 30 foot shallow well)

A submersible pump was turned on after he fed and shut off a few hours later. The overflow went back in the well. This setup work for the last 20 years he ranched.
The pump was a lot cheaper on power and trouble free compared to what a heated tank would have been.

Gcreek, that is a good idea, there is actually a commercialy avaiable system that is designed using the same principle.

 

[Dylan Biggs]

Use this crow bar to chip ice away from the watering bowl.

BMR does that bar have a standard chiesel tip? I find it is alot easier a job when I use a 1 inch bar like from and old half ton axle with a forged point, super sharp.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Dad had a bowl built for the top of a 48 inch well casing. (culvert in a 30 foot shallow well)

A submersible pump was turned on after he fed and shut off a few hours later. The overflow went back in the well. This setup work for the last 20 years he ranched.
The pump was a lot cheaper on power and trouble free compared to what a heated tank would have been.

Gcreek, that is a good idea, there is actually a commercialy avaiable system that is designed using the same principle.

Don't they have issues with coliform enter the water supply with it draining back into the well? Wasn't that why they moved all the floats on watering bowls to above the water level?

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Use this crow bar to chip ice away from the watering bowl.

BMR does that bar have a standard chiesel tip? I find it is alot easier a job when I use a 1 inch bar like from and old half ton axle with a forged point, super sharp.

Ya it is a chisel tip, just the standard Peavey mart special. I lost my good bar off the deck truck last winter and didn't find it. :? This one works pretty good if you go at more of a angle and get under the ice and pop it off in bigger chunks.

 

[Dylan Biggs]

Use this crow bar to chip ice away from the watering bowl.

BMR does that bar have a standard chiesel tip? I find it is alot easier a job when I use a 1 inch bar like from and old half ton axle with a forged point, super sharp.

Ya it is a chisel tip, just the standard Peavey mart special. I lost my good bar off the deck truck last winter and didn't find it. :? This one works pretty good if you go at more of a angle and get under the ice and pop it off in bigger chunks.

I have used that exact bar you have in the photo for the same job and I know what you mean, one you use a good smaller diametered pointed bar you will never go back. Unless you lose it, may be that is the kind you lost. It is a job, I have to do in the next couple of days around the mirafounts we have. I have to teach those calves not to be so sloppy!

 

[RSL]

BMR does that bar have a standard chiesel tip? I find it is alot easier a job when I use a 1 inch bar like from and old half ton axle with a forged point, super sharp.

Ya it is a chisel tip, just the standard Peavey mart special. I lost my good bar off the deck truck last winter and didn't find it. :? This one works pretty good if you go at more of a angle and get under the ice and pop it off in bigger chunks.

I have used that exact bar you have in the photo for the same job and I know what you mean, one you use a good smaller diametered pointed bar you will never go back. Unless you lose it, may be that is the kind you lost. It is a job, I have to do in the next couple of days around the mirafounts we have. I have to teach those calves not to be so sloppy!

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