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Just some stuff!

leanin' H

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Here's some odds and ends from the past week I though ya may like to see. If ya don't then keep it to yourself! :wink: A cute Little H in a handmade Easter dress from her Grandma!
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A couple shots of the day job. We tore down an outdated transformer bank and replaced it with a new system. A before shot of the equipment getting set up while waiting on the utility to shut down the line.
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Tearing down an "H" frame. (not named for yours truly)
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After Demo work was wrapped up, we stood a new 45 foot pole. Then after installing guy wires and anchors to hold them, we swung up the new transformers. Brandon in the bucket and Clint on the pole. Clint is wearing hooks and a climbing belt.
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Standing in a pair of hooks on a pole while working on high voltage is not a vocation for the faint of heart. :wink:
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And yesterday we went to the ranch to look at the grass and check on stuff. A shot of the old original homestead cabin. She shows her age!
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Then they moved into this cabin which is more than double the size. A rural mansion made by skilled hands.
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It's trying to green up around here. The sun hanging around a while will help. Can't believe the cows go on the mountain in less then a month! Yipeeeeeeee!
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We took ol' flat Stanley with us and he kept whining cause he wasnt in any pictures so we shot this one to hush him up! :roll: :D He actually looks the happiest in this picture! :D
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This is the bottom of Cottonwood canyon where we will finish the year on the allotment. The grass is coming. :D
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After the big fire in 94 the granite ledges are still pretty bare. There used to be lots of cedars and mahogany trees up on the ledges.
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Looking west toward the Charter Oak Pass. Named because old parts of an old charter oak wood stove scattered alond the trail heading to Pine canyon. Nobody knows for sure when the stove arrived there but Grandpa's best guess was a packstring accident while enroute to mining operations in Pine canyon. Funny how places get their name! :D
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A picture of what's left of the moonlight stackyard. My Grandma and Mom built it one fall during a full moon week. Grandpa was sick and they were busy with all the chores during the day. So they used the moon's light to finish the small yard. They stacked it full of loose hay and fed the weaned calves out of it. Lots of history for just some old posts and wire!
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And a last picture of my bunch by the old cattle truck. My son said its not a cattle truck, it's the "Hatari" truck! It does look like the truck from the John Wayne movie of the same title, cept for the rack! :D
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Looks like yesterday gave you a few more memories to lock away in your treasure chest. That country looks a lot better than here at this time of year. :D
Does cattle/grass management dictate that you keep cattle moving to old grass in the spring so to not jeopardize this years growth? That is how the bunchgrass is managed in the dry areas of BC.

I see they don't trust you with the bucket truck controls yet. :wink: :lol:
 
We use our allotment on a rest/rotate schedule. Each pasture gets rested every third year. And we rotate the first pasture we turn into every year. If I had my way you'd just rotate your spring pasture and use the others every year. Once the end of July arrives in this country the grass has gone to seed and grazing it can only help scatter new seed. By switching different spring pastures you'd let them come back after being grazed while in growth mode. But I don't have a degree and work for the government. :wink: And thanks for noticing I am not allowed to run equipment! My job is to bring up the I.Q. of the crew and look good if a news crew shows up! :wink:
 
I figured you were the guy that ties the rope to things that need to be pulled up. :P

By your knack for snapping pictures I thought you were the media guy!
 
You, electricity....its all statring to make sense now.......... :lol:
way cool with the cabins, how old are they?
 
Yanuck said:
You, electricity....its all statring to make sense now.......... :lol:
way cool with the cabins, how old are they?

You being a smart butt? Shocking! :shock: :D :wink:
The cabin they built first is the smaller cabin. It was part of my great grandfathers original homestead in 1870. After he proved up on it he sent for his parents, my great,great grandparents to come from Holland in 1874. They moved into the larger cabin about 1875 from what we can tell in our family history. So long story longer, they are almost as old as YOU! :P :shock: :D :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
leanin' H said:
Yanuck said:
You, electricity....its all statring to make sense now.......... :lol:
way cool with the cabins, how old are they?

You being a smart butt? Shocking! :shock: :D :wink:
The cabin they built first is the smaller cabin. It was part of my great grandfathers original homestead in 1870. After he proved up on it he sent for his parents, my great,great grandparents to come from Holland in 1874. They moved into the larger cabin about 1875 from what we can tell in our family history. So long story longer, they are almost as old as YOU! :P :shock: :D :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Nice, family history is one of my favourite things to do and I believe someone told you a few days ago that it takes a smart butt to know one!! :wink: :P
 
Great pictures. Tell Little H that she looked very pretty in her Easter dress!! The history on the cabins (and stackyard) is awesome, neat to have lived there that long.
 

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