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What a May Day--Supposed to meet the semis at 7:30 to haul cows north to pasture- Should have known how the day was going to go when I went out at 6:30 to hook up trailer---flat tire-- so put on spare...Wind blowing 15 mph, snowflurries and temp is 24 degrees-- Beautiful May Day....
Cows were already sorted so it didn't take long to load cows in trucks and calves in trailers...Trip was not bad except driving into a wind that by then was 30mph made slow travel-- Then the second truck dropped a front wheel off a cattle guard turning off the highway- so we dumped the cows off at the highway and trailed them a mile to the chute-- Unloaded the other 2 trucks and got things mothered up and trailed everything another mile and half ( into the wind) to the pasture- while the truckers jacked and blocked the truck out of it hole...By then the temp was up to 30, but the wind was up to 45 and at times it looked like a blizzard- wind about blow you off a horse....
When everybody got back to the trucks and horses loaded I offered everybody a cold beer-- Got no takers :shock: , but they sure made short work of the thermos's of coffee and all my rheumatis medicine I had stashed behind the seat......We had to dig out another bottle of medicine after we got back- but I'm not sure I'll warm up for a week even with it... So much for May Day....
Cows were already sorted so it didn't take long to load cows in trucks and calves in trailers...Trip was not bad except driving into a wind that by then was 30mph made slow travel-- Then the second truck dropped a front wheel off a cattle guard turning off the highway- so we dumped the cows off at the highway and trailed them a mile to the chute-- Unloaded the other 2 trucks and got things mothered up and trailed everything another mile and half ( into the wind) to the pasture- while the truckers jacked and blocked the truck out of it hole...By then the temp was up to 30, but the wind was up to 45 and at times it looked like a blizzard- wind about blow you off a horse....
When everybody got back to the trucks and horses loaded I offered everybody a cold beer-- Got no takers :shock: , but they sure made short work of the thermos's of coffee and all my rheumatis medicine I had stashed behind the seat......We had to dig out another bottle of medicine after we got back- but I'm not sure I'll warm up for a week even with it... So much for May Day....