Miscellaneous cattle pictures from this past week

[Soapweed]

Red cattle

December Hereford "graft calf" sucking a black momma

Three yearling heifers

Yearling heifers and one of their male consorts

A pretty good baldy calf

Typical ranch pickup seen on Main Street

Taking life easy

Some of the boys

Cattle on a hillside

The fragile Sandhills

Rose petals

Pasture picture

My sturdy steed

Horse on a hill

Evidence of a hard ride on a hot afternoon

Picturesque post in the pasture

Windmill at sundown

 

[varmint]

Where can I get one of the fence pliers holsters that you have on your saddle in the picture?
I have been trying to find one for a long time and just saw your picture.
Thanks,
Larry in Texas

 

[Soapweed]

Where can I get one of the fence pliers holsters that you have on your saddle in the picture?
I have been trying to find one for a long time and just saw your picture.
Thanks,
Larry in Texas

Lancaster Livestock Supply in Cody, Nebraska, sells them. Their phone number is 1-402-823-4242.

Another option would be to Google "fence plier holster" and some sources are available.

Good luck.

 

[varmint]

I spoke with Liz and its already ordered
Thanks again, I really enjoy your posts & pictures, all we have here is flooded pasture with cows on the high ground.

 

[Jerry H]

Where can I get one of the fence pliers holsters that you have on your saddle in the picture?
I have been trying to find one for a long time and just saw your picture.
Thanks,
Larry in Texas

hello larry
soapweed exuse me fo butting in
but i was carring a pair of fencing pliers on my saddle when i came back to texas a few years ago
one day i took some cattle to the sale barn and had horse in the trailer and the brand inspector saw them on my saddle and told me it is illigal to have them on your saddle in texas and he could write me a ticket if he wanted to
but he just made me take it off and then i was gone again
now this was a few years ago and if i remember correct you can have them on there if you are on private ground but if you leave your place you should take them off
until later
jerry
btw soapweed
great pic's as always

 

[varmint]

I do believe that you are right! I have heard that too. 99% of my riding is on our land and neighbors place, we have 500 acres combined and I am a fence "nut" constantly looking for damage or down fences, some of the wire is very old with spur rowel barbs. I always seem to have lots of help to repair the fences but they never seem to show up. I wind up just shooting at varmints from my horse more than anything else.
Larry

 

[DJL]

Why on earth would it be illegal to carry fencing pliers on your saddle in Texas?

Larry if you have spur rowel barbed wire, you could make good money selling chunks of it on e-bay or elsewhere, and pay for all new wire fence. Collectors will pay silly amounts for something they desire.

 

[Jerry H]

hey larry
glad to hear you already new that about the pliers
i had to find out the hard way but at least it didn't cost me anything
i see you are from greenville
i worked alot around when i was growing up
from sulfer springs to paris,shearman back down to wylie where i spent my childhood
shoot we might know each other or have at least met
until later
jerry

 

[Jerry H]

hello djl
i think it has somthing to with texas being a fence in state
rather the way most of the rest of cow country is a fence out state with openrange laws
if i'm wrong someone please correct me as i'm not 100% possitive

i'm pretty shure it's one of those old laws from back in the days of the range wars over the wire when folks were killing each other over it

there's lots of those old laws still on the books that folks don't know about
if i remember right it was still ok to hang horse theives here in texas until 1982

until later
jerry

 

[varmint]

I used to think that its just one of those old laws still on the books. I'm sure that a runnin iron would be illegal too if the pliers are.
I will cut a piece of the wire and take a picture of it and post it. Its very brittle. I have really been thinking of listing some items on Ebay, what kind of price should I put on it to start? I have also found some old iron stirrups while checkin fence, and an old wooden pulley hanging in a tree by wire, real high up.

 

[Tap]

Your country looks good Soapweed. Glad you are having fun while getting things done. I bet Cal doesn't have as much fun as you seem to while working. :lol: Sorry Cal, couldn't resist. lol

I like your pasture picture the best. A lot of us would have rode right by and not found the beautiful picture you captured there.

 

[varmint]

This is my 2-1/2 YO QH mare last August in the Ark mountains[/img]

We went to the Nat Finals Chuck Wagon Races

 

[DJL]

Varmint, I'd do a search on Ebay and see if there is something similar to give you an idea on price. Barbed wire is used for trim on picture frames and such as well as in displays of various old barbed wire, so it is definitely collectible.

 

[Cal]

Your country looks good Soapweed. Glad you are having fun while getting things done. I bet Cal doesn't have as much fun as you seem to while working. :lol: Sorry Cal, couldn't resist. lol

I like your pasture picture the best. A lot of us would have rode right by and not found the beautiful picture you captured there.

Tap, I think you have so much fun because you get to dress like a television star; http://www.kellie.de/fm/steve3.jpg

:wink:

 

[Canadian_Cowgirl]

Your country looks good Soapweed. Glad you are having fun while getting things done. I bet Cal doesn't have as much fun as you seem to while working. :lol: Sorry Cal, couldn't resist. lol

I like your pasture picture the best. A lot of us would have rode right by and not found the beautiful picture you captured there.

Tap, I think you have so much fun because you get to dress like a television star; http://www.kellie.de/fm/steve3.jpg

:wink:

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Soapweed i love your pictures!!!

Cal you are to funny! :lol2: :lol2:

 

[Soapweed]

Where can I get one of the fence pliers holsters that you have on your saddle in the picture?
I have been trying to find one for a long time and just saw your picture.
Thanks,
Larry in Texas

hello larry
soapweed exuse me fo butting in
but i was carring a pair of fencing pliers on my saddle when i came back to texas a few years ago
one day i took some cattle to the sale barn and had horse in the trailer and the brand inspector saw them on my saddle and told me it is illigal to have them on your saddle in texas and he could write me a ticket if he wanted to
but he just made me take it off and then i was gone again
now this was a few years ago and if i remember correct you can have them on there if you are on private ground but if you leave your place you should take them off
until later
jerry
btw soapweed
great pic's as always

Jerry, I certainly believe what you said about it being against the law to carry fence pliers in Texas, but I sure consider this a pretty assinine statute. It makes about as much sense as not being able to kill a rattlesnake in some states. Where in the world has common sense gone to, as far as our lawmakers are concerned?

Heck, when I'm on my "private land" I don't usually need fence pliers because I know where the gates are. It is when I'm crossing someone else's pasture with a herd of my own cattle that I need pliers to let down the fence when there is not a gate handy. :wink: This was said somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but it is the truth. If someone wants to cross my land with a herd of cattle, the same privileges are extended to them.

A pair of fence pliers is a very useful tool. For one thing, if you live in a state that permits the killing of a rattlesnake, said snake can be killed with the pliers if you are brave enough. :wink: Sometimes the horse you are riding gets tangled up if there is old wire lying around. A wreck can be averted by using pliers to cut the wire. If a critter is tangled up in barbed wire, the pliers can be used to cut the wire to free the critter. If staples are out on a fence, it is easy to pound in a few with the pliers. If a wire is broken, and you can find a piece of wire to splice with, the pliers make it possible to fix things back the way they should be. Fencing pliers are a very useful tool, and I use them often enough that is would sure be a hardship to ride without them. It would be about like leaving my hat at home. :wink:

 

[Julie]

Soapweed, I'd recommend practicing THROWING those pliars if ya are gonna use them to kill a snake

Landing a big rock on a diamond back used to be my weapon of choice. Til I had one of those buggers "stand up" and come to me as I was goin' to him.
I'd heard they'd do that but when there is a 5 1/2 foot snake with a big flat head come hissin' to you --

Guns take on a whole new kinship --

I've decided bullet distance is my preferred stance now.

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Soapweed, if you go to throwin fencin pliers at snakes I recommend tyin a peice of hay string or somethin on to them so you can retrieve them and throw again......ya might not git him the first throw.....

Sounds like a carnival game.....throw the pliers..kill the snake!!!! Win a teddy bear LOL

 

[TWOROPES]

Please excuse me for buttin in, but I couldnt resist. The brand inspector that told Jerry he could write him a ticket was bluffin. I would say start writing.He would have to catch you trsspassing on private land or cutting into private land to write that ticket on the pliers.I dont know anybody that doesent carry pliers, as much old wire is laying around in the brush around here. I have a buddy that lost a real good mare that got wrapped up in some old wire, and couldnt get her cut loose, lucky she didnt fall on him, and kill him too. Hell I carry pliers and a .22 pistol on my rig. BTW, on killin those snakes with pliers,thats pretty brave.I grew up in deep south texas,and we had some old mexican hands that could kill them with the knot end of their rope.I was always scared a fang would break off in the rope and get me later. Sorry so long, ROPES.

 

[kwebb]

Soapweed:
Love your posts and pictures as always. I look on here for your posts first.

It's illegal to carry pliers on other people's land in Texas because of the rustling that was so rampant here early on....and of which we still hear regularly. We are a fence-in state and that is mostly why.

If you cut down a fence in Texas to let your stock through, it would be strongly advised to look all over hell and back for the landowner first. If a fella cuts my fence without my knowledge and I catch him on my land, of course I will ask him what in the hell he thinks he's doing and probably end up helping him when I get it figured out. At first, though, I am going to be very aggressive with the person and probably have a real bad attitude. Other folks finding a cut fence and a fellow rounding up cattle are likely to think the worst and call the authorities and hold the fella at gunpoint until the authorites arrive. As in 30-30 lever cocked in your face.

People up north have a whole different sense of landowner rights than we do here. It's rare to have someone trespass on your land and hunt without permission here like seems to happen a bunch up there. In Texas you would tell him to get the hell out or he is subject to arrest. People that do trespass do it at night, hiding like crazy, and knowing that they could end up shot or jailed over it.

Private property in Texas is just different. In Texas we are beginning to have the state lease some hunting lands like they do in Kansas and Nebraska, but it is still not common. If you hop a barbed wire fence in Texas, you better have your head on a swivel looking for someone. And when you are confronted, you have about the same rights as if you stepped inside someone's front door to their home at night without permission. I'm not saying one way of thinking is right or wrong or better than the other--it's just interesting how we developed different ideas about property in different parts of the country. I'm always shocked to hear about my friends from here that go to Kansas and Nebraska to hunt just drive up to a farmhouse and ask to hunt. Here, you just don't do that.

The plier law is silly, but it illustrates the thinking of private property owners in this state and the positions of power they have held and still do.

There is another funny law in Texas about cattle on raodways. Up until very recently (I think but I am not sure and this may be wrong) in Texas if you hit a cow with your vehicle, the cattle owner was not liable. It was your fault for not seeing the cow or having the sense to steer around it and you could even be liable for replacing the cow.