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Soapweed

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northern Nebraska Sandhills
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Crawford country
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Buttes north of Fort Robinson
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Fort Robinson scenery
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Lawn ornament
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In honor of the horse soldiers that were stationed at Fort Robinosn
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Tough durable box corner
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Nice straight fence
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The fence builder that makes it happen
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This pasture still has grass
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Pretty good calf even though she is grey
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Cowboy incognito
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Bear Creek
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Cattle crossing the creek
 
Soapweed; Your fencer is out of the old school where they took pride in their work! It's getting tougher all the time to find anyone that wants the physical labour of fencing and there are some that are getting pretty pricey ( they can do small jobs for big $$ for acreage & business owners near the city). I get real enjoyment out of looking at well built fences and corrals and just wish I could afford the time and expense to update all of our own!
 
There's that nice sorrell horse again!!!

Soapweed, it looks like your country is holding up very well.
Your green grass makes me GREEN :mrgreen:
with envy!!! Couldn't you find some dried up grass somewhere
to photograph?

That country around Crawford looks really neat. I don't remember
ever being there, but thought that I had...

One thing good about a poor memory: every thing is always
something new.
 
cowsense said:
Soapweed; Your fencer is out of the old school where they took pride in their work! It's getting tougher all the time to find anyone that wants the physical labour of fencing and there are some that are getting pretty pricey ( they can do small jobs for big $$ for acreage & business owners near the city). I get real enjoyment out of looking at well built fences and corrals and just wish I could afford the time and expense to update all of our own!
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You are right, this guy is definitely from the old school. He hates people and loves to fence. I just keep him supplied with posts and wire, and then try to stay the heck out of his way. He goes on the theory that any job done is a self-portrait of the person that did it. If he can't do the job right, he just flat won't do it at all.
 
In the pics of the buttes, I expect to see a stagecoach, and possibly bandits or indians in hot pursuit! Classic western movie scenery.
 
Soap- Why all wood posts? Wouldn't it be easier and faster with steel posts?

We have to use a lot of steel, because with the rock, gravel, and gumbo its hard to get a hole deep enough to set a wood post that doesn't get plumb loose when the ground drys out...The guy I've hired to put in corner posts sets his corner posts (8 foot ties) 4 feet into the ground to keep them from loosening....
 
A little girl on this ranch thinks the grey ones are the valuable ones. A gentleman the ranch does embryo transfer work for visited and said to my Dad "I have to ask why the grey heifer when all the rest are black?" My Dad's reply was she's my granddaughters and she's not for sale as he chuckled. When he sent paperwork enclosed was a note that said let me know if your granddaughter decides to take bids on that hiefer! :)
 
Oldtimer said:
Soap- Why all wood posts? Wouldn't it be easier and faster with steel posts?

We have to use a lot of steel, because with the rock, gravel, and gumbo its hard to get a hole deep enough to set a wood post that doesn't get plumb loose when the ground drys out...The guy I've hired to put in corner posts sets his corner posts (8 foot ties) 4 feet into the ground to keep them from loosening....
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About the only places we use steel posts are in water gaps on the lakes. All through the pastures, we have nothing but wooden posts. Guess it must just be force of habit and tradition, because that is the way it's always been. :wink:
 
CattleRMe said:
What about hedge posts? That's the preference around here.
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We have some of them, and I dislike them. They are crooked and you can't drive a staple into them, so the barbed wires have to be baling-wired to the posts. Then when a big deep snow comes along, the barbed wires break between each post because there is no give to it. My preference is creosoted southern yellow pine. They are straight and easy to drive staples into. In case of deep snow, the staples either come out or at least give enough that the barbed wires don't break so badly.
 
Interesting how different things are done in various areas of 'ranchland'. No one cound pay me enough to put a treated pine post in the ground here in NEMO from now on. They simply will not last here as most are rotted at ground level and broken off in a very short time. Too much moisture I guess. I have had many that have not lasted 5 yrs. We use hedge and steel only. Short staples can be driven even in old hedge posts. Admittedly I have to 'run the fences' replacing some staples every spring. We are fortunate here to have a local guy who somehow finds some very straight hedge (many can be driven) for a reasonable price. I use 4-6" ones for corrals. Drill pilot holes and use panel staples for attaching cattle panels and then line with old oak bridge boards scavenged from county attached with 3/8 lags.
 

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