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Question for Northern Rancher

Thanks so much for your last post. I've been thinking about trying to build one. I had the thought of doing one like your neighbor's. I could find the horses around here, but I'm not so sure I could find the harness. Mine is all rotten and all the antique stuff is no good if you want to do some serious pulling. I've got plenty of shoes and a forge though. Maybe if I start working with weanlings like you do I can handle their feet. If I have any more ornery ones at my age I'll half to tie them onto the dozzer and jack them up into a tree.
 
cedardell said:
Thanks so much for your last post. I've been thinking about trying to build one. I had the thought of doing one like your neighbor's. I could find the horses around here, but I'm not so sure I could find the harness. Mine is all rotten and all the antique stuff is no good if you want to do some serious pulling. I've got plenty of shoes and a forge though. Maybe if I start working with weanlings like you do I can handle their feet. If I have any more ornery ones at my age I'll half to tie them onto the dozzer and jack them up into a tree.
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I was thinking about going into draft horses a while back. I asked my saddle maker about harness. He said the Omish in Ohio /Penn. where making it way cheaper than he could.
 
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Here is my bale hauling outfit. It was made in the early 1980's by Little Dickens Manufacturing Company, of Dickens, Nebraska. It is basically rigged up like any other bale deck, only it is pulled by a team of horses or mules, and the hydraulics are powered by an eight horsepower Briggs and Stratton engine. It works pretty good, but sure is not as fast as a Hydra-bed or a bale processor. This photo was probably taken in 1984.

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This other picture is of my good old Paint saddlehorse, Rosebud Rebel, and our four horse feed team. We called them the Rushmore Four--Tom, Teddy, George and Abe. Peach Blossom and I fed all our hay with these four horses the first two winters of our married life, 1979-1980 and 1980-1981. We had a few wild run-aways during these years. Cow Doc from Ranchers.Net got in on one of these illustrious run-aways, but he and I both lived to tell about it. :wink: This picture was probably taken in early 1981
 
cedardell said:
I wouldn't worry to much about haymaker. I'd like to see his cows after two months in 40 below temps in two feet of snow. I'll bet he's not smart enough to get his tractor started in those conditions. Poor cows. If he did take it in the house and get it running somehow who up there is going to pull him out when he gets stuck. So would you go out and harness up the team and pull him out?
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cedardell,alias buck you got 500 head or cattle and you are feeding them in canadian winter weather with a team of horses ? maybe you are'nt smart enough to comprehend this? "500 head/a team of horses with a sled" believe its obvious who's not smart enough.............good luck

PS some of knew you were a lil "off" when you used the alias "buck" and stated you bought a life time membership to R Calf...........good luck

PS these cattle better be mighty close to the hay stack LOL, Oh I forgot you just stack in in the field and let them ole girls have at it ? what was that you called it ?wastin hay ?..............How much hay would it take to get 500 head of cattle thru winter feedin like this ? and while I will admitt it dont snow much around here,I was huntin in Colorado one year when some one had this great idea about gettin some snow ,meltin it for coffe,best I remember it took a 55 gallon drum to get enough water for a pot of coffe :D
 
I guess were just better horse skinners and managers than you are Haystack-there's thousands of cows fed with teams up here-I can tell you one thing I can be harnessed and feeding before the hydrauklic oil in the tractor is warm enough to lift a bale in -40. Don't worry your little head about it not like your ever going to have to come up in man's country to help out. Like my mother used to say 'Speak not of what you know not of'. It's good advice.
 
Northern Rancher said:
I guess were just better horse skinners and managers than you are Haystack-there's thousands of cows fed with teams up here-I can tell you one thing I can be harnessed and feeding before the hydrauklic oil in the tractor is warm enough to lift a bale in -40. Don't worry your little head about it not like your ever going to have to come up in man's country to help out. Like my mother used to say 'Speak not of what you know not of'. It's good advice.
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I think some of you make a big deal outa a lil cold weather,with the right facilities and planning cold weather is just another problem that can be handled like all the rest.............good luck
 
HAY MAKER said:
Northern Rancher said:
I guess were just better horse skinners and managers than you are Haystack-there's thousands of cows fed with teams up here-I can tell you one thing I can be harnessed and feeding before the hydrauklic oil in the tractor is warm enough to lift a bale in -40. Don't worry your little head about it not like your ever going to have to come up in man's country to help out. Like my mother used to say 'Speak not of what you know not of'. It's good advice.
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I think some of you make a big deal outa a lil cold weather,with the right facilities and planning cold weather is just another problem that can be handled like all the rest.............good luck
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I would much rather have the cold weather than the hot that the south gets.And we have no snakes up here.
 
LOL Denny, I read your comment about no snakes.....and got to thinkin, up north you hear about all the rats and rabbits in the hay stacks........we don't have that problem down here. Guess the snakes take care of that.
 
I'll take the rats and rabbits and racoons all things being equal.. Snakes give me the heebe jeebies..

We don't have to many rats around in the hay areas, the cats do a good job of keep those down but we don't have too many cats either. The coyotes and 18 wheelers seem to keep those populations down :shock:

Of course. I would argue that my wife personally has too many cats but she would counter that I have too many dogs so I guess it all is equal in the end... My 700 pounds of dog vs her 100 pounds of cat... Seems equal to me :lol:
 
Oh Mr Lilly knows better'n to even bring that argument up. Dogs....too many? LOL I told him not too long ago, I'm over 21 and I don't live with my mama anymore.......I don't hafta "ask" if I can have a new puppy. That's one of the good things about bein grown.
Ya just bring the new one home, and go....."Look honey, I brought you a surprise" :D
 
the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
Oh Mr Lilly knows better'n to even bring that argument up. Dogs....too many? LOL I told him not too long ago, I'm over 21 and I don't live with my mama anymore.......I don't hafta "ask" if I can have a new puppy. That's one of the good things about bein grown.
Ya just bring the new one home, and go....."Look honey, I brought you a surprise" :D
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If you do that, too many times he may hand you the puppy and a suitcase to go with it.
 
Alberta is rat free.
I couldnt handle snakes though! They make me run like a girl :lol:
I cant stand the heat either :wink:
 
Alberta is rat free.
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Really? Did not know that. Are you serious?

I wouldn't have thought that anywhere on earth is rat free.

How bout them big ol' Cockroaches?

I caught one the other night whipping a rat over a cracker! :lol:
 
Since 1950, Alberta has been rat free, and maintains a control zone along the Saskatchewan border. The mountains on the west keep them from coming from B.C. There are pics of great piles of dead rats from when they did the extermination back then, but I'm not sure where to find them.
 
Faster horses said:
You are kidding, right, alabama?
Don't women have the right to the animals they want to take care of?
I know around here I could bring anything here I wanted, as long
as I did the taking care part.
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Aint it better you the two get together on what they want?
 

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