Ranch Semi - Contest

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

1. Bob M

2. Per

3. Justin

4. Big Muddy Rancher

5. McGee213288

 

[oldblood]

I had to vote for #1 as that is the only one I could make payments on.

 

[OldDog/NewTricks]

A Great Cross Section

I had to vote for a photo I'd want to frame for a wall...

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

I hope BobM tells us the story on that old truck and trailer, it looks like a old liner with some sort of winter boards. :???:

 

[per]

Justin you have the Roo Bar already, you might just as well hook another trailer on behind.

McGee, what size are those bales. They make for a nice neat load.

BMR your bull rack is the only one with a winter front. It never gets cold in Saskatchewan does it? :wink:

Bob M, that outfit looks about my speed. Does it still run and is it for sale. :wink:

If anyone wonders why all the semi photo's I take are of some sort of pickle well we just don't drive good here. They invented 4WD and quad lock for us. That is why I am a better pilot, there aren't the restrictions like ditches up there.

 

[burnt]

Justin you have the Roo Bar already, you might just as well hook another trailer on behind.

McGee, what size are those bales. They make for a nice neat load.

BMR your bull rack is the only one with a winter front. It never gets cold in Saskatchewan does it? :wink:

Bob M, that outfit looks about my speed. Does it still run and is it for sale. :wink:

If anyone wonders why all the semi photo's I take are of some sort of pickle well we just don't drive good here. They invented 4WD and quad lock for us. That is why I am a better pilot, there aren't the restrictions like ditches up there.

Well maybe. "Ditching" has a different meaning up there, I thought!

 

[McGee213288]

The bales were 4'WX5'T...came off the coast down by Whinny, TX..to Jacksonville, TX...It is hard to see it in the picture...but the rear of the load has a pronounced left lean... :shock:

 

[Justin]

Justin you have the Roo Bar already, you might just as well hook another trailer on behind.

i have a what??

2,4 & 5 are pretty fancy ranch rigs. :wink:

 

[per]

Justin you have the Roo Bar already, you might just as well hook another trailer on behind.

i have a what??

2,4 & 5 are pretty fancy ranch rigs. :wink:

Those deer catchers on the front are called Roo Bars down under. They wouldn't think of leaving town without 3 trailers on behind.

 

[Bob M]

The no, 1 entry is an old semi with a lot of sentimental value attached. It belongs to the friend who lived on the ranch where Soapweed now lives. Ron boought the truck and trailer brand new (must have been in the 60s, I have spent many hours riding in it as co-pilot. More than once I would go to a disperssion sale and start buying a cow at the beginning and probably wind up with 15 or 20. By the time the sale was over it would be getting late. I began realiziing I had gotten carried away, wondering how I was going to get my new herd home. Then I called Ron. He with generosity that most people don't have, would say "I'll be there in three hours." One such occasion was when I bought cattle from Near Rapid City and another when I bought cattle at Broken Bow. Both of them over 150 miles away. We would go to the Black Hills for fence posts or lumber, take cattle to Iowa and Minnesota to friends who would have some windmills lined up for us to take down and bring home.

When my friend retired and moved to Valentine he brought the truck out, drove it to its present location in our old cottonwood grove. He has never come back for it but figures it is in a good place. I don't think it's for sale!

 

[oldblood]

Bob M, How long has it been setting there.

 

[Bob M]

I honestly don't know how long. Sometime I will look at the license plate that would probably tell me.