Recent photos, August 1, 2006

[Soapweed]

Bird on a wire

Depressingly dry and dusty

A day and a tenth of an inch of rain makes a lot of difference

A soapweeduette

A pond and a lake

Professional fence builder

Leveled and hayed before the fence is put in

Fencing rig

Hard at work

He takes pride in his work

Heck of a good idea that didn't work

Chocolate chips

Pretty good steer, but he's not halter-broke

Wide open uncluttered country

Fat cattle on slim pasture

One of our steers won Reserve Grand Champion Steer at the recent Sandhills Cattle Association carcass contest. He was out of a Red Angus/Gelbvieh cross cow and was sired by a Red Simmental bull purchased from Van and Kathy Neidig, from Battle Creek, Nebraska

All dressed in uniform

Sunflowers guarding the water tank

Yearling heifers

Old ranch site

Remnants of bygone days

Sitting at a rakish angle

Baleful bale at sundown

 

[Faster horses]

Wonderful pictures, Soapweed.

This time my favorite was "Baleful bale at Sundown."

Thanks!

 

[Soapweed]

Here are a couple morning glory pictures that I forgot to get on. It was a pretty flowery plant, growing right in the sandy trail road

 

[cowsense]

Soapweed; I can't help but notice that when fencing you rely pretty heavy on the "goon spoons". Don't you use post pounders? There's a couple of Canadian companies that make pounders with Honda motors and hydraulic power packs that can be towed by trucks..........heavy duty,rugged units that almost all the custom fencers use up here. Believe me they can pound a slug of posts in a day!

 

[Soapweed]

Soapweed; I can't help but notice that when fencing you rely pretty heavy on the "goon spoons". Don't you use post pounders? There's a couple of Canadian companies that make pounders with Honda motors and hydraulic power packs that can be towed by trucks..........heavy duty,rugged units that almost all the custom fencers use up here. Believe me they can pound a slug of posts in a day!

If I was doing the fencing, I'd probably use the pounders. My 'friendly fencer' is too much of a perfectionist to use pounders, because they wouldn't end up straight enough. He does a great job, and I try to just stay clear the heck out of his way, and keep plenty of posts on hand. When he finishes a job, it is done right.

The digging is hard right now because it is so dry. Usually in the spring, when the ground is moist, this country is very easy digging. A person can have a hole dug by hand in about the same time it would take to get a pounder into position, or to get an auger lined up.

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

"Old Ranch Site" might be my favorite one in this string of photo's. I do like that last one alot too. Is the windmill still in operation in the "old ranch site" one?

Thems the kinda places I like to pilfer around at LOL

 

[cowsense]

Soapweed: lol.....yaah I can see that your fencer is character enough to do things his way.......nothing wrong with that! BTW our fencer (before he quit and went back cowboying) is a perfectionist and craftsman......his fences are straight and built right. Two men were completely building from 3/4 to a mile and a 1/4 of new 4 wire fence a day (depended on how rough the ground was). They can pound and move far faster than anyone could ever dig and tamp in our rocks!

 

[Mrs.Greg]

Soapweed..I always enjoy your pictures and the comments that go with them...but "All dressed in uniform"is for sure my all time favorite,IMHO that is your best picture ever.

 

[Rowdy Ranch]

Soapweed-thanks SO much for the trip across your ranch :!: Lucky that there is a man that wants to fence for you -look like he does an exceptional job too.Congratulations on the Reserve Grand Champion-way to go I can see why you earned this award. Now for the epds on this calf that won-lets see surely his breeding can be traced back to ???????LOL :lol: :lol:

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Soapweed-thanks SO much for the trip across your ranch :!: Lucky that there is a man that wants to fence for you -look like he does an exceptional job too.Congratulations on the Reserve Grand Champion-way to go I can see why you earned this award. Now for the epds on this calf that won-lets see surely his breeding can be traced back to ???????LOL :lol: :lol:

Yea Soapweed what were the EPD's on the prize winning steer? :wink: :wink:

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

In the mornin glory pictures, the holes in the ground behind them are ground owl burrows ain't they?

Any time your ready you can send your fence man right on down here to Texas and we'll put him to work. Our ground's not near as hard to put a post in as yours is.....Tell him it's easier diggin....

 

[Badlands]

I've talked with Van some. Might get a few embryos from him in the future from some of those good ER Red daughters. Nelson's had good luck with that bulls' daughters, too, up in my country.

Badlands

 

[Ranchy]

Great pics, as always!

Just have one small question, and everyone will probably think I'm a complete idiot, but why do you put hay on the new fenceline? This is the first time I ever heard of doing that...........of course, most of our fences are on flat ground (straight up and down kinda flat) so the hay wouldn't stay long anyway, plus all the elk and deer that we have would probably do a good job mowin it down!

Thanks!

:cboy:

 

[ranchwife]

this one's a toss-up as to which is my favorite....I LOVE sunsets, but I am also very partial to old homesteads.....Lord, if that land could only talk, the stories they could tell us!!!!

 

[nr]

"Old Ranch Site" might be my favorite one in this string of photo's. I do like that last one alot too. Is the windmill still in operation in the "old ranch site" one?

Thems the kinda places I like to pilfer around at LOL

Me too Lily. I like pictures that have the mystery of past history.
Well, I guess all history is past history, isn't it?
And the sundown scene is just plain beautiful.

 

[Tap]

Man, you are a lucky guy to have all that help Soapweed. You better take Peach Blossom on a nice vacation this year, as long as you have all the capable help along. They are so efficient that they might not even miss you. :wink: We have been busy running water to places that were lacking it. The dams and dugouts looked good this spring, but a lot of them are already low, so more pipelines are needed here. I know we have over 30 miles of pipelines now and quite a few windmills too.

Of course we on ranchers.net might miss the pictures, if you were to get away for a while. Maybe we should do a poll on where you should vacation, and you would take your camera along for a nice report on what you saw. I would like to see some of the SW, as I haven't spent much time there. That's my vote.

Any other ideas? :?

 

[Red Robin]

Cough up what the good idea was that didn't work? Are you trying to pull a bearing? I'm too stupid to figure it out.

 

[lazy ace]

Wonderful pictures, Soapweed.

This time my favorite was "Baleful bale at Sundown."

Thanks!

I'm not sure FH. I have seen that orange glow one too many times.... I would check for a grass fire over the ridge. 8)

Good pictures

have a good one

lazy ace

 

[passin thru]

Enjoyed the pics. I was also wondering what idea did not work.

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

The idea that didnt work......is this the wooden windmill rod you keep talkin bout?