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Movin' on, your story "hit home" for two reasons. Number one, our son runs a welding shop. Three years ago this coming February, a big sheet of steel fell on edge on his foot. The steel was half an inch thick, 4' x 8'. Fortunately he was wearing heavy leather lace-up White brand fire-fighting boots. The steel didn't even go through the boot, but his foot was badly broken. It took quite awhile to get healed, but he seems to be doing fine now.

Number two, the other reason your story made me sit up and take notice was that I also have a Titan trailer. Last spring, I had purchased fourteen nice yearling Angus bulls from a good outfit. I went to pick them up with this 24' trailer, knowing that at the very best it was going to be a tight load. We left the two center gates open and had the back door open wide. We just about had all the bulls loaded and were leaning on that back door. As the last of the bulls stepped up, the trailer door came off. There were three of us doing the loading, and we wrestled the door out of the way because the bulls were on their way back out.

We got the endgate back on its pins, and by luck the ranch shop was just around the corner. A bolt the right size was found, and the problem fixed. The bulls weren't too anxious to get crowded back into those close quarters, but eventually persistence paid off and we had them loaded and securely latched. You would think the Titan company would go ahead and put in that little fifty cent bolt to start with. :roll: :wink:
 
Hey Movin'on, You bet you're welcome to come visit. Fact we'd love to have anyone on here come visit.

Enjoyed your story and it makes me think we may have met before. Did you make that trip in 2001? And do you remember stopping at a truck stop in Walsenburg and transferring a bull over on someones trailer there? I know when I got a bull in 2001 the man doing the hauling said he had one on for Jamison's also. And I swear he said he was from Dodge City. Fact I think I may have your number somewhere.
 
Darn it Soap, now I'm gonna hafta look at the door on my Titan trailer. :shock: :o I sure wouldn't want that big ol' heavy thing coming off! I'd end up under it for sure! At least on my Titan the endgate is an extra tall full height solid door. Much heavier than doors on any other trailer I've worked around including Travalong and Circle D.
 
Oh my Word!! Ned, you have got to be kidding me. I think we may have very well met. On April 11th 2001, I delivered some cattle for Nichols Angus to Cottonwood, CA. Then I went down to Pedretti's and somewhere else I can't quite recall. I think the man's name was Winter. Anyway, I headed east across the desert through Barstow and got on I-40. Took it across Arizona and reached my first destination, Morairty, NM. I overnighted the bulls there and then headed north the next day. That would have probably made it the 13th or 14th. I did, indeed, meet someone in Walsenburg and ran an animal or two across from trailer to trailer. I cannot for the life of me remember your name for sure. I have tried to find your information and can't. Were you from maybe Silver Cliff or Westcliffe? I do remember if was really windy that day. After that, you are correct, I went to Jamisons and dropped off some animals. I reloaded to go to Texas, I think, and that is when the trailer episode occurred. That was, of course, nearly seven years ago and the details are a little fuzzy, but that's as close to how it went as I can remember.
 
Ned, I started looking through your pictures loving the scenery both the background and great Herefords :) :) Then I looked again and thought, that HAS to be the Wet Mountain Valley -- my childhood home --raised there, graduated from HS there --still have a few kinfolk and friends there...
Was there this past summer --

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BUT I bet you look more like this right now --I talked to my uncle on Christmas day and he said there'd been a lot of snow.

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We better be careful here we might just find out we're all related or something.

movin' on, That's to much isn't it. I sent you a pm to help jar your memory. By the way the bull you hauled was the sire of the first cow I posted.

Julie, This world keeps getting smaller and smaller. It makes you realise how small the Ag community really is. I've seen the second picture you posted in the Passion for Ranching book that's out. I'll have to pm you and see if we're related or not.
 
I was just looking over your posts thinking the same thing. Nice pictures and cattle by the way. Have you ever herd of a little town named Tiffany?
 
My wifes maiden name was Tiffany. Her Great Grandfather owned a ranch in that area and it was named after him. Can't get much more native than that.
 

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