The least liked job on your place is ?

[Manitoba_Rancher]

I hate taxtime and going to the accountant!!!! :roll: :twisted: :help: :roll: :twisted: :help:

 

[Soapweed]

Anything that takes even the slightest bit of mechanical ability. I strongly dislike grease, oil, and any kind of shop work.

As a kid, my biggest pet ranching peeves were grinding grain (to feed Dad's registered Hereford bulls), and greasing sore-teated Hereford cows. I try to make ranching as easy as possible. We just feed cake and hay, and those jobs are pretty much automated anymore.

 

[Silver]

Dehorning is about the only job I really dislike. Short of that, a bad day on the ranch is still better than a good day working anywhere else.

 

[Maple Leaf Angus]

I'm with Empty Pockets on the thing about dead calves. Anything to do with dead calves.

 

[mn]

Paperwork and powerwashing hog barns

 

[HorseShoer]

Irrigating with hand lines, especially in fresh planted ground. I used to sink to my knees in mud. when the grain got tall... it dint make it any easyer tryin to push them pipe over the tops. thank god for wheel lines and center piviots!

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

........................I got this mental picture in my head of you in rubber boots n over-alls now :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

 

[Cal]

Cleaning the wet, rotten, stinking, crap out of the bottom of grain bins with pits when the temperature inside the bin is well over 100.

 

[baling wire]

I would have to say testing bulls usally followed by rebuilding fence. Those bulls we carry around in the tank never seem to give us much trouble and only have to be fed once every three months. :lol:

 

[katrina]

I'm like Cal. Rotten grain in bins........ I can not do it. I get dry heaves, then everyone makes fun of me... But I tell myself that it's not something I have to do everyday. Guess that is what makes farming and ranching so fun. It's something differant everyday not like some jobs.....

 

[ranchwife]

I'm like Cal. Rotten grain in bins........ I can not do it. I get dry heaves, then everyone makes fun of me... But I tell myself that it's not something I have to do everyday. Guess that is what makes farming and ranching so fun. It's something differant everyday not like some jobs.....

Katrina----take it from a nurse and try some mentholatum in your nostrils...sure helps me get through those NASTY smells that never fail to bring up your lunch!! Lord knows I have had to use this old trick a time or two myself!! :wink: :wink: :wink: The smell of something dead never fails to gag me!

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

I've just been readin a book that to deal with a death smell they usta use bandana's with vinegar on em. Don't know how well it works...

 

[Jinglebob]

I've heard, that in a pinch, you can put some gasoline on a rag and tie it around your head, under you nose, and then you won't smell the stink so bad also.

 

[HAY MAKER]

AW hell ,just drink a quart of whiskey,you wont be bothered by smells,works for me I was trailin some misplaced steers along the Rio Grande thru a mexican settlement once with raw sewage runnin down the road,had a lil problem smellin till I got that whiskey drunk..........good luck

 

[theHiredMansWife]

My least favorite job is loading the tub/alley at weaning. Hard as I try to avoid it, I always end up with black and blue shins.

 

[katrina]

Ranchwife, Thanks I'll try that.. Although the dust in the bins and vaseline maybe interesting.
JB..... Gasoline??? I am blonde, but NOT that blonde. Unless you want to give a demistration.
Haymaker, Whiskey I could prolly do, but wouldn't get much done. Second thought whiskey and a hot stinkin bin......NO THANKS
Lilly, vinegar might work.........

 

[Anonymous]

I'm like Cal. Rotten grain in bins........ I can not do it. I get dry heaves, then everyone makes fun of me... But I tell myself that it's not something I have to do everyday. Guess that is what makes farming and ranching so fun. It's something differant everyday not like some jobs.....

Katrina----take it from a nurse and try some mentholatum in your nostrils...sure helps me get through those NASTY smells that never fail to bring up your lunch!! Lord knows I have had to use this old trick a time or two myself!! :wink: :wink: :wink: The smell of something dead never fails to gag me!

I don't think anything really works for some of those bodies that been there a week or two- there is no other smell like it.... You still smell the smell for a week...Old Coroner friend of mine used to put mentholatum into his mustache- another used to light up a cigar- which would just make me sicker....

Katrina- You and Cal made me think of the worst thing-- cleaning a couple hundred dead decaying pigeons out of an empty grain bin on a 100+ degree day in the middle of August....Top gets left open-They fly in and can't fly out- die and make a mess.........

 

[katrina]

OT.
You want to get my husband to really fight his head???? Is to forget to clean out those dead pigeons and have them get into his grain!!!!!!! Makes the man very uptight.... And a dead mouse is a catastraphy!!!!!!!!

 

[Maple Leaf Angus]

Cleaning WD40 off of mirrors must be close to the top of the list for some people. :wink:

 

[katrina]

Better than wiping vaseline off a door handle... How did it go Maple? :wink: right back atcha!!