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Week-end pictures, as of December 13, 2009

Soapweed

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Turkeystraipsingthroughtheterritory.jpg

Turkeys traipsing through the territory
DanceSaturdaynight.jpg

Dance Friday night
Handyrigtopullstuckpumprod.jpg

Handy rig to pull a stuck well. The half-inch pipe pump rod rusted and broke off right at the plunger. We hooked on to the plunger
with a hook contraption I invented years ago. When the chain hoist was hooked on the whole well wanted to come up.
With this jack set-up, pressure can be applied both up and down. We were able to get the plunger up, the pipe fixed,
and the windmill is pumping water again in satisfactory fashion.
EntertainersforChristmasattheBowrin.jpg

Entertainers for Christmas at the Bowring held last night. The fourth little guy with a black hat "bearly" performed enough to earn his supper. :roll:
Sundaymorningscene.jpg

Sunday morning scene
Somerancheshavestockpiledgrass.jpg

Some ranches utilize stock-piled grass. Here are stock piled on what used to be grass. Now I suppose the proper term is hay.
Swathgrazingmorelikegrazingswaths.jpg

Swath grazing, which in this instance could be considered grazing swaths.
Wintertimeswathingmachine.jpg

Winter time swathing machine, complete with heating on the inside
and air-conditioning on the outside. There is also an axe, in case the snow is too hard for the cows to lick. :wink:
Girlsgoingforgrub.jpg

Girls going for the grub
Fertilizingameadow.jpg

Fertilizing a meadow
Tistheseasontobefreezin.jpg

'Tis the Season to be freezin'
BovinityenjoyingChristmasdivinity.jpg

Bovinity enjoying Christmas divinity
Makingsurethereisenoughmeltedsnow.jpg

Making sure there is enough melted snow to provide liquid refreshment for those wanting a holiday nip
Coolclearwater.jpg

Some like beer, some like wine, some think a drink of water tastes just fine. :wink:
 

gcreekrch

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Your cows look well shaped up for winter Soapweed.
One question. In the summer, the is always a large pool of water around your windmill tanks. In these picture I don't see much overflow, can you limit the flow in winter or do you only put the pump in gear for a few hours during the day?
 

PATB

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Are the meadows your are feeding hay on the same ones it was cut on? It sure saves on cleaning out the barnyard and spreading it later. :D
 

Soapweed

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gcreekrch said:
Your cows look well shaped up for winter Soapweed.
One question. In the summer, the is always a large pool of water around your windmill tanks. In these picture I don't see much overflow, can you limit the flow in winter or do you only put the pump in gear for a few hours during the day?

The windmills we are using run all the time when the wind blows. Big 30' tanks are useful in the heat of summer for extra storage capacity, but an 11' tank (which is the biggest size that comes with a bottom) is nice in the wintertime. Very seldom is it necessary to chop ice if the wind blows at all. It isn't even very wasteful. The water runs over the top of the tank, forms a puddle, runs back into the ground, and then gets pumped back up again. The wildlife enjoy running water also, so the system benefits both cattle and nature

PATB said:
Are the meadows your are feeding hay on the same ones it was cut on? It sure saves on cleaning out the barnyard and spreading it later. :D

Yes they are. We never haul manure. Sometimes if there is time in the spring, it is nice to run a harrow over the cowchips to scatter them better. Back when we used to feed ear corn, the Canadian geese would scatter the manure while they sought out the recycled corn kernels. It seems like they were also carriers of Canadian thistle, so we haven't fed any ear corn for the last six or seven years.
 
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