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nenmrancher

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We had to have the motor rebuilt on this mill. The well its self is just 35' but it pumps up the hill in the background of the photo to another one of our big storage tanks, which takes a 14' mill to make the water go.

Before the well guys got there.
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I messed up and uploaded the wrong pic this one was supposed to show them getting the truck rigged up and ready to lift everything off the mast. Instead I loaded one of them as they were finishing reinstalling the fan.
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Tails on starting to work on the fan.
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Almost done with the fan.
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going up
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getting ready to get it back on the mast
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just right before it was set down on the mast and the last picture before my camera battery went dead.
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The dang thing is so quiet now that you hardly even know its turning.
 
Thanks Soapweed, Its was very nice to get that mill up and running again, I would much rather run it than the generator that eats 2.80 a gallon diesel fuel. Course with the cows running in the pasture that system supplies it doesnt take long to get behind.
 
The well its self is just 35' but it pumps up the hill in the background
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Have friends that ranch in your area that reversed this idea.
They pump from up on the caprock to a large storage tank at the edge of the caprock. They ran 1 1/4" line down to the headquarters & another tank. Then they ran another line thru the valley (about 3 miles worth) to supply various tanks along the way. Its all gravity fed; plus the pressure of water within in the tank that keeps the system workin (or so Tom tells me).
 
NMBound, we live on the east side of the Canadian River about half way between Maxwell and Springer. The places that I think you are looking at are almost straight west of us across the river and interstate.

Hooks, this is pretty much the same setup. Just the windmill has a hard push to get the water to the storage. On top of that hill is three tanks that feed off the storage and everything is 1 1/4" pipe and gravity fed. The only place that you have high presure is at the windmill when the storage tank if full. When the storage is full it does make that big mill strain.
 
east side of the Canadian River about half way between Maxwell and Springer
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Yall must be near CS Ranch country then, right? My friends are south of yall in the Quay Valley area.
 
nenmrancher , is their an outsit that is over there by springer that wilford brimley used to own ? If so i know the folks who bought it they are from arizona their name is perkins ? does that ring any bells ?
 
Hooks, CS's country is all west and north west of us near Cimarron and Maxwell. We have known the Davis's for a long time.

azcowpuncher, Wilford Brimley used to own a place just east of springer on the way to Clayton. He sold it out and the last I had heard was in the process of clearing out so that the new owners could take possesion. Until now we had not heard any names as to who had bought it just that it had sold.

Course there is so much land trading going around us right now that its enough to make a persons head spin. In the last couple months 4 of the direct neighbors have sold out and have new owners. We have met two of them and one seems really good the other is a real estate man from Texas thats going to show the rest of us how to graze this country. Hopefully we will find out who the other two new neighbors are pretty quick.
 
Yeah the guy that bought it his name is tom perkins , get ready to be seeing some of the dumbest crap you have ever seen , like get all your neighbors to help and then not even feed them raise 40 colts and never even start one of them and then sell them all at the sale for dog chow , over graze everything so bad that it wont grow back for years and years and years , first time i ever seen a cow reach her head thru the fence to get at green grass i was wokin on a ranch next door to tom and we were probly 60 miles from town and i was trottin up a fence and i seen the craziest thing i have ever seen ha ha a range cow reachin her head thru the fence to get at green grass ha ha and she was probly in a 80 section pasture . Yeah not a cowman at all , his family was but he screwed them all out of the family inheritance to get that ranch he has here and then subdivided it and bought that place over there , so ha ha we got rid of him now you guys get to deal with it ha ha . Soon as someone offers hima lot of money to sub devide he will sell and you will have houses all over the place .
 
Shoot, we have cows reach through fence al the time for grass, even on the first day in a new pasture, after all the grass is always greener..

CS Ranch, they have a CS brand on the left rib cage? Just curious, I have some cows that I bought out of Kansas that were born in New Mexico with that brand... Nice cattle, long trip to get here but they probably are the best fleshed cattle we have..
 
IL, that I believe is the right location and is their brand. I know several years ago they sold off a good chuck of their herd and those cows went all over the place.

AZ if that Perkins fellow thinks he is going to pull something like that here, boy is he in for a surprise. That place of Brimely's is not all that big and is neighbored by a couple of outfitts that wont tolerate that kind of crap. One of his new neighbors is a good old boy farmer that might just take him to school if he makes a pain of himself. As for the rest of it if he thinks he is going to buy this place in Springer, NM and turn around and subdivide it sell it off he's dumber than you make him sound. Springer is a one horse town the keeps coming up with new ways to keep the old horse on its feet.
 
thats dang sure they way he is i am not stretchin the truth at all , he would have been run out of the country over here if he hadnt owned so much private land , you will see give it about a year and drive thru his country it will make you puke , then when he over grazes it t were he cant get nothin out of it anymore he will try and sub divide it , thats what he did here they had a big ranch here run close to 9 thousand head and he sub devided it off little at a time now they are lucky to run 200 head and thats just because of his forest permits . so good luck to all you folks in that part of new mexico , i am glad we are rid of him now the forest service wont be in such bad moods all the time , no more tom perkins on the mind ya know .
 
These would have been yearling red Baldies, 50% herf 50% Red Angus.. Real nice, moderate cows.. Not a lot of frame, not a lot of air under then.. Wish my whole herd was them for the most part, never had a single one get nasty, no pulls, no udder or foot problems, one prolapser (Something went wrong with that cow, not a labor prolapse just a rectal and vaginal prolapse) and that has been it...
 

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