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Would the real rancher stand up, please

jigs

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I am bad on jeans too, but with 6 or 7 pair that are barely used, sitting in a pile with big holes I had to find a way to repair.
there is a glue called tear mender. I get it at the lumber yard. cut a patch out of an old pair of jeans, smear this stuff on it, place it over the area you want to fix, press the torn jeans into the glue, cover top and bottom of the patched area with newspaper so pantlegs don't stick together, and put a heavy book on top. in the morning you got a new pair of pants! works on alot of stuff.

I even use it in a worn spot that is really frayed...just smear the stuff in and it stops it from fraying out.

looks like calf scours on ya, but it makes the pants last!
 

IL Rancher

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Yeah Jigs I should really work on repairing my jeans a bit more instead of just wearing them torn up.. My wife would be real happy if I would repair the one tear on a pair of carharts I have but I just tell her Ineeded the extra ventilation....
 

Faster horses

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Jigs, I had forgotten about that stuff.

When I was a kid, I used to go stay at a ranch where my dad had
worked during the 30's. The owners were a sister and brother.
I loved those people dearly and that is where I learned I wanted
to be a rancher's wife.

I called them aunt and uncle, because they had 2 nieces
and 1 nephew that lived in California that visited during the summer
too. This was in the mid 50's to early 60's.

I was there when they brought Uncle Wallace a brand new John Deere
tractor. Boy, that think really popped!

I can still see Uncle Wallace patching his jeans with that stuff
you mentioned. He did a good job of it too. Ahh, he looked
like Will James to me!!! He rolled his own cigarettes, too. Usually
the same time, the same place. He had quite a routine.
Every cigarette looked like the one before. He died of a massive
heart attack when he was only 47 years old.

Can you imagine an old maid and an old bachelor putting up
with all us kids? Heck, we packed water even. Had an outdoor
outhouse. What a good time we had!!! Some of the best of
my growing up years. I'm still great friends with the niece that
was closest to me in age.

She and her siblings still own the ranch south of Buffalo, Wyoming, but it
will be for sale this summer, I think.

Good memories, once again. Thanks!
 

Soapweed

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RoperAB said:
If I was to show up at a branding with a camera they would think I was, well it would raise eye brows to say the least :lol: .

Well, I'm glad L.A. Huffman, Solomon Butcher, Charles Belden, and some of those old boys showed up at brandings packing their cameras. Their pictures give us a glimpse into how things used to be, and I for one, appreciate their efforts.

There is a somewhat famous picture of a dinner break on a cattle drive, taken here in the Sandhills in the late 20's or early 30's. They had an uptown chuckwagon, which consisted of an old Model A pickup with a chuckwagon cover and box. The cowboys, who were darned sure all top hands, were pictured relaxing and standing around after eating. I knew the photographer who took the picture. He always lamented that the photograph was famous, and that all the cowboys gained notoriety for being in the picture. His remark was that he was just as good a cowboy as any of the ones pictured, but no one even knew he was along on the drive. Somebody had to take the picture, and he was the one, but nobody could ever remember that fact. :wink:
 

Jinglebob

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I like to get the most for what I buy.

I'd rather give $400 for a custom made pair of boots that last 6 years than buy a $150 pair every year. (An old boot maker told me to buy two pair and switch off every day and that they would last longer and he was right. Gives them a chance to dry out. And I like to keep mine greased up. Then, when I step in water, they can handle it better.)

I wear Levi's. I don't worry about seams as I always wear chaps or chinks when I ride. I ain't built for wranglers. (and I don't like zippers that close to sensitive area's. :wink:)

I buy custom made, pure beaver felt hats and they last forever. They fit and I wear them year around. Cost more to begin with, but more cost effective in the long run. When I can find good palm leaf straw hats, I've got to where I wear them in the summer. Tuff and if you try on enough, I can usually find one that fits good. When the wind blows real hard (above 40 mph) I wear a good fittin' felt.

Shirts. I go to the western stores and search the racks for long sleeved, over sized cotton shirts, on sale. Color don't matter too much. I wear them year around. Cooler, I don't care what anyone say's. :p

And underwear, weeeellll, we'll leave that for another posting. :wink:

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Horse gear, pretty much custom made. I agree with RoperAB. You get's what you pay's for! If I can't build it, I usually know someone who can for a modest fee and also know who to contact for the best deals. You see, I do build saddles and gear so over the years I've collected quite a few outlets for gear. Wholesale. :wink:

:p

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Oh, and I can afford to spend more on my clothes and gear as with these smaller cows I don't have to spend so much on winter feed. :wink:

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jodywy

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Buy most my work shirts at the DI (Thrift store) long sleeve cotton and when I find them every Penalton that will fit me, usually cost $4-$5 shirt. But to buy a few nice going to church, town, meeting shirts.
Silk rags I buy right from the importer, sell a few at stock growers convention to make some Christmas money.
Boots, white’s middle sole removed so the fit a stirrup better. And jingle bob a closet full of Tony lama and never wear the same boot 2 days in a row... trade the whites off with a pair of chippawas.Do have a nice pair of ostrich, winter and spring Muck Boots will never wear another sorrel.
Never could wear wranglers, so wear Levi’s, used to buy key jeans but can't find them anymore.
Coats, all Filsons.... dress a wool bomber, wool vest, work-double cruiser, wool liners, tin jacket with or with out liner.
Chinks, winter Filson tin chaps, spring calving and lambing wear lambing chaps.
Hats, ball caps, straw, wool railroad one for feeding one for town. One Akubra-Black, Resistol-silverbelly, and the one I wear to town the most is probably older them me was a 7X silver belly Stetson of my grandfathers I just had cleaned.
 

Jinglebob

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jodywy said:
and the one I wear to town the most is probably older them me was a 7X silver belly Stetson of my grandfathers I just had cleaned.

And that is exactly why a good one is the least expensive, in the long run. :)


Some people don't understand that when you do the work we do, in all kinds of weather, somethings might cost more, but are well worth the price. Like Filson and Pendelton.

Good built things just plain last longer, with proper care.

Kind'a like a marriage. :wink:
 

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