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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2019 20:31:09 GMT -6
From a few years ago at one of our brandings. I may have been the culprit to head catch this calf. Oops.  |
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Post by randy on Jul 15, 2019 3:18:54 GMT -6
Looks the calf is going what its brand any way. Neat picture Silver.
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Post by greybeard on Jul 17, 2019 8:12:55 GMT -6
Either that is a little calf, or that wrangler has forearms the size of fence posts and I don't mean Tee posts.
I wish someone would have taken some pictures back when we had the Herefords here in the 60s. No pens, so it took all of us in the family to handle them and no one left to be able to use a camera.
Lucky none of us got seriously hurt or killed.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2019 16:35:59 GMT -6
Either that is a little calf, or that wrangler has forearms the size of fence posts and I don't mean Tee posts. I wish someone would have taken some pictures back when we had the Herefords here in the 60s. No pens, so it took all of us in the family to handle them and no one left to be able to use a camera. Lucky none of us got seriously hurt or killed. Nothing small about that calf, it was of the size BH will be aspiring (and failing) to raise for the rest of his days lmao |
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Post by okie on Jul 18, 2019 17:03:32 GMT -6
I really miss doing everything horseback. I think that was one of the reasons I was fine with selling out this last year. Very few people do anything horseback here so even if you want to do it that way it's hard to find good help.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2019 17:48:59 GMT -6
I really miss doing everything horseback. I think that was one of the reasons I was fine with selling out this last year. Very few people do anything horseback here so even if you want to do it that way it's hard to find good help. That's a fact, there are lots of folk with horses and a hat, but not much good help. Even harder to find a ground crew for branding anymore. Those of us that were fairly handy at it are of an age that makes it more difficult, and the young ones all want to be an allstar roper and have no interest in learning the ground work. Therefore we don't brand our calves anymore. Got to be more spectators than workers, but everybody expecting to be fed. |
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Post by okie on Jul 18, 2019 20:41:59 GMT -6
I really miss doing everything horseback. I think that was one of the reasons I was fine with selling out this last year. Very few people do anything horseback here so even if you want to do it that way it's hard to find good help. That's a fact, there are lots of folk with horses and a hat, but not much good help. Even harder to find a ground crew for branding anymore. Those of us that were fairly handy at it are of an age that makes it more difficult, and the young ones all want to be an allstar roper and have no interest in learning the ground work. Therefore we don't brand our calves anymore. Got to be more spectators than workers, but everybody expecting to be fed. Yep. Seems like lots of people get insulted if they don't get an invite but three quarters of them aren't worth a shit. I like to rope calves because when done right it's quick and easy on the calf but when done wrong it's hell on them. Here about the best you can ask for is arena horses and a few team ropers. They all show u ready to rope and you spend all day on the ground by yourself watching them choke the shit out of your calves. I cowboyed for a living for around five years and we roped just about everything yet most of my personal calves have been worked on a table because I can do that by myself if I have to or just me and my kids. |
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Post by greybeard on Jul 19, 2019 2:06:32 GMT -6
Used to be a man about 2 miles from me that worked from a horse and had dogs to help as well. Passed away a few years ago and I have to say he was about the last of the real and old time working cowboys here. His funeral was standing room only with people out in the parking lot listening too.
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Post by fence on Jul 19, 2019 20:24:22 GMT -6
I can ride like a commanche and rope like a vaquero.... just can't do both at the same time...
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Post by greybeard on Jul 22, 2019 9:35:54 GMT -6
I can ride like a commanche and rope like a vaquero.... just can't do both at the same time... I would settle for being able to do either one any more. I hate getting/being old. ..not that I ride very much any more...just a few times a year when one of my friends wants me to ride with them on their horses. So far, I can still get on one without having to use a step, but that day is coming I imagine, but I will never ever put on one of those helmets they try to get me to use. |
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Post by greybeard on Jul 22, 2019 11:31:07 GMT -6
Some relatively older pics from here: Remembering 2011's drought..hard to envision it now, with green grass everywhere and an overflowing pond in 2019's mid-July, but it wasn't always like that. I built a little dock on my pond in Aug 2011 and never got my feet wet.  Last year:  I am pretty sure this was in Jan or Feb 2012, after the big rain that really broke the 2011 drought here in San Jacinto County Texas 
Water level ever since early 2012 has always been about 2" below the horizontal beams you see in the 2011 picture...sometimes quite a bit (several feet) above the dock. |
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