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Best cow working story ever #6977957
08/29/20 10:36 PM
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Re: Best cow working story ever [Re: dkrug] #6977976
08/29/20 11:06 PM
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laugh Never had anything like that happen, but I''ve worked enough cattle to believe the whole thing. grin




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Re: Best cow working story ever [Re: dkrug] #6977978
08/29/20 11:11 PM
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Glad they didn’t hall you in for questioning!!

Re: Best cow working story ever [Re: dkrug] #6977980
08/29/20 11:12 PM
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grin Give em quite the scare ! Funny how phones work when you least expect them to...

Out here in many areas, it can be half the day before they can arrive and try to locate you !

Pays to do things your own self .... wink

Good one, Charlie.

Re: Best cow working story ever [Re: dkrug] #6977988
08/29/20 11:33 PM
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LMBO!

What happens at the workin pens usually stays at the workin pens but I still love it when a good store leaks out


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Re: Best cow working story ever [Re: dkrug] #6977999
08/29/20 11:52 PM
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Dang that is kind of scary, sure hope the popo don't listen in on any of our cattle working chatter. crazy

Re: Best cow working story ever [Re: Andrew Eastwood] #6978000
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Originally Posted by Andrew Eastwood
Dang that is kind of scary, sure hope the popo don't listen in on any of our cattle working chatter. crazy



Add the FBI, ATF, and a bunch of other alphabet agencies + our own mothers of course! whistle


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Re: Best cow working story ever [Re: dkrug] #6978001
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Kind of reminds me of a story I have about a sheriff deputy and Mike Samples you would enjoy lefty

Re: Best cow working story ever [Re: dkrug] #6978003
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Michael T stories at the best LOL


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Re: Best cow working story ever [Re: dkrug] #6978004
08/30/20 12:00 AM
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My time in the feedlot and catch pens usually involves a lot more words from my father I can't post here. I've had a lot of interesting moments over the years but none involving the law.


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Re: Best cow working story ever [Re: WadeRyan] #6978017
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Cows can be unpredictable for sure.
I have had many working with cattle over time but mine are all with dairy cattle and the situations one can get into. I will relate one and hope to keep it as short as I can. After graduating from college after returning from Nam I took a job as a herd person on a 120 cow registered Holstein dairy. During spring, summer and fall we liked to calve the cows outside. The dry cow lot was next to the milking cow lot. When a calf was born I would put on my rain poncho I brought home from Nam. It was heavy duty and with a nice hood so I could sling the calf over my shoulders hold their legs and carry them to the barn and hose of the poncho. I had carried dozens like this that summer This situation the cow calved at the far end which is usual but the calf hard tried standing and rolled under the electric fence and the milking herd was milling around the calf and there was a lot of mooing going on. I got through the 100 plus milkers, picked the calf up and decided to walk along the fence and the mother would come right along which she did. Several cows followed for a bit but soon stayed back. All of a sudden I could hear thundering hooves and turned and the herd was coming my way fast. What the heck! I looked around and with all the commotion the owners German Shepard had decided to come to see what was going on and the cows were upset.
There was now way to get under the fence quick enough and the first cow knocked me right to the ground as she was going by toward the dog. I fell and the calf stayed on my back as the herd went by. I am sure that the fact that I had the calf over me was the saver as they were not going to hurt the calf. The dog ran under the electric fence and the cows knocked that down but with the calf near at hand the cows were upset but not going far. It is amazing the power in these 1400 lbs. cows and amazing how we can work with them closely most of the time and not have issues.

Bryce

Re: Best cow working story ever [Re: dkrug] #6978033
08/30/20 01:00 AM
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Haha, 'Some times youre the wind shield- sometimes you are the bug'
was probably coined by a puncher


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And yes- he somehow walked away from this one sick


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Re: Best cow working story ever [Re: dkrug] #6978114
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I have worked hundreds of thousands of head of cattle in my life and only met one man that could do it without cussing. That guy is my father. No matter what happened (anyone that has worked more than 10 head in their life knows that anything possible and impossible can and will happen) he has never let a bad word fly. Believe me he gets mad but somehow controls his words. In my cowboy days I had a best friend named Ty. Sometimes when processing cattle dad would get mad and start in. “You Dadgum White Faced Rascal, You Spotted Little DING DONG, and On and On” some of the things he said would almost bring a us to our knees laughing. To his credit never a bad word never. If you ever drive down Hwy 156 in Kansas with your window down a hear something that’s sounds like a crazy drunk Indian war cry and someone beating a puppy don’t worry it’s dad pushing cattle out of a pen. Lol

Was guiding a famous preacher once and found out that he had some cows. During the conversation with him and his friends and fellow hunters from Texas. I asked him “So and be honest. Can you work cattle and not cuss” In a split second he answered “H£!! No” we must have laughed for 10 minutes. Lol


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Re: Best cow working story ever [Re: dkrug] #6978311
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You're dad must have been quite a man Pawnee. I can count on 1 finger the time me and the boys didnt use colorful adverbs, adjectives, and pronouns on the critters.

One year I was watching a set of yearling replacement heifers and a pair of young bulls for a neighbor who had a knee rebuilt and didn't stay off of it so he had to have it rebuilt again right before it was time to get them off the grass. My son and I had the cattle penned about 20 mins after the sun rose but it was all a makeshift set up with W-W panels and certainly no room for extra pens or a sortin' alley. I text the hobbled neighbor when we got the gate closed on them and he sent his wife and his best hand (vaquero) with a pair of 3 axle gooseneck trailers.

Now Raylene was a proper woman but all I had was a single pen and we needed to sort them 3 ways into the 2 trailers and could only back up one at a time so frustrating incidents were stacking up yet everyone somehow held their tongue. I watched Juan's roan push one 'open' heifer to the ground and she got by him belly crawling under his mount and still loaded into the front of a cut gate instead of waiting her turn to jump on the wagon headed for the sale (we had already decided this wild high headed bad actor was open basically as a favor to the neighbor because if she was bred and calved out whomever tried to tag her baby was going to have knee rebuild # 3 LOL).

At this point I did what I always do and a man should never do unless he is just lonely and wants to meet some nurses and x-ray techs- I got out of the saddle and took my big sorting rod into a trailer load of crazy hormonal women folk on 4 hooves to retrieve her. It sure wasn't easy but I managed to convince her to jump off the trailer and the min her front feet hit the ground my boy dropped a loop around her horns and held her bayed up in the far corner while the Mexican and I sorted the balance two more ways w/o incident or naughty words. (if he had her by the neck or even a half head she would have chocked down but he made me proud and tied her off by the same horns she was day dreaming about using on us).

Eventually we got them all loaded and headed 3 different directions w/o any blood shed, crushed panels, upside down critters or cow hands, or even any bad words. I heard hoof beats behind me slowing down and there was my boy leaning out of the saddle to say the words no man would ever want to hear: "Dad, I think we did it wrong"!

Of course I asked him what made him think that and he said simply, "Have y'all ever handled cattle this much and not said a cuss word?" I am telling you there is simply no way a father could have been prouder than I was that morning.

We laughed until our side hurt and Juan joined us basically giving up his secret that even though you couldn't get his but to speak English he understood it just fine!
grin


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Re: Best cow working story ever [Re: dkrug] #6978343
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I lose all good religion and vocabulary when working cattle. I thought everybody did! laugh

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Re: Best cow working story ever [Re: dkrug] #6978378
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Leftlane, great story!

Flint Hill, me too. I’m not near the man dad is. I try but cussing while working cattle goes together like biscuits and gravy Lol


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Re: Best cow working story ever [Re: Pawnee] #6978379
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Originally Posted by Pawnee
Leftlane, great story!

Flint Hill, me too. I’m not near the man dad is. I try but cussing while working cattle goes together like biscuits and gravy Lol

Couldn't agree more!

Re: Best cow working story ever [Re: dkrug] #6978380
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Being raised on a livestock farm is a first class education in swearing. Cattle and hogs can make a sailor out of a churchlady.

Re: Best cow working story ever [Re: tomahawker] #6978440
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Originally Posted by tomahawker
Being raised on a livestock farm is a first class education in swearing. Cattle and hogs can make a sailor out of a churchlady.

Ya and them hogs will take the fight out of a heavy handed young fella too. crazy I used to be fast to fly fists when things got sideways, I have punched chesapeake bay retrievers hard enough to put them down, a cow or 10 and even a few goats, but only one hog. I had a sow come after me in the pigging shed (Grandpa only made the dang thing about 4 1/2 feet high so you are always bent over and can't run), as she was a pushing me over I laid a hard right into her head. It was enough she stumbled sideways and gave up the attack, but my bones poked up in places they never had before. I have had to be real conscience of what I hit with that hand for the last 15 or so years. That incident slowed me down almost as much as stopping drinking did. I am really just a nice guy anymore. grin

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I seen my pop lay a boar down with a piece of oak. Thought sure he was dead. He was...for about 2 hours. He was up like nothing happened. But he didn’t try the old man after that.

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