Yes sir , check out the heel shot at 3 min in this video.

Make sure you get the crotchless chaps to complete your attire….

Ya know I really do wanna learn how to rope and ride a lil , but how the heck do you even go about it ? Just walk up to some cattle guys and go " hay man Im completely clueless about roping and riding , think I can come with you sometime and learn ? " seems like a good way to get laughed out of a place lol

Also was able to trade a few of them to a guy at the lumber place to get a bit of a discount on the wood. Still got a few though

Ill check it out. I went to one of those ranch roping deals last summer. Ended up take second though the competition might not have been quite on par with that one.

Only from old Mutt n Jeff cartoons!!

From the looks of them those ropes have been used and abused even the burner was canted off to the side in the one Hondo .

As for what they're good for now , folks around here were washing them then making decorative baskets out of them , using a soldering gun to melt them in spots so they didn't unravel when completed .

They also make a good tow rope for getting a 4 wheeler unstuck a extra bow line in the other end can be helpful .

So you want to learn how to rope ? Get a roping dumbie and practice a lot ! I've seen some that even had hid legs to practice heeling steers or calves .

If you were to ask the majority of the ranchers to allow you to learn how to rope their cattle it may get ugly as any extra stress takes valuable weight off them and getting laughted off the place would be the least of you're worries .

There's still a ranch that runs a branding crew just like they did in the good old days where they take turns riding into the herd and heel a calf dragging it out to the branding fire , usually it's the better hands with a rope that get that job and the less skilled ropers get weeded out in a hurry as someone can and usually will get hurt .

The Padlock runs the branding crew for about a month from before daylight until they're done for the day . Just some food for though !

Most of the big cow operations here still drag calves. Wolfie you need to learn to ride a horse pretty well before you get to the point were u can try roping something from one. Probably need to find a place were they rope calves or team rope to get ur chance to rope. Might be harder to do in them parts but im sure they have practice pens down there.

Yeah most of the outfits down here are all family they grow up doing it so idk . Honestly till lately I never end thought about what would a guy do if they wanted to learn and they wernt brought up soon it . probably just gonna wait till we get some cows again and go from there figure it out from YouTube and annoy y'all like everything else I guess still go to completely redo a few pastures before we can do anything though so I don't know but got enough burners in the fire right now as is . Besides probably 80% of the cow places down here do with horses and roping for a bulk of the time so

g [quote=Allan Minear]From the looks of them those ropes have been used and abused even the burner was canted off to the side in the one Hondo .

As for what they're good for now , folks around here were washing them then making decorative baskets out of them , using a soldering gun to melt them in spots so they didn't unravel when completed .

They also make a good tow rope for getting a 4 wheeler unstuck a extra bow line in the other end can be helpful .

So you want to learn how to rope ? Get a roping dumbie and practice a lot ! I've seen some that even had hid legs to practice heeling steers or calves .

If you were to ask the majority of the ranchers to allow you to learn how to rope their cattle it may get ugly as any extra stress takes valuable weight off them and getting laughted off the place would be the least of you're worries .

There's still a ranch that runs a branding crew just like they did in the good old days where they take turns riding into the herd and heel a calf dragging it out to the branding fire , usually it's the better hands with a rope that get that job and the less skilled ropers get weeded out in a hurry as someone can and usually will get hurt .

The Padlock runs the branding crew for about a month from before daylight until they're done for the day . Just some food for thought [quote]
Allan,
Those ropes would still be good for turning loose incidentals out of traps. Very handy for turning loose moose, although I doubt Wolfie would have much need for a moose release aid, maybe he could use them to turn hogs or something loose.

Are you around the Padlock country? That is a really big ranch, spent a couple days on it last winter, but I was just over on one corner on the Wyoming/Montana line.

Ummmm what ?

People that have had cattle their entire lives hire cowboys for "day work". Stuff they often are just not skilled enough to do their self. Cattle so gentle they move them from one pasture to another just by blowing a pickup horn so cattle follow where they want them to go. At times they still need a cowboy. Those skills are not something you get proficient at by spending a couple weeks in roping school. Best use for those old catch ropes is to hang one up as a decoration someplace.