Category: The Ranch

  • Not Feeling Well

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/sick07212007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/sick07212007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>I found this calf yesterday while checking water that wasn't feeling very good. See how his right ear is tipping down. Damn good sign there is a problem. I managed to get him in and doctor him. Hopefully all will…

  • Scary

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/07/18/news/state/18-indicators.txt" >Indicators in some areas have reached record levels</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Veteran Bureau of Land Management fire prevention officer Pat Mullaney figures Eastern Montana is a week to a week and a half from the start of fire season.<br />n<br />nTemperatures are soaring and fuels are drying, he said, and before long, firefighters catching 5-…

  • Ready To Go

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/rig07132007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/rig07132007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>With haying over I finally got the fire fighting rig mounted up. I got it new last year at the end of fire fighting season, what planning, and it has never been used. I would like to keep it that…

  • Stacking

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Farming/stack07122007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Farming/stack07122007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Getting the bales stacked. Same type of machine, different people doing the job. It's going to take a few days but the job will get done. If I tried to do it myself I estimate I would be at it…

  • Finished

    Well, I am completely done, done, done, as my son says, baling first cutting hay. A thunderstorm Saturday night kept me from finishing the last little bit Sunday but I managed to get it yesterday. I got around 1350 tons of hay off around 750 acres. Pretty good for dryland hay. I left a little…

  • Slip

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/slip06262007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/slip06262007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>When I was riding the other day I come across this. It was so wet around here this spring, some of the hillsides slipped downhill a little bit. I had seen quite a few smaller area that slipped but this…

  • Good Hay

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Farming/hay07042007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Farming/hay07042007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>We started on the last field and I had to take a picture. I planted this grass/alfalfa stand last year and wasn't even sure i got a stand it was so dry. This year the alfalfa is 4 feet tall…

  • Worry

    As hot and dry as it is getting around here <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WILDFIRES?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">this</a> is a real concern for me. Over 50 square miles burned. With the amount of grass around here we could see the same thing if one gets started. Just one more thing to worry about I guess. Temperatures are supposed to be in…

  • Bounce Around the Mind

    It's one of those damn things that nothing works out the way you want. All the rain this spring was great, nut the thing I feared is coming true. It is turning hot and dry and the fire danger is going up very fast around here. I know I am still haying but a rainstorm…

  • Damage Seen From On High

    There was a pretty nasty hail storm went across Northern Montana earlier in the month of June. I gave it a <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2688-Hay-Down.html">brief mention</a> and left it at that and there was some comments on how bad it was. I found it really interesting that the damage could be seen in satellite imagery.<br />n<br />n<center><a…