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[blackthorn]

It took me YEARS to figger out why Cowmen hated Sheepherders, AND THEN, the other day I was looking through LOML’s cook book and noticed---Sheppard’s pie is made from BEEF!!!

[Edubya]

It took me YEARS to figger out why Cowmen hated Sheepherders, AND THEN, the other day I was looking through LOML’s cook book and noticed---Sheppard’s pie is made from BEEF!!!

The difference is, the sheep will graze in a pasture and only leave a stubble. The sun ends up baking the roots and you cannot expect to bring cattle onto that pasture for a year or more. The cattle graze will leave a couple of inches and with a little rain the feeding starts in a month or so.

[Az Rick]

helice , we try and keep 'em rare to medium rare.

Duke, with that kind of help you've got it made! Forget the table! How many calves to brand? I'm puzzled? I don't know AJ. Help me out.

Rick

[Just Duke]

helice , we try and keep 'em rare to medium rare.

Duke, with that kind of help you've got it made! Forget the table! How many calves to brand? I'm puzzled? I don't know AJ. Help me out.

Rick

Apache Junction AZ. Everyone there just called it AJ when I live there. Barbie wants 50 to 70.
His wife broke both her wrists and neck a few years ago on a ATV. (We just sold ours) She has made a full recovery but now she just sits around and looks pretty with some really long nails and makes us all laugh. 6 foot tall and a DOLL!.

[Just Duke]

I got this same picture by the mesquite trees/Jojoba bean tree only I'm in the pic. I'll track some down.
Do you have a bigger pic of this horse?

[Az Rick]

Thanks Duke, I thought it was a person I should know. I actually live in Tucson but the Ranch is probably two and a half hours from "AJ". I don't go up North too often. Apache Junction is now in the big metro area of Phoenix, almost. I got a kid in school in Gilbert, ASU has a big campus there now. My how it has changed. Williams AFB is now An airport and College campus. We use those quads alot but they are dangerous. I'm glad your friend is okay.

You asked about 40 inches of rain. We'd wash away! Supposed to get 11in. here but don't. They measure the rainfall at the airport. If they get 11in. there it's "official". I never saw a plane that needed watered, but I have seen livestock that did. Thank goodness for wells.

Rick

[Just Duke]

Thanks Duke, I thought it was a person I should know. I actually live in Tucson but the Ranch is probably two and a half hours from "AJ". I don't go up North too often. Apache Junction is now in the big metro area of Phoenix, almost. I got a kid in school in Gilbert, ASU has a big campus there now. My how it has changed. Williams AFB is now An airport and College campus. We use those quads alot but they are dangerous. I'm glad your friend is okay.

You asked about 40 inches of rain. We'd wash away! Supposed to get 11in. here but don't. They measure the rainfall at the airport. If they get 11in. there it's "official". I never saw a plane that needed watered, but I have seen livestock that did. Thank goodness for wells.

Rick

That's sad. Yes AJ used to be nothing but Rednecks. We used to ride to a bar on Friday night called Kovack's corner where they had a live band and standing room only but we hung out on the patio because we were always healed. Huge baskets of chicken and fries were brought out to us most times on the house. Guess they thought we were security or something. Funny thing is they never got robbed.
They would carry drunk as in plastered cowboys out and put them on their horse and send them home. It take 6 rednecks to mount a drunk cowboy on a saddle by the way.
I have an engineer buddy out your way says you guys have a really low water table now and the aquafer's are really low but that was a few years back. Any change?
We used to go HAM SEASON down your way with good results. I'll scare up some pics.

[starmac]

I have an engineer buddy out your way says you guys have a really low water table now and the aquafer's are really low but that was a few years back. Any change?

LOL Just this morning a guy called from Az, wanting to know if my old water well rig was for sale, he needs to take his wells down a little.

[Az Rick]

Duke you were early LE and didn't know it. Good on you. Those drunk Cowboys ," I wouldn't know much about it", are real Buckaroos! At least that's what we call them. For those that don't know it's an insult. You've got to hold your liquor. Hmmm, I always wanted a pair of those chaps,... say shaps,...with hair on them. We all wear chinks now, so much cooler when it's 110, at the risk of being pierced by something.

[Az Rick]

starmac, what are you doing in Fairbanks,... I assume AK. We have a Fairbanks in AZ, in the Tombstone/ Sierra Vista area. It was a mining town in the Earp days. I run a well rig some. A Smeal, small one, on a F350 diesel, 4 wheel drive, regular cab. We've pulled an 800ft. 2in. well several times, it's about the maximum. It's hard work but I like it. I forget what it weighed, with water in the pipe but heavy.

I know some folks think you get up in the morning and saddle up and ride the range, not so. You get the sprinklers working first so you have feed growing and pasture for the horses and some cattle. Then at times you have well issues. Then the truck won't start,etc. Water is the lifeblood.

Rick

[starmac]

Well I'm mostly watching my summer wages disappear in fairbanks, but not in Az. lol Mine is a drilling rig, not a pulling rig a mayhew rotary. I'm in Ak, but the rig is in new mexico. Mine is just the mayhew 500, and I'm not sure how big of a bit you can use with it. His water is plenty shallow enough for my rig, but I'm not positive it will handle a big enough bit for an irrigation well. He is going to check it out, and use it if it will work for what he needs.

[Just Duke]

Rick, have you seen our saddle shop? www.warponysaddlery.com

[Az Rick]

Duke, somehow I missed the horse pic question last night. He's my screen saver. I must have deleted the screen saver one. He's a Mexican horse, you ought to see his brand. I need to take a picture when it gets warm and he's slick. It's kinda faint. He's a real good cow horse. His rigging is a bit of a mess in that pic. We did a lot of uphill/downhill that morning. I did re adjust him before we started off. There's about 20 head directly behind me resting. I managed to coax them up there from the valley. My partner that day had just lost about 15 head when they had decided they didn't want to walk uphill. I had a ringside seat up there. They just bolted and you can't head 'em off in that kind of country. He tried. I did look at the site a long time ago. I'll check it out again.
Mexican horses are bred tough, no frills. You probably know that,... they have tough hooves, great in the rocks.

Rick

[Az Rick]

Duke, you are a very, very bad man. I'm liking that basket weave breast collar by Cactus Saddlery. I'm about to need one. A matching headstall, aka Bridle to me would be real nice. That's Tack that will last.

Guy's I got a birthday coming up in 5 months or so, gives you plenty of time to save up,...make a real nice present.

Best

[Just Duke]

Duke, somehow I missed the horse pic question last night. He's my screen saver. I must have deleted the screen saver one. He's a Mexican horse, you ought to see his brand. I need to take a picture when it gets warm and he's slick. It's kinda faint. He's a real good cow horse. His rigging is a bit of a mess in that pic. We did a lot of uphill/downhill that morning. I did re adjust him before we started off. There's about 20 head directly behind me resting. I managed to coax them up there from the valley. My partner that day had just lost about 15 head when they had decided they didn't want to walk uphill. I had a ringside seat up there. They just bolted and you can't head 'em off in that kind of country. He tried. I did look at the site a long time ago. I'll check it out again.
Mexican horses are bred tough, no frills. You probably know that they have tough hooves, great in the rocks.

Rick

I haven't seen a cloths line pole since leaving CO in 89. If I were there I'd build you a post and lintel for tying horses to. The fenders seem awfully short in the third pics just curious. What's the manufacture of you saddle Rick?

Here's a pic of my favorite saddle but it's a crummy photo. I'm not much of a photographer.
This is a Billy Cook Wade Tree saddle here with Buck Rolls.

[Just Duke]

Duke, you are a very, very bad man. I'm liking that basket weave breast collar by Cactus Saddlery. I'm about to need one. A matching headstall, aka Bridle to me would be real nice. That's Tack that will last.

Guy's I got a birthday coming up in 5 months or so, gives you plenty of time to save up,...make a real nice present.

Best

Oh! You mean this one?
You could have this on your horse as soon as Wednesday with PP.


Cactus Saddlery Basket Stamped Browband Headstall Bridles Headstalls





* LEATHER
* HAND BASKET STAMPED
* SCALLOPED CHEEK
* STAINLESS STEEL HARDWARE
* CHICAGO SCREWS
* STOCK NUMBER 40211A

Cactus Saddlery Basket Stamp Tooled Breast Collar 2 3/4" Breast Strap

[Just Duke]

Mexican horses are bred tough, no frills. You probably know that,... they have tough hooves, great in the rocks.

Rick

The AZ desert is filled with horse shoe removers. If I got 1-1/2 months out of a set I was lucky. The Superstition Mountains are rocky and the ground is 3 inches deep in 5/8" volcanic rock that sounds like your walking on Corn Flakes. Cholla's were pretty nasty our way so full length chaps were the only way to go. Your right on the horse though. If I was moving back there I would go with Mustangs this time around.
Do you have an Aremotor on your well?

[smokeywolf]

Here's my favorite headstall. No fancy stamping, but real convenient.

Combination halter/headstall. The two cheek pieces unsnap from halter so you can just drop the bit out when you stop for lunch.
That's an ooold low port cavalry bit with roper's reins attached.

smokeywolf

Not quite sure why it threw the duplicate image.

[Just Duke]

That's a bridle. There really expensive and time consuming to make. And a low port grazing Calvary bit. You just need a McClellan saddle and a Light Saber and you would be good to go.
Can you leave me your horse tack your dad made in your will?
I'll trade you a Huge Kabota diesel generator for it all when you get your ranch. Were set up to be stocking dealers.
or or or pretty single girl that cooks really good my wife hangs with.
Just for kicks can you measure how hide the bit is?

[smokeywolf]

Sorry about my lapse in nomenclature. I always think of them in terms of the individual parts. Your right! Bit and reins attached, it's a bridle.

Don't have a McClellan but I did spend the better part of a couple of days in one once. They look like a torture device but are actually pretty comfortable.
I'm down to two saddles now. The fancy tooled one on Stormy, the grey Quarter Horse Mare in my avatar. And, a partial restoration of an original side saddle that one of my lady friends used to use when we rode parades together.

We'll talk generators when the time comes. And as far as that pretty single girl that cooks, I'm afraid you're gonna have to hang on to her. I already have one of those and she isn't looking for a girl friend.

smokeywolf