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  1. TexasRancher

    Farm bureau insurance

    "destruction of supply chain" as in insurance companies getting out, less competition? or supply chain of repair parts? I see two things happening...insurance companies dropping people in certain high risk locations...and individuals dropping their insurance altogether due to rising...
  2. TexasRancher

    Excitement

    Buckshot-birdshot is good...when in doubt...shoot for the legs CB. 410 too small, 12 too large...20 just right.
  3. TexasRancher

    Pretty interesting!

    Pretty impressive, I've read and knew most of these...but never seen the list compiled together....printed it off for my family. Thanks
  4. TexasRancher

    How did you get into cattle business?

    @ greybeard ...great story i enjoyed it. You can see...those smaller cattle fended for themselves, much like goats. Smaller thinner breeding cattle of old were money makers. I have two angus, that produce heavy big calves.... but run thin with their calves on them (no matter how much i feed...
  5. TexasRancher

    How did you get into cattle business?

    Since after 1900, no recent farmers or ranchers in my family. I'm first generation. Retired at 54, spent two years on metal detecting expeditions-goofing off-Before I got involved with land and then cattle. I had been leasing my land with barn for 25 years-always horses-horse lovers. My last...
  6. TexasRancher

    Experience from years ago.

    Yepper..you did the right thing Travlr. You did well to quench the greed of easy money....if you get a nice piece of cake...stay satisfied...don't go for another piece. Deny yourself...and the riches in the Kingdom will be yours.
  7. TexasRancher

    Experience from years ago.

    More than likely "pushed off"...let's just hope is was an accidently crowding push...and not a malicious push. Cattle can be cruel to each other.
  8. TexasRancher

    “Freeze proof” faucet freeze protection

    Got to love the useful convenient height of those water lines...nice. If it were mine in cold climates... I would only have them sticking out 6" from the ground. In any event, either way, tall or small....I'd just build a quick framed..light-weight enclosure box with trap hinged door on top- for...
  9. TexasRancher

    Stole 41,000 pounds of chicken

    Yeah, nobody was going to miss that chicken or take the time to find and arrest him. @ age 55 if you're going to make your "retirement exit plan" do it with something more than $80,000. worth of chicken sold @ quick reduced sale prices.
  10. TexasRancher

    Long Journey

    Droughts are killing us. I'm situated at 9 cows and 1 bull, 10 head too. It's enough to keep me busy. Done with two droughts...i can do 2 more back-to-back...on the 5th drought year I'll quit.
  11. TexasRancher

    mattresses

    Ken, people will think we're crazy...but I absolutely agree. Mattresses were built better years ago. We bought ours in 1997...it was expensive (for the time $800.) maximum spring quantity, max firmness, what we both wanted. For about 5 to 8 years it was actually too firm. We almost considered...
  12. TexasRancher

    sharpening scissors?

    You have to open them up...keep one side open...lock the other side down and wet stone edge to perfection, last step is to do one quick and final stone sweep against the flat end (top to handle). I've done sissors with moderate success....but look at the cutting angle blade surface carefully...
  13. TexasRancher

    Shed roof

    Makes you wonder if that steel building would have survived if the concrete piers were two times larger/heavier and the building was completely enclosed with tightly sealed metal doors. The tin sheets stayed put on the framing...that part was good...even appears salvageable in framed-sections...
  14. TexasRancher

    Big Cats

    The bipedal "Dogman" (standing bipedal running wolves that are larger then regular wolves, first seen by lumberjacks the 1890's) are populating rapidly, coming down into Texas on into Mexico and there's been hundreds of sightings on every continent. They're highly intelligent and prefer to stay...
  15. TexasRancher

    Well I was not expecting that

    You did the right thing to halt your contract until the foundation is fixed by others. If the crawl space is small... jacking will be rough... who knows if you can even sandwich in new beams onto old. Sill plate is gone (probably no vapor barrier, wasn't treated, rain water flowed inward or...
  16. TexasRancher

    Kirstie Alley died.....RIP

    You know what they say about foreign objects inside you?
  17. TexasRancher

    Pay no attention to this post

    Ground hogs...the biggest easy money maker...the only animal i use to trap and kill for $1. a head (from dad). i made about 5 dollars every year....shooting black birds with a 22 pellet gun for 10 cents each never made much money....and pulling weeds for 10 cents a row or 35cents/hour was really...
  18. TexasRancher

    Pay no attention to this post

    Don't bite down on them, they stick to your teeth....instead let them dissolve in your mouth.
  19. TexasRancher

    Things I absolutely hate.....

    I had like 20 pages in a booklet filled with S&H stamps when i was a kid, my parents didn't want them and were thrown everywhere...I think i remember sending them in and buying one big gift from the S&H catalog. Wonder why they got rid of them...they were fun and cool, real money! I had started...
  20. TexasRancher

    Kirstie Alley died.....RIP

    So basically... you got shaz-ed
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