Author Topic: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions (Read 360179 times)

ben ji · « **Reply #4025 on:** June 04, 2021, 01:30:13 PM »

Tahoe is a weird mix of country/rich Californians who pretend to be country. I may or may not have bought this t-shirt....I'm a sucker for anything with an American flag.

ben ji · « **Reply #4026 on:** June 08, 2021, 05:49:32 PM »

Snek!

(And don't you dare kill it, instead try and capture it and move it .5 miles away because I've totally wrangled a poisonous snake before and know what I'm doing)

ben ji · « **Reply #4027 on:** June 08, 2021, 05:53:09 PM »

Also I love that my dad calls this a river

(To the left of lady)

Sandstone Outcropping · « **Reply #4028 on:** June 08, 2021, 07:14:24 PM »

Great stuff, ben ji. Nice snake

sys · « **Reply #4029 on:** June 08, 2021, 07:22:44 PM »

good job, ben ji and ben ji's father.

Cire · « **Reply #4030 on:** June 08, 2021, 08:03:57 PM »

Why keep a rattle snake alive???

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ben ji · « **Reply #4031 on:** June 08, 2021, 09:21:25 PM »

Quote from: Cire on June 08, 2021, 08:03:57 PM

Why keep a rattle snake alive???

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Now that the yotes got all the cats something needs to keep the rodents in check. I saw a big ole rat out there last time.

pissclams · « **Reply #4032 on:** June 08, 2021, 09:57:12 PM »

pit vipers are so cool.
these rattlesnakes, i love their body shape, how they are short and fat. i hunted snakes for years as a kid but only found one rattlesnake, brought it home to show mom, then released it by the lake.

my favorite pet snake was a california king that was 50/50 black/white and looked like this-

Fedor · « **Reply #4033 on:** June 09, 2021, 08:11:11 AM »

Quote from: ben ji on June 08, 2021, 05:53:09 PM

Also I love that my dad calls this a river

(To the left of lady)

That river is easily deep enough to drown a miniature horse.

KST8FAN · « **Reply #4034 on:** June 11, 2021, 09:33:46 PM »

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Tom

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yoga-like_abana · « **Reply #4035 on:** June 12, 2021, 09:23:42 AM »

Man that’s ugly tom

ben ji · « **Reply #4036 on:** June 13, 2021, 11:27:34 PM »

No sunset due to the clouds but the pasture is LUSH enough to cover some prairie dogs.

Pretty crazy compared to 2020 when the cat ranch got 13 inches of rain for the year.

"If it rains" is truly the motto of the high plains.

pissclams · « **Reply #4037 on:** June 14, 2021, 07:19:39 AM »

the first thing that comes to mind when looking at that picture is wood ticks

ben ji · « **Reply #4038 on:** June 24, 2021, 01:08:08 PM »

Quote from: ben ji on March 09, 2020, 04:12:01 PM

Possible Cat PLUS Skunk ranch in the future?

This weekend when we were leaving the cat ranch we saw a skunk of the side of the road/windbreak. It was right by the house and where I work Milo on birds so I mentioned to my dad we should stop and shoot it.

He got kind of Angry and told me to leave it be.....now I know why

Ran into this skunk again when I stayed at the cat ranch on the way back from my vision quest. I was walking around the windbreak at dusk while Lady/Milo chased rabbits etc. I heard a kerfluffle by my dad's beehives that sounded different than normal and looked over to see a black & white tail sticking straight up in the air.

Aw eff, the mutts are gonna get sprayed and I'm going to have to clean them. I was able to get Lady to the other side of the windbreak but couldn't find Milo...Turns out Milo was the smart one and had immediately booked it back to the house when they encountered the skunk.

ben ji · « **Reply #4039 on:** June 24, 2021, 01:10:08 PM »

Here is a pic of the neighbors wheat field at sunset right before I ran into the skunk.

ben ji · « **Reply #4040 on:** June 24, 2021, 01:13:59 PM »

Saw my first 2 deer in person on the cat ranch the next morning. The windbreak makes a U shape that leaves a couple of acres of pasture protected. This was where my Uncle used to drop hay bales in the winter so the grass got beat up and now it's half grass half weeds.

Anyways these 2 guyz were watching me from the weedy part.

michigancat · « **Reply #4041 on:** June 24, 2021, 01:18:34 PM »

My grandpa passed away last week so we all went back to the farm.

Here's his big rock - "all the rich folks have big rocks in their yard". and yes the deer skull is attached with baling wire (and multiple are attached along his road to the blacktop)

michigancat · « **Reply #4042 on:** June 24, 2021, 01:21:36 PM »

here's a kickass hat I got from a trashbag in his basement

they let me drive a new-fangled combine with gps

Sandstone Outcropping · « **Reply #4043 on:** June 24, 2021, 01:24:33 PM »

Quote from: michigancat on June 24, 2021, 01:21:36 PM

here's a kickass hat I got from a trashbag in his basement

That hat

Love the script that Garvey used on their elevators.

Sandstone Outcropping · « **Reply #4044 on:** June 24, 2021, 01:27:17 PM »

My kids got to go back to the farm and take turns riding in the JD 9650 with my dad while he was harvesting the wheat crop earlier this week. Wheat dust causes me to have asthma attacks so I didn't get to participate.

michigancat · « **Reply #4045 on:** June 24, 2021, 01:27:58 PM »

so of course I went to the iron pile. Looks like there is now a pile that is for throwing away!

and here is the "save" iron pile:

the pvc pile was new to me

michigancat · « **Reply #4046 on:** June 24, 2021, 01:29:25 PM »

not sure how long this building's gonna last. not much was stored/accessed there even when I was a kid. Like steps from here a tin pole shed was wiped out by a wind storm a couple years ago.

Sandstone Outcropping · « **Reply #4047 on:** June 24, 2021, 01:31:09 PM »

A place for everything and everything in it's place.

Nice and tidy farm.

yoga-like_abana · « **Reply #4048 on:** June 24, 2021, 01:40:49 PM »

cool pics mich, sorry about your gpa

michigancat · « **Reply #4049 on:** June 24, 2021, 01:42:33 PM »

these shots are from the "henhouse"....lots of sir walter raleigh tobacco cans in the background

Note there were zero horses on this farm in my lifetime