Posted by JD Seller on January 17, 2016 at 15:09:36 from (208.126.198.123):
I got the one fellow's calves fed no issues. I was just in the house and had my work cloths off and my phone rang. An older family friend asked me if I could help him load some fat steers he wanted to haul in for the over night Monday market. So I bundle back up and go over.
The fellow quit milking a year ago. He bred his last Holsteins to one of my Angus bulls. So he is now getting Angus/Holstein cross steers. He is used to bottle fed Holstein calves. These Angus cross calves are way more spirited then what he is used to handling. So we get the five fattest one sorted out into another pen. One of them just its his head down and under the CHEAP/JUNK/KY gate. After the gate bends double and pops the poor welded hinges off, the calves are all back together.
So we have to find a "good" gate and resort everything back out. That is lots of fun!!!! NOT!!! LOL We get them loaded and I told him I would ride to town with him. It a good thing I did ride with him. He got about half way out his mile long drive and got stuck on the ice. His four wheel drive had broken last year and he just had two wheel drive. To make it even better he did not have any of his SEVEN tractors plugged in. That costs too much money!!! LOL He is 78 year old and TIGHT. I called my middle son and had him bring the JD 4450 over. It is MFWD and has chains all the way around. So we finally get out to the road and finish the four mile haul to town. It only took a little over two hours but it seemed longer with the cold.
I told him to bring his truck by next week and we will see if we can find out what is wrong with it. He did say he was going to go buy a couple of Franklin gates to sort with too. So just more fun and games in the cold with livestock.
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