Interesting Fences and Gates —Thursday, September 25, 2014

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Dayphoto

Here is something a little different in the gate department….a Cattle Guard!

You can find them anyplace around here….even on the highway going up the side of Grand Mesa, Colorado.

As you can see the spacing is large enough animals don’t want to walk over it.

This rancher even warns you when you cross the cattle guard that cows are grazing on his hills.

Head on over now and see what cool fences and gates have been posted on Teresa’s site: The Run *A* Round Ranch—and while you are there enter one of your own neighborhoods cool fences or gates!

Remember now…if you are out here sometime…watch for cows!

Fix’n Combines and Thursday Fences —-August, 28, 2014

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Dayphoto

I’ve been helping Terry work on his pinto bean combine

As you can see we still have two of the augurs to put back.

With lots of ropes and the help of a lift we got the chute (the biggest augur goes into) up and connected. (When you use old equipment……………at least it is paid for.)

The day was a tad warm and the work a bit on the stressful side…meaning if I don’t understand the hand signals or read his mind….I’m sure you understand what I mean.
I also didn’t want anything to happen TO him…like falling off the ladder–see it tipping there…so I was ‘hang’n around, snapping photos when he wasn’t looking, and trying to help him if he were to fall.

That is when I noticed we have a sort of neat old fence…right there! Right next to me. The blue thing is an automatic animal waterer.

We even shut the gate with the original gate closer — a horse shoe! I guess I didn’t need to look far or wide for something fun to show you in the line of fences. It was right there. The common old corral fence on a typical farm!