Hi I'm Mike, Spring time starts all kinds of things here on the ranch but one of my
favorite days is the day we bring out the wagons, on our Wyoming Life.
Welcome to our Wyoming life, as we bring you along to explore the ranch life and escape
the ordinary.
I guess ordinary is a relative term, if you worked for the circus then your ordinary might
be drastically different from someone that works as an insurance adjuster, but then again
it also works the other way around.
I bet some insurance adjusters have seen some wacky stuff.
If there is one thing that being here on YouTube has taught me, it's that one person's
ordinary is another person's extra ordinary.
We see it all the time, right here on the ranch.
In fact, I saw it before YouTube.
I just never knew what is was.
Cars slowing down on the highway, watching us chase a calf or and you aren't going
to believe this but small airplanes flying lower to see us moving cows through a pasture.
Our ordinary can be amazing to someone else, so can yours.
So today I invite you to come along for an ordinary day around here, maybe even extraordinary.
Once I head outside for the day, every day starts out the same around here.
Depending on the time of year, the chores might be different but right now the first
thing on the chore list is to get the peacock out for the day.
Right now, he lives down in the basement of the shop.
We were hoping to have him out and about but we have a bit of a fox problem going on right
now and until that problem is taken care of, he is safer down here and each day we bring
him out and get him ready for his day.
For him, that means getting his prosthetic leg on and secured to his stump.
Then he can head out to our yard, where later his girlfriend will come visit him.
He will stay in our yard all day and tonight we will put him back in his home.
Back in the shop, its time to feed the bottle calves.
At about 8 weeks we will start weaning them but right now they are still drinking milk.
Which we make from a powdered supplement called milk replacer.
Each calf will get 2 bottles for breakfast and in order to make the process a little
faster we mix their bottles with a blender.
8 bottles are made and then its out to the calves with them.
Each bottle is inserted into their bottle holder, which we built a few weeks ago.
It amazes me how well something so simple works.
I was worried about calves stealing milk from others but with this system they each seem
to know that they have their own bottles.
Stealing isn't an issue and all is fair.
Although it is kind of like playing twister.
Once they finish one round of bottles, then its out with the empties and in with the remaining
full bottles, and round two commences.
Bottle calves are now fed and its out to the pasture to check on cows.
We will check cows at least 3 times today, more if there is anything going on.
We are more than 80% of the way through calving already with over 120 calves now on the ground
and the remaining calves will now come slowly over the next few weeks.
By branding we usually have one or two cows left to calve.
Each day I like to make sure that I get out and walk around the cows.
If they get used to me being around them all the time then when we do have to get close
and work with them, whether its sorting calves or cows, it makes the job a lot easier.
On me and the cows.
Every thing looks good out here, no cows appear to be in labor and that means we have the
next few hours free.
Now its time to come up with a plan for the day, and lose the sweatshirt, its getting
hot out here.
If you follow us on Facebook, you will remember that this winter we had an accident on the
highway, right by the ranch.
A young lady went off the road went through a few power poles and into a corral fence.
We were without power for a few hours while the power company fixed the power poles and
now its time to fix that fence that was taken out in the accident.
Its luckily an easy fix and the reason we are doing it now is because we are going to
be moving a few heifers into this corral.
Currently they are in the corral next to this one but for our next project we need to get
in there and leave the gate open.
Only 3 boards on the fence were broken in the accident, we are going to replace the
two middle boards first and after tracking down some lumber its just a matter of screwing
the boards in place to hold them, while we cut them to length, then secure them in place.
Moving on to the 5 heifers in the corral we can shuffle them to the corral we just fixed,
clearing this corral to work in.
2 years ago, I parked all of our wagons in this corral and barn.
We have four of them.
A covered wagon.
A small buckboard wagon, a flatbed wagon and a large buckboard wagon.
You might remember this wagon from our second video we ever posted to YouTube called Our
Story, where I sat right where it sits today.
These wagons were not put out last year because of the construction happening all summer at
my mother in laws house, unfortunately after sitting here for almost 2 years they have
really been buried and worked in.
Here are our two issues with this project.
This wagon is stuck and this one has the pioneer equivalent of a flat tire.
The metal rim that encircles the wooden wheel has fallen off.
This might be a bigger problem but first we are going to prep the area we are going to
put the wagons across the highway.
Mowing down some taller grass is all we need to do, if we don't, then next time we mow
we will have to move wagons anyway, so its better to take a few minutes and just get
a head start on it now.
And now its time to go get and get a wagon.
This year we are going to start small.
Maybe its just the way my brain works but last time I put out wagons we went big, little,
big, little.
This year we will go little, big, little, big and that means that this little green
guy gets pole position.
This wagon is pretty special to me because I built it.
A few winters ago, I was looking for a project to keep me busy and I found this old wagon.
It was pretty well beat up, and all the wood on it was rotten and falling apart.
I stripped it down, saving only the metal and replacing all the wooden parts and pieces,
cutting each one the same as the original, then reassembling it and painting it the same
color as the original.
Needless to say, I had a lot of time into it.
Gilbert loved wagons, and I always felt like putting this much time and effort into restoring
it was a tribute to him and a way to add our wagon to Gilberts collection.
Speaking of, Gilberts pride and joy and the last wagon he bought has a tire issue and
before I can continue my little big pattern we need to get it up and going.
Like a pit crew on wagon train we can jack up the wagon and get to sliding this metal
ring back into place.
By the way, I'm sur e there is a technical name for it.
But I'm going to call it what it is.
A big metal ring.
The wooden rim is compressed inside the ring.
So, our best bet is to compress it again.
Lots of times when these rings were first fitted they were also heated up in order to
make them expand.
We don't have that luxury, and since we don't we make do with a couple of clamps
to compress the wood and with a big hammer we can try to coax it into place.
Which doesn't work.
With out being able to remove the tire and heat up the rim I don't think I am going
to be able to get it on there and to use Erin's new favorite quote "Aint nobody got time
for that" we are going to get it on there as best as we can and get this wagon to the
other side of the road and deal with it later when we have time.
And off we go, and off goes our rim.
Luckily, we are only going across the highway and not across the western plains on our way
to California to hunt for gold.
And across the road we go.
Next up is our flatbed wagon.
This one was special to Gilbert too.
The story was that this wagon worked at our local train depot during the 20s and 30s.
It was used to haul whatever was unloaded of the train, feed, baggage, what ever cargo
it may have carried.
How Gilbert ended up with it, I have no idea, and I'm not really sure I want to know.
Little, big, little and now its time for another big.
Really big.
And Buried.
Many years ago, these wagons were pulled by horses, not this one is getting pulled by
horsepower and almost not enough but eventually we bust loose and we are in business.
Bringing it out of the barn and to its summer resting spot.
Some people might think its silly to have these out on display, but for me, just as
it was with Gilbert, it was all about history.
Families made whole new starts to their lives in these rough riding contraptions.
The rode for thousands of miles, they hauled tons of cargo and they served a purpose.
One that was truly extraordinary.
With that done there is still lots to do, I'll work on the new high tunnel for bit,
you can catch that in Tuesday's Project list.
We still need to check cows again and feed those calves again.
For me its an ordinary day, today was special, it brought back some nice memories.
Of Gilbert and these wagons and how happy they made him.
Its Memorial Day weekend and I want to honor all the men and women who died while serving
in the U.S. military, some of them my friends.
I also want to honor those they left behind, those that continue to fight, to stand up
and carry on after their loved ones have given the ultimate sacrifice.
We're all aware that Memorial Day is a day of remembrance, but Congress has also established
an exact minute of remembrance.
The National Moment of Remembrance Act, which was adopted in December of 2000, encourages
every citizen to pause each Memorial Day at 3:00 p.m. local time to remember the brave
men and women who died serving this country.
I don't know how many people are aware of it but I invite you to join me in doing this
Monday.
Thanks for hanging out with me today, what we did wasn't vital to the future of the
ranch, but it has become a tradition, that I hope will continue to be done long after
I'm gone.
Tuesday be sure to catch us for the continuation of the new high tunnel build on the Project
List and Erin is back this week with a brand-new video from the garden.
Check the description of this video for the link giving you a chance to win a Flir One
Pro, your very own thermal imager valued at 400$.
Thanks to all of you, have a happy and safe holiday weekend and until I see you again,
thanks for joining us in our Wyoming life.
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