Big Run Ranches - Episode Two

[Music] take it down [Music] take me down [Music] [Music] i guess if i was sitting back looking at a rancher i would just think man how how would maybe not every single person enjoy a life like this but there's a lot more to it than just what happens on the on the good days or during the good moments [Music] so there's going to be two or three of the kids i think straight and lake are going to be on a horse i think ty so we'll trip those two gates right there and push them out with the cows perfect okay i don't know it might require more than just those kids but i just don't want to dump 200 at once and i'll be so when we brand them i mean the probably the key thing is to get a brand on them um not everybody brands but we brand where we go over on the rangeland and it's so wide open we have neighbors i mean so a lot of these cattle will not be seen every single day i mean i i still believe there's some of them that we don't see every time we go over there and there's some that we probably only see a few times a summer so having that brand on them can always mark the identification you know proof of ownership and stuff like that first one's the hardest right yep okay we're ready you ready well i'm not ready but ready or not [Music] [Music] so it'll go on the back of the cavs neck it won't choke him down so he'll have him captured without choking [Applause] delia hi dahlia so these calves are obviously males are females bulls or heifers is what we call them so we don't want them to we don't want bulls so we make a steer out of them and that way they're better for the market [Music] i have a lot of family here probably about half family and half half friends that we have um most of the guys were open and cowboying are just some really good friends of mine my brother is my brother is helping me well but i think johnny's just a friend justin one of the other opens just a friend so just just a good group of people they helped me they usually come and help every year so when he sells them then you know how many have each [Music] always get a good turnout for brandon not not many people say no when you ask them come do this palm trees is [Music] keep your baby hands off i'm carol olsen i'm dusty olsen's wife and we live here on this ranch in neola so my role is the food if there's ever an band or whatever i'm in charge of the food i'm in charge of the bill paying and just make sure everything's paid and up to date and um and that um i will take jobs like with branding but i take the easy jobs i take like mark if they're heifers or stairs like those are my jobs but i do all the money dusty doesn't really have anything to do with the finances i mean we talk about it but i'm over i do all the finances and that type of stuff and usually if the kids have to go anywhere that's me that's where i'm that's where i go [Music] i grew up in what you would consider downtown roosevelt and so i grew up with lots of neighbors and just i mean the neighbor's house was like 10 feet away really close i mean it was really close and so my dad had a few horses but no i didn't grow up with this lifestyle really so this is something that i have really grown to like when we first started getting those 20 cows i knew that i probably wouldn't be you know a huge part of it because i just i just didn't get it and so i have really grown to like i really when we when we first were married we lived right in neola and i actually really wanted to move back to roseville because i just i liked the neighbors i liked i i wanted this picture-perfect yard and just wanted everything to be you know like the cookie cutter and um so i really wanted to move back to roosevelt and then when we built over here i still had a hard time just because it was such a long drive to town i had a hard time getting used to if i needed milk i was 20 minutes to town to even get milk or you know i had a hard time getting used to that and then it just really grew on me ready holy cow [Music] holy piss you believe that [Music] kind of got beat up [Music] so soon as they're old enough and not only the cattle are old enough but as soon as the snow melts in maybelle and the grass can start growing and get get some forage over on the ranch we like to take them over there and we we do this on semis we usually haul them about 40 pair we can put 40 pair on a semi probably the hardest part of taking the cattle to colorado is to get everything in pairs so we calve everything out in usually two big groups here at the house and getting them the right cow with the right calf always keeping them paired up is a challenge you just kind of have to learn that and make sure you have them paired up right we've had them where we didn't have them pair up and you end up with what you call a doggy a doggy is a cat that not with his mom and they just do not grow [Music] um our trucks will be here in 30 minutes so and then we'll start loading trucks no i hope that we don't get too much snow i can't even get in over there you mind throwing her off yeah what are you throwing everything but about that much grass hey you got a knife save a chunk of grass for the goats [Music] [Music] the only direction is forward one [Music] i won't risk [Music] is there's nothing can save us nothing can stop us this is [Music] [Music] [Music] where exactly is it maybe so we'll head to maybelle colorado um it's about about 135 miles away from from the home base here and it's it's about 15 miles south west of mayville so i'll usually haul about 15 just depending on how many but i'm usually 15 to 18 loads of pears by time i get my bulls and everything over here 15 to 18 loads over and about the same amount home in the fall and so it's it's a lot of trucking if there is one drawback to to having to cabin in one place and summer and another is the trucking but uh it's not too bad i try to do most of it myself [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] let him go hey don't ride with your hand on the horn because you don't need to is that your guys's high speed when he's getting around them cows or is the park break on keep forgetting you want cheese yes yes did you say yes turkey or rosemary really there's chips i don't if you want chips i want ruffles we walk up there and close that gate that we let the cows out of ice don't like it hanging open i love that my kids are learning a lot of life skills that can't really be taught okay now just push this operator all at once and let her spit the bit out don't jerk it out of her mouth just let her spit it out or jerk it out [Laughter] some days just aren't great and you just have to get through them and you have to you have to keep going and so i love that my kids that we are doing this together i think we're creating a ton of memories for them i don't know if all of them will continue farming around you after but i think my kids if anything are learning to work hard for what you want because the harder you work the better it becomes i mean there's some things you can't predict but you have to work hard in order for things to work over the top rail okay your hand goes under there backwards build the loop then it comes under [Music] so now then pull this tight and then what i do is put this tail through here because these horses get to learn they can pull on that and they'll be loose they'll put the tail through here and then they can't get loose i see a lot of bulls with both horns still so [Music] oh [Music] good find first brown horn of the year second brown horn [Music] like that one shedhorn the bigger one she found probably 30 bucks know what i mean that's 30 the little one she found it's probably fifteen dollars so it's free twinkie money every time i come over here the hard part about ranching that is getting harder and i think it's it's i know that it's going to continue to get harder in order to run a cow it takes so much land to run a cow and the price of land is just going up when we first started and first got in and maybe even a little before we got in solely on our own it used to be that a cow if you were willing to do the work and run the cow that she would pay for the land and she would make the land payment that is that is not even close to the case anymore by themselves they will not pay for the land it requires it requires so much land to to run a cow and that land is getting harder and harder to obtain more expensive and so i i believe that the cow calf guys like like we are that raise them from birth up and and summer them out it's kind of a dying breed it's a it's just becoming so expensive to to obtain land and so it's almost like if you don't inherit all of it it's going to be a tough challenge that's that's not every case but this is going to be a lot of cases don't sit on that okay we're out drive safe see you love you bye bye [Music] so [Music] [Music] you

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Keywords: big run ranches, ranching docuseries, utah ranch, rancher film, ranching show, cattle ranch show, cattle ranch series, colorado ranch, utah cattle ranch, V6 Media

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Length: 18min 29sec (1109 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 27 2022