LOVIN' THE CORONA

[Music] meanwhile we left the body guy working on my truck Mason and I we got in Ray's truck and we are out here where they're weaning some calves we came out so that they could have an extra vehicle out here to haul some stuff back and I see they're right here at tank woman so we'll roll up here and see what's going on we're eating uncle Ray's chips pretty good huh tell me Thanks [Music] okay we are back from going out and picking up cattle and helping those guys finish up weaning and my paintless dent repair guy he got all done he text me and said he got at 85% cleaned up we're gonna let you be the judge right here take a look here you go I think you did pretty dang good it's a ranch truck so if it's got a little ripple in it that's just the way it is and there is just a little ripple right there and there's a little ripple right there and then this door has just a little bit of a ripple right there but other than that he straightened it up pretty good I'm pretty impressed these heifers came up close so I sent Mason on a little job to go get a sack of pellets so he can feed him come on girls come on girls come on girls okay drive us down here just a little ways because I don't want to feed him right here by the curls come on girls right here if I can get him come on girls come on all right go ahead drop it in a little bit we're trying to move them away from the crowds because I don't want them always coming up around the Corral's thinking they're gonna get fed at the corrals I want them to realize that it happens down here somewhere else all right right here hey everyone my name is Reid and this is Mason welcome to the ranch today we're ranching hey so on a ranch a lot of times you have to be kind of inventive and come up with little ideas so we've been sort in cattle this morning hauling cattle away putting cattle out in pastures so they don't have to be in the corral here like these are these are actually some nice little heifers that are gonna go to a guy across the valley that he's going to take him and rope him but anyway I've got a water trough in this Corral right here that keeps leaking we've we've changed all of our water troughs to these black poly troughs because the big metal ones over time you end up rusting them out and then they leak water and I don't I don't know I like the great big ones out on big areas where there's lots of cattle but here in these curls I like these little ones because you can dump them out every once a while and move them if you need to or you can clean them out if they get a lot of sediment in them there's the trouble we've had with this trough it has been for one we use these floats right here just because they're handy and they're easy to replace and they hang over the side of your water trough like this right here but the trouble with these floats is they they don't hang far enough down in the trough and then if you get a trough like this one that's a little bit a little bit flimsy when it gets completely full of water this tends to want to lean out like that and then it because the because the water troughs so full yeah wants to spill out and then it runs water over the other thing that I had a problem with on this particular trough may seem grab me that hose right there first off let me say this I like using these braided hoses right here because cattle can't chew through them they're kind of non destructible the only thing these are washing machine hoses the only thing is though is both ends are like this so you have to put an adapter on these floats like that right there so this float was leaking right there around that adapter I don't think I had it in tight enough but the other thing that I'm gonna do I've already I've already done it on one of them is I'm I'm taking these straps that are curved like this and I'm hammering them out flat like this so that I can put this trough of this float in this trough and I can move it down as far as I want and then I'm gonna drill a hole right here and put a nut and a bolt right here to hold that in place we'll show you the finished product here in just a second but I think that I think that'll work pretty good that way I can move that float I can hang that float down inside that trough quite a ways and I won't have that run over okay let's flatten out this other one alright there's what we did we bolted it to the side of the water trough had to drill had to drill a couple of holes right through the top of the water trough flatten these out bolted that right to it then bent these back over so they weren't sticking up so now that put that float far enough down in the water trough that it should shut off and have plenty of free board should have plenty of free board at the top of the water trough for it to not run over put the water level about right here we're gonna rinse this out one more time all right Mason and I'll leave it fill and we're gonna go put our tools away and we'll come back to check again about 20 minutes make sure that it stopped where we wanted it to I think that one's good to go I've said this before you know we feed good bright green hey want these cattle to do good and nutritionally and a lot of times what people overlook if the water that their livestock whether it's good and clean it's dirty I'm a big believer in clean water they sure have to have it to do well so you need to clean these frogs out every once in a while oh I love these little projects and I love them when they work it all worked out good we walked around here this trough had filled up the float shutoff it's got plenty of free board above where the float is and my little fitting right there stopped leaking so we're good to go we'll turn that we'll turn the pressure down on this water trough a little I'll just crack it open a little bit and we won't have to we won't have the problem that we've had of pulling in here in the morning and this trough running just a little bit just enough to keep a little mud hole down in that corner all the mud you see now is because we dumped this trough out too do our little revamp on it but yeah it work good I like it the only other thing we need to check is this plug because we we had pulled it out and it is I think it's seeping just a little bit but it may seal itself up so I'm not gonna worry too much about it for a day or so we'll we'll let the rest of this mud here dry up and then we'll just kind of see what kind of a kind of a leak we have there I don't I don't think it's gonna be a problem but we'll keep our eye on [Music] okay Mason and I are gonna go run the side-by-side through a pasture over here and check on some cattle hey here's the deal I think these cattle are loving the coronavirus the rope'n cattle because all they're doing is laying around licking salt beaten feed drinking water eatin and pooping that's all they're doing and sleeping and they haven't had to go out and do a job since February so like for two and a half months for two months anyway two months they've been off I don't like it I know they do but I don't hello boys pretty content huh they're pretty content aren't they gonna drive nice okay get your own side-by-side well you're driving let's go right off ahead for that building over there just kind of go slow I mean you go about like you were we just looked in to see if we can see God [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

Channel: RodeoReed.

Views: 19,496

Rating: 4.945684 out of 5

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Id: adJaAuKOFk8

Length: 15min 16sec (916 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 22 2020