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I have loaded trailers with a spike on the back of a truck. It’s doable with the right setup, but far from ideal. I had a ‘91 F350 4x4 that sat pretty high, and not a spike bed, but a flat bed with a J&I spike sitting on top of it - so the spikes sat pretty high. We had a flatbed trailer , 20’...

As much as anything it would cheapen up your sheen. Also it’s good for dandruff, dry skin and helps somewhat with insect control. It would still work, but that’s not what we use anymore. Now I mix about 1 part of Sullivans Fighting Five with four parts sheen. It does all those things and also...

I have a Ryobi that I bought last October after the ice storm - not positive that it would have been my first choice, but at the moment it was my only choice. Turns out I’ve been very pleased with it. It’ll run three hours plus, and I’ve cut lots of stuff I probably shouldn’t have. Mine’s a...

I’m not from Texas, but I have many friends and family involved with show cattle in Texas, and I’ve been selling show calves into Texas for many, many years. And our big spring show here (OYE) is the same time as Houston, so ours need to be the same age. In my experience, August to mid-October...

The tubs we buy come with lids. They come from Atwood’s -a regional chain farm and ranch supply store. I guess a lot of their stores don’t have enough covered storage, so they started getting them with lids. In the beginning they’d keep the lids and reuse them when you bought them, but for 2...

Sorry for your loss. Prayers for you and yours.

Ranch Hand or Frontier. I’ve had grill guards and full front end replacements from both and have been happy with them. I had a truck I bought used with Ranch Hand ”running steps” as they call them. Didn’t really like them at first, thought they were too big and hung too low, but they really...

It really is mostly about genetics, for the most part either they have enough muscle or they don’t. Maturity and fat will give you a little more thickness. A really good hair coat and a good clip job can sure help one appear thicker. Exercise can give you a little more definition of muscle...

Actually, that depends on where you’re going to be showing. In almost all cases, yes, ear tags are fine. But there are a few shows that are starting to ban anything other than the official show tag. It’s mostly a market animal thing, but some shows are implementing it across the board. It’s...

Mostly around here if you say “stockyards”, it’s understood that you‘re talking about the Oklahoma National Stockyard in Oklahoma City. OKC West in El Reno is OKC West, or some just call it west. Most of the others are referred to as the (town name) sale barns...

I’m definitely interested. We did a couple of injured ones ourselves last summer, with much help and guidance from some good friends and neighbors. I’m sure we will want to do that again - we were able to make good use of stock that we had basically no chance to get into a custom processor at...

My wife went to a smaller, local university. I got an associates degree from a community college, and then a bachelors degree from a 4 year school. My oldest son did the same, and my daughter also has an associates from a community college and is currently a junior at Oklahoma State. Younger...

I said college isn’t for everyone. Just wanted to point out that there’s far more to take away than the degree.

Lots of good advice here, but I will differ those who believe there’s nothing gained by going to college if you’re not getting a degree necessary for the career you end up with. i have a double major in ag education/animal science. I did teach ag for a few years after college, so you can say...

It’s a puzzle with a whole lot of pieces - most of which have been mentioned above. Lighter cattle of comparable quality will always bring more per pound. How much depends on if they’re long weaned, vaccinated, flesh, fill, where you are, what time of year it is, how big a group there is...

There were quite a few around here that lost some. Mostly babies born in the single digit and below zero temps when there was a good bit of snow on the ground, and a lot of those were from first calf heifers. A lot of folks were watching constantly, picking up calves soon as they dropped to...

I’ve had several bar top trailers -all have been WW brand, and I’ve been pleased with them, too. We keep a more enclosed trailer mostly to show with ( it’s really handy that the running board on the Circle D works great for a low outside tie rail ). Sometimes it is nice to have that more...

I’m on my fourth one in the last 20 years or so. I started with a 16’, traded up to a 20’, then to a 24’. I traded the 24’ for an aluminum that I pulled for 3 years and popped off and priced it higher than I gave for it and the guy bought it. I banked almost half of that money and bought...

For sure, nothing fun about it MurraysMutts. Never thought i’d be happy about 10 degrees, but we finally made it back to there, and I kinda am. Looks like we might dip back into the single digits tomorrow night if it clears off, but at least we should be done with negatives. We hit -11 here...

We’ve been below 10 degrees since Saturday evening (hit -6 this morning) and have probably 30 more hours of it to go. Went below 32 a week ago last night, and now they’re saying it’ll be Friday afternoon before we can get back above freezing. It’s for sure a record breaker here, and honestly...