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Branding day morning
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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1745343" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>Easier? Probably not. It does take a bigger crew to rope and drag to the fire. At the bigger brandings where we do 200-300 a day it is faster to rope because we have a much bigger crew. Those also become a community event and that helps to build community. Which just as important as getting the calves branded. We might use the calf table to do the calves from the five which got turned up the hill. One of the advantages is roping and dragging to the fire makes rope horses and cowboys. Both of which are needed around here when cows are out in the hills. For 40 calves we didn't need much crew. Three guys roping. The ground crew was like the walking wounded. B who has a bad knee from getting wiped out by a cow this week, a high school kid who works for B he has a broken finger on his right hand, and me, I am 70 years old fat and slow. The big brandings will have 12-16 ropers. With 6-8 in the pen at a time. There will be 6 to 10 people taking turns on the ground. Plus there is always a bunch people too old or too young to help hanging around.</p><p>I think I own the only calf table in the area. At least I haven't seen one on any of the other places.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1745343, member: 498"] Easier? Probably not. It does take a bigger crew to rope and drag to the fire. At the bigger brandings where we do 200-300 a day it is faster to rope because we have a much bigger crew. Those also become a community event and that helps to build community. Which just as important as getting the calves branded. We might use the calf table to do the calves from the five which got turned up the hill. One of the advantages is roping and dragging to the fire makes rope horses and cowboys. Both of which are needed around here when cows are out in the hills. For 40 calves we didn't need much crew. Three guys roping. The ground crew was like the walking wounded. B who has a bad knee from getting wiped out by a cow this week, a high school kid who works for B he has a broken finger on his right hand, and me, I am 70 years old fat and slow. The big brandings will have 12-16 ropers. With 6-8 in the pen at a time. There will be 6 to 10 people taking turns on the ground. Plus there is always a bunch people too old or too young to help hanging around. I think I own the only calf table in the area. At least I haven't seen one on any of the other places. [/QUOTE]
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