Hasbeen
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There are a couple of men who live near my farm that have taken me under their wing and helped teach me the ropes in the cattle business. I had never even met these men until I decided to try my hand with cattle. Between them they helped me pick out my heifers, hauled them home for me, loaned me a bull for the first breeding and helped me haul my hay and have always refused pay. I've been fortunate enough to have a couple of opportunities to help them out a couple of times when something went wrong, but last night they came on an hours notice and helped me pull a calf. When a man will leave his supper to come over and stick his arm up a cow in trouble, you just feel like you owe him. Since they won't even consider letting me pay them, I would like to get them each a small Christmas present to show that I appreciate what they do. As a farmer/rancher, what would you like Santa to bring you? Keep it simple, I know they wouldn't take much. I would like it to be something useful, I'm thinking maybe a knife or some sort of tool. You know, something that you normally wouldn't buy but if you had it would be useful. Any ideas? Both are small time, maybe 50-60 head between them.