Ma Nature is the Winner

[Caustic Burno]

For the last 30 years or so I have been fighting a spot when the creek gets out of banks and cuts
across the pasture. I have built levees, hauled in rock concrete you name and it keeps washing out a ditch under
my back fence. I have built a drainage system in all the bottom pastures that works well until years like this one.
No matter how important you think you are you cant stop water from going downhill.
As soon as I can hire enough Wood ducks to construct fence I am giving about three acres back to Ma Nature.
I am going to let it grow up in switch cane and yaupons.

 

[kenny thomas]

Sometime I feel no matter how hard we try , Mother nature shows us who is the real boss. I think you will be pleased with your decision.

 

[Nesikep]

I'll send you some beavers.. they're much better at that than us humans!

 

[MO_cows]

That was just profound....someone should make that their signature quote!

No matter how important you think you are you cant stop water from going downhill.

 

[greybeard]

For the last 30 years or so I have been fighting a spot when the creek gets out of banks and cuts
across the pasture. I have built levees, hauled in rock concrete you name and it keeps washing out a ditch under
my back fence. I have built a drainage system in all the bottom pastures that works well until years like this one.
No matter how important you think you are you cant stop water from going downhill.
As soon as I can hire enough Wood ducks to construct fence I am giving about three acres back to Ma Nature.
I am going to let it grow up in switch cane and yaupons.

I did about 5 acres down by the river the same way CB--just backed off from the river and built a new fence because I couldn't keep one on the river bank or across the ravine that cuts out of and back into the river. I haven't even walked on that bit of ground in 2 years, but I know the deer move thru it.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Well as we get older just figure out we can't win some battles.
The power of water is amazing force. I have an old cast iron porcelain sink in the pasture.
This sink probably hasn't been made in 75 years and weighs about 150 pounds.
After a recent flood a year or so ago the creek put it on the bank .It had been laying
on the creek bed covered in sand for years never seen for no telling how many decades.
There is a solution a concrete spillway the cost of the spillway is about 10 times the value
of the land that Ma Nature gets deed to.

 

[Caustic Burno]

I'll send you some beavers.. they're much better at that than us humans!

Thanks got some already,they are amazing little engineers.
The problem with them is in following instructions. In my entire life
I have never seen them build a dam that wasn't in the wrong spot.

 

[mwj]

Just because the beavers put it in a place you did not care for, they put it in the spot that will work. Rest assured they have been in the water diversion business long enough to read a ''site plan''.

 

[Brute 23]

Guy told me one time the best way to make water not go to a low spot is to create a lower spot. Not sure if that would help you any. :tiphat:

 

[Caustic Burno]

Just because the beavers put it in a place you did not care for, they put it in the spot that will work. Rest assured they have been in the water diversion business long enough to read a ''site plan''.

They are better at location selection than the US Corp of Engineers.
Neighbor over the hill has a creek with a lot of bottom land constantly having to rebuild fence
after one of our typical 8 to 10 inch rains.
He told me I am going to build a 14 acre lake and stop this problem.
I fell out I ask him what are you going to do when it fills up with the extra water.
Ask him do you have any clue how many square miles are in Cypress creek watershed.
I said you do know one inch of rain on one acre is roughly 25,000 gallons of water and you are talking square miles.
Told him the only he stops his problem is with drought or give the bottom back.

 

[wacocowboy]

I have a creek bottom that goes through my place then another 10 acres on the other side. I never use that back 10 acres not worth losing a cow in the creek and can't get across to keep the fence repaired. A few years ago I made a deal with my neighbor behind me and he does my baling for use of the land and some string probably the best use I can get out of that land.

 

[backhoeboogie]

This system moving in out of Mexico is going to drown you CB. We are not projected to get a single drop of it. Sure wish the upper Brazos Flood plain would get a good drink. Every lake up here is hurting.

 

[Caustic Burno]

This system moving in out of Mexico is going to drown you CB. We are not projected to get a single drop of it. Sure wish the upper Brazos Flood plain would get a good drink. Every lake up here is hurting.

I am hunkered down on top of a high hill.
As long as I have my heating pad and reloading equipment all is OK.
Just load a few more boxes of sweet 16.
I put out two super sacks and hay out yesterday after I got the feeder moved to high ground.
Hadn't been able to get to it for a while.

 

[James T]

This system moving in out of Mexico is going to drown you CB. We are not projected to get a single drop of it. Sure wish the upper Brazos Flood plain would get a good drink. Every lake up here is hurting.

I am hunkered down on top of a high hill.
As long as I have my heating pad and reloading equipment all is OK.
Just load a few more boxes of sweet 16.
I put out two super sacks and hay out yesterday after I got the feeder moved to high ground.
Hadn't been able to get to it for a while.

Am still waiting on the last 3 inches of rain to dry up. Looks like we have a good chance of getting more sometime this morning.

 

[backhoeboogie]

This system moving in out of Mexico is going to drown you CB. We are not projected to get a single drop of it. Sure wish the upper Brazos Flood plain would get a good drink. Every lake up here is hurting.

I am hunkered down on top of a high hill.
As long as I have my heating pad and reloading equipment all is OK.
Just load a few more boxes of sweet 16.
I put out two super sacks and hay out yesterday after I got the feeder moved to high ground.
Hadn't been able to get to it for a while.

You have life vests for those newborn calves?

 

[Caustic Burno]

No Boogie they are up on the side of the hill under the hay rack.
Been raining since about 3 pm. Little more reloading time tomorrow in the man cave.

 

[backhoeboogie]

The banks of the Brazos are 8 feet or so higher than the lower flood plains. If the cows are on the lower flood plain they move toward the fence on the river every time. Water rises and rises and they get trapped. Hard to get them from there to the upper flood plain once the water comes out of the banks.

Brazos River Authority never tells anyone when they are about to dump a lake. You can watch the flood waters coming from the upper ends as each point hits the flood stages for 4 or 5 days. They won't throttle the water with the lakes. They just wait and then dump.

Best to get the cows away from the river any time there is a chance of a flood.