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<blockquote data-quote="TexasRancher" data-source="post: 1709997" data-attributes="member: 8359"><p>2022: Grow more grass, less weeds (my main project for next year), and finish fencing 30 acres.</p><p>2021/22: Reduce cattle cube cake, feed more potatoes, reduce winter hay purchasing needs (all three of these occurring already)</p><p></p><p>2022: Need to connect well water-pump line into a nearby existing unused-underground water line...so I'll have water at the barn to clean and fill stock tanks during the summer and fall months, instead of relying on rain off the roof.</p><p></p><p>2021: This year's projects included removing all the old forefather's fencing, dragging magnets to pick up nails-metal and strengthening existing fencing with cedar logs between t-posts, then ran extra stands of barb wire...so everywhere there's 5 strands and in some places 6, 7 strands.</p><p>Started fencing another 30.5 acres on another ranch I own...and started building a cattle shed there, frame and roof joists-trusses-supports are done, sheet metal coming soon.</p><p>Every year my "cattle and land" work load decreases and things get easier. Spent most of 2020 cutting down nuisance trees and removing cedars. I used to haul water 8 miles during the summer and cut down acres of sunflowers...that isn't any fun. The sunflowers (& seeds) are gone now, and God blessed me with a newly discovered old 1900's-1930's well on my property...it's a gusher, I pumped 13,000. gallons out of it this summer and never checked the level...never ran dry. The pump is still 4 or 5 feet off the bottom. That's unusual for any vintage hand-dug well in Texas where there isn't any rain from July 15 to October 15, 3 months without rain. I have another well, where I can get about 800 gallons from it one-time, goes dry and won't refill anytime fast unless it rains.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasRancher, post: 1709997, member: 8359"] 2022: Grow more grass, less weeds (my main project for next year), and finish fencing 30 acres. 2021/22: Reduce cattle cube cake, feed more potatoes, reduce winter hay purchasing needs (all three of these occurring already) 2022: Need to connect well water-pump line into a nearby existing unused-underground water line...so I'll have water at the barn to clean and fill stock tanks during the summer and fall months, instead of relying on rain off the roof. 2021: This year's projects included removing all the old forefather's fencing, dragging magnets to pick up nails-metal and strengthening existing fencing with cedar logs between t-posts, then ran extra stands of barb wire...so everywhere there's 5 strands and in some places 6, 7 strands. Started fencing another 30.5 acres on another ranch I own...and started building a cattle shed there, frame and roof joists-trusses-supports are done, sheet metal coming soon. Every year my "cattle and land" work load decreases and things get easier. Spent most of 2020 cutting down nuisance trees and removing cedars. I used to haul water 8 miles during the summer and cut down acres of sunflowers...that isn't any fun. The sunflowers (& seeds) are gone now, and God blessed me with a newly discovered old 1900's-1930's well on my property...it's a gusher, I pumped 13,000. gallons out of it this summer and never checked the level...never ran dry. The pump is still 4 or 5 feet off the bottom. That's unusual for any vintage hand-dug well in Texas where there isn't any rain from July 15 to October 15, 3 months without rain. I have another well, where I can get about 800 gallons from it one-time, goes dry and won't refill anytime fast unless it rains. [/QUOTE]
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