Farming Operation on the Block

Allan in NE · Nov 7, 2008

For Sale:

Complete operation including ground, all machinery, tractors, cats, horses and Angus cattle...........

Well, except those animals that smothered in the snow drifts.......ya can have those at no extra charge.

Also, all remaining living animals have been turned loose out on the prairie to fend under their own devices; no way to get feed to 'em. You'll have to round them up someday. :>(

Allan

Amarillo Doug · Nov 7, 2008

Allen what part of Neb.are you in?

keh · Nov 7, 2008

Gee, Allan, I looked up the weather forecast for your area and they are threatening more of the white stuff. I won't tell you what the temperature was here today. Looks like you got the livestock up just in time. Also looks like you have plenty of hay. Did you get 2 cuttings of hay this time?

Now is the time when those cab tractors look good.

Check back in when the Chinook arrives.

KEH

Anonymous-0 · Nov 7, 2008

Allen, did you ever move out to the farm ?

tlak · Nov 7, 2008

You should have For Sale signs from the last ten farmers from that area saying the same thing.

Jerry/MT · Nov 7, 2008

My goodness what a dump for the first snowfall of the season! The wind must have really been blowing. The fields look clear but the homestead is buried. Will you be able to feed the stock?

Allan in NE · Nov 7, 2008

I'm going to cut some fences, yank a few posts and see if I can get to 'em in the morning.

They're hungry, but just couldn't reach 'em today. Opened every gate I could get to and just turned 'em out to scrounge for themselves.

Massive, massive amount of snow to move. 80mph winds they said.

Allan

fixerupper · Nov 7, 2008

That's a ton of snow! The field looks bare, looks like it all ended up in your yard. If there's anything good to say about it, at least the front of the loader tractor is buried and not the back!

A little over thirty years ago when we had the blizzard of the century a lot of farmers had driven their loader tractors in the shed forward instead of leaving the loader end toward the door. The stories of shoveling three to six feet of snow away from the door to free the loader tractor are still brought up in the coffee shops once-in-awhile.

Hope you can get the cattle fed. They need a little more fire in their bellies in weather like that. Good luck. Jim

cadet trooper · Nov 7, 2008

Jeez Allen looks like January here in Ohio. Poor Gleaner looks forlorn. No sense givin up now you can't even get to the airport for a flight to the Bahamas. WOW!!!!

Traditional Farmer · Nov 7, 2008

Moisture!

DR Darren · Nov 7, 2008

well since you seem to be bored sittin in the house, before you get cabin fever why not load up and haul that snow here, south carolina. we are still dry and you can dump the snow in my front yard, could use the water. lol

Anonymous-0 · Nov 7, 2008

Ufda That ain't fun. We just got a couple inches of wet sloppy stuff here in SW Minni-snowta. Don't expect it to stay too long as it usually doesn't get real cold until the geese go south and I haven't seen any migrating yet. Moving snow is like picking rock, ain't no money in it but it's gotta be done.

GeneMO · Nov 7, 2008

Need to get Al Gore up there to give a global warming speach. He would have enough hot air to melt all the snow.

Gene

TomH in PA · Nov 7, 2008

Really makes me wonder how people survived out there hundreds or thousands of years ago.

Allan in NE · Nov 7, 2008

Yeah,

Doubt if this little sister bought into the GW theory before she was snuffed out.

Took her unborn calf with her. :>(

Allan

Jerry/MT · Nov 7, 2008

Gosh I wish there was someway I could help!

Allan in NE · Nov 7, 2008

Buy this farm and I'll go jump on the welfare bandwagon. :>)

Allan

Anonymous-0 · Nov 7, 2008

Have to be in Kansas City next Thursday then after that planned on driving for about 10 days. Wanted to go west on 70 to maybe colorado, wyoming
and up in the Dakotas. Now here is where you guys can help this dummie from Tennessee. What is there to see making this round. All ideas welcomed.Have wore out the desert southwest but i guess if all this snow is still in the mid west we will head south..

Formerly PaMike · Nov 7, 2008

And my vet told me I need to have inside shelter for my cattle for the Pa winters!!! If only he could see those pictures....
Seriously though, didnt you know it was coming? As soon as they call for snow around here I stuff as many round bales in the feeder as I can. Usually holds them for a week or two...

Tim Shaw · Nov 7, 2008

WOW! You did get quite the storm. Some of those drifts are going to be there for a while. We had about the same deal farther east of you in Nov. of 2005. Shelter belts drifted clear full of snow, snow drifted clear over a lot of the hay, facilities full of snow, etc., etc. I sure know what you're going through. Hang in there.

Allan in NE · Nov 7, 2008

Sure did,

Put out 6 1500 lb straight alfalfa bales for the cattle and a big grass bale for the horses on Tuesday evening. Checked everything on Wednesday night and all was well.

Then, the roof fell in. I still can't get there without walking a mile and a half.

Horses were hot, but they still had some hay. Got everything watered this morning about 10.

Electricity was just restored about 9am, but they haven't even started clearing the co. roads yet.

Allan

Allan in NE · Nov 7, 2008

County road dept says some drifts are averging 12-15 feet.

And, here I am trying to move the stuff with my little bitty tractors. The 966 just groans when I belly into a drift. :>)

Allan

Janicholson · Nov 7, 2008

Serious business, Stay warm and keep your feet dry.
in 78 in northern Ohio I was in that condition for 7 days W/O electricity. Fortunately I had no cattle at the time. Best of luck. JimN

RodinNS · Nov 7, 2008

Uggggg. I don't want to think about that stuff yet. Too much work to do first...
Looks like a good old Cape Breton 'noreaster. Reminds me of half freezing to death in the dozer cab because the poor old Cat couldn't make more than 160 degress working hard... and the tractors couldn't touch the snow. Lot of dozers and excavators out that time.
My sympathies...

Rod

Anonymous-0 · Nov 7, 2008

Everyone in my family, starting with my great great grandfather in the 1920's, has said they were going to strap a snow shovel on the top of the car and drive south untill someone asks what that is on the top of the car. Then, they say, they will have found their new home. I don't Allan is going sell out. I know I am not.

Mitch Furness · Nov 8, 2008

Phew Allan you have my sympathies there. How many dead ones? Will the snow melt or are you stuck with it like this for the winter.

Mitch

Allan in NE · Nov 8, 2008

I dunno for sure.

Think (hope) it is under 10 head if I counted right; looks like there's a bunch of 'em piled together under a drift I can't even get to on foot.

Naw, this stuff is here to stay for the duration.

Allan

Dozer Guy · Nov 8, 2008

I do have to say, You guys are tuff up north, ALL of you. You guys go through so much hail there. And I complain about here, the HEAT, some times I wish I could switch places to see if I have what it takes to live up there! I will never see that much snow in my lifetime. GOOD LUCK! Larry

Anonymous-0 · Nov 8, 2008

In winter, I'm happy when the ground freezes so I can let the horses on the pasture to move around. Guess I'd better be careful what I wish for.
Hang in there.

Dave

Formerly PaMike · Nov 8, 2008

Geeze, your a tough old man. I am not even thirty and just the sound of that makes me tired...I better go take a nap..

E.B. Haymakin' · Nov 8, 2008

I guess that is what a hurricane looks like in freezing weather!? I"ll stay down south.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 8, 2008

I have no experience in slaughtering cattle, but the meat would still be good for your personal use, wouldn't it...?

Glenn F.

kopeck · Nov 8, 2008

Wow...

I don't think I've ever stood back and thought about how lucky I am to have trees.

I've seen snow, but to have it all dumped like that in one place.

Sorry, that's some pretty tough luck.

K

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