tonights feature night is by vs cummins

larry@stinescorner · Mar 18, 2016

vs cummins would like to see or hear about cattle or livestock hauling,or cattle and livestock haulers

flying belgian · Mar 18, 2016

Years ago I was going to haul a truck load of hogs to the stock yards 80 miles away in S.St. Paul, Mn. Pa asked me if I would have room to take 4 of his sheep along. Sure. So we loaded the sheep first and tide a gate up and I went to my place and packed the rest full of hogs. Half way there I stopped to look back at load and saw they had gotten the gate down and were standing on top of it. The sheep were messed up pretty bad from the hogs. Took a very long time to get the gate up as their feet kept stepping through it. Once I finally got the gate out I still had to separate the sheep which took me forever and I was racing the clock as they had to be up there by I think 11:00. I got them there on time but I did not know if they would even let me unload the red (bloody) sheep. They left me unload them so that was a relief. When I got back I told him what happened. Couple weeks later when I saw Pa I asked him if he ever got his check. After a long pause he said "ya". Not one word was ever spoken about that again. So I don't know if he got paid anything or if he had to pay a tankage fee. But you could tell he blamed me and was mad at me about that episode for the rest of his life.

Cory Schmidt · Mar 18, 2016

Loading is always the interesting part.
Neighbor had some pigs once, when we went to load them, owner said just lean that cardboard over there, pigs walked right into trailer.

On the flip side had some critters the only way to load them was nail the path tight and push hard with a piece of plywood. Had a steer once that tried to go through a 16"by 30(?)" window hole, got it turned around before it got to far. Or a pig that went under the trailer.

Brother lost the diff. in the truck once taking a steer to slaughter. Standing there in the road waiting for a tow(with a officer), someone behind the trailer kept honking thinking he would move(eventually went around). It was close enough to the plant that he called my dad to bring another vehicle up to take the animal in the rest of the way and ride back in the tow with the truck.

johnlobb · Mar 18, 2016

Those old Belgians never forgot, I know my Dad didn't...

cool hand · Mar 18, 2016

The sheep issue brings to mind an amusing incident an old neighbor had. He loaded six sheep into his pickup with the intention of selling them the next day. Well, he managed to get the truck stuck in the pasture. It was getting late in the evening, and he eventually gave up on any efforts to get it unstuck, so he simply opened the tailgate to turn them loose and decided to try again the next day. Next morning the ground was frozen, so calling a neighbor for help, he went to try to get it unstuck. Lo, and behold!--All of the sheep were still standing in the pickup bed!

fixerupper · Mar 18, 2016

Quite a few years ago three distant neighbors of mine would haul a pickup load of hogs to Sioux City later in the day claiming to catch a good late day price. They stayed over in Sioux City and hauled a load of feed home. After a few times of doing this the wives got wise to this and took off for Sioux City to catch them with the 'girls'.

Wheatfarmer · Mar 18, 2016

Can't find the picture, but needed to haul a bull, but my driveway was steep and covered with ice. Hooked the stock trailer to my IHC WD9. pulled the bull in the trailer to the main county road switch to the pickup and the way we went. And that is no bull.

CCer · Mar 18, 2016

When I was A tyke, 1953, My Dad bought a farm 2-3 miles North of the rental farm. He got family and friends together, and they drove/herded the stock to the new farm.

crooked rows · Mar 18, 2016

These are some pictures from when we had our auction a few years ago most of them are of the big truck that took the last load of cows out.

Cheesehead Fred · Mar 18, 2016

I really wanted to contribute a photo, but the story happened before I was old enough to own a camera. (1953-1955) My parents decided to get into the sheep raising business. Found and purchased some ewes, then saw an ad for a mature buck. Seemed like a good deal, but didn't have a way to haul it. A friend of the family said he'd haul it and would meet me and my dad at the seller's place. He showed up with an old chevy car (1938?) with the back seat removed. We followed him back to our little farm, and that sheep rode just fine with his head up between the front seats watching where he was going. Didn't even have to hose out the car when the ride was done. I was about 10 years old, and snickered about it all the way home. Do wish I had a photo!

Lazy WP · Mar 18, 2016

Had a cow that decided that she was going north instead of south to the big truck. I got a rope on her and tied her down. Got the rest of the cattle gathered, but the hill was to soft and sandy to make it with a pickup. Hooked the trailer onto the 800 Case. Buddy of mine drug her into the trailer, while I encouraged her with a little tickle of the buzzer.

Lazy WP · Mar 18, 2016

Drove cows 4 miles and the babies played out. Ended up with 20 of them in there. 26 foot trailer gives them lots of room.

Glen SW Wi · Mar 18, 2016

When I was in high school. Many years ago. I worked for a farmer who bought and sold Holstein purebred cattle. There was a cow out in the field who had just had a calf. We jumped into his brand new 1956 Buick Century and went out into the field to pick up the calf. I sat in the back seat with calf in my lap with Mama following.

He used to get orders for cattle from a woman in Argentina and a guy from Mexico City. These cattle were shipped out of Florida by plane and out of NO by truck.

His own bull was the grand champion at the World Dairy Expo and one cow was the reserve grand champion at the state fair. The bull went to Mexico City.

Pair-a-dice farm · Mar 18, 2016

(quoted from post at 20:49:47 03/18/16) vs cummins would like to see or hear about cattle or livestock hauling,or cattle and livestock haulers

When I got out of college, I bought a herd of cattle in Arkansas and rented a farm in southern MO. I borrowed Dad's 3/4 ton chevy and 24' gooseneck trailer. I could put 15 cows to the load. There was a steep hill just south of the MO state line. On the last load I was going up the hill and had just shifted to down to 2nd gear and it sounded like a rod went through the oil pan but the truck was still running. I limped to the side and raised the hood. The porcelin from 2 of the spark plugs had blown out of the threads and took the end of the plug wire with them. I hadn't been stopped long when a guy stopped that had a couple of old plugs and an old set of wires in his truck( ya gotta love hillbillies). I was back on the road in 20 minutes and all it cost was the price of a 6 pack.

PJH · Mar 18, 2016

I saw a picture of a guy moving cattle in (I think) England. He had a pen with wheels on it - no floor. He moved the pen, and they walked along inside. Obviously for short moves. Now I can't find a picture of it.

in-too-deep · Mar 18, 2016

Hauling cows one spring with a crummy borrowed pickup and a crummier borrowed 24 ft GN. Blew a tire on the trailer. Got it pulled in to a side street in the little town. Had a spare but forgot the jack or ramp boards. Got the factory jack out of the pickup. Between digging out gravel and working that poor little screw/bottle jack up and down without it exploding, I got her changed. Tried to keep myself and my wife calm while praying the jack didn't punch through the rusty trailer. Had to get to a baptism, so the cows stayed loaded during the ceremony and we delivered them to their pasture afterwards. Probably one of most stressful days in my short farming career to date. Nowadays we have our own pretty decent pickup and own half of a decent trailer. I look forward to hauling cattle, now.

Just thought of another one. Again, borrowed pickup and trailer. Short box pickup, with a GN trailer with a wide nose. Turned too sharp in the stockyard parking lot and BOOM goes the back glass. Cost me the $500 deductible cause the pickup owner had already used his 1 free glass that year.

vscummins · Mar 18, 2016

Dairy cows?

vscummins · Mar 18, 2016

Went and helped brand some calves today for a friend this is his cow hauler

casenut1 · Mar 18, 2016

I remember back in the mid sixties we had a VW bus. It had two rows of bench seats in the back and a rubber coated floor. The seats came out and the front bench seat had a full metal back on it . We would hual feeder pigs to market on Saturday , wash it out with a garden hose and go to church on Sunday.

NEKS · Mar 18, 2016

My uncle told me the this story. When he was a kid his dad loaded some fat hogs in a box wagon to take to the stock yard in town to load on the train. When he headed out the hogs got to squealing and the team took off on a dead run. It was about 3/4 mile to town. When he got them unloaded he made them run as hard as they could back home.

jacksun65 · Mar 19, 2016

New Dot officer pulled a bull hauler in with a load of calves over the inspection pit. Old officer asked him what he was doing. he gave a smart aleck remark. When he went under it to inspect Old officer swatted the side of the trailer. I guess you would call that a baptism of @@##$$.
I was Hauling a horse for a girl down to florida, after about four hours stopped to get a break and let the horse stretch its legs. Stupid horse wouldn't go back in. Tried all the tricks, nothing worked. Was about to shoot the horse, When Three Big African American Guys pulled up in a late 60s Chevy pu. They were wearing cowboy hats and spurs. I told that horse he was in trouble now.
They tried all the tricks i did, didn't work. then asked if he kicked he didn't. I got on the rope two of them linked hands under his belly and lifted him up the third rammed him from behind shoving him in the trailer. LOL I had a hard time trying to give them a six pack for their help.

crooked rows · Mar 19, 2016

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