12/31/2012
Some of you may have wondered how this wonderful place came to be named as such. Here is an example:
I had to take a round bale of hay to the cows today. Easy task right? Hop on the tractor, pick up a bale and drive it on down to the cows. NO!! It’s a cold day and has been cold for the past few days here. My tractor, as are most, is a diesel tractor and unless you have one of those warmers hooked up to your tractor, they don’t like to start when it’s cold. This was the case today. So plan 2 is put into action. Get the hay buggy and hook it up to the pick-up.
Again, not so easy.
One of the wheels for the hay buggy had been taken off earlier in the year to be used on the flat bed trailer and never put back on. So, take two steps back, move forward and put the wheel back on the buggy. Now I’m moving forward and after airing the tires up, I go to pick up a round bale from the lot. I’m turning the crank on the hay buggy picking up a bale and realize that the pin that holds the carriage back carrying the hay bale is missing. It’s time to improvise because I really don’t want to let that round bale back down and crank it back up again. Luckily I carry a bunch of garbage, (AKA: useful items), in the back of my pick-up and there is a steel rod that I can use as a temporary pin.
Moving forward again, I’m on my way down to a bunch of hungry cows that have now seen me and the pick-up and are standing at the fence at the bottom of field mooing at me wanting the round bale of hay and the bag of feed cubes in the back of my pick-up. Hurrah, “easy” task almost done.
NOPE, again not the case.
Half way down the road to the cows, the temporary pin comes out and the round bale goes down and off the trailer and onto the road. Two steps back again. I look for the temporary pin but can’t find it. Thinking outside the box again for a quick fix, I dig through the “useful items” in the back of my pick-up and find a tie-down strap. Yes, it’ll work. I back the buggy back up under the round bale, crank the bale back up into the carriage and use the tie-down strap to hold the carriage back. Success, I make it down to the hungry cows and they finally get the bale of hay and bag of cubes in just under an hour and ten minutes.
As you can see, the Never Easy Ranch is appropriately named because nothing is ever easy.
