Goodbye 100 year old fence!

Good morning everybody, welcome back. I know I haven't been posting as many videos as usual. And like I said in the last video, I took all the last week off work, just hanging out with Silas and Damaris and kind of trying to get used to being a parent. It's going good, we're really loving it. But yeah, I'm back to work now, this week, so things should be pretty normal, premiering out, putting out videos and stuff. But I hope you're all doing well. It's the first week of December. December is usually a little bit of a slower month for us on the ranch, since we're in between, you know, rounding up our cows in October, working them in November, moving them around, and then January, we'll start calving end of January, beginning of February. So December is usually a little slower. We take this time to just do a lot of projects. So enough talking, let's get to work. Over at our feedlot, we've got a couple posts that have rotted away down at the bottom. You can see there's three of them here. I think there's just a couple more throughout in here somewhere, but I'm going to take all of this off and pull these posts out. We don't have any other posts now, but we don't have any calves in these two pens. So I'll rip these out, drill another hole, and then we'll come in another couple days, maybe tomorrow. We do have other posts, we just don't have them here at the feedlot, and we'll get these suckers out of here and get some new ones in. Battery's dead. I'm gonna go grab another. Looks a little better. Last week, our neighbor went up, and he still had a few bulls he had to round up out of the hills. He got his bulls, and he actually found one of our pairs of cows, which we thought was our last group, our last pair of cows that was up in the hills. But yesterday, my dad got a call from some lady who said she saw two pair of cows, and they actually aren't even in our permit, but they're black. Two calves and two cows. We don't know if they're ours, but she didn't really give us good directions. So they're kind of in an area we narrowed down to like 20 or 30,000 acres. We don't know whose they are. They could be ours. It's our private grounds neighboring to that permit, but this permit is one of our neighbors. So the way she described them, the tags weren't our color tags. She said red tag cows and orange tag calves, which if they were orange tag cows and red tag calves, they could be ours, but they might not be ours. So hopefully they'll show up. We don't know where they're at, but if they are ours, we didn't think we were missing them, so it'd be all right if they showed up. But I kind of think they aren't ours. Sugar and Fabio. Hey buddy. How you doing? Gonna make some cute babies one day. You are goofy. We rent a little bit of pasture ground from our neighbor, and part of the agreement for renting it is we fix up some fences. So this fence is actually between his and ours, so we kind of benefit from doing it as well. But this area is all just rock, so to put the fence into the rock, we are using his air compressor and the jackhammer, and we're gonna hammer in some holes, get some posts in there, which I've never done. You've done it before, haven't you dad? I have done it. Yeah, what do you think? It's hard work. Hard work. It's a good thing you're young and tough. Yeah, I don't know about tough, but we're young at least. So we're gonna try our hand at doing this and get this fence built. Nice. That shakes the shit out of your head. We've only got probably a quarter of a mile of fence to build, but we don't have to pound using this thing for the whole quarter mile. Just probably maybe an eighth of a mile of pounding these in, so it's not too bad. Maybe five years ago I ran it as a horse. Oh, you did? Yeah. Pounded a few? Yeah, one and filled in a few hundred holes. Yeah. You wanna switch? Gotta use your belly. Yeah. So we just get a nice little hole in the rock. There's no way we can pound a post in there. This is all just rock. I'm gonna stick it in there and pound it in. So the fence we're replacing is right here. You can see the actual boundary line was along here, so the neighbor was like, hey, just put it on the actual boundary line. But like this is the rock we're talking all over the place. It's like six, ten, twelve feet deep all the way down. So this is what we've been trying to keep our fence and up with. So any nice wind can, well this one's actually pretty solid, but any good wind can blow these posts over and any motivated cow can just push her way right through. So it'll be nice to have this whole new fence. This one's pretty much pretty good. It's a good way to end a work day. Hello. What are you doing? Decorating cookies? Huh? I'm making cookies. Yeah. Hey buddy. Are you making cookies, ma? I got a battle scar. From what? You burnt yourself? Yeah. Okay, that's a bummer. Well, it was a good day at work. I'm home now. Gonna hang out with the family and eat some cookies. Let's see what you got. I can turn my music off. That's okay. Looks delicious. Thank you guys for coming along today. We'll see you in the next one.