Why is it always at 12 below

[jon f mn]

Was 12 below Saturday morning here and this is what I found checking the cattle.

Some how they tore the tin i had screwed on to cover the water line, but the problem was the valve was stuck from crud building up inside. Nothing like working in water at 12 below to fix a waterer. Still dont know how they got the cover off. Lol

 

[olddavid]

They will find a way. I feel your pain.

 

[Non-farmer]

Why is it always at 12 below

Because there's nothing between you and the north pole but cold air.

 

[JOCCO]

 

[Tgrasher]

Cattle always know a way to do the unexpected at the worst of times. Hope you got-er- done and enjoyed something hot afterwards.

 

[SweetFeet]

Was 12 below Saturday morning here and this is what I found checking the cattle.

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Some how they tore the tin i had screwed on to cover the water line, but the problem was the valve was stuck from crud building up inside. Nothing like working in water at 12 below to fix a waterer. Still dont know how they got the cover off. Lol

Figures... nothing good happens at -12.

Tractors will always give troubles then too... not when it's a nice calm and balmy 32 degrees.

 

[stoughtonfarmboy]

Silo unloaders and barn cleaners (gutters) also break at those temperatures! Lucky for me those are now distant memories.

 

[Blue Jay]

As my Mom used to say in these conditions "Nothing between here and the North Pole but a barbed wire fence and it's down".

 

[Vito]

That's what hip flasks filled with brandy are for. False warmth but helps the brain relax.

Vito

 

[jhwis]

Was 12 below Saturday morning here and this is what I found checking the cattle.

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Some how they tore the tin i had screwed on to cover the water line, but the problem was the valve was stuck from crud building up inside. Nothing like working in water at 12 below to fix a waterer. Still dont know how they got the cover off. Lol

Hmmmmm.....lots of vocabulary words would be said.

 

[dlbuck]

Well... on the plus side the water line wasn't frozen.

 

[stoughtonfarmboy]

As my Mom used to say in these conditions "Nothing between here and the North Pole but a barbed wire fence and it's down".

Our version, especially when windy was, "nothing between here and the North Pole but a 3-strand barbed wire fence"!

Ken

 

[Tony in SD]

It doesn’t have to be -12F for cows to give you a bad day. About 10 years ago, I assembled four 4.5 meter satellites dishes for a Cable TV company on a Friday in a pasture. We were to replace the existing dishes on Monday. Being a farm boy I made sure that there were no cows in the pasture. But when I returned Monday morning, much to my surprise, there had been cows in that pasture over the weekend the cows saw it fit to walk on and punch holes in not one but all 4 of the pre assembled dishes.

The funny part was convincing my insurance company that cows had trampled the new dishes. I should have recorded that conversation.

 

[Brownie450]

Cows don't like seeing people just sitting around
with nothing to do. They'll find something to get
you going.
Jim

 

[Princeton Bill]

Growing up I hated working on frozen cattle and hog waterers more than just about anything on the farm. Of course we didn't have a silage unloader or a gutter cleaner so I can't comment on fixing them. One year I did let the silage keep freezing in on the silo and had about a 3 foot circle of silage that wasn't frozen when dad found it. Never let that happen again.

 

[Tim in New York]

At least it was outside. 50 yrs ago I worked for a dairy farmer who was just starting out - he was renting an old place that had not been used in 10 or 15 years. The cows were often breaking the tie stall drinker bowls and flooding the place. Seemed to always be around zero outside when that happened. He would try to fill the drop with bedding hay and run the water up the barn cleaner chute to empty the barn out. Lots of fun! And the chain was worn out and kept slipping off the sprocket.

 

[olddavid]

At first on the farm, we didn't have a waterer to freeze up. We chopped the ice when it froze. It was funny how the hole got smaller and smaller as it kept freezing the edges thicker and thicker. When the cattle were in where there was a creek flowing, they could usually get it themselves. When Dad had the pond redone, we had a waterer at the base of the dam but it wasn't installed right or something because later we got a Pond Mill that sat out in the pond on the edge and the wind would blow a stirrer. Worked ok when it worked but we had to move the Pond Mill if the water level changed a lot. I remember wading out in the pond waist deep to set a post to locate it once. Fortunately it was in warm weather.

 

[Ozlander]

Our version, especially when windy was, "nothing between here and the North Pole but a 3-strand barbed wire fence"!

And somebody left the gate open.

 

[Buckhammer]

After raising cattle most of my life and working in a prison for 25 years i can tell you there is little difference between cattle and convicts. They will both do things that leave you scratching your head as to "How can that be?"