My New Helpers (Pics)

Wait until they try to throw the instrument over their shoulders !

TNAI

PS- Have you not paid your 'snow tax' yet ?

We've about a foot and it's still falling.

Kent-

Please do turn off the Austin Weather Machine's "SNOW" selection ! :blush::idea:

Do not turn your back on them or leave them unattended with the equipment, they need constant direction.
:8ball:

This is what I recommend: http://www.ruralking.com/zareba-fencer-d-cell-battery-b10li.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=CLj_45miuNECFdgWgQodM8AAkA

It can run off external battery, 12 volt. It can run off internal D batteries.
It has a switch, to change from a HOT mode, and a MILD mode.
It attaches to a REBAR, sticking up some 16", and this supplies a ground.
Some fiberglass rods, for stringing up the wire, and I use the plastic and stainless wire, and it has not let me down yet.
I have never used it with the internal batts.
And, I always run it in HOT mode.
Never know when a cow will need "Trained".
N

A Harris, post: 408368, member: 81 wrote: Do not turn your back on them or leave them unattended with the equipment, they need constant direction.

True story. Cattle love to rub against any thing to scratch whatever itches.

Steve

Cows arent very good rodmen, either. They forget to hold the rod still and just wander off midshot.

sjc1989, post: 408371, member: 6718 wrote: True story. Cattle love to rub against any thing to scratch whatever itches.

Steve

True indeed. I once saw a cow rubbing its neck against a creosoted power pole... I have zero doubt the creosote didn't help a bit.

Looks like trouble.... Had some horses take out my base once

THE NEW INSTRUMENT MAN!

One thing for sure, cows can find fences in a heartbeat. They know their boundaries.

In the first photo, the luxury model mansion looks very much like one I occupied in 1978-79, except that it was on a town lot with no roving bovines (except me, of course).

Craig Chase, post: 408408, member: 1167 wrote:

I hope you were on the other side ready to save the gun. I can see the gun on the ground and smashed in. Horses are trouble.

I actually did have a cow walk away with the tripod years ago. We just stood there watching, trying to figure out what to tell the boss. No way he would believe the truth.

Adam, post: 408442, member: 8900 wrote: I hope you were on the other side ready to save the gun. I can see the gun on the ground and smashed in. Horses are trouble.

I had to set up a base over an NGS point years ago. I got a little nervous when I saw the horses in the pasture with the control point. The farmhand was nice and knew what I needed to do and why. He dropped about 15 loaves of day old bread on the ground and told me I had about an hour before the horse got curious about my equipment set up nearby. Plenty of time to get set up, check in to another point, and set a secondary base point in a safe location.

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Chris and I were doing a boundary survey one day, and using my UTV. It was new to me, and we were enjoying not having to drag 2 ATVs to the site. We were working in a large pasture, and I had the UTV parked about 8 feet from teh instrument. I turned around, and a horse had wandered up, and was sniffing the plastic hood and fender. He was friendly enough. I took a shot, and then turned back around, and he was trying to bite the fender! I promptly "shewed" him off. I smile every time I see the small scuff marks that he left.

Horses will eat the seats off a tractor if you leave it in the pasture.

It's the salt in the seat, from riding and sweating.
N

Side view mirrors are another favorite taste treat.

Holy Cow, post: 408494, member: 50 wrote: Side view mirrors are another favorite taste treat.

We were working out in the middle of nowhere and we would occasionally hear a horn blowing. Got back to the truck and the what we thought was a empty pasture had a horse in it and he took a liking to the steering wheel. I think the only reason he didnt eat all the leather off of it was he kept scaring himself with the horn.

I don't have any horse or cow stories, but once I was at a traverse point called "reget point", and I sent my helper up the hill to find the next point. It wasn't there. I sent him back up with the metal detector. He found the nail lying on the ground next to a cleared area with turkey footprints. So we call that point "turkey point".