Where is everyone #5

Well they ain’t random in a way you know it’s coming. I hauled my first solo load in the fall of 1995….hauled my my most recent 2 weeks ago. The only dead I was surprised to find was in Troy Illinois last year.



I hauled feeders, pairs, and slaughter cattle mostly so 400 is a short hop. I’m not better than anyone but my loss rate is really low. That said most sale barns will have a dead pile, feedlots will have a compost pile and around any kill plant there will be a Dar Pro of some sort to cook em down to meat and bone. Though Grand Island quit taking them. I’ve shown a few kids how to drag a dead outta the nose to the ground with a chain and later seen the road into the feedlot littered with them so I don’t do that anymore. Now days every Johhny come lately wants to be that bad ### outlaw till its time to load that rank ### mama by yourself. Or pull a calf in the pen before you load cause she’s in the middle of having it. Making that call to tell a buyer you got x trouble and you got it handled but he needs in the loop so nobody gets surprised. Very few understand you show up with a load of 6 weights and 1 dead and it’s a shock to everyone that feedlot just held the buyers check for 25 days. In today’s money a 6 weight is 2400 bucks and you got 90 on so do the math. If they know ahead you got trouble and your doing something about it such as unloading and leaving that weak one at a barn somewhere then reloading the rest it’s ok. (You can unload anywhere in middle of night and leave a note except them ho ### m’fers that have a gate)


It’s something you gotta do cause you love it not to be cool. It’s gotten so bad I’ve come to hate it.


Nothing against anyone or anything here but fat haulers are just that condition to move fats. Them boys that run the pasture cattle they don’t get the end of it that the road trucks do. That said they service a side of the industry I never did and know little about.

 

Least when I bust a windshield out of something I just have to pay for it. They don’t make me take a bucket of busted glass with me.

 

I’ll be honest the turning point in the cattle industry was when the buyer quit making the truck pay for the ones got to the destination dead. I have bought exactly 2 in all my time. For the most part i didn’t #### with the low rent outfits. I had an in that at the time I took for granted.


Hauling feeders off the farm you have that man’s whole years pay in your wagon, if not the whole years a good portion of it. If that doesn’t motivate you to be better nothing will.

Showiing up with calves covered in #### looking like #### or not what they were advertised is the fastest way to hauling fats for a bottom feeder. Again I’m not better than anyone I’ve grabbed a few loads of fats outta Nebraska for Arkansas City. I used to run a few outta Effingham for Souderton…….as a rule those guys are different what they look like doesn’t matter.

 

That's kind of like explaining the difference between s hit and manure.

 

I just assumed you had to either pay for them or turn it in to the insurance company

 

True Dat!! I've never had bovine kick the bucket on me...knocked over n down yeah. Fat hogs are a different story. Some were so fat they got strokes n heart attacks just lookin at em funny in the heat.

 

Believe it or not most the people I hauled for would tell me it’s ok. If I lost one they knew which one before I told them. I’ll be honest I never really asked the others how they were being handled. I may be wrong possibly high on my self but I chalk that up to reputation

 

I guess if that’s the case then I can understand saying it’s yours to dispose of.

 

That’s pretty cool

 

Got a new phone so don’t have all the pics I use to have, had to dig it out of my stash. But my 75 didn’t have the full convertible top, kinda wish it did. It served me well for a number of years….