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[BC1969]

Bill, That's really cool.
Good to get out.
Thanks for saving a piece of history from rusting away!

 

[Rookster]

Nice find bill

 

[bill from lachine]

The reason I mentioned WW1 era horse buckle the site I was detecting was a primary school yard, however, it was part of the location of a WW1 horse training and deployment center for the war effort.

It was called the Lachine Remount Depot.

Nice find bill

 

[pepperj]

Nice find on the buckle Bill.
Ever find those crimped end 303 they used for training?

 

[bill from lachine]

Jim,

Not in this area as it wasn't for combat training just training and deployment of horses. Supposedly the largest in North America as most horses whether from the U.S. or Canada were deployed from Montreal for WW1.

 

[releventchair]

A friend was one of the last remounts in Arizona.

The corral horses were broke /rebroke in area's fence might be of interest. If postholes or compacted earth can still be identified to locate it.
Probably a huge area of corrals and such there though....

 

[ARC]

G night peeps.

C u n am.

 

[Rookster]

Good morning Tnet

 

[pepperj]

Morning world

 

[pepperj]

Morning ARC, Rook

 

[ARC]

Morning Rook ... Pepper.

 

[Fat]

GMorn everbody, Ft Robinson Nebraska, the place where Crazy Horse was killed by one of his own people, fourty years later was a horse remount.. I?ve seen a pic that claims and shows 50k head of colts in the background. All the oldest cow hands I recall in my youth had Ft. Rob.stories. Its a state park now.
The bank of Chicago used to lease both reservations in Sdakota, 1/4 of the whole state, for farm horse production.
Nplatte Ne. Had the largest horse butcher plant in USA, all meat was shipped over seas. It was closed after a few French people died after eating some tainted meat?1990?s that was traced back as I recall. All the butcher horse now are shipped to Canada.
The closing of the plant in NP wrecked the horse market. From 40 to 60 cents a lb, to all of sudden $40 a head and less. A person could manage there Ramuda and sell off before too old or you could have a few grade mares to raise flesh and be able to buy and pay for hay, breaking even was the idea.
As far as my budget, Horses are expensive to own because of how much they eat, 2-3 times as much as a cow/calf pair.
Have a great week!

 

[ARC]

Morning Fat.

 

[pepperj]

GMorn everbody, Ft Robinson Nebraska, the place where Crazy Horse was killed by one of his own people, fourty years later was a horse remount.. I?ve seen a pic that claims and shows 50k head of colts in the background. All the oldest cow hands I recall in my youth had Ft. Rob.stories. Its a state park now.
The bank of Chicago used to lease both reservations in Sdakota, 1/4 of the whole state, for farm horse production.
Nplatte Ne. Had the largest horse butcher plant in USA, all meat was shipped over seas. It was closed after a few French people died after eating some tainted meat?1990?s that was traced back as I recall. All the butcher horse now are shipped to Canada.
The closing of the plant in NP wrecked the horse market. From 40 to 60 cents a lb, to all of sudden $40 a head and less. A person could manage there Ramuda and sell off before too old or you could have a few grade mares to raise flesh and be able to buy and pay for hay, breaking even was the idea.
As far as my budget, Horses are expensive to own because of how much they eat, 2-3 times as much as a cow/calf pair.
Have a great week!

Morning Fat
Hope the heat isn't effecting your region too bad

Expensive hobby

Hay was going for $80-100 for a large round bale last winter. This year the yields are down over last year what I'm hearing. Yet there seems to be more horses around than ever, so the cost of feed isn't a factor.

 

[Fat]

.... it why you see more and more wormy old horses on horse properties with no grass on the ground. Horse will eat grass off shorter than sheep. It’s rampid, lead and feed like giant dogs that can’t get in your car.
I agree with seeing it more and more everywhere.
My meadow hopefully will get put up this week, I’ll make some pics....

 

[bill from lachine]

Good morning to the whole crew.

 

[pepperj]

.... it why you see more and more wormy old horses on horse properties with no grass on the ground. Horse will eat grass off shorter than sheep. It’s rampid, lead and feed like giant dogs that can’t get in your car.
I agree with seeing it more and more everywhere.
My meadow hopefully will get put up this week, I’ll make some pics....

WE had an early drought conditions this year, then a heat wave. Now it's just enough spotty wet to put a monkey wrench into cutting. Though looking at the Brome it's yellowing up in a tad, and the Timothy is a good foot or shorter than last year. Yet the quality of the field is premium and buddy sells for a good $$$.

Making the berry patch and digging fence holes it was amazing how deep the alfalfa tap roots went down. The corner posts we went down 7ft, and the taps roots were still the thickness of the finger. Had to look it up and they go down 20ft, and the record was 50 ft. Now that's tapping the soils for nutrients, what I find is the ability to drill down into the blue clay. Had to use the front bucket down pressure to get the posthole auger to bite at the 1.5ft level-yet there were tap roots.

 

[ARC]

Morning Bill.

 

[Rookster]

Morning pepper, ARC, Fat, and bill

 

[pepperj]

Morning Bill
Looks like another hot one today.
It was 82F at 10:30 pm
At least we're not getting hammered as the folks out west-Lytton broke the highest temp. in Canada yesterday 46C going up higher today. Nothing like having a forecast of 116F and feeling like 115F in the shade.