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    I declare this thread to be the best hijacked thread for "X" number of days.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike View Post
    Care to jump right in here, Phillbo?

    (Yes, it is jerk Phillbo's chain day just to see if he is still alive out in the land of heat and sand.)
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    I have periodically thought of buffalo also---but they are kind of like my thinking about a tattoo when I was in the Army---I remained content to think about them.

    One suggestion to keep in mind---buffalo need a far more sturdy fence than Longhorns. With that said, build the best fence you can afford---no matter what wonders around inside. Chasing escapees is never fun and depending on where they escape to---it can be very expensive! On the occasion that our cows got out as a kid, they never went to someone else's pasture---they always seemed to search out far more valuable venues to trample and pillage.
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    Thinking a fence for buffalo wouldn't keep them in if they decided to move.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FredK View Post
    Thinking a fence for buffalo wouldn't keep them in if they decided to move.
    There isn't much, other than maybe trump's dream wall, that would in the event of a stampede---so it is good to avoid them at all cost

    Just as an aside: The indians (you know---those naturally conservationist who never killed more than they needed ---they were prone to stampede them off a cliff---and then pick out only what they needed

    "Grade school history" sucks ---they even turned Custer into a hero
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    Just think, if that evil Chris Columbus hadn’t made that trip and started the ravaging of native tribes, we might still be cutting the beating hearts out of maidens and tossing the remains down our pyramid’s steps to the joyous crowds below.
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    I've probably told this story before but if not, I'll tell it now.

    Back in my college days I worked at a sawmill doing lots of things other than sawing lumber. The boss man owned a large ranch outside of town and would periodically take those of us who didn't know any better to the ranch to help out with whatever needed to be done. One time he was getting ready to sell a bunch cattle so he took us out to round up the critters and get them penned so they could all be Bangs tested before the sale.

    On that particular day, I was assigned a horse with a bad reputation for unseating the rider. In fact, it had thrown the boss man and permanently left him crippled in one leg. The boss man saw me with the horse and instructed me to get a big stick just in case the horse started acting up. I told him that I didn't need a stick and he picked up a small log that could have been used in a fireplace. As soon as we were out of sight I tossed the stick away and never had a problem with the horse. As it turned out this was a highly trained cutting horse and I was just there for the ride. That was my best ever experience with a horse.

    The roundup went pretty well except for getting some of the old mossy horns out of the woods. After we had drawn blood from I'd guess 200-300 cattle critters, it was time for his yearling buffaloes. The ranch had some of the best holding pens and squeeze chutes anyone could ask for. All the cattle critters had gone through the chutes with no problems at all. The buffaloes were having none of that. Mind you, these were only yearling buffaloes, but they fought us every inch of the way from the range and into the pen. At that point, they were just getting warmed up for what was coming - the squeeze chute! Once we got one of them into the chute I wasn't too sure the chute could handle the buffalo. It was like the Tasmanian Devil in one of the old Looney Tunes cartoon shows. The next one was even worse I guess having watched what the first buffalo had done wrong.

    If anyone has made it this far, the moral of this story is buffaloes are incredibly strong! And mean if you try confining one to a squeeze chute. Did I say they were strong? And only half grown? Dayum!!!!

    Ben, you probably know of the family I was working for. His name was Luman Holman. He ran the milling part of the operation along with his two sons. One of them was called Dickey and I forget the name of the other son. They were big ol' boys, played football at the university of Texas.

    [add on edit] I just remember, Ben, the other brother was named Wade Holman. And there was a very attractive daughter as well. The only thing I remember about her is she had a very nice, expensive sports car, and a very stupid boyfriend. One night the very stupid boyfriend decided to gas up her very expensive sports car at the company pump. The Diesel pump!
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    We have alot of pet bison around here. They all seem content to graze peacefully behind a 4 strand barbed wire fence.

    On my drive back and forth to town I drive by a couple of herds of buff and a couple of hemp fields. It’s weird around here these days.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CactusCurt View Post
    We have alot of pet bison around here. They all seem content to graze peacefully behind a 4 strand barbed wire fence.
    The key word there is "pet". The ones I'm speaking of were turned out on a huge range and only saw humans when something bad was going to happen to them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CactusCurt View Post
    We have alot of pet bison around here. They all seem content to graze peacefully behind a 4 strand barbed wire fence.
    Up until the time they aren't content

    You might notice on the last one--that appears to be a bull on his way to "enjoy" the company of the ladies in the next field
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    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike View Post
    Ben, you probably know of the family I was working for.
    I remember the Holmans, but I can't recall much about them...Apparently they kept the daughter out of my sight because I can't remember her at all...I checked my HS yearbooks and nothing there either......Ben
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    The Holmans ran Cobb-Holman Lumber Company. The patriarch ran the retail business and we never saw much of him down in the yards. He reminds me of "the Old Man" on Pawn Stars.

    Luman had a small shack for an office back in the yards and he could tear you a new one if you weren't doing something his way. His boys were always ready for a fight. I remember one time unloading a box car of lumber, it didn't come all nice and pretty bundles like now, that was stacked from the bottom to within just inches of the top of the car. It was loaded by hand and had to be unloaded the same way. You had to crawl in like a snake and start working your way down by passing boards to men on the ground. The best ones came from Canada and were still cold once you got a few boards deep.

    Any way, Dickey, the 12' giant that played his football at tu got mad at me for something I don't remember doing. In a very calm, quiet voice he said "Boy climb down out of that boxcar and I'll whip your ass." I was mad enough to give it a try, but not without some sort of equalizer. I did a quick look around the inside of the boxcar and there wasn't a damn thing to use for a weapon. Being an extremely smart college boy, I said something to the extent of "sorry Dickie, I must have misunderstood what you asked me to do" and went back to work, still looking for some sort of weapon to show up in the boxcar. I'm sure I wouldn't be here to tell the story if there had been a 3' or 4' 2x4 laying around.
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    That was in Jacksonville then......Ben
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    Yup! Didn't you live there for a while?
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    Nope, I was in Tyler......Ben
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