Ranchers and farmers know about these but for the benefit of city guys:
This is very helpful. I thought cattle guards were cattle in uniform with a handgun or rifle standing next to a little guard house. (I guess if they're cattle, the guard house would have to be bigger than normal.)
Step on a crack, break your mother's back.
I was in the middle of nowhere behind a BMW, iirc,and we were rolling along at 75 or so. Suddenly the brake lights on the Bimmer go on and the car rapidly slows with no obstacle in sight. Seems the driver was braking for a painted cattle guard. Must have been a city slicker. Around here we don't slow down for real cattle guards.
I do hate walking across the damn things though. It never happened to me but some people have managed to slip a foot through between the bars.
Dean Hoffman snipped-for-privacy@windstream.net wrote
Fascinating to watch these bullock teams being broken up and loaded into trucks. They quite literally have very long runs of just string which is used to keep them from straying from the path between the cattle yards and the loading ramp at the back of the trucks. I'll video it next month.
Actually, I already knew about cattle guards. There are a lot of them in the USA, even in the east, and I've seen them and figured out what they were, or someone told me first but I would have figured it out.
We never actually said that when I was little, or ever. But I did hear it when I was 30yo or more.
I'd be interested in that. I don't think Temple Grandin knows about string.
I bet she does, but it doesn't get used in cattle yards. only when you need a temporary run between the yards and the loading ramp with the truck a long way from the yards.
I would've thought there would be at least a few pictures like this
There aren't many in eastern Nebraska. I can't think of any still around actually. Guys are just raising crops and no critters in most cases. Ranches are in north central Nebraska, in the Sandhills. Feedlots here but no ranches.
I guess that was part of some kid's game from long ago. One reason they were lean and mean back then.
What I shoudl have said is that she doesn't write about string or talk about it when I've read her or seen video of her.
Now I have to pay more attention to this too. They do have some cattle around here but I don't know if any could make it to the road for other reasons. Maybe it was years ago. Or maybe it was Texas. It's not so darn hot anymore and I'll go for a drive in the country.
Right.
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