There will be pot needles everywhere. Won’t someone think of the chillun?

We will rue the day. I’lll go ahead now & start rueing.

Heard a west Texas rancher say "one of the best supplements to your cattle operation is pump jacks."

Yea, and the vast majority of these little ranches will not have mineral rights.

Guys that buy a lot of feed don’t go to feed stores. They send emails

Appreciate you Max. Glad you picked up on it. You know I was just funnin you.

No doubt.

However the feed store and the coffee shop/ diner where all the old men hang out in the mornings are still a location to go find wisdom. Of course some are full of chit. But if someone relocates to a new area (I did) ask the old timers in the area the questions. Who's the tractor tire repair guy? Who's the dozer man? Where's the best place to get off road diesel? An example of questions I asked and got answers to when I moved only 35 miles from my previous home area.

You must live in the city. That’s usually all the same person in Ruralllll America!!! Says so on the only sign in town

All the ranchers I know don't hang out anywhere, they're working.

Not even close to being in the city.

Wolfe City is 8 minutes away and a population of 1400.

20 minutes from anything close to resembling a city.

Yep, repairing broke stuff and things.

Ol Maximus sure likes to shake & rattle the porta potty

Exactly.

They don't hang out at McDonalds with the Pirahna Coffee Club?

Blue water splash!

Internet prize winner for today

Yelp. they are at the bank swimming in their money!!!

Amen. They definitely don't spend their time on online forums, typing up pretentious, self-gratifying posts, whining about city people.

Lol, you need to add “disgruntled” in there somewhere.

What do ranchers and farmers do all day? Yell at cows to eat and grass to grow?

LOL...I would agree. Probably upset that the city folk came along and bought up the land they had hopes of getting at a cheap price.

I know of a hands on ranching family (over 40,000 acres) who get up, eat breakfast and are where they need to be at first light. They eat lunch together and then all take a mid-day break to avoid the heat of south TX. Back out in the afternoon, doing smaller stuff or eyeing the next day's work. They put in their hours. Saturdays are no different than Mondays.

Those are the guys that ranch on 6 acres.

How many hands total are there?

I chuckle at Couch Ranch Hands that help out a time or two or drive by a place with cows on it grazing by the fence and become Experts.. I had a small 100 acre Place over in Fayette County. Owned it 15 years. Most called it a Ranch but I didn't. Just a big yard. Amazing what you have to have to operate even a small place like that if you do it right. . Dozer, Bobcat, Tractors, Sprayers, Working Pens, Longhorn Chutes and the list goes on and on. . Sold it and all the Equipment 4 years ago and wish I hadn't. . Now have 10 acres almost downtown Kingsland (unincorporated) and have 3 of the Longhorn Lawnmowers off the Old Place out here keeping the grass down. Still have a Longhorn Chute. Heck that thing was $7500 bucks years ago. Ain't nothing cheap running even a small place if you do it right. If you look close Chute even works on cats.