Baymule’s Journal

[farmerjan]

We had one of the Derecho 's about 10+ years ago here.. lost power for nearly 5 days... not near as long a stretch... just tore things down with the winds...
Had on the news that one older man, was killed when a part of a crane fell on the concrete truck he was driving, delivering concrete to a site or something... SO SAD for all the devastation...

 

[Weldman]

We had one of the Derecho 's about 10+ years ago here.. lost power for nearly 5 days... not near as long a stretch... just tore things down with the winds...
Had on the news that one older man, was killed when a part of a crane fell on the concrete truck he was driving, delivering concrete to a site or something... SO SAD for all the devastation...

Derecho you say, I was in an excavator when one hit. I made sure to flip the excavator around and anchor down. I can feel it rock the excavator. I thought the field was on fire when it first started.

 

[farmerjan]

Looks like quite the wind... so explain to me why the wind turbines were not turning at all????

 

[Weldman]

Looks like quite the wind... so explain to me why the wind turbines were not turning at all????

Not in operation yet so the brakes were on. I was tasked with burying the junctions of where the wires met that connected tower to tower. I got hired on towards the end of the contract and they canned me for not being fast enough within a week working there. Never again.

 

[Baymule]

I just woke up from an hour nap. Was up at 4:30 this morning. Was outside doing chores when a friend texted that he had a ewe with a prolapse. He was ready to shoot her and save the meat. I went over there, 45 minutes away. We discussed processing her versus trying to save her. She is heavy bred, but in my estimation, still several weeks from birthing lambs. I didn’t think we could shoot, do a quick cesarean and have a chance at live lambs, it’s just too soon.

Inspired by @SageHill and her vet wrap prolapse harness, we gave it a try. I washed off the lump, rubbed with sugar and pushed it back in. Ewe immediately started pushing it back out. I kept pushing it in, got more sugar, more sugar and just sorta held what I had until she stopped pushing.

We vet wrapped her. I told my friends I’ve never done this before, but we’d try. It might be a miserable failure, but it might work. Told them to order a prolapse harness ASAP. Even if a complete failure, they would have it for next time, if there is one.

Worst case scenario, she prolapses again and I go back over there to help them process her. She’s a 7 year old ewe, she had twin ewes last year. With all the stress she’s in, I don’t think the meat would be very good, but I’ll let them be the judge of that. They really want to try to save the lambs and I’ll do all I can to help them.

I left there, went to Atwoods, bought 7 bags of lamb grower and went to the church. I loaded everything in the mule and came home. I ate a peanut butter and honey sandwich and conked out. Trying to muster up the desire to go unload the mule and put the feed in barrels. It’s 88F and 80% humidity. So far, I’m not finding any enthusiasm.