How do you get a 2,000 lb bull in a trailer?

[siroiszoo]

Please be careful with this boy. He may be responding to your femaleness as much as your kindness if he is as frustrated as you think he is. Friends of ours could not go near their herd bull during certain times of the month. He may be paying attention in order to *protect* you from hubby.
Hormones are hormones.

I wish you luck tomorrow.

Thanks, I've heard that in the past and keep it in mind. I'm skeptical about tomorrow but am hoping SOMEONE, ANYONE, will show up for that bull!

You wouldn't believe what we just had to go through an hour ago. Our neighbor (across the street from the bull's pasture) called and said they were moving a trailer (actually it was a cargo container) into the pasture. I totally flipped out and my husband & I went racing over there. The people renting the house decided they would put the container in the pasture so they could have extra storage space. The owner of the property (and the bull) was very clear about the pasture belonging to us in his absence. He didn't want his pasture torn up and you should see what that truck loaded with a cargo container just did!

When we got over there, the guy delivering the container was just about to dump the container where it would block the only entrance for a truck & trailer into that pasture! Not only that, but my horses were on their way out the gate just as we arrived! AAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHH! We got to the gate just before they did.

This whole mess is such a nightmare!!

It took close to an hour to get that container off the property. Mostly trying to negotiate with the renter on his cell phone & finally getting hold of the owner in California to settle the matter. Meanwhile, the delivery guy is jumping up and down griping about the time that is being wasted and how he has to be on his way. Thankfully, the owner in California, answered his phone and got the whole mess straightened out - I think. The verdict: No container on the any part of his property. Then a very irate delivery guy took out the front fence trying to get that whole mess back out of the property.

If things don't get back on track soon, it may be easier and more peaceful just to find a good home for my horses and be done with the whole mess. :-(

It may also keep me from going postal and winding up on the World News (LOL). I'm seriously stunned at the lack of common sense in these people!

Stay tuned! This is quite the drama show going on here........

 

[freemotion]

Good grief!!!

 

[siroiszoo]

Good grief!!!

EXACTLY!!! freemotion, you've stated it all in so simple of turns; esp, the banging a head up against the wall icon.

 

[Imissmygirls]

Oprah, Dr. Phil, Judge Judy
And we wondered where they got their cases?

On the other hand, you have some great material for a best seller!

George: The True Story of Run, Bull, Run

 

[siroiszoo]

Oprah, Dr. Phil, Judge Judy
And we wondered where they got their cases?

On the other hand, you have some great material for a best seller!

George: The True Story of Run, Bull, Run

ROFL!

It's 8AM & I'm still waiting for some jughead to show up and load this bull....... probably wasting my time.

 

[lilhill]

So are we!

 

[siroiszoo]

Okay then. It's 12:10 and George the Bull is up One point. They finally got him in the corral which George mangled like a crushed soda can before departing. The crew helping "The Guy In Charge of This Mess" has abandoned him and he is now working on plan B. Not sure what that will be but he is still determined to get the job done. So we will see.

So far it has been a cast direct from the Jerry Springer show so I"m no surprised. I still have not seen a professional show up to help.

I'll update later today I'm off to help with whatever plan B turns out to be as long as it doesn't get me killed.

 

[ksalvagno]

Sounds like at this rate George will be there for a while. It is such a bad joke now. I don't understand how someone could let it go this long. At some point you have to bring in the pros or shoot the bull in the field. Why would it be ok to leave him out there and put people in danger. It isn't just you that could be in danger. If that bull breaks fences and gets out, he could endanger someone else as well. Obviously no one cares about your safety. It is too bad that everything is in such a mess and you can't really do anything about it.

 

[siroiszoo]

I'm so sick of this mess.

Plan B never did work out apparently - whatever that was. I had to leave to attend a memorial service of a friend.

Didn't get home until after dark to find that the trailer had been unhooked in the pasture about 20 yards out from the fence I usually feed the bull by. All kinds of ropes are running from the gates, across the ground and over the fence out into the middle of my pasture.

My guess would be that I'm to endanger my life running out into the pasture to place food into the back of the trailer so that the bull can ignore the food and stomp me to death. He is not in a good mood after today.

What the Guy fails to understand, the bull comes running to me every time he sees me. I wanted the trailer parked so I could get feed in it from over the fence. It's a nice open stock trailer so I could get the job done safely if it had been placed where I wanted it. The only way I'm going to convince that bull to eat out of the trailer is to be next to the trailer with the bull; just like when I feed him daily from over the fence.

I don't see any good coming out of this. And this also means I cannot put my horses on the pasture with the bull or they will get in the trailer and eat all the food. I am totally screwed at this point. And so angry I could spit nails.

I did find out an interesting fact this morning before I left to get ready for the memorial service I had to attend. The Guy In Charge Of This Mess has already been paid to do this job. The reason he's not hiring a professional is because the money is already spent and he can't afford to hire anyone. So, I'm thinking this bull is never gonna leave.

 

[freemotion]

Please, please, please do not go into that field again!!! I need to combine this with this