The journey into the abyss of no return

[Ridgetop]

They have to learn . . . .
Usually the hard was like the rest of us.

 

[Baymule]

Idiot.

 

[farmerjan]

I still can't wrap my head around this whole house build that got tossed out the window. Seriously I spent countless hours designing it and putting material list together, he bought supplies for it. I hurried up and got my trailer repaired ($2k) to haul his materials that he never got.
Everything was lined up, I cleared my clients and didn't accept no more for it, we put the piers down for it. Not like we were building a dog house and decided to not start it.
He was buying horses from someone, yeah he actually said he already put half down on one. They got 5 goats in the middle of this, I was his go to for water till we get a well in next spring/summer.

He had so much going for him that you couldn't find out here and wasn't here when I first got here. I feel he will try to back track after he finds out the $15k house he bought that someone spent $100k on is a rip off. Feel betrayed in a way for all I was offering. If he makes it through this winter there won't be any water from me from here on out, I'm not offering my services no more.
At this point he sits at never getting rock for his driveway, a water well will not be drilled for years and he will have to pay a premium to have his house finished or whatever he decides to have built. I even put his power in for less than a electrician would come out for.

Do not blame you for not offering any services from here on out. I for one am heartily sick of people like that.... tired of doing things to help out, for less, and then they change their mind and don't appreciate... people like that don't know what they want... and see everything as "I am so smart, I'm getting a little better bargain to do this and that".... regardless of who gets shortchanged after the fact.
Let him find out...
He needs horses and goats at this point like he needs another a$$hole.... they have no real idea of what it is going to be like... I feel for the animals...

Glad you got a bunch of the pigs sold and off the feed bill....

 

[SageHill]

Going to sell all sows off except one, butchering the barrows currently have, selling all but 4 or 5 barrow piglets off and prep for bison that will last into the spring/summer next year.
Get my well drilling rig together to drop wells on some parcels for bison and start putting in cattle guards with a corral system to run them through.

Busy! Won't be long before the white stuff settles in up there.

 

[Margali]

Sounds like a plan! Cross Timbers Bison on youtube has some great videos of them working their herd. It's suprising how much sturdier things need to be for bison.

 

[SageHill]

Restructuring and getting ready for the next chapter of events, getting a business plan in. Building our house is in there too and hoping we get a reprieve with buying one of the parcels. If not then we got more value to this place.

One of the things I like about you - you don't back down, you think it out, and DO. WTG!

 

[SageHill]

Sounds like a plan! Cross Timbers Bison on youtube has some great videos of them working their herd. It's suprising how much sturdier things need to be for bison.

OMG all the awesome equipment! OK I must be a fencing and equipment junkie -- LOVE that hydraulic pusher on the skid steer. OMG WOWZERS.

 

[Baymule]

I'm amazed that the corral panels held them in.

Hopefully you can have a area to contain them in with a firebreak all around it.

There are bison outside of Lufkin that I've seen passing by, they have several white ones.

I like the heavy duty squeeze chute. My vets have a hydraulic one that cost almost $50,000. It is freaking awesome, and adjusts down to sheep size! I don't see one of those in my immediate future......or ever!

 

[SageHill]

I don't know how I managed to do it, but I salvaged the house building project and his marriage in one go. Damn I'm good.

Holy **** - you ARE good!!

 

[farmerjan]

I don't know how I managed to do it, but I salvaged the house building project and his marriage in one go. Damn I'm good. Though I didn't manage to stop the horses coming in and more goats Never owned an animal besides dogs and getting livestock with no home, no constant supply of water/food, no fence really and winter is about to unleash hell, brilliant people. I will keep this updated.