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[.RC.]

Just not sure yet about his new style seeder.
Definitely great for coated seed but would not handle fluffy raw seed at all.

Well the solution is obvious. Buy one of each.

I doubt the seed drill type one would even handle uncoated rhodes grass. Pretty much a one trick pony. Hard seeds only

Can't say I've ever heard of it, not that that means anything.
Does it grow spread out like the hat pic, or have you run over it with something?

I think the heifers have run all over it, it ordinarily would not have stems that thick, it seems to be on steroids there as it is in an old stickraked burn pile.

Here is a photo of some other stuff. Seed is as expensive as hell though.

 

[Queenslander]

Well, I’ve had an interesting couple of days.
Immediately after making the post above we went to muster a breeder paddock and this was the end result.
Broken ribs, a nasty laceration on a leg, some bruising but otherwise OK.
Our hospital system might be overloaded here at the moment but our paramedical services are world class.

 

[Tones]

Aero ambulance don't get ramped like vehicle ambulances fortunately.
Hope you have a speedy recovery.

 

[JS430]

You gotta be careful around those bulls. We pull ours in 3 weeks and it's always a fight. I used to try and get them in one day now it may take a week to peel them off the cows. Once the start fighting not much will stop them. Good luck to you and hope you heal up quickly.

 

[Pony]

Sorry to hear that mate.

I had something somewhat similar a couple of years ago that made me realise I wasn't bulletproof.

I run about 10 bulls together in a little paddock in the off season, always mustered them on my own to the yards for semen testing every year. One time one older bull wasn't playing the game, so we had a bit of a camp draft outside and I got in a bit close, he propped and hooked at the horse and got his head under my foot.

Flipped me clean off the horse and then either him or the horse run over me. Similar injuries to you although not as bad.

I now no longer muster the bulls by myself.
I'm not saying you did anything wrong, but that moment certainly cemented in my peanut brain that I was no longer 21 and that we are playing at a game that can have some very serious consequences.

Hope you are up and about soon.

 

[.RC.]

That is a bit of bad luck. I know a few people who have had close calls with bulls. They are so unpredictable. Bulls are best friends in the paddock until you go muster them, then they start fighting.

 

[Queenslander]

We had mustered the mob into a holding paddock and were turning them out the other side when these two started their ****.
Dogs weren’t able to separate them so three of us were just waiting for them to get it out of their system.
I might have taken my eye off the ball for a second to check that the cows were under control on the other side of the fence.
When I looked back they had separated and were coming my way at 100mph.
Could have been much worse.

 

[Pony]

Yeah RC, gotta love that about bulls.

They'll have a fight over a fenceline for an hour and smash the entire strain down.

Then they'll stand together afterwards, best mates, you can almost hear the bastards lamenting they haven't got hands so they can have a beer and a smoke as they laugh about what they've done.

 

[davo727]

Time for ribeyes.

 

[colson04]

Sorry to hear about your troubles Queenslander. Best wishes on a speedy recovery.

My father in law got run over by a bull 20 years ago. It was just after my wife and I started dating. His 75 year old dad saved his life by cracking the bull on the head with a chunk of 2" steel pipe he carried when working the herd. The bull just walked off like nothing had happened, my father in law went to the ER for busted ribs. Lucky it wasn't worse than that.

 

[Queenslander]

Yeah, I don’t blame the bulls, they didn’t have a gripe with me, I should’ve given them more space.
A nurse in the ED ward said she was surprised at the number of cattle and horse related injuries she had seen in her time there and most of them were people my age.
Might be a sign.

 

[Welder Dave]

I know a farmer who was saved only because he was able to roll under the bottom fence wire. Bull was about to trounce on him. He said bulls are too unpredictable to turn your head away for even a second.

 

[jack25]

I hope you get well soon. Bulls can sometimes be aggressive and hurt people.

 

[HarleyHappy]

My father had an Angus bull that hated me and every time I tried to go out back, to go fishing or hunting, it would try and kill me. One day, when I was 11 or 12 I had had enough and went out to the fence line with my Daisy Red Ryder while my dad was at work.
I shot that bull, right in the eye, from about 15‘. It took off like it got stung by a bee, on a straight line, over the sand pit banking.
It went ass over tea kettle and broke his neck.
I went inside and started playing with my Atari game.
Dad came home, went out to feed the cows and no bull.
He came inside and grabbed a beer and went to look for the bull.
We had about 10 to 12 acres, mixed with woods and pastures.
He found the bull, came inside and called the butcher.
They weren’t supposed to take dead animals but knew my dad well enough.
Then we spent 2 hours, with an old 9N Ford, with a single boom loader, getting it on the trailer.
Didn‘t get back home till almost midnight.
I finally told him about 10 years ago and thankfully, he took it well.

 

[davo727]

And everyone had steaks

 

[Welder Dave]

Pretty gruesome way for any animal to die.

 

[HarleyHappy]

Breaking its neck, running from what it thought was a bee sting.
Good friends wife just got Titanium and screws and ruined her ankle, running from hornets.
That damn bull put me against a fence, more than a few times and ruined a couple of summers of fun, when you can’t play, in your own backyard.
I have lost a few animals from hunting also. Certainly try not to do it but for anyone that hunts and kills animals to eat, if they say they have never wounded an animal and didn’t get it, they are lying.
Spent 2 summers at said butchers working for cash, before bolt guns.
Cows were done with a 22 short through the ear.
Seen some nasty stuff, that bull died easy.

 

[.RC.]

500 hour service, everything looks fine.