Hello From Alberta

[colttrainer]

Hi all and thanks to all that have responded to my questions. Thought I would take time to post some photos of my self & team.
We got our high gear 9 up & running, thanks again Mitch for your measureements & photos. Here we are clipping some pasture as we have been getting about 5″ of rain every week. So the hay is going to have to wait.
Al

[Iron Rose]

Great pictures. But a word of advice I never allow my dog to be with me when i’m mowing . You could end up with a three legged dog or worse. Again great pictures.

Dan

[J-L]

Hi Colttrainer. Nice looking team and mower. I’ll echo what Iron Rose said on the dog. 4 years ago my son took 3 legs off my best border collie. Very traumatic deal for him and I didn’t enjoy puttin that dog down either.
Your country sure looks wet and green. We’ve been drier than dry here. The only green is right where the irrigation water is running.
We’re going to start knocking down the grass hay in a week. Just mowed 1st cutting alfalfa two days ago and should bale tomorrow.
Tell me a bit about your horses.

[colttrainer]

@J-L 19784 wrote:

Hi Colttrainer. Nice looking team and mower. I’ll echo what Iron Rose said on the dog. 4 years ago my son took 3 legs off my best border collie. Very traumatic deal for him and I didn’t enjoy puttin that dog down either.
Your country sure looks wet and green. We’ve been drier than dry here. The only green is right where the irrigation water is running.
We’re going to start knocking down the grass hay in a week. Just mowed 1st cutting alfalfa two days ago and should bale tomorrow.
Tell me a bit about your horses.

They are 14 year old geldings, stand 15.3- 16h.h. & weigh somewhere around 1650-1800 (I am guessing on the weight, shure they are closer to the lower end).
As for wet and green, we are normally done with haying in about a week, but have had 5 to 6 times our normal rain fall this year so are way behind. May get to put it up next month.

I hear what ou are saying about the dog, But our dogs ride or run with us at all times, from the time they can keep up with moms, as we never know when we will need their services, and we may be a long ways from the yard. They learn from a youg age to stay clear, as I learned at a young age that I need to pay extra attention to my surroundings. But thanks for the concerns it is a good reminder that I need to pay close attention for everyones safty.

[J-L]

I thought those horses were a tad smaller than most horses I’ve seen lately. Lot’s more to my liking. Using horses for ranch work and not much plowing, I tend to lean toward 1600 lb. animals or smaller. They are a nice looking team for sure.
As to the dog thing, my dogs are probably much the same as yours. We use them a bunch herding cows, guarding stackyards while I’m feeding and working cattle. He just ran in front of the mower (7′ New Holland on JD tractor) one day. We’d been haying for a couple weeks and thought nothing of him being there. My guess was he got to hunting mice and not paying attention.
The dog who lost his legs was a 3 yr old. Very savvy and a lot of guts for a border collie. I was fortunate enough to have one litter of pups out of him though and still am working with that line of dogs.

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