Newbrassky

[Silver Creek Slim]

After clickin' his mouse ta post that, Delmonico remembers ya can't just pick up a sod outhouse and move it.

That is why Slim got extra lumber, to build a wood privy. Slim finishes digging the privy hole and starts building the wood privy.

[Delmonico]

"Well since ya brought so much lumber, did ya bring any of that ship lap boards," says Delmonico as he fights ta keep his finger from typin' a t stead of a p. 

"If'n we could dig a really deep hole that would not cave in we could get a load a bricks ta build it."

[Silver Creek Slim]

"Yep, got a bunch of dem shiplap boards. I can't dig very deep in this sand 'fore it caves in." Slim's wife and 19 kids live in what is referred to as Wash-a-sand county. 

[Delmonico]

It's only 18 kids this week, won't be 19 till next week.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Oh yeah, it isn't born yet. 

[Delmonico]

Go back to the beginning of these threads, every time ya go home for the weekend I add another on.  I'm keepin track.  I know that impossible time wise, but this is a cyber-story so it don't matter.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Okay, I got it now.

Slim finishes building the privy. He starts working on the dugout house to finish it before the beeves arrive. "When are the beeves supposed to arrive so I can start branding." 

[Delmonico]

"I just checked, there south of here on the South Loup River.  Here's the link, go get them.  I gout us white faces, the bring more on the market."

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[Silver Creek Slim]

"Were these white faces sired from Anxiety 4?"

[Delmonico]

"Na we're raisin' steaks, not foo foo show cattle."

[Delmonico]

"We gonna have ta run some fences ta keep the cattle from strayin'.  Slim ya gonna have ta get us some bob' wiiire."

[Trinity]

Trinity takes a good look at the cattle and says to Delmonico:  "Boy, don't them start mah stomach to growlin'!  Got any good tenderloin recipes, Delmonico??  If you make up a good tenderloin, Ah'll go and put up the posts fer the bob war!"

[Delmonico]

"Ya mean prime rib, ribeye steak as a roast, same thin' as the hump roast from the "South of Dodge " thread."

"Ok I'll make it in the dutch oven but I'll write it so the folks that be follin' this mess can do it at home."

Dry Rub

7 parts kosher salt
5 parts brown sugar
1 part ground mustard

Coat the roast well with the rub 24 hours before cookin', keep in cool place, perheat the oven to 500 degrees.  Put roast in a big iron skillet and put in oven, let sear about 10 minutes, reduce heat to 350 degrees, let cook about 20 minutes a pound and then start checkin' with meat thermometor, remove when 10 degrees from desired doneness and let sit in skillet for 10 minutes.  remove to cool and set up, make gravy or some fancy soundin' French sauce with the drippin's.

"Now Trinity, start settin, the posts, we need a 5 square mile pasture, let's see 4X5 = 20, yep 20 miles of posts, I've done got the roast rubbed, it'll be done by supper.  Now git ta settin posts?"

[Silver Creek Slim]

"Ain't this open range country. We don't need no stinkin' bob wire! Besides where would ya get posts with no trees out here."

[Delmonico]

Ya ship em in,  we gets some of them folks down in southeast Newbrasskey and eastern Kansas ta ship some up, they raise them las a crop like corn.  They be hedge, boodarc, Bois de Arc,
Maclura pomifera or as most call them Osage Orange,  google us up some imfo Slim.

This is govermint land Slim, if we don't fence it in we'll have nesters all over out pastures and hayfiels, you didn't think we owned all this land?

[Silver Creek Slim]

"Squatters! I better send for posts then."

[Delmonico]

"I know makin' fence ain't rocket science but we do need at least on person with a PHD on the crew."

Send for a couple of post hole diggers.

[Silver Creek Slim]

"Okay, now, we need 316,800 feet of wire, 2 post hole diggers, a fence stretcher, couple hammers,... How far apart can we put the posts?"

[Delmonico]

"A rod between each one is considered normal," saiys Delmonico who was right, but double checked with his Dad whos said that's what Grandpa always said and did.

Delmonico wonders if the fellow from Wissyconsion will go out and try ta find a modified 1932 Ford Coupe ta measure ta find out how far a rod is in distance, or will he google it or will he know?

[Silver Creek Slim]

"A rod is 16.5 feet. I already knewd that. So, that makes 6400 posts. Probably should get 50 extra. We need 19,350 staples. Did I forget anything?"

[Delmonico]

"Ya can save time if'n ya send back ta Pennysvania and buy up a bunch a them dry wells they used ta get that peetolum stuff out of,  ya just saw then inta shorter lenths and use them."

[Silver Creek Slim]

 

[Delmonico]

Ok, a groaner, not funny, never mentioned again.    What pattern a wire ya gonna use, remmber there is buches a type now.  Google up the barb wire museum web site and decide Slim, I leave the choice up ta you.

Never mind I just happen ta have the link.

www.barbwiremuseum.com

The gots a history of cattle brands section also fer ya Slim.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Wanders on by and gives an eavesdrop:

"Cri- min-y, Gents, sixteen feet between each post?? Better have something to hold that wire taut as you attach it or it will sag worse than my grandmother's... well, you knows. Eight feet means less pulling, but then you'll need double the posts and double the holes."

AnnieLee

[Silver Creek Slim]

"Jayne & Hill Locked Staples Around One
    Two twisted strand wire with four point barb on one strand. One leg of barb straddles other strand. Variation of Patent #176,120, April 11, 1876 by William H. Jayne & James H. Hill of Boone, Iowa"

"I guess this one will do the trick."