Trash Car

by Kathy Bassett

Title

Trash Car

Artist

Kathy Bassett

Medium

Photograph - Photography - Digital Fine Art

Description

A consuming need of folks to pile their stuff (Trash) on their land, for lack of other places to take these relics and dispose of them, perhaps because of costs of removal, ....these little eyesores pop up all over the countryside, ripe for one-off photography, and to add to the noise, a lot of digi work!
Ron Torell, Long-Standing Educator and Advocate of Agriculture
We have all heard the old cliche that one man's junk is another man's treasure. Nowhere is this more evident than when strolling through a ranch boneyard. The ranch boneyard is a place where worn-out haying equipment, old automobiles, damaged panels, manual chutes, and basically any other piece of ranch equipment, scrap metal or wooden object that was ever used, lie in wait to be called into service again. An old, worn-out piece of junk might one day be restored to its original form or transformed into something new and useful. In this issue of Cow Camp Chatter lets discuss the importance of the ranch boneyard and how being frugal is essential to the economic survivability of ranching.
Many of us take a visual inventory of not only our own boneyard but also those of our neighbors. Almost without exception there is a ranch repair job that will require an inexpensive resurrection of something from that inventory. It may be something as simple as a piece of scrap metal to repair a piece of equipment or as complex as making a sand and gravel sorting machine. Private industry, particularly those of us in traditional agriculture, must be frugal, many times going to the boneyard rather than buying new to survive. Old-timers Arthur and Norman Glaser of Halleck, Nevada, were as frugal as they come and utilized the ranch boneyard whenever possible. In need of a portable livestock loading chute, they resurrected a worn-out round baler to meet their needs. This loading chute is still in use today by their ranch heirs.

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February 21st, 2015

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