Weathered
by Kathy Bassett
Title
Weathered
Artist
Kathy Bassett
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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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.Rust is composed of iron oxides. In colloquial usage, the term is applied to red oxides, formed by the reaction of iron and oxygen in the presence of water or air moisture. Other forms of rust exist, like the result of reactions between iron and chloride in an environment deprived of oxygen rebar used in underwater concrete pillars is an example which generates green rust
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