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[Carl_NH]

Bison,

That was a tough one..and yes it was getting frustrating..

I would have never figured this one out even tho I used sythes on the farm to clear fence rows from grass and cut thistles in the pastures. I still have them today but rarely get used anymore.

Very nice looking spread and buffalo too. Do you sell commercially or supply for local markets?

Carl

 

[JB4310]

I would never guess it, seems like steel was cheap in America - see these pictures, that's what we use(d) overseas. In my original country, scythe is used daily almost everywhere and it is not an obscure art like in USA
When I was teenager, I cut several acres twice a month to keep the grass low, nothing like that - you get up before sunrise and bare foot in wet grass just start cutting and by the time it gets hot you are done.

Nowadays there are two ways to hammer scythe, either you know your way with the hammer and use just the anvil or you can cheat and use the second one.

The sound of hammering scythe is very typical for Czech villages in spring and summer.

I'm surprised you didn't guess it. especialy if you used them before, it looks close enough to the first pic of yours. you can see the head was peaned from use. I can only imagine that sound

JB.

 

[RoyJackson]

The head off a planishing hammer

 

[Bison]

I would never guess it, seems like steel was cheap in America - see these pictures, that's what we use(d) overseas. In my original country, scythe is used daily almost everywhere and it is not an obscure art like in USA
When I was teenager, I cut several acres twice a month to keep the grass low, nothing like that - you get up before sunrise and bare foot in wet grass just start cutting and by the time it gets hot you are done.

Nowadays there are two ways to hammer scythe, either you know your way with the hammer and use just the anvil or you can cheat and use the second one.

The sound of hammering scythe is very typical for Czech villages in spring and summer.

The anvil in the pic is Dutch made and we used it there on the farm,I used to mow our yard with the scythe up to when i immigrated in 80.I still use it here to mow around the trees on the yard and such.Nice and quite .Beats starting up the weed wacker.

 

[Bison]

On the bison.

i have an 1800 Acre spread and run upwards of 2-300 head.
Keeping them within the fence (5' high page wire)has not been a problem.
Old bulls might want tojump the fence and leave for other places but i ship them before they get any idea's to that regard.
I sell mostly to the US export market but sell to feedlots as well
I butcher only for my own use.

 

[jayste]

Thanks Bison. I've always been kind of curious about bison. We have a pretty nice herd here in Oklahoma on one our national wildlife refuges. :thumbsup:

 

[JB4310]

On the bison.

i have an 1800 Acre spread and run upwards of 2-300 head.
Keeping them within the fence (5' high page wire)has not been a problem.
Old bulls might want tojump the fence and leave for other places but i ship them before they get any idea's to that regard.
I sell mostly to the US export market but sell to feedlots as well
I butcher only for my own use.

Just curious how do you start the herd? do you have to buy and breed, or can you round up wild animals?

You can tell I'm from back east, no bison experiance

JB.

 

[Bison]

Just curious how do you start the herd? do you have to buy and breed, or can you round up wild animals?

You can tell I'm from back east, no bison experiance

JB.

Can't round up wild ones(at least not around here).
Starting a herd depends on your money supply(you probably could've gotten them for free a couple yrs ago with the BSE crisis).

Today It's the best and cheapest to start out buying some yearlings and let them multiply.
Starting with young animals gives one a chance to get used to them as you grow together.
They are easy to look after.

couple pics.
3 bulls
bison cow with white ears(not cattle inbred)She got them later in life at 9 yrs old

 

[bullbreaker]

Today It's the best and cheapest to start out buying some yearlings and let them multiply.
Starting with young animals gives one a chance to get used to them as you grow together.
They are easy to look after.

Bison ever actually seen or had an all white one(albino).Like in old C.Bronson movie "White Buffalo"? Or is/was that just a myth ?

Boone

 

[Bison]

Today It's the best and cheapest to start out buying some yearlings and let them multiply.
Starting with young animals gives one a chance to get used to them as you grow together.
They are easy to look after.

Bison ever actually seen or had an all white one(albino).Like in old C.Bronson movie "White Buffalo"? Or is/was that just a myth ?

Boone

White bison do occur but are very rare.(1 in 10 or so million).They get born white,but most die shortly after.
The ones that do live turn often brown later in life.
There are a few around in the US,and there is one white canadian born bull currently in the Winnipeg zoo in Manitoba.These are not Albino's.
I think most albino's die.

The closest i ever got to getting a white bison is the grey looking cow in the pic,which is the same cow 6 months earlier as the the one with the white ears in the former post.
This 9 year old cow who was born orange like normal and was brown her entire life. She came out of the mold(shedding the winter coat)like that last spring,which must be considdered an anomaly as it has never been seen or recorded before .
She has however turned back to her original brown color over the summer,but the ears and some white around the eyes,on the tail and lower legs is still some white hair as well.

Does that answer your question?