Corral Humility

This oxbow can support a lot of weight

 We've been spending, off and on, the last few weeks deconstructing, rearranging, and rebuilding one of our sets of corrals.  We set new cedar posts, put up new lumber, hammered nails, poured concrete, welded oxbows, and rehung gates.  Things were looking pretty spiffy, I must say.  We had a few small projects left to make it perfect, but also had a herd of cattle that needed vaccinating, so we ran them through.  We figured it would be a good test of our progress.

I will tell you this: I was feeling pretty proud of the work we did.  We ran the cows through and discovered a few tweaks we'll need to make.  Not the 5 star rating I hoped for, but not surprising either.  Next, we ran the calves through and found a couple more even smaller fixes we'd need to make.  All in all, things were looking pretty good.

Then we ran the bulls through.  There were only 3, but all it took was 1.  He crashed through 8 fences in 2 days -- 5 of which were in our new, beautiful corrals.  It was a lesson in humility, for sure.  And, when we go back to fine-tune our set up (and replace the boards and gates the bull smashed), we might just set the whole damn thing in metal.