pasture leisure

Chapter 59 High-tech Hoof Trimming
At one o'clock, the biological clock naturally awakened, Zhang Chi opened his eyes, and saw a ray of sunlight projected through the crack of the window, shining on his face, which made him feel a little hard to open his eyes for a while, and blocked it with his hand. After a while, after grinding on the bed for a few more minutes, he lifted the quilt and got out of bed.

Stepping on slippers, I came to the living room and found that the coffee machine was already working. I was a little dazed for a while and didn't remember that Cannon was here, so I wondered if there was a thief. After thinking about it for about half a minute, I finally remembered that Cannon officially Moved into his own ranch.

Now that the coffee machine was on, Zhang Chi made a cup for himself. There was no such thing as a coquettish coffee cup, so he just used his usual water cup, made a small cup and walked out of the room.

Standing under the porch, I looked for it according to my previous habits, and found that Chi Yanshan was not around today. Turning around and thinking about it, I remembered that the horse I caught yesterday could not be ridden, and Cannon had to do it. You still have to ride Chiyan Mountain.

"No wonder this guy didn't knock on my window today," Zhang Chi said.

Even after changing to a new house, Chi Yanshan has not got rid of this old problem, and will knock on Zhang Chi's window as soon as the hour arrives, reminding Zhang Chi to get up.

After standing under the porch for less than five seconds, Ergou came over.

Meow!Meow!Meow!
While screaming, he rubbed his body against Zhang Chi's leg, the tail on his buttocks was raised high, standing upright like a fluffy stick.

Every time Zhang Chi wakes up, Ergou will come over to eat, which is usually Ergou's meal time.

"It's such a big cat, still drinking milk?" Zhang Chi looked down at Ergou and said.

Er Gou didn't care about this, and continued to circle around Zhang Chi's legs, and continued to bark while beating.

Zhang Chi thought about it, and felt that there was still half a bag of milk powder at home, so he might as well wait until the milk powder was finished before weaning Ergou, so he turned and went back to the house, put down the cup in his hand, and made a bowl of milk for Ergou.

Besides Er Gou, there were Daniu and Erhu at home, and Zhang Chi didn't forget them, so the three servings of milk were ready, and Zhang Chi brought the milk basin down to the shelf.

"Big cow, two tigers!"

Zhang Chi yelled three or four times at the top of his voice, before Daniu and Erhu came running over. There were still leaves hanging on Erhu's body, and he didn't know where these two guys went to play early in the morning.

Seeing the milk, Daniel and Erhu were very excited, but they did not get close to the milk pot, but sat one meter away from the milk basin, with the dog's head hanging down, and the flesh on the cheeks was squeezed into a thick skin. She looks like a pissed off daughter-in-law.

"Look at how worthless you are. When I was young, I couldn't beat Ergou. Now that I'm several times bigger than him, I still can't beat them? You're useless!"

Zhang Chi looked angry, because Daniu and Erhu were quite afraid of Ergou, as long as Ergou was eating next to them, even if they wanted to eat again, they would not dare to move forward, for fear that Ergou would pick them up.

Zhang Chi doesn't care about this, if you can't eat it, you'll be hungry, so Zhang Chi quickly turned his attention from the two dogs to Cannon who was working over there.

Cannon was already driving the cattle north.

What Zhang Chi thought was very difficult, seemed very easy in Cannon's hands. Cannon rode a horse, twirling a lasso in his hand, driving the calves out of the forest, and gathered all the cattle together. Together, go to the pastures in the north that have not been chewed by cattle.

After looking at it for a while, Zhang Chi felt that the hundreds of dollars he spent this month were worth it.

Watching Cannon drive the cow to the place all the time, Zhang Chi hadn't finished the coffee in his hand, so he couldn't help it, he forgot to drink coffee because he was so excited.

Cold coffee Zhang Chi didn't like it very much, so he went back to the room and poured out the rest of the coffee, washed the cup and refilled the cup with green tea.

When I went out again, I happened to meet Cannon who had just come back.

Cannon got off the horse, saw Zhang Chi coming out, and said with a smile: "BOSS"

"It seems that you can drive cattle very well."

Cannon said with a smile: "They are all big cows. If there is no calf, it will be easier to catch up. It will be difficult to catch up with the calf next year, because the calf is more naughty. By the way, the boss, the hoof repairer When will you arrive?"

While on the road yesterday, Zhang Chi made an appointment with a hoof repairer. Originally, he wanted to find a cheap one, but the cheap ones also have a lot of work. Now the appointment will be [-] days later, and the hoof repairer who can arrive today is expensive , but Gui has nothing to do, Cannon is still waiting for the horse to ride, so Zhang Chi had to bite the bullet and make an appointment with a hoof repairer who can start work today.

"I guess it will be almost noon anyway."

With the American way of doing things here, they usually don’t go out until ten o’clock in the morning, and even the shops have to open after ten o’clock, how can the hoof repairer be early.

"The fee is so expensive and so slow!" Cannon said.

After speaking, he turned and went into the house, took a small pot of coffee, and then went back outside the house to stand side by side with Zhang Chi.

"Boss, it's time to collect the cut hay bales. I looked at them just now and found that the hay bales are almost dry. It will be troublesome if it rains."

Cannon saw the straw bales placed on the grass in the north of the ranch, tried it and found that the inside was almost dry, and it didn’t make much sense to put them in the sun. It’s better to put the grass in the warehouse or stack them together.

"Okay, let's collect the straw bale together after the hoof repairer finishes his work." Zhang Chi didn't know when the straw bale should be collected, he thought he had to wait until it was completely dry before collecting it, who Think of it at this time and you can collect it.

"Then you have to rent some vehicles in advance, and the efficiency of using pickup trucks is too low," Cannon said.

Zhang Chi carried forward the spirit of asking when he didn't understand, and asked Cannon what car he wanted to rent.

Cannon and Zhang Chi gestured.

Zhang Chi felt that this car was nothing, it was just a big flatbed car. After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Chi decided to ask Brother Ma later, if the price was right, he would just buy one.

The two were chatting about collecting hay bales when the cell phone in the house rang.

Zhang Chi took Xiao Pao into the house and took a look at his mobile phone, and found that the hoof repair master had arrived at the gate of the ranch.

Putting down the phone, Zhang Chi muttered: Good guy, the sun is coming out from the west.

After talking to Cannon, Zhang Chi saw a big pickup drive into the ranch before the words finished.

Seeing this guy, Zhang Chi was stunned for a moment, and blurted out, "It takes such a big noise to repair a horse's hoof?"

As the car got closer, Zhang Chi realized that it was not the car he imagined a hoof repairer should drive. It was a small RV. Behind the front of the F550 was a square box, and a [-] was dragging behind it. Square little box.

A family of five or six people went camping without such a big movement.

Hearing Zhang Chi's words, Cannon said with a smile: "This is a professional hoof repair vehicle, which is quite expensive."

Zhang Chi must know that it is expensive, the banknotes in his pocket are almost crying dry.

The car stopped at the foot of the slope, and Zhang Chi and Cannon greeted them. The hoof repairers who came over were father and son. The father was in his fifties, and the son was in his early twenties, not in his thirties.

They were not too polite. They came to make money, and Zhang Chi was waiting to use the horse. After saying a few words, the father and son started to work.

Zhang Chi and Cannon stood by and watched.

I saw that the father and son unloaded the rear trailer, pressed a few buttons, and the car unfolded, and there was an iron frame inside. This thing is integrated with the trailer, and the various joints can still move. You can tell it at a glance. This is for fixing animals. Looking at the size of the shelf, Zhang Chi guessed that this thing can not only repair the hooves of horses, but also cows.

There are some tools in the van of the pickup truck, including the stove and so on.

The fire is not as gray as the usual stoves. There is a chrome-plated cover on the outside, which is shiny, and it doesn't look like a stove at all.

Anyway, Zhang Chi looked like a kaleidoscope. There were all kinds of horseshoes hanging on the wall of the carriage, and there were probably hundreds of them, large and small.

Everything inside is neatly placed, even if you have obsessive-compulsive disorder, you probably won't be able to pick out any problems when you see this compartment.

If Zhang Chi hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, it would be hard for Zhang Chi to believe it. This car is specially designed for hoof repairing. There are some tools that are easy to understand. This made Zhang Chi not know what to say, repair a hoof, do you want to make it look like a video game show!

The father and son fiddled with it for about five minutes, and after getting all the preliminary work ready, they signaled to bring the horse over.

Cannon immediately went to harness the horse.

After the horse was brought over, the father and son pushed the horse into the unfolded frame of the trailer.

Squeak!

The shelf stretched automatically, directly fixing the horse firmly in the middle.

The young man picked up the computer, called up the software and began to operate.

Zhang Chi stretched out his head to take a look curiously, and found that the outline of a horse appeared on the computer screen, and at the same time, the data such as shoulder height and weight appeared.

After a few buttons, a mechanical arm lifted the front horseshoe, and then saw a sharp knife began to cut along the horseshoe.

Zhang Chi looks a bit like a cook cutting potatoes, layer by layer, and each slice is the same thickness.

Looks a little unpacked.

In just over a minute, the horseshoe was shaved to an appropriate size.

The data of the shoe was immediately reflected on the screen. The young man called out a number, and the old man found the shoe and threw it into the stove to heat it up.

While the shoe was heating up in the furnace, the young man began to trim the other shoe.

Zhang Chi watched it as if he was watching a circus. He felt that this thing was too advanced. How high-tech is it to repair a hoof?

Next, nailing the palm and brushing the hoof oil, the whole set was done in one go. If the fees were not too harsh, Zhang Chi would like to praise this kind of machine, it is so advanced.

It took six horses less than forty minutes to complete the work together. This speed directly threw the manual hoof repairing far away.

After each horse had its hooves repaired, Cannon tried it on the horse. After each trial, Cannon would nod to Zhang Chi, indicating that the job was done well.

If you are satisfied with the work, it is time to pay the money, not on the spot, but Zhang Chi signed it, and a bill will be sent to Zhang Chi two days later, and it will be fine to go to the bank to settle the payment. up.

As soon as the matter was over, the father and son packed up their things and left the ranch to go to the next field.

Zhang Chi sent them away, looking at a few horses with new shoes, which were happily playing on the grass.

"It's too advanced."

"It's expensive enough!" Cannon said.

Zhang Chi nodded: "Indeed, it's too expensive!"

One repair with this thing can almost be repaired four or five times by a hoof repairer.

But think about it, it’s right, the whole thing that is so advanced must cost a lot of money, what should I do if it is more expensive without charging.

Advanced is advanced, but next time, Zhang Chi will definitely not choose this thing. He can wait half an hour to repair a horse's hoof, but he is not willing to spend so much money to save this time.

(End of this chapter)