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Winter in Bondurant Hitching up the team The horses’ harnesses and the rig’s tongue are attached directly to the two front runners of the of the sleigh for maximum maneuverability and lift through the snow.

Feeding has moved on from the Dell Fork Ranch to the Campbell’s Old Bondurant place. Do you want to know how Lennie Campbell and his four horse up hay rack sleigh have managed to cope with Bondurant’s snowiest winter in nine years?

At forty below with three feet of soft snow and almost three hundred cold, hungry cows and horses every day is a survival exercise for the cowboy and his herd.

The Campbell Cattle Company’s hay racks are equipped to cope with every possible contingency. Ice too thick for the cows to get to drinking water: bring along a big pick to chop drinking holes in the creeks. Moose raiding the hay stacks: equip the sleigh with an array of fencing tools to repair the stack yards fences. The thousands of dude visitors to the Bondurant Ranch web cam want to know how it’s done.

Scroll through the photos below to find out more about the tools carried on the hay sled.

For more information about life on the Dell Fork Ranch, e-mail Lennie Campbell or Paul Ellwood.

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