I don’t need to go up OR down that stinkin hill!! Although the hill going out of… can’t come up with the name. East of the Slocum bridge, might be worse. Anyway, Milt Amaberry, Jess Millar, and 1 of Jim Heath’s guys were hauling Timmerman cattle out of there. Dean Welker had his grader out there to push them up the hill. Milt takes off, with Dean in hot pursuit. About the time Milt needed help over the terrace in the road, Dean runs out of fuel. Dean can’t get the molboad down and has no brakes. Milt is sliding backwards about the same rate of speed. Everyone was getting a bit concerned!! Got things reorganized and up they went. Got all 3 pots out. I loaded my 26 foot trailer and Tom loaded all the hoses in his trailer. Of course Tom doesn’t have 4x4 and spins out. I crawled under the front and switched the vacuum lines around and up he goes. I was heavy enough and watched how the big trucks made it up so other than a bit of high speed coming out of the corral, all was good.
The river is a beautiful place and well protected, but it has its drawbacks also.