It serves as a polo pony equally well as for ranch work.
Accordingly, most of the ranch work is done without pesticides or much modern machinery.
Ranch experience: Guests can help with ranch work, including cattle drives -- or go rafting or trout fishing.
Most of the ranch work is done without modern machinery and an exaltation of the past can create conditions for absurdity.
There's a lot of mythology around your time in Texas — ranch work, rodeo riding and what sounds awfully close to homelessness.
Ennis went back to ranch work, hired on here and there, not getting much ahead but glad enough to be around stock again, free to drop things, quit if he had to, and go into the mountains at short notice.
He had wanted to be a sophomore, felt the word carried a kind of distinction, but the truck broke down short of it, pitching him directly into ranch work.
Until lately, he had never taken a riding lesson, but he has begun learning maneuvers specific to cow-horse competitions — contests that feature the ability of a horse and rider to do ranch work.
"That's what we always had in mind," said Debi Nicholson, Freightliner's spokeswoman, explaining that the company envisioned sales to owners of 10,000-acre ranches, who might use the Unimog for hunting elk as well as ranch work.
In retirement, Dad spent his days with his wife outdoors on that ranch, working to rehabilitate wounded birds that the county wildlife officers would drop at their doorstep for safekeeping.
