Mules jumping where horses can't

[mulemanhayes]

   I agree with FPH ,  when someone asks me which is faster I just say " A good mule can outrun a average horse, but a good mule will never outrun a good horse "  I tend to say lots of things, like when they ask why I ride a mule , I just say " Anybody can ride a Horse "  See I told you you'd like some of em   

[FPH]

I know  of a ranch by Hobbs where it is flat enough and has enough roads that a cube truck works fine.  However, I also know a ranch with leased Forrest land in the Gila where you can only round those wild steers up by horse back.

[Ranger99]

oh i agree. if i let any down in by
the bottom it'd be 3 christmases
before you'd see 'em again if the panthers
didn't eat 'em first. have to keep 'em in the
front where you can coax 'em with a
bribe. and it's easier to keep track of the
electric wire if it's not all over creation
and back

[Sourdough]

Will admit horses did a better job out in the brush working cattle.  Did have one get gored and killed, and they sometimes got stupid over the smallest things.  But in general they did better than mules.  But I'm talking about in a closed pen where there is no way to get away.  Horses just did not work there, with over 30 horses they all tried to run, with no where to go.  Cows would cut them up pretty bad, if they did not kill them.  But my two big mules would turn and stand their ground.  Either the cow gave way or she got knocked down.  Sometimes killed.  My Wranglers refused to go into the pens, they sent in the dogs.  But the dogs sometimes killed the calves just for the fun of it, so I did not want the dogs going in till the calves were loaded.  As soon as the chutes were opened the cows with calves would make a brake for the exit, only to end up on the truck.  It was the old barren cows that I had to go in and push out of the pens.  They were the dangerous ones.  Turned a lot of them into Coyote bait. 

[williamlayton]

I have always thought that the Hen had some mule in her.
Blessings

[Dee]

Memories!
Back in the early 70s I worked on one of Nelson Bunker Hunt's charlotte ranches. Craziest cows I ever saw. He wouldn't let us drive our pickups on his coastal Bermuda so if they were close enough to hear us we'd honk the horn and they'd come in to the pens and after spreading ta he cubes we'd pen the one's ready to inseminate.
Then we'd get on our horses pen the bullers, and like someone else said the old cows would fight. $1.25 an hour, 7 days a week, off only on Christmas Day, rain and or ice, took all the glamour out on a cowboys life.