Chapter 59: High-tech hoofing
At some point, the biological clock naturally awakened, Zhang Chi opened his eyes, and saw a ray of sunlight projected through the crack in the window, shining on his face, making him feel a little unable to open his eyes for a while, blocked it with his hand for a while, and grinded on the bed for a few minutes, before lifting the quilt, turning over and getting out of bed.
Stepping on slippers, I came to the living room and found that the coffee machine had worked, and my brain was a little confused for a while I didn't remember that Cannon was coming, so I thought about whether there was a thief, and I thought about it for about half a minute before I remembered that Cannon officially checked into his ranch yesterday.
Since the coffee machine was on, Zhang Chi made himself a cup, and he didn't use any coffee cups to be so angry, he just used the cup he usually drinks water from, got a small cup in his hand and walked out of the room.
Standing under the porch, I looked for it according to my previous habits, and found that this guy from Chiyan Mountain was not nearby today, and when I turned my head and thought about it, I remembered that the horse I caught yesterday couldn't be ridden yet, and Cannon had to ride Chiyan Mountain to work.
"No wonder this guy didn't knock on my window today," Zhang Chi said.
Even if it is a new house, Chiyanshan has not changed this old problem, and will knock on Zhang Chi's window as soon as it arrives to remind Zhang Chi to get up.
He had just stood under the porch for less than five seconds when the second dog came.
Meow! Meow! Meow!
While screaming, he rubbed his body against Zhang Chi's legs, and the tail on his buttocks was so high that he stood straight like a fluffy stick.
Every time Zhang Chi wakes up, Ergou comes over to eat, which is usually the time for Ergou to eat.
"It's such a big cat, and you still drink milk?" Zhang Chi looked down at Ergou and said.
Ergou didn't care about this, and continued to circle around Zhang Chi's legs, and continued to bark at the top of his voice while fighting.
Zhang Chi thought about it for a while, and felt that there was still half a bag of milk powder at home, so he simply waited for the milk powder to be drunk before weaning Ergou, so he turned around and went back to the house, put down the cup in his hand, and made a bowl of milk for Ergou.
In addition to the two dogs, there are also big cows and two tigers at home, and Zhang Chi didn't forget the two of them, so the three portions of milk were washed, and Zhang Chi brought the milk basin to the porch.
"Big Bull, Second Tiger!"
Zhang Chi shouted three or four times at the top of his throat, and the big bull and the second tiger ran over, and the second tiger still had leaves hanging on his body, and he didn't know where the two guys went to play early in the morning.
Seeing the milk, Da Niu and Erhu were very excited, but they didn't get close to the milk, but sat one meter away from the milk basin, hanging the dog's head, and the flesh on the cheeks was squeezed into a thick skin, looking like a little daughter-in-law who was angry twice.
"Look at your unpromising appearance, you couldn't beat Ergou when you were young, but now it's several times bigger than it, and you can't beat it? Something that doesn't work! ”
Zhang Chi looked angry, because Da Niu and Erhu were very afraid of Ergou, as long as Ergou was eating next to them, even if they wanted to eat again, they didn't dare to move forward, for fear that Ergou would pull them together.
Zhang Chi doesn't care about this, if you can't eat, then you'll be hungry, so Zhang Chi quickly turned his gaze from the two dogs to Cannon, who was working there.
Cannon was already driving his cattle north.
Zhang Chi felt that it was very difficult, but it seemed very easy in Cannon's hands, and he saw Cannon, riding a horse and turning a lasso in his hand, driving the calves out of the forest, gathering all the cattle together, and walking together to the pasture to the north that had not been gnawed by the cows.
After looking at it for a while, Zhang Chi felt that it was worth spending a few hundred yuan a month.
Watching Cannon drive the cow to the place like this, the coffee in Zhang Chi's hand has not been drunk, there is no way, he forgot to drink coffee when he saw it.
Zhang Chi didn't like the herbal coffee very much, so he went back to the house and poured the rest of the coffee, washed the cup and refilled the tea in the cup.
When I went out again, I happened to run into Cannon, who had just returned.
Cannon got off the horse and saw Zhang Chi come out, so he smiled and said: "BOSS"
"It's good to see that you're driving cattle."
Cannon smiled: "It's all big cows, it's a lot better to catch up with a calf without a calf, and it won't be easy to catch up with a calf next year, because calves are more naughty." By the way, BOSS, when will the hoof trimmer arrive? ”
Yesterday on the road, Zhang Chi made an appointment with the hoof master, originally wanted to find a cheap, but there are many cheap people's work, and now the appointment is about twenty days later, the hoof master who can arrive today is expensive, but there is no way to be expensive, Cannon's side is still waiting for the horse to ride, so Zhang Chi had to make an appointment with a hoof master who can start work today.
"I guess it's going to be almost noon."
With the American style of doing things here, if you don't stay up until ten o'clock in the morning, you usually don't go out, and even the store has to open after ten o'clock, how can the hoof master be early.
"It's so expensive, it's so slow!" Cannon said.
After speaking, he turned around and entered the house, took a small pot of coffee, and then returned to the outside of the house and stood side by side with Zhang Chi.
"BOSS, it's time to collect the cut bales, I just looked at it and found that the bales are almost dry, so it will be troublesome if it rains."
Cannon saw the bales of straw on the grass on the north side of the pasture, and tried it and found that it was almost dry, and it didn't make much sense to put it in the sun again, and it was better to put the straw in the warehouse or stack it all together.
"Okay, then when the hoof trimmer finishes his work, let's collect the bales together" Zhang Chi didn't know when the bales should be collected, he thought that he couldn't wait until it was dry before collecting it, who would have thought that he could collect it at this time.
"You have to rent some cars in advance, and it's too inefficient to use a pickup truck," Cannon said.
Zhang Chi carried forward the spirit of asking if 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, to put it bluntly, it was a big flatbed car, and after thinking about it for a while, Zhang Chi decided to ask Brother Xiaoma later, if the price is right, just buy one directly.
The two were chatting about harvesting the bales when the mobile phone rang.
Zhang Chi trotted into the house and took a look at his mobile phone, and found that the hoof trimmer had arrived at the gate of the ranch.
Putting down the phone, Zhang Chi muttered: Good guy, the sun is coming out in the west.
After talking to Cannon, before the words fell, Zhang Chi saw a large pickup truck driving into the ranch.
Seeing this guy, Zhang Chi was stunned for a moment, and said in a lost voice: "Do you use such a big movement to repair a horse's hooves?" ”
As the car got closer and closer, Zhang Chi found that this was the car he imagined the hoof trimmer should drive, it was directly a small RV, and behind the front of the F550 was a boxy box, and a boxy box was dragged behind.
A family of five or six people went out camping, and it is estimated that there is no such big movement.
Hearing Zhang Chi's words, Cannon smiled: "This is a professional hoof repair car, which is quite expensive."
Zhang Chi must know that it is expensive, and the tickets in his pocket are almost dry of tears.
The car stopped at the foot of the slope, Zhang Chi and Cannon greeted them, and the hoof trimmers who came over were father and son, Lao Tzu was about fifty years old, and his son was in his early twenties and less than thirty.
The two were not polite, people came to make money, Zhang Chi was waiting to use the horse, and after saying a few words, the father and son began to work.
Zhang Chi and Cannon stood by and watched.
I saw that the father and son unloaded the rear trailer, pressed the button a few times, and the car was unfolded, and inside was an iron frame shelf, this thing and the trailer are one, all kinds of joints can still be moved, at a glance, I know that this is a fixed livestock, looking at the size of the shelf, Zhang Chi guessed that this thing can not only repair the hooves of the horse, it is estimated that the cow can also be repaired.
The pickup truck's van was filled with some tools, including a stove or something.
The fire was not as dusty as a common stove, and there was a chrome cover on the outside, shiny, not at all like a stove.
Anyway, Zhang Chi looks like a kaleidoscope, and there are all kinds of horseshoes hanging on the walls of the carriage, and there are estimated to be hundreds of them.
Everything inside is neatly arranged, even if you have obsessive-compulsive disorder, you probably can't find anything wrong with this carriage.
If you don't see it with your own eyes, Zhang Chi can't believe it, this car is specialized in hoof repair, there are some tools that are easy to understand, and you can accept it neatly and neatly, but there are three or four computers on the special car, which makes Zhang Chi don't know how to say it.
The father and son fiddled for about five minutes, and when all the preliminary work was ready, they motioned to bring the horse over.
Cannon's side immediately went to lass the horse.
After the horse was brought over, the father and son pushed the horse into the trailer's unfolded rack.
Creak!
The shelves retracted automatically, holding the horse in the middle.
The young man picked up the computer, pulled up the software and started working on it.
Zhang Chi curiously stretched out his head to take a look, and found that the outline of the horse appeared on the computer screen, and at the same time, data such as shoulder height and weight appeared.
A few buttons later, a robotic arm lifted the front horse's hoof, and then a sharp knife began to cut along the horse's hoof.
Zhang Chi looks a bit like a chef cutting potatoes, cutting layer by layer, and each slice is the same thickness.
Looks a bit of a little decompressed.
In just over a minute, the horse's hooves were cut to the right size.
The data of the shoe was immediately reflected on the screen, and the young man shouted a number, and the old man took out the shoe and threw it into the furnace to heat it.
While the farriers were heating up in the stove, the young man began to trim the other hooves.
Zhang Chi watched it as if he was watching a circus, and he felt that this thing was too advanced, and it was so high-tech to repair a hoof?
Next, nail the palm, brush the hoof oil, the whole set is done in one go, if it is not for the charge is too ruthless, Zhang Chi wants to boast about this kind of machine, it is too advanced.
Six horses, it took less than 40 minutes to complete it together, and this speed directly threw the manual hoof trimming out of the distance.
Every horse repaired its hooves, Canon rode it and tried it, and after each try, Cannon would nod to Zhang Chi, indicating that he had done a good job.
If you are satisfied with the work, it is time to give the money, not on the spot, but Zhang Chi signed it, and the bill will be sent to Zhang Chi in two days, and then go to the bank to pay it.
As soon as the matter was over, the father and son packed up their things and left the ranch to catch the next one.
Zhang Chi sent them away, looking at a few horses with new shoes, and happily spreading joy on the grass.
"It's too advanced."
"It's expensive enough!" Cannon said.
Zhang Chi nodded: "Indeed, it's too expensive!" ”
If you fix it once, you can get a hoof trimmer to fix it four or five times.
But it's right to think about it, the whole thing is so advanced that it must cost a lot of money, so what if it's a little more expensive without charging.
The first is the first, but next time, Zhang Chi will definitely not choose this thing, he can wait for half an hour to repair a horse's hooves, but he is not happy to spend so much money because of saving this little time.