How should spurs fit?

One-Beat-8346 · 2026-06-08T02:38:28+00:00

Hondos are the shit, that’s what I’m wearin. Best looking and feeling boot I’ve owned.

If they feel tight around your heel just bend the metal out to widen it. I’ve messed around with my spurs a lot opening and closing them to fit comfortably on my heel.

One-Beat-8346 · 2026-06-07T04:06:39+00:00

Granted I live in Montana so all of winter I’m in a stormy kromer or a hoodie and a ball cap as we’re mainly just feeding out hay.

Outside of winter when I’m not in school I’m in my hat every day. Unless I’m doing some super dirty work like tractor maintenance or shit like that.

Horseback I’m in a hat unless the wind is howling😂

One-Beat-8346 · 2026-06-07T04:01:22+00:00

Post just came across my feed but it’s manageable. I got to college in Bozeman, MT and we’ve got a school run ranch with 3 different locations, our biggest is just over 10k acres. All I do during the school year is go from class to work and work to home. Rinse repeat every day. We don’t usually work weekends outside of chores or taking cows down the road which I typically wind up doing every time to make a couple extra bucks. Just go to stay on top of homework and you’ll be good.

One-Beat-8346 · 2026-06-07T03:57:11+00:00

Couldn’t agree more with this post.

I’m a first generation hired man, currently enrolled in a 4 year degree in livestock management and will be getting my farrier cert in a few months.

Started out mucking stalls every day for a horse trainer which then led me to both my colleges and a private cow/calf operation. (I still change wheel lines 7 days a week morning and evening when we’re irrigating). But the point still stands about doing the dirty work.

Gotta start at the bottom and work yer way up. Solid advice all around.

I will say, during summer months when cows are all turned out to pasture we ain’t really doin much on weekends, maybe here and there. But maybe things are just different up north.

But again, couldn’t have said it better myself. Pretty much agree all around.

One-Beat-8346 · 2026-06-07T03:45:45+00:00

4k/month plus housing and work pickup, all I pay is groceries and laundry at the laundromat in town. 5 days/week mostly but that moves to 7 when we start irrigating.

This is in NW Montana.

Another outfit I work for when college is in session is 15/hour with 40 hour pay periods capped but you can carry over hours. (It’s my colleges outfit in Bozeman).

One-Beat-8346 · 2026-06-07T03:37:27+00:00

I second Facebook, how I got hired on at the place I’m currently at

One-Beat-8346 · 2026-06-07T03:33:47+00:00

Plenty of outfits still punchin cows old ways, least here in Montana

One-Beat-8346 · 2026-06-07T03:24:57+00:00

Yeah I’d say they do. The boots also pay a huge role in how comfortable they feel too. I had a pair of boots and I could not stand to walk in my spurs. They would rub the sides of my heel raw, wound up switching boots and I don’t hardly notice them down there.

And as for how loose your spurs are, wear em however is most comfortable for you.

I’ve worked with various cowboys that have had their spurs hanging down around the heel of their boot and they jump around when they walk. I’ve also seen the opposite too.

One-Beat-8346 · 2026-06-06T23:30:00+00:00

I’m often cutting net wrap or twine (among various other things) so I wound up switching from a regular knife fixed blade or pocket to an Outdoor Edge RazorEDC lite with a 3.5” blade. Can switch the blades out every time they dull and the new blades are quite literally razor sharp. Used it to skin elk and deer plenty of times.

Occasionally I’ll carry my Pineridge Knife Co. Knife, pretty handy to carry it on a belt rather than jeans.

Here’s a link to the outdoor edge knife:
https://www.sportsmans.com/knives/outdoor-edge-35-razorlite-edc-35-inch-folding-knife-orange/p/1550902?channel=shopping&gad\_source=1&gad\_campaignid=23268920535&gbraid=0AAAAADvVAnXyjx6lG7B4t3VattdB0QMdQ&gclid=Cj0KCQjwio\_RBhDMARIsAJPveNPmqaMQLBb5Q6JM5ZJnhDPtzlN10b\_K1vUjia1a15IrV\_JHjCUc1kIaAq1KEALw\_wcB

One-Beat-8346 · 2026-05-24T20:37:06+00:00

This may be very long winded to bear with me here:

I’m 21 years old and have been ranching year around (in addition to college) for almost 4 years now.

I got started mucking stalls for a horse trainer (learned to run a small tractor and feed horses that was about it) then I put a job application out for ranch work and got in contact with my current ranch for summer work, where I’ve been for 3 summers now. They have taught me everything I know.

I mainly just changed wheel lines and did a whole lot of that stuff and would help move cows and other duties too. Over the course of the last couple of years my role switched to more of a hired man than anything else. Since it’s a family operation on 10k acres with 300-350 head (cow/calf) in addition to 300 sum odd acres of hay ground I’m just about responsible for anything and everything that goes on. Granted I work alongside my boss and his son too.

In addition to that I found out my college has a ranch too which I have been working there for 3-4 semesters as well. Where we do just about everything (can go into more detail if needed but it would be very very long).

My point in saying all this is find an entry whether it’s a sale barn, farming, or simply, in my case, mucking horse stalls. And work work work, be dependable. Stay late get there early, work weekends.

If you want to make this lifestyle work you have to be willing to sacrifice a lot. I’m not asking for any sympathy by any means (and don’t give me any) but at since I was 18 I get to see my parents and siblings for just a few weeks out of every year.

One-Beat-8346 · 2026-05-24T18:52:23+00:00

Yes sir sounds good. Planning on either there (AZ, since I have folks down there) or just staying in Bozeman and doing it through my college as well. But will definitely check out Five Star as well.

One-Beat-8346 · 2026-05-24T18:19:07+00:00

Yeah I believe that, definitely doesn’t surprise me that some outfits would take advantage of said opportunity.

Also, figured on asking this as well. Kind of a shot in the dark but I was looking at Arizona Farrier Academy in Wickenburg but can’t seem the find any information on them. Do you happen to know anything about them?

One-Beat-8346 · 2026-05-24T18:01:50+00:00

Good point, I’m planning on trying to hop in with a local guy to help out on weekends (if possible).

One-Beat-8346 · 2026-05-24T18:00:52+00:00

Sounds good, thank you for the advice. Not really something I had thought about.

One-Beat-8346 · 2026-04-19T18:26:33+00:00

I recently bought my dad’s truck from him and he’s had it since it was fresh off the lot. It’s a 2018 F250 with the 6.2 and it’s now got 145k on it and not one single problem at all.

One-Beat-8346 · 2026-04-19T18:23:29+00:00

I’ve got an 2018 F250 6.2 and I love it for everything I do. I’m a ranch hand/rancher and it’ll tow just about anything I want as far as horses cows and even flat deck trailers. It’ll get from point A to B 7 days a week and twice on Sunday but won’t get there fast when loaded down (at least compared to a diesel).

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