Tim Washington Matador Ranch Cowboy - The Rodeo Time Podcast 171

[@JWsGarage]

These ol Rancher and Cowboy story’s are the best.

[@TheAdventureCowboy]

I am honored to have worked alongside Tim at the Matador for a short time. He is one of the best horse hands I have ever met in my life and I have known some of the best that ever swung a leg over. Tim's wife makes some of the best chicken fried steak you could ever hope to bite into and they were kind enough to feed this Montana boy at their table a time or two. One thing I remember the most about Tim is that he had a big ol' 24' long bullwhip that was "loaded" with lead woven into it. That whip was incredibly heavy and difficult to even swing around your head. Ol' Tim could crack that whip and make it look easy. Great episode, Ol Son.

[@jennmartinez8585]

Thank you Dale for bringing this caliber of cowboys very good stuff keep them coming!!!

[@OppossumBottom]

I sure loved and miss my days of working as a cowboy. Many stories and treasures of the mind. Those memories move through me to this day. Breaking horses, day working cows and calves, ranching and feedlots. It was the adventure of my lifetime.

[@bobbywallace8976]

Love listening to them old cowboy stories

[@kennethparker5952]

I really like hearing these stories, especially the ones that talk about the power of God.

[@ILUVBIGBUCKS]

Great Podcast! No better people on this Earth than cowboys!!

[@robhardwick4969]

So much combined knowledge and good cowboys. And your guests were pretty good too.

[@CORPORAL-dn7nn]

Another really great podcast! God bless you, from Claude Texas

[@cowpuncher5099]

Praise God! Great testimony!

[@bradhill93]

Great podcast Dale! Love seein you bring these oldschool guys on the show. You oughta look for cowboys from different areas too. I'm up here in Kansas and don't know too many guys that tie on. It'd be cool to see the different perspectives when you're done with the Texas tour 😂

[@smokeyjoe1953]

I remember one hailstorm in the early’70’S. I was dayworking on a fairly large ranch and were headed back to pens. Big cloud came up and started hailing big chunks of ice. The foreman got us all under an oak. We pulled our saddles and used them to put over our heads.

[@jodibrown7503]

I'm enjoying these stories. I was not raised in rodeo or a working ranch. I showed Saddlebred and American Bashkir Curly horses and grew up on a dinky 24-acre hobby farm in the Blue Mt. foothills in SE Washinton. Got to help the neighbors move cattle every spring and fall when they moved them up and back from summer pastures. We had an older couple that lived down the road from us. I used to ride down to their house and talk to them for hours. They had the best ranching stories. When I rode in my english saddle, Blaine would tell me "You'd better yell tally ho when you ride up in that driveway with that pancake setup of a saddle". I sure miss him. Years after he passed, I discovered he was a Captain and went overseas during WWII with the 582nd battalion and 328th squadron. Anyways, I think these stories are important to hear.

[@roctoo]

Brandon herrera for ATF director

[@abe1886]

ATF needs abolished. Federal government has no constitutional authority to regulate those things. If any of it needed regulating, should be left up to the states, counties, or cities. My opinion...

[@roctoo]

@@abe1886 i would also agree with that lol

[@markstallings3556]

Another great one! Love these like this!!!

[@curtisadams6114]

This got me! My big tail out here in the tack room, done had to rush over and close the door so no one might see me wiping my ol teary eyes..... I mean wipe the sweat from them haha!!!! I often get asked what it takes to be cowboy or what is a cowboy, and I know what it means to me but trying to really put it in words and do it justice is actually kinda hard to put into words when telling someone that doesn't know or has some fool idea about it! Most folks think and talk like ( cowboy ) as noun or at adjective but it's not Cowboy is way of life, a way to go about life, it's a way to live, sorta similar to the knights of old, it's a honor and privilege and it ain't given , it's earned! You can't just wake up one day and say I'm a cowboy no damn it, you got to do cowboy shit in front of older cowboys and regularly and ya better doing it better and quiet showing you a learning having good manners and being respectful, helping and being kind to your elders if it's just holding a door and smiling, and then staying a Lil longer just to listen to them talk for a bit yes ma'am, yes sir, then one day may get smoked by an ol high headed half brahma half chew toy that's been waiting in a pile of calves for a Crack of daylight to get by you, but this time even though ya didn't cut here back but you turned your horse the right way and got a Lil piece of her smashed against the fence with a touch of anger you better not show just yet, meanwhile your horse been learning too and it's even harder for them cause the fool on his back ain't learned and at young age what we know ain't squat so we pass knowledge down like water from a kinked water hose! So horse does horse things and blows and this day when you finally been on the scene enough and to where any cowboy that opinion matters that you ain't caught em looking at not once in a row, they all are watching maybe even placing odds against ya but today your butt ain't so round and ya get your hand in that dog collar you recently put on after a near death cold back crow hop or 2 piled ya up in ya papaws purple hull peas, which looking back was my fault for riding my horse to close to a rooster fight, being this is also first time meet a rooster much less 2 coming at him in all kinds movement, he wasn't about cock fighting but he left me there like I was in on it, but the cow that just tried to run through the two of ya was a damn site bigger than both roosters he is thinking leave but my spur put us in the right spot but crashed thru yall, and now he ain't crow hoping he has broke into like his bloodlines come Sammy Andrew's stock! The dust clears and I'm still seated and made a hand I'm thinking did this horse buck surprise emotions but trying to have the coolness of Billy Etbaur, turned back to my spot sorting like nothing happened! That's when I finally heard it, someone said did you see that the boy is gonna make hand, someone else said the boy ain't got no quit to him and tough as hell, then quiet for few seconds then coming from the ol cowboy who don't say much and if he does it's half scarey and everyone picks something up and 2 dogs run off and a Lil kid drops his ice cream, kinda voice usually it's what this man sounds like, he said that was cowboy right there, with big smile, I started being a cowboy right then been learning and trying everyday for over 40 years now, and when I think I bout got it figured out, I see this 2 gentlemen you had to day that check every box cover every spot and in everyday there is to be cowboy they perfect example it's a way of life the only thing is know where we all want to the best but instead of being the best you give or help to make another better and doing maybe without anyone knowing ever, lifting others up, everyone wanting win and cheer for the other to win or do better so they! No other lifestyle like it, I've always been proud to be considered as cowboy and have even fought to keep it from being disgraced not that there is honor in fighting but would probably do it again if need be, Today got me brought back a flood of memories good and bad smiling with tears Long live Cowboys I proud to be a little part of the greatest lifestyle ever! Thank yall! One more thing if you haven't watched lonesome dove or the searchers multiple times cause you wanted to, you ain't no cowboy

[@Gregorybridgewater]

Praise God everyone survived the tornado.

[@thenotsojollyrancher-akate9516]

My great grand dad cowboyed for matadors and eventually bought some land from them on far south side of ranch. Branding season brought the crew to the Duncan tank area where my grandmothers siblings would interact with the cowboys and some found mates! Haha. I still own the place and have the original deeds where he made payments to them in London England. I grew up there and went to Patton springs as well as my kids. Lotta great old stories from that area. The original surveyor told Matadors in England that the area he surveyed for them would run 10,000 mama cows. There were no mesquites at that time. My grandfather said they couldn’t find enough wood to burn in the stove. They ate a lot of Prarie chickens! All this was going on in the early 1900s

[@bethlyles2337]

Enjoyed the video

[@robertallen8089]

For more on the Matador ranch read the book Cowboy in a Corporate World by Ray Marxer.

[@TheAdventureCowboy]

That book is about the Matador Ranch in Montana. My Dad is the author. The ranch in Texas and the ranch in Montana were both owned by the same family, the Kochs, for about 70 years until they sold the ranches around 2020-2021. I grew up on the Matador in Montana, but was blessed to have worked on the Texas ranch too for a short time. I even got to work along side Mr. Tim Washington while I was down there.

[@thenotsojollyrancher-akate9516]

Rotational grazing works great if it ever rains! Sometimes it never rains in motley and dickens county.

[@mikehaney9952]

Can’t remember the name of that Chris Ledoux song… says the name of the Chris Ledoux song 😂

[@blakep6589]

well Dale yeah

[@danielowen9104]

My great grandads sister Angie McCarty Browning and her husband Joe Alonso Browning ranched out west living in a dugout. A m my a rode up Mr. Henry Campbell and bought their place and that was the start of the Matador Ranch. Interesting fact Angie’s nephew George Newcomb worked for the Mathews/Reynolds ranch for 65 years there in Albany.

[@rjmadrigal2026]

First comment 🤘🏾🤘🏾

[@michelorphey5227]

Back in the 90’s , we had several “ outsiders” come in here to southern NM, buy ranches, then stick the savory system on them. I was in my thirties, raised out here, punched cows on outfits big and small, and I wondered what would happen if they hit a drouth. Which is half the time out here. They liked to have ruined those places. Pound out a paddock, then nothing there when you came back around. Wind erosion was really bad.

[@thenotsojollyrancher-akate9516]

The forks were still paying 1000 dollars a month plus beef in the early 90s. I don’t know what they pay now but it takes the romance out pretty quick. People been starving down there forever but I wouldn’t take all the money in the world for my raising. Well, there might be a figure!😂😂😂

[@danielowen9104]

A lot of my kin folk back in the old days of the Matador cowboyed for them in the late 1880s. McCarty was their last name .

[@AugustusMcCrae23]

Is there any way I can get my dad on this podcast to tell some old horse shoeing and rodeo stories

[@zacharysmith8902]

The cowboy with no glasses should be on a saddle as a pony

[@tonytiger8451]

Flomot Texas is in the middle of nowhere! Literally! There's NO store at all! Quitiuque is huge compared to Flomot! caprock canyon state park is cool! Big herd of Bison! Drive tru Turkey and Silverton Texas often, headed to Tulia!

[@88674dit]

You goin to be at the wrca finals in amirillo?

[@DaleBrisbyBullRider]

Yessir Saturday I will be

[@pamelavillalva2903]

please invite more cow man¡

[@thenotsojollyrancher-akate9516]

Been dealing with gyp water my whole life. They’ll drink it and you can use it but it corrodes and ruins every piece of metal it touches.

[@Reata_Earle]

Hi

[@OfficallyMcRae]

I don't see how you make a $700 a month truck payment, $200 a month insurance, fuel, feed, a dink horse is $10,000 and up now, vet bills are insane now, and pay rent on a day workers pay that ain't changed in over a decade. Everyone I know that "day works" has a full time job too. Also big country in Texas is getting to be hard to find. If they can afford the cattle they're cake trained. Push em to a lot and ya work em. There's actually alot of factors to why "cowboyin" is popular but not common.

[@brianfrazier5215]

100% More Tim Washington and Old Timers.. Needs to be Long Form only edit out what they don't like.. Joe Rogan is style a long conversation.. not so much editing..

[@mathewmurray5071]

Question? As a guy that preachers and proclaims to be a Christian?.. Why? ....is Trump and his friends so popular with you? So many sex offences and of questionable morals? As a great businessman with you obviously are, would you follow and vote for an individual that has gone broke how many times? Has he ever generated an honest profit in his life? Plus he tried to overthrow the govt. Honestly wondering as an outsider how one gets to this point? Keenly awaiting the reply.