The Tenacious Unicorn Ranch / @TenaciousRanch / Steampunk Penny / Penellope Logue / Phillip Matthew Logue - Don't cry because it ended, laugh because it's still getting worse.

[Aunt Carol]

Being abandoned for a decade might do the land some good, even if it may never be desirable grass pasture for a very long time.

An abandoned Tranch would make great fodder for some rising YouTuber's urbex series.

That might be how we finally get images of the alpaca death pits. It'll be some teenager's GoPro footage after they make a false step and plunge through a thin layer of dirt and rotting plywood into a dark sea of rotting meat and camelid skulls.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

I'm just anticipating the Tranch Foreclosure arc coming down the pipe, as interest rates spike (I doubt they got a fixed rate mortgage) and the economy stutters. Whoever's footing that bill is gonna grow real tired of it as it grows.

 

[Open Window Maniac]

An abandoned Tranch would make great fodder for some rising YouTuber's urbex series.

That might be how we finally get images of the alpaca death pits. It'll be some teenager's GoPro footage after they make a false step and plunge through a thin layer of dirt and rotting plywood into a dark sea of rotting meat and camelid skulls.

I'm imaging the looks on the paleontologists' faces in the far future when they discover the alpaca death pits. It will be pretty funny to see them try to work out how all these animals ended up so far out of their native range and why did they all died of starvation.

 

[EyeBP]

An abandoned Tranch would make great fodder for some rising YouTuber's urbex series.

That might be how we finally get images of the alpaca death pits. It'll be some teenager's GoPro footage after they make a false step and plunge through a thin layer of dirt and rotting plywood into a dark sea of rotting meat and camelid skulls.

I'd watch that though I am not sure if the death pits or the investigation of the house (i assume it will be basically remains pretty fast if abandoned) would be the more interesting thing.

That said I recall the water table being not that far below the surface where they are. I wonder if the ground water is contaminated yet? If i recall correctly there was some talk about there being a prohibition on burials for this reason in their area?

 

[stupid frog]

It's absurd. It's July, middle of the growing season, and they're still shipping in hay to feed their animals. And not because they're growing crops on their land and keeping the hooves and mouths away. They could have fenced the alpacas in to a smaller area to grow something and at least got a bit of free food at the end of the summer. But instead, any seed that pokes out the tiniest of shoot gets wolfed down by a starving alpaca, along with a mouthful of dirt and sheep shit. They may as well be farming inside a concrete bunker for the use they make of their field.

People have discussed it before. That land has no growing season.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

People have discussed it before. That land has no growing season.

it does yield plenty of seasoning though, the salt grows abundantly from the amholes. Its purportedly like a cursed Himalayan Pink salt, just don't think about the coloration too much.

 

[Ghostse]

An abandoned Tranch would make great fodder for some rising YouTuber's urbex series.

That might be how we finally get images of the alpaca death pits. It'll be some teenager's GoPro footage after they make a false step and plunge through a thin layer of dirt and rotting plywood into a dark sea of rotting meat and camelid skulls.

If any urbexers are exploring failed tranny compounds, they should go out to Kjel & Niraj's compound of Troonblinka and either rescue the cast iron skillet or give it a proper burial.

 

[EyeBP]

If any urbexers are exploring failed tranny compounds, they should go out to Kjel & Niraj's compound of Troonblinka and either rescue the cast iron skillet or give it a proper burial.

Of course if you are going to showcase the troon desolation Earl should be the host with purely a voiceover David Attenborough style.

It writes itself.

"Here we see the desolation left after the troon hive was removed. It looks doubtful now but one day it may recover however if the troon menace is allowed to continue unchecked this is the bleak future our planet faces." cut from shot of green plains to the dead land of the tranch and finally to a pile of terminator skulls and just below one scraps of a plate carrier can be seen with a faded pronoun patch over a rainbow flag.

 

[KiwiFuzz]

Of course if you are going to showcase the troon desolation Earl should be the host with purely a voiceover David Attenborough style.

David Attenborough?

Werner Herzog.

 

[The Final Troondown]

Jarrod's permaculture project seemed to mostly involve a bunch of fruit, vegetable and herb seeds, some of which stood a chance in the growing season (chard, spinach, thyme) and some which definitely did not (cantaloupes, butternut squash). I don't think we ever saw him plant them.

In order to have any chance he would have needed to grow them in containers or in raised beds filled with fertile topsoil and lined with wood (like a bootleg hugelkultur) but container gardening doesn't feel very permaculture and he'd have needed a bunch of time, money and resources to get all the soil, wood etc for efficient raised beds. Also even with hugelkultur he probably would have had to water the shit out of it, which isn't very permaculture. And between the field serfs leaving and Penny starting up his terrible construction company, there probably hasn't been much spare time or money (or energy) for something that ambitious.

I think the concept of growing feedstock probably didn't really occur to him, because it's less tangible compared to foraging in the forest or having delicious home grown veg on the table.

I'm trying to think how you could even try and salvage some of that land - I'm no farmer but I do garden. You'd probably need to hire a rotorvator or plough because there's too much ground to get in there with a garden fork. Plough the alpaca manure into the soil and then immediately lay down loads of rolls of turf and water the shit out of it for weeks in the hopes it roots and stops loose soil blowing away. Then I guess get planting actual feedstock, and keep the livestock away from it for a couple years while you work on other patches and then set up a system of rotating grazing?

I don't know if that would even work given the climate extremes and amount of water they have access to (and the fact the alpaca would probably manage to get in, or be lead in by Penny who would want photos of them in a temporarily verdant landscape). Even if it did work, I imagine the cost would be astronomical, and given none of them own the Tranch, they'd probably see it as just furnishing Bonnie's pocket.

you'd probably be looking at multifaceted condensing projects, such as wind nets, stone mulch and tarps to strip as much water out of their winds and dew as possible, along with laying down a ton of simple mosses and developing some means of capturing meltwater from the snow

you'd need years of locking in moisture and litter/moss to terrarform the land somewhat and you'd then want to look at putting in tough low lying windbreaking plants
it'd be a decade long project to turn the tranch into useful pastoral land, and that was before the troon squad set it back 80 years

 

[KiwiFuzz]

you'd probably be looking at multifaceted condensing projects, such as wind nets, stone mulch and tarps to strip as much water out of their winds and dew as possible, along with laying down a ton of simple mosses and developing some means of capturing meltwater from the snow

you'd need years of locking in moisture and litter/moss to terrarform the land somewhat and you'd then want to look at putting in tough low lying windbreaking plants
it'd be a decade long project to turn the tranch into useful pastoral land, and that was before the troon squad set it back 80 years

Much, much easier to just move somewhere with a good climate and good soil, and let the area return to grazing land.

Throwing $5,000 worth of infrastructure to grow $200 worth of veggies is not worth it.

 

[Temperance]

Penny lies about being "a farmer and rancher" for most of his life, plus some bonus whining about Christian nationalist sheeple. The irony of Penny calling other people dumb...


Another funny picture where you can see the stark contrast in the land.
Also... where are the alpacas, Penny? Could it be that you guys have been quietly "downsizing" the alpaca herd since they're so unprofitable, unlike the sheep & goats? Surely not!

They will never admit that raising alpacas was a huge mistake. And of course, they'll especially never admit to the mass deaths.

 

[KiwiFuzz]

What the fuck even is that hay pile?

They skipping town and hoping someone shows up by Monday to feed the stock?

 

[BoobWhiskers]

Penny trying to make a superior rant about being some sort of smug lifelong rancher, doesnt know what to call a shepherd's crook, spells shepherd as 'sheppard' while trying to be a fedora-tipper.
Yeah, you really showed those dumb sheeple Penny, gg.

 

[capsaicin]

I'm no expert, but those sheep look to have way too much wool for the height of summer. It's way too late by now, so... I guess it might be coming, given their history of animal welfare decisions.

 

[The Final Troondown]

Penny lies about being "a farmer and rancher" for most of his life, plus some bonus whining about Christian nationalist sheeple. The irony of Penny calling other people dumb...
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Another funny picture where you can see the stark contrast in the land.
Also... where are the alpacas, Penny? Could it be that you guys have been quietly "downsizing" the alpaca herd since they're so unprofitable, unlike the sheep & goats? Surely not!
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They will never admit that raising alpacas was a huge mistake. And of course, they'll especially never admit to the mass deaths.

If they think alpaca are unprofitable, wait till they see the profit margins on small scale sheep farming, especially once half of them die because sheep will literally die because they don't like wednesdays, or there was a noise and they spooked and fell down a hill, or they ate something they shouldn't or...

sheep ARE morons and as such really labour intensive to farm, unless you're going such large scale you can shrug off losses via economy of scale

if anyone hasn't seen clarkson's farm yet I'd advise them to watch it, it's funny and heartwarming at times but it drives home how thin the margins are on modern farming, and the cotswolds is actual prime farming land

 

[AMHOLIO]

Penny lies about being "a farmer and rancher" for most of his life, plus some bonus whining about Christian nationalist sheeple.

I can't give any other reaction to this. There's so many nonretarded atheist/agnostics out there to copy good arguments from yet Penny is too stupid to make a good point.

Another funny picture where you can see the stark contrast in the land

"Sheep shit in their own food, so we piled it up without a feeder to let them do it more." Fucking next level strategies mate.

 

[Winnie the Poohnani]

"Sheep shit in their own food, so we piled it up without a feeder to let them do it more." Fucking next level strategies mate.

Ya know, they really work hard at being stupid AF. We had dairy goats for a few years, and immediately realized that if we didn't set up some feeders, them goats would be wasting one bite on the ground for every bite they swallowed. It took me and my better half all of four hours to build a feeder using spare 2x4s, plywood and scrap pieces of large grid stock panels. Total cost was practically nil and the savings were immense.

But Phil and his merry band of faggots can't even be arsed to do this one little thing that would immediately pay back in reduced feed costs, and less time, labor, (and expensive diesel fuel) spent moving hay bales.

For all his (misspelt) bragging about being smarter than "Christian nationalist sheeple", Phil is deeply, irrevocably, and willfully imbecilic. It's true that you can't fix stupid, and Phil is living proof.

Oh hey, whatever happened to the much-needed and begged-for food pellet machine that would help keep the 'pacas fed? LOL.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Penny lies about being "a farmer and rancher" for most of his life, plus some bonus whining about Christian nationalist sheeple. The irony of Penny calling other people dumb...
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"You have to tell folk when their imagination has gone far on 'em."

Well, since you asked...

 

[Open Window Maniac]

Penny lies about being "a farmer and rancher" for most of his life, plus some bonus whining about Christian nationalist sheeple. The irony of Penny calling other people dumb...

"You have to tell folk when their imagination has gone far on 'em."
- Man who LARPS as a rancher, a contractor, and a woman.