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Behind the Scenes: Loading Up the Chuck Wagon to Feed Cowboys
Jul 20, 2025
Help me load the chuck wagon for a ranch cooking! In this video: @BradfordBuiltBeds @yeticoolers @SmokeyWoodsBBQ #yetiambassador
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Hey y'all come go go go go with me.
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We're packing up. Going to cook on a
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ranch.
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In this box we have bowls, mixing bowls,
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coffee cups, and of course a snouser
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bowl. In this loadout box is all the
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plates, coffee cups, extra bowls, tea
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drinking glasses. We typically feed
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about 12 to 15 cowboys. In this box we
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have an assortment of laundry. Also some
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extra plates in there, but we have a
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littleler box that we always just keep
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our tepee stakes in. Can't forget all
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the Dutch ovens. And we got to have them
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lantern boxes. In the neck part of this
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trailer, we have bed rolls, tepee. We
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got a bunch of chairs up in there. But
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there's extra sidewall tarps, so if the
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weather gets bad, we can close camp in.
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Trailer's got a winch in it. We hook it
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onto the front. If we're at a slope,
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we'll always tie the the side by side on
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the back to where it goes in pretty slow
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and easy. I get a lot of questions about
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how do we load Bertha? It's a whole lot
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easier since she's got wheels on it and
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there's a ramp on this trailer. We'll
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put it in there, secure it in there, tie
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it down to the wagon wheels. We're going
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to always throw in some hardwood lump.
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Even though all these ranches, most of
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them have a wood pile. I don't want to
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run short. Along with Smoky Woods, good
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hardwood. The barrel always goes in last
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because there's not room on the trailer,
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but it always travels with water in the
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barrel so it don't dry out. Safety
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first. You got to have it. One more
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thing we got to load the most important
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food critic of all, the snails. Oh, I'm
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just kidding, y'all. He don't ride in
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the back. He rides up there in the air
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conditioner in a bed. You know, when
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you're on these ranches and you was just
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pulling a regular pickup, you'll cream
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the side of that bed and everything
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else. So, we needed a flatbed and we got
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one from Westgate Trailers. Thank y'all
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for helping us load. We'll see you down
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the trail.
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