Ep 266: When Rebuilding Isn’t About Going Back w/ Kyle Farmer

Yeah, I'm a, I'm a volunteer firefighter and I'm also a burn boss with the state of California.

It's funny when in firefighting, we talk about fuel models and ranching, we talk about, you know, cow days per acre, pounds per acre.

And sometimes we're kind of talking past each other.

Whenever I'm, you know, at a burn boss training, I find it interesting.

They'll talk about, this is a GR four, you know, which, which to me means this is about 3,500 pounds per acre.

And they treat that as a fixed variable.

right but as ranchers that's not a fixed variable so i'm always at these you know talking these other burn bosses i'm like well do you like that it's a gr4 or would you rather it was a gr2 give me three days i'll turn that into a gr2 and maybe we'd rather burn it under those conditions so i think you know one of the amazing things about being a rancher working with the land is there's a lot of things you think about as fixed variables.

And the more you learn, the more skills you gain, the fewer there are.

A few years ago, I picked up plastic welding.

I can fix a water tank now.

Okay.

You know, plastic to me was always something, you know, you can't fix plastic.

Just, yeah, buy new.

You gotta make it out of metal.

Oh, Yeah, no, I can actually fix plastic.

So I guess one of the things I'm fascinated by in general is how do we take these fixed variables that constrain the way we think and the way we act.

And the more variables you can liquefy, you know, sometimes the better choices you can make.

Mm-hmm.

Well, that has a wider implication, I think, is what you just said, how we take the variables and make them a little bit more fluid instead of them being so constant.

I think that's a good point.

We can probably, we'll expand on that a little bit later.