"Corky" Bryan - Hawaii Cattlemens Council

CB: The rest of it stayed in Honolulu so any way… twenty-four hours a day. Okay… we can figure it out.There was myself and we had three supervisors and so we were going to do it, right. I’d take one shift, oneguy’d take one shift. One guy… you know, we had to have a load operator… you know two guys… loaderoperator. Any way, we were going to make it work. And of course, the guys were walking the line in front andeverything so… policeman were there. Walk the line… bring the truck in. We had to do that whole trip, right?And I’m just… it’s driving me crazy because… any way… middle of the night… one of those guys from the…from the line… sneaks in, opens up the gates on about 60 or 70 percent of the pens in that whole feed yard.We had cattle all over the place. Luckily it’s all fenced in so they weren’t running around on the highway oranything like that.LW:Yeah… really.CB: But we had eight thousand cattle all mixed up. Different owners, different stages of this and that. Andso any way we spent the next six weeks putting all of those cattle back together. Seven days a week. Iworked seven days a week, fourteen, sixteen hours a day for six weeks.LW:Just to put that right.CB:Yeah… and plus run it.LW:Yeah.CB: Plus run it and do all the other things we had to do. So in the meantime we hired a couple of brothersfrom Nanakuli that wanted to come and work at the… and a lot of these guys were from Waianae and Nanakuliand they were in the union guys. They see these guys coming, they just get out of the way. So that’s a goodlesson, too. You know. When you want somebody to keep an eye on you, you hire the biggest, baddest guyyou can find. I learned that from… Allan Savory. Any way… that’s a whole ‘nother story. Any way so that’swhat we did. So we had to put it all back together and it took us six weeks. Bobby Napier helped us. He wasa big help. He’d come and help us… Bud Gibson… came down and he loved it… Bud thought it was thegreatest thing. He’d practice his damn cutting horses and all that stuff. Hey Bud, get that son of a bitch out ofhere and any way we had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun but it was a lot of work.LW:And that broke the union, too, at the same time.CB: And then the union kind of… after a while it just disappeared. I mean in fact a couple of the guys cameback to work after about two or three weeks. They just said I want to work…