Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Bellamy Brothers could make more moola

After a long weekend playing shows in Texas it's an early rise time on the Bellamy Brothers Ranch— cattle sale time. "Our family has played music and raised cattle for as long as I can remember and they were doing it even before that," David Bellamy said laughing. "So that's kind of all we've ever done." Sixty countries, two European tours this year alone the Bellamys are only too happy to be back at the Pasco County place that's been in their family since the Civil War. 35 years after "Let Your Love Flow" hit number one on the charts, The Bellamy Brothers are about to hit another high note, in this second business of theirs. They are trying out a prototype that may change cattle ranching forever, new technology to help weigh their small herd in Darby. A task that used to take a lot of time and trouble. Family friend and fellow rancher Joey Spicola has an invention called the ClicRweight, a point and click from the laptop-- and they have a weight right there on the spot. "Used to you'd have to get on a horse, herd them into a trailer, take them to a scale," Spicola said. "That was a 2-day process depending on how many you want to ship and now we can do it in 10 minutes." ClicRweight's website boasts a team of world-class engineers, including faculty and graduate students from the Engineering and IT departments at Texas Tech University and optics engineers working on NASA contracts...FoxTampaBay

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