Around the mess tent would be parked our armada of vehicles. The cowboys on the ranch's South Division drive a fleet of about 20 red Ford Super Duty pick ups. Because Ford was also our sponsor and lent production vehicles, the crew had 10 more white Ford pickups and vans, and two 10-wheeler camera trucks. The odd man out was the Titan Crane, a 19,000-pound camera vehicle carrying a crane arm, which itself had 7,000 pounds of mercury within it that could be pumped from one end to the other to instantly adjust balance.
Most amazing about meal time was that, after just a few days of production, cowboys and filmmakers, with little common background, became fast friends. We were a single tired, sunburned, dust-covered horde, bonded by the camaraderie of working together toward a goal we were all realizing would test our mettle.
So, you say, enough about the food; weren't you guys making a movie? Actually, yes. Over the course of the year, and immediately before shooting, a small crew had already been on the Sixes for several weeks. Even with the vast size of the place - the South Division alone is 40 miles from corner to corner - we had gotten to know it fairly well, and had carefully planned our shoot; 18 days of filming (most of them split days) over 3 weeks. Unfortunately we could afford to build in very little time for weather delays.
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