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ParticipantWell, nuts! Guess we waited a bit long to start spreading manure…. woke up to 16″ of new snow this morning and it’s been snowing off and on all day. TV says we’re in for another 3″ to a foot tonight…. looks like manure is going on in the spring.:rolleyes:
JohnParticipantGeoff, we’ve got just a sprinkle of snow now… and it’s supposed to get up into the 40’s next week. Hopefully the significant snow will hold off for another month…we usually start feeding cows Thanksgiving weekend or later… and we’re keeping our fingers crossed for that again this year, as we had 2 fields that we never could get on to cut hay.
Karl, are you running shaves or a pole and offset on the 3 abreast?
JohnParticipantPictures please!!! We’re about ready to start spreading here in MT too… just have to fix the top beater on my IH spreader.
JohnParticipantLookin’ good there Gordon! (even with the tractor…..haha)
JohnParticipantHi Liz… wondered when you’d get back over here! haha We been keeping an eye on you on fb.
October 25, 2011 at 4:11 pm in reply to: looking for volunteers to move an old school house using draft power #69660ParticipantMy thoughts exactly, Geoff!!! Too many times I’ve seen all the attention paid to getting something to move, and then discovering that it wasn’t the only problem!
JohnParticipant@sean518 29376 wrote:
How do they do these things??
– Sean
Very simply….. they’re horses!!
As far as vaccinations go, we give the babies a tetnus shot, but other than that, we vaccinate for nothing. If we see symptoms of anything, we treat it right now, and aggressively. Never had a problem in 3 generations here, and we used to have over 100 head at a time.
JohnParticipantYup, what Charly said…. we had an old Clyde gelding do the same thing…twice…this summer. Second time I figured he was a gonner. Lots of mucus and plenty of distress. Poor guy. Wound up tubing him and he was on just wet mash for a couple days. Vet said he most likely scratched the throat when he choked the first time…. kind of like getting a chicken bone caught in your throat. At any rate, he’s ok now, but we watch him.
JohnParticipantRobert, sorry….I didn’t see your question earlier. It’s a Cockshutt. There’s 2 JD’s coming up in a week at an auction near here… we’ll see what they go for…..
JohnParticipantI’d sure think so Robert! Most of them used a team. It would depend on the amount and type of hay also. We pulled a Cockshutt hayloader and it really pulls pretty easily.
John
ParticipantWe pull the hayloader at our local antique tractor show whith our Clydes. This year, we had a couple older guys on there, pitching the hay (which was a bit green yet, and alfalfa, so heavy). About half way into the wagon load, the one asked me if we could get the horses to walk any slower!! I was already holding them back quite a bit…but those hayloaders can move alot of hay!
JohnParticipant….and then there’s some of us that only get ONE cutting anyway! I’ve still got about 200 tons to cut…just waiting for the water to drain. We’re not that late, really. One thing we’ve noticed this year, the creeping meadow foxtail and canary grass are not only much taller (like way over your head) but the leaves are much taller in proportion as well. The horses are loving it!!
JohnParticipantI have seen more than one made from a chunk of 2 inch pipe as well…. they work just fine, but aren’t all that pretty.
JohnParticipantStill looking at 6″ to a foot of water on most of our meadows….guess we’ll be a couple more weeks out before we start.
JohnParticipantThe bad thing about using any clay is that it doesn’t drain very well. We went with 1 1/2″ crush then down to 3/4″ crush, and topped it with sand. That gives good drainage and yet will stay where you put it….although if they’re going to paw, they can still get a good hole going.
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