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ParticipantIt’s pretty tough to find ANY lime within 100+ miles of here. If it isn’t applied or a concern to commercial wheat/barley rotations (and it’s not), nobody carries it (or cares about it). Sheesh.
ParticipantTim – so you feel it’s alright to use as a soil amendment?
ParticipantSo what’s the verdict for tomorrow – 4/15?
ParticipantYou bet Andy – I have plenty of ox candidates out in the barn right now – 8 or 10 Holstein bull calves, ranging from 2 to 8 weeks in age.
ParticipantRobert – how about this Sunday? 4/15. I decided not to travel to the Odessa WA event this weekend so Sunday could work. Plow is still in the trailer ….. I know it’s short notice.
ParticipantAndy – you never cease to amaze me with your vision. Nice work. Have you looked at that “other” multi-tool (not the homesteader)? Any thoughts on its design?
I think that there’s always “the right sized rock” out there waiting to plug up tillage equipment. I had a potato sized rock wedge between my rolling coulter and my plow point. Trash accumulated quickly and the plow was actually forced up out of the ground (with me on it). Darn rocks.
ParticipantHi Oxman,
Welcome to DAPNet. Glad to have you onboard and adding to the oxen component here.
ParticipantHey Robert – Sat 28th will do. Gotta be back home on Sunday though as my wife is heading over to visit our son in West WA. So what do you want to do? Plow? Disc? Harrow w/ forecart? ……
ParticipantGood you were able to get out there! Animals have a great way of looking at you so as to make you feel guilty.
ParticipantPeyton – if you have an RV repair shop near you (check the phone book) they often have 3000# axles from folks “bottoming out” the RV going over potholes, speed bumps etc. The guy near me just says “take ’em” – saves him hauling them for scrap. The axle tube might be bent but you’ll likely cut that part out to make your cart not as wide as an RV : ) Check it out and good luck. A forecart is a pretty good thing to have right off.
To work my horses some before the fields are dry enough, I used my forecart with 2 old 30 inch tractor tires dragging behind it (they have CaCl in them as well). Just go down the gravel road …..
ParticipantHi Billy – welcome to DAPNet. Always room here for another Scotsman!
ParticipantGlad to have you with us, Jolianne and Jonathan. Wow – 180 families in your 3rd yr, you must be doing something right! Congrats and welcome again.
ParticipantNice work Stewart!
ParticipantI saw that (DAP sends an e-mail notification) do I cleared out a few PMs from my INBOX.
ParticipantNo problem Andy – I think your grazing experience fits here. IME – grazers will select the young, actively growing plants (species) over those even just a little more mature. We saw it with cattle who picked tall fescue over orchard grass in a pasture. The fescue was shorter, finer and less mature than the orchard grass, although the orchard g was only about 8-10 inches tall itself. It really opened my eyes to the “mob grazing” concept – give them no opportunity to select by restricting paddock size to very small. That’s the “management intensive” part of MIG. Horses SHOULD operate in a similar fashion if restricted but I do recall comments regarding horse pasturing in any but the dry times as detrimental to the paddock’s health via hoof damage.
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