Elementary, dear Watson.

[burnt]

O.K. so this is about as silly a question as you will ever get on here but here it is.

How do you all put your salt blocks out on pasture? I tried a lot of ways to put them out so they don't set on the ground or in water - post, wooden box, etc. but nothing seemed to work well until I spied a used 15" tire on a rim on the junk pile one day a couple of years ago.

So I tossed it on the ground with the deep side of the dish up and put the salt block in it. Now the rain water drains out through the slots and bolt holes and the tire keeps the cows back enough that they don't get mud and crap into it with their hooves.

It's deep enough that they can't push the block out when they are licking it. Works like a charm and they clean it up to the last chip!

 

[per]

Sounds like a question with a possibility of many answers. We use salt to discourage poplar encroachment. Put the blocks in an area of younger poplars and the cattle go in and destroy the trees. Move couple of times a week and they don't get too dirty and muddy. The grass comes next year where it was trampled better than ever and the trees don't recover for several years. Using a rim or any other container doesn't work so well for us because the cows nudge it around and the container ends up down a ravine or somewhere it can't be found. (have this problem with lick tubs)

 

[leanin' H]

Ya'll must have such a tough time ranching in area's where there is just pretty, fertile dirt! :shock: :wink: If ya had some nice granite infested boulder strewn country you could just throw out salt blocks at your leisure and the cows would eat them right down to the rock without them moving more than a foot or two! As for destroying perfectly good browse Per, that is an entirely different subject. :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :wink:

 

[burnt]

Ya'll must have such a tough time ranching in area's where there is just pretty, fertile dirt! :shock: :wink: If ya had some nice granite infested boulder strewn country you could just throw out salt blocks at your leisure and the cows would eat them right down to the rock without them moving more than a foot or two! As for destroying perfectly good browse Per, that is an entirely different subject. :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :wink:

Not to mention fairly abundant rain! People do look at the tires laying around the place kinda funny though. It's a sure sign of a sloppy redneck type . . . :lol:

 

[cowsense]

Burnt........a few tires laying around ain't too bad.........the real sign of a redneck is leaving the cars you stripped the wheels off of in the grass in front of the house! :shock: :lol:

 

[per]

Burnt........a few tires laying around ain't too bad.........the real sign of a redneck is leaving the cars you stripped the wheels off of in the grass in front of the house! :shock: :lol:

Well where then should he leave the car that he got the tires off of? :???:

 

[burnt]

Burnt........a few tires laying around ain't too bad.........the real sign of a redneck is leaving the cars you stripped the wheels off of in the grass in front of the house! :shock: :lol:

That car is in front of the new shop. Makes it look used! :lol: :lol: :lol: