Would you please explain what a hydradeck is and how you load the big bales on it. I don't understand how the horses can get the bale loaded. Thanks Cedardell. [email protected]
Question for Northern Rancher
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That northern rancher is one slick "hombre" when I think of all the money that has been wasted on hay barns,hay rings & feeders,tractors and balers ..........just think all you hafta do is pile up some hay and open the gates LOL ,dont get any easier than that :wink: ..............good luck
Well Juan,I guess I been doing it the old fashioned way ?I was always under the impression feed was a big expense,especially bought feed wheter it be in bulk/sack or baled,hay is a mighty expensive comodity as a matter of fact some would say a precious comodity especially this year,its my belief there are two things that waste hay..weather & cows,my lil canadian rancher is showing you how to do both,waste hay & money :wink: ...........good luck
PS I believe he is the latter of the two, I think this is a good poll topic
PS I believe he is the latter of the two, I think this is a good poll topic
cedardell said:
I dont know what you and Northern were talking about but I think hydradeck is just a flat bed on the back of your truck with hydraulic arms on it to pick up round bales. You can back up to a 1200lbs round bale. The arms reach down and grab the bale and loads it on your truck. Then you haul the bale to where your going. Then place the bale on the ground, cut the strings with the arms of the hydradeck still attached to the bale you drive ahead and the bale rolls on the ground and unwinds itself for the stock to eat it.
Manitoba_Rancher
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Haymaker why dont ya shut your trap for once. I happen to know that a lot of people do feed their cattle up here this way and it damn well works.
Manitoba_Rancher said:
Why dont you mind your own buisness you lil cheer leader,there are alot of things that work,just depends on your definition of work,and I doubt there are very many folks that feed cattle that way,maybe a lil cheer leader like you,ROTFLMAO...........good luck
PS Now run along lil lady and mind your own buisness :wink:
Manitoba_Rancher
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Haymaker are off your meds again?
Northern Rancher
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Cedardell here is my bale sleigh-you can either pull up beside or back into a bale with it-then you throw the arms over the bale and pin it in the middle-there's a little metal slip I throw dopwn that the bale rides on. When you get to where you want to feed you back up-pull up your metal slip and cut twines and unroll your bale. It works really good-I bought that team as weaners-16 years ago and learned how to drive horses with them. Even in -40 you don't get as cold as you think feeding that way.
Thank you for posting a picture of your hydradeck. I guess we found out who the blowhards are on this websight. Cedardell Farms had the world champion pulling horses in 1937 and 1938. They were big Belgums like yours. I've feed a lot of cattle with a team, but got away from it when our horse shoer died. I hate shoeing the big ones. They can be worse than mules. You really crunched a nerve here, maybe I'll try it again.
Big Muddy rancher
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Haymaker what are you buying feed for? You don't get any snow so you should be able to graze year round. We do when the snows not to deep.
I like your bail loader Northern! Lots of guys using similair homemade rigs around here except we havnt really been getting the snow to use them lately.
People can laugh if they want but horses make a lot of sense depending on the particular outfit. No big tractor payments, no plug in<some outfits have no electricity where they are calving>, no repair bills, no fuel bills, plus they dont tear up your range.
The decks I have seen around here are smaller with only two runners.
People can laugh if they want but horses make a lot of sense depending on the particular outfit. No big tractor payments, no plug in<some outfits have no electricity where they are calving>, no repair bills, no fuel bills, plus they dont tear up your range.
The decks I have seen around here are smaller with only two runners.
Until a couple of years ago,we always fed with horses.Greg also hates tractors,nothing wrong with that just difference in everyones make-up.We started with a team of horses and used a hayrack,were baling small square bales at the time. When we started with round bales,greg bought a round bale haler,that used one horse....had two arm,and somehow, lifted the bale,will have to ask greg how it worked.
Because of gregs job commitments,and hours,unfotunaltly a baletruck was needed.....
Our kids and nieces and nephews still talk about the fun they had helping greg feed cows with the hayrack,boys killing the baby mice in the stack...girls bringing them home,to save thier lives.
NR...do what works for you,and anyone that thinks your lazy...maybe they should harrnass up a team of horses and drive them in fourty below weather...see how lazy you are.
Because of gregs job commitments,and hours,unfotunaltly a baletruck was needed.....
Our kids and nieces and nephews still talk about the fun they had helping greg feed cows with the hayrack,boys killing the baby mice in the stack...girls bringing them home,to save thier lives.NR...do what works for you,and anyone that thinks your lazy...maybe they should harrnass up a team of horses and drive them in fourty below weather...see how lazy you are.
Badlands
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NR,
If I understand you correctly, you don't winch the bale up onto the deck of the sleigh?
You just pull it onto the "slip" (old hood off a car?), and the slip is hooked to the sleigh?
Thanks, that looks like a nice rig.
Badlands
If I understand you correctly, you don't winch the bale up onto the deck of the sleigh?
You just pull it onto the "slip" (old hood off a car?), and the slip is hooked to the sleigh?
Thanks, that looks like a nice rig.
Badlands
High Plains
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When I was a kid (not too long ago, in the 80's) Dad and brother and I fed with a team. Real nice pair of Percheron geldings, coal black and built to pull rather than for height. Finest pair of horses I've ever had the pleasure to be around. We put up hay loose in stacks over on the western slope of Colorado so we pitched the hay on the hayrack and pitched it off again to the cows. It was a little bit of work but kept a body warmed up a little. Good times, good times.
One of the nicest things about using a team is that you get to hear all of the sounds of nature, not a diesel engine and radio to mess up what God made for us. I'll admit that I like the climate control and speed of tractors, particularly useful to bigger outifts that don't have any extra time or labor. But there's sure something to be said for those horses. Whoever coined the phrase that draft horses are "gentle giants" sure got it right in many cases. But not always! :wink:
I also put up some hay with a team when I was a freshman in high school, a pair of bays. The left-hand horse always wanted to jig along when he was working but by the time we got done haying that summer he was as steady as his right-hand partner. Lots of sweaty collars makes for good and sensible teams. Not too many people my age have ever held the lines on a working team. Kind of small spot of pride for me, just to say that I've been there and done that. Wish I had pics to post here.
One of the nicest things about using a team is that you get to hear all of the sounds of nature, not a diesel engine and radio to mess up what God made for us. I'll admit that I like the climate control and speed of tractors, particularly useful to bigger outifts that don't have any extra time or labor. But there's sure something to be said for those horses. Whoever coined the phrase that draft horses are "gentle giants" sure got it right in many cases. But not always! :wink:
I also put up some hay with a team when I was a freshman in high school, a pair of bays. The left-hand horse always wanted to jig along when he was working but by the time we got done haying that summer he was as steady as his right-hand partner. Lots of sweaty collars makes for good and sensible teams. Not too many people my age have ever held the lines on a working team. Kind of small spot of pride for me, just to say that I've been there and done that. Wish I had pics to post here.
Faster horses
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Reading all this, I think we will have a new catagory for the photo contest.
"Teams of Horses."
"Teams of Horses."
Northern Rancher
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hose two runner sleighs are pretty rough to rode and are a bit hard on hoirses shoulders=this two bob sleigh is quiit a bit smoother. You don't need to winch your bales up with this either. I'd like to get one with a winch on wheels for when there's no snow-we haven't been able to use horses for a few years because of lack of snow or ice. A friend is building one with an electric winch that runs off a battery-he somehow uses something off the wheels to charge his battery up. Sorry about being vague but if it don't crap or make tracks I can't follow it. You can feed a pile of cattle with a good team in a pretty short time-alot of outfits pay a hired mans wages by starting young teams in the winter. Those old girls cost me $300 a piece as weaners and I've sold over 15 grand worth of offspring from them-these were the teams-tess/tickle-bums/chums-nuts and bolts-becky and bunny-scotch and soda-plus a few singles along the way. I think they don't owe me much for sure-never had a tractor squirt out it's replacement every spring.
I wouldn't worry to much about haymaker. I'd like to see his cows after two months in 40 below temps in two feet of snow. I'll bet he's not smart enough to get his tractor started in those conditions. Poor cows. If he did take it in the house and get it running somehow who up there is going to pull him out when he gets stuck. So would you go out and harness up the team and pull him out?
