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Spreadin' and snowin'

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Grassfarmer

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Been busy around here lately trying to fight the little blast of winter. -20C yesterday morning with a promise of +22C by Saturday - I'll believe it when I see it!
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A new use for my solar waterer - hauling water to bulls that are supposed to be still drinking from my pasture pipe-line system :roll:
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The corral cleaners stopped by and cleaned out the small amount of yard manure we produce. Expensive by the hour (@$580 :shock: for 3 spreaders and a loader) but with their workrate still the cheapest way we have found to move manure. Sure beat the McKee "lump mobiles"
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26 ton capacity Bunning spreaders with vertical beaters, pulled by 240-280hp Fendts. "Nothing runs like a Deere" :???: - "Nothing pulls like a Fendt" :lol: :lol: The Rolls Royce of tractors IMHO
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Hope they can steer, steer :shock:
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Cows enjoying a lush lease site.
 
No idea NR, they don't pick up much twine here as I'm pretty meticulous about not leaving it around. I learned a lesson on that from the previous owners who left me about 6000 tons of manure in the corrals and in piles - all full of twine :mad: :mad:
One problem can be with rocks but I think they can reverse the floor chain and pull out the obstacle.
 
Grassfarmer said:
No idea NR, they don't pick up much twine here as I'm pretty meticulous about not leaving it around. I learned a lesson on that from the previous owners who left me about 6000 tons of manure in the corrals and in piles - all full of twine :mad: :mad:
One problem can be with rocks but I think they can reverse the floor chain and pull out the obstacle.
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Just need more horsepower. You can spread and shoot gophers at the same time. The old beater type do leave some lumps. They can be dangerous when you are going full tilt and the horse thinks its a bear... :shock:
 
RSL said:
Grassfarmer said:
No idea NR, they don't pick up much twine here as I'm pretty meticulous about not leaving it around. I learned a lesson on that from the previous owners who left me about 6000 tons of manure in the corrals and in piles - all full of twine :mad: :mad:
One problem can be with rocks but I think they can reverse the floor chain and pull out the obstacle.
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Just need more horsepower. You can spread and shoot gophers at the same time. The old beater type do leave some lumps. They can be dangerous when you are going full tilt and the horse thinks its a bear... :shock:
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More horsepower for what? the twine or the rocks :shock: A friend in Scotland tried to put a lump of concrete from his cubicle shed through a similar type of spreader once - they eventually had to strip it right down to the bearings to remove it :shock: Any guesses what that might cost on these $100k+ Bunning spreaders? :)
I don't know about leaving some lumps with the old type spreaders - the custom team we used previously left so many I had to go out to the field with the loader and level the worst of them before harrowing it about 3 times. Talk about an expensive, stupid way to spread manure.
 
I try to Lazy Ace - we usually pile it in May/June then turn the piles over again in July or August which achieves a fair bit of composting effect. Greatly reduces the quantity to haul as we aren't hauling so much water.
 

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