The Official Farming Thread...

[Only the Tony]

I can't wait. I bet I could drive that spear through something with ease

Like your truck? They are called super penetrators for a reason.

 

[jblnut]

Cleaned out the steer barn yesterday.


23 loads total or around 230 tons of poooooooooooooooo !!!!!

 

[Bill G]

I wonder how many "likes" a pile of .......will get?

 

[Hinerman]

Cleaned out the steer barn yesterday.
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23 loads total or around 230 tons of poooooooooooooooo !!!!!
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What do you do with all of it?

 

[Bill G]

What do you do with all of it?

Hopefully offset some nitrogen costs
The real value is in chicken shete.

 

[Joe Kidd]

Cleaned out the steer barn yesterday.
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23 loads total or around 230 tons of poooooooooooooooo !!!!!
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Sounds like you really know your chit.

 

[jblnut]

What do you do with all of it?

We store it in a stacking slab and pile it up until we can spread it on the fields to be used as fertilizer. It composts quite nicely while piled up. The stacking slab is 60x156 with 4’ concrete walls. It was sized to hold around 3,000 ton and I’ve never had it more than half full. The government wizards that designed it seemed to think I was going to have waaaaaaay more poo than I do.

Hopefully offset some nitrogen costs
The real value is in chicken shete.

The chicken litter has roughly 7x more nitrogen than the bed pack from the steer barn. Bonkers how potent that stuff it. Pops is spreading in the background while I’m working it in asap. The nitrogen gasses off plus it’s wicked stinky so working it in asap keeps all the non farmers that have been invading us lately from complaining too loudly.


The chicken litter is potent enough that it makes sense to haul it to our farther away fields, dump it in a pile and load it into the spreader in the field. I stuck my lawnmower on the back of Walter, my pickup, and used it as a hydraulic power pack to dump my little red wagon. I have since gathered the parts to put a wet kit on Walter. We’ll see if I can get it installed before I need it this spring lol.

 

[Bill G]

In general the smaller the animal the higher nitrogen content. When the turkey confinements came in west of me 40 years ago folks really wanted the chit. By a huge percentage Iowa is the nations leader in egg production but that is further west.

Egg production is amazing.

Turkeys are just plain dumb......

 

[jblnut]

Mixing some steak food again. This time in a little snow storm.

 

[Bill G]

 

[Bill G]

The pic I posted it funny but so true. One of my sons and I were coming home a couple years back and I saw the neighbor to the south had a Deere 9400T. I said "when the hell did he get a new tractor" My son says " Dad that tractor is probably 20 years old" The guy had been running 8630"s so the 9400T was an upgrade

 

[Bill G]

A couple thoughts when farming was good....................

 

[Only the Tony]

Too cheap to buy a real one. No cost, just what I had on hand.

 

[Bill G]

Too cheap to buy a real one. No cost, just what I had on hand.

Must be close to the Ozarks then............
I am just joshing ya...cheap is GOOD

 

[Only the Tony]

Must be close to the Ozarks then............
I am just joshing ya...cheap is GOOD

Got a friend with a real one I can borrow but this will just slide over old hay rather than bunching it up. I may bring his field drag out in a month or so and give the whole field a once over.

 

[Bill G]

Got a friend with a real one I can borrow but this will just slide over old hay rather than bunching it up. I may bring his field drag out in a month or so and give the whole field a once over.

I am trying to figure out a way to redneck engineer a landscape rake to remove shred after a brush shredding job that left me with waaaay too much cover.

 

[Bill G]

These are pics from last summer.

I need to redneck engineer a way to remove the shred.

 

[Only the Tony]

These are pics from last summer.

I need to redneck engineer a way to remove the shred.

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Got an old side delivery rake to make windrows to burn?

 

[Mastermind]

Got an old side delivery rake to make windrows to burn?

Good idea.

 

[jakethesnake]

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Is this the dog on the bottle??

Tried @eric4 s wine. The gsm blend. Very good stuff. If any of you fellas or your ladies like good red wine I’d give it a go. Pleasure to order from and quick shipping. Thanks buddy! Good stuff