What a day in NY

JayinNY

Well-known Member
Well after a great day yesterday with ACG guy and friends, today it rained off and on, Sometimes very heavy rain it's still raining now at 6:30, just snapped a picture of the cows out in the rain. Had to put on the rain coat and pants to empty the manure spreader at the horse farm., Oh well I'll give these cows some hay lock up the chickens make a fire and get some dinner! Lol
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Mud season here now for sure, just need that frost to break, it will all perc down in no time, have to see what the weather does.

I know the pouring rain, empty the spreader routine with an open station 3600 ford, I used to stand the whole time with an umbrella, at least I could pull in/out of the barn when done. For brief period in '11 I had to drive 30 miles to the other place just to do that, could not trust the help at that time on any equipment, the HS kid we had who took his own life was more trustworthy and ran the tractor and the spreader soon after, we miss him quite a bit, darned good kid, makes me think of him, the tractor and spreader.
 
Our barn is pull threw too, or has a shed row in the center,,by far the easiest way to have horses! Drive tractor and spreader or dump wagon threw and clean the stalls! Lol
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We can do that and its been done in the past, but there is not a lot aisle room and its cumbersome to toss pitchfork loads to it, then you have to move it every so often, + the diesel fumes. More room would be much better, the other barn is 50' clear span in the middle. I built a ramp that was used for years, push those manure carts up and dump. they use one now, but at a different location than where mine was. the tractor and spreader was much lower, worked good for me. When stripping stalls, I would bring the spreader right up close in the other barn, lot of material comes out when taking them down for stone dust or repair, was shocked at how much came out of some of them. You can see the small end door, its open on both ends, but that's the aisle for the back barn, stalls are to each side, the bigger building on left is a huge riding arena. I can turn a long wheel base tandem truck around in that one with lots of room to spare. '06 I believe, last run of compost I made with that little tractor.
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Maybe not the best pic before , but here are some more, First pic is my tractor in the barn I work in, it is pretty easy to work in these barns, but at Highcliff they would hang the feed bucket on the outside of the door, so it was a little tight moving between the dump wagon and the doors. Lol
The last pic is a 40 stall barn I worked in there 270 feet long. They also had a 20 and 24 stall foaling barn.
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Forgot to mention, if you zoom in on the last pic, there is a light line across the floor, that was the center doors of the barn! Or the center of the barn.
 

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