Time for a bath

SVcummins · Feb 6, 2021

Time for the bi annual tractor bathing . Sometimes they get it
twice a year and sometimes they Don’t get bathed at all
because they leave home before the car wash opens and
don’t get back before it closes again . I’m really thinking of
buying a pressure washer with soap

db4600 · Feb 6, 2021

Christmas and Easter. Then rest were in the lake.

rusty6 · Feb 6, 2021

(quoted from post at 16:23:37 02/06/21) Time for the bi annual tractor bathing . Sometimes they get it
twice a year and sometimes they Don t get bathed at all
because they leave home before the car wash opens and
don t get back before it closes again . I m really thinking of
buying a pressure washer with soap

I have a couple of pressure washers here but they don't generally get used this time of year. I'd have to use anti freeze in them. Water would turn to snow before it hit the target today. Its -25F at the moment.

rustred · Feb 6, 2021

best is a hotsy then u an have hot water . will cost more buy hot water is the cats meow.

rustred · Feb 6, 2021

wait till morning , its going to get to -40. that will freeze the brass balls off anything.

chuck machinist · Feb 6, 2021

You need to replace some seals!.CM

SVcummins · Feb 6, 2021

Ya she’s got leaks . The right coupler needs new barrels they are broke at the balls and then need a new bearing quill on the pto and new seals again

SVcummins · Feb 6, 2021

I’d sure like a hotsy. My cousin had a little gas powered pressure washer it took longer but with that and soap I could really do a good job

SVcummins · Feb 6, 2021

We are in a warm spell it’s trying to bring a storm In I hope

RogerinIowa · Feb 6, 2021

Is this the tractor with the hydraulics chattering? If so, the motor return may be to the wrong outlet.

SVcummins · Feb 6, 2021

I return to the same one it comes from . It does the same thing when I use the coupler with the jumper hose

gstout · Feb 6, 2021

SV just woudering is that a home built or bought hay spinner? How do you like it?

TBA · Feb 6, 2021

Is that a homemade unrolled-wrapper. I made one years ago. Now just use a 3 point hitch clamp style unroller the only way to go for me.

SVcummins · Feb 6, 2021

I like the hydraulic a lot better

SVcummins · Feb 6, 2021

We bought it have 3 of them

Bale spinoff

SVcummins · Feb 6, 2021

I can spread hay a long ways with it that’s one thing I really like

TBA · Feb 6, 2021

Unrolling is the only way to feed rolls no matter how you do it. All the cows can eat at the same time and manure is spread around and no muddy feeding spots.

SVcummins · Feb 6, 2021

I agree and no calves getting trampled when they lay next to the manger or ring

Texasmark1 · Feb 7, 2021

Man I hear you on that.......a real heart breaker and no way to keep them away from a hoop if you feed hoops like I did. I even put out several flood lights where I fed to help prevent that problem.....course with black calves, it just made it that much worse.

bc · Feb 7, 2021

You have me wondering. How would unrolling work with a horse and donkey? Now that we are down to the two a big bale goes further but they still pull a bunch out and trample it and drop body fluids and stuff on it. When it gets down to a quarter of a ring then the wife is after me to put out another bale so a lot gets wasted anyway. I could probably put a pipe in the middle and chains on the end to unroll one fairly easy. Every time I put in a bale I have to find a spot that doesn't have a hay pile. Each spring I drag around a spring tooth to try to level it all out. Maybe I'll unroll a half of one and see how they do.

farmallsandcoops · Feb 7, 2021

Look up Haychix on the internet. They have a bag that goes around a big round bale. We use both the one on the big round and ones for small squares. The
small square one saved us a bale a week when we had three equine. I like saving 50 bales a year. And the big rounds (1,800+ lbs) would last the three at
least 3-4 weeks. Neighbor makes them a little smaller for us now so the two equine get 3+ weeks out of those.

SVcummins · Feb 7, 2021

Lost more than a few before we wised up and quit feeding in a feeder when the calves started coming . The worst kind is the one that the cows can push the feeder together as they eat the bale

SVcummins · Feb 7, 2021

It works good for horses to

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