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Sunday's gonna be a good day to pitch bedding

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Don-Wi

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We're getting bedding out of a barn, free for the taking, as it's being torn down. Since there's nothing but wet it seems, and it's gonna be cool this weekend, it should be a good time to get started on it.

Dad's estimating 8 loads in the barn, so I'm gonna say it's probably 10 after I looked at it. We set up a blower next to the barn and construct a chute to feed it in, and use the spout off our old Fox IF546 to blow it in the wagons. Works out really slick, as we only have to pitch it once. After the wagons are loaded we simply pull them home and unload them into our blower at home and blow it in the mow.

Hopefully Dad can get everything in place and set up tomorrow and Saturday so we can get something done when I'm back on Sunday.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
Gotta make sure we don't waste time on it, they want it out in a month. Gonna be an interesting month, trying to get in the fields to plant (picked up a bunch of acres), chop 1st crop (whenever it comes) and get the bedding. Time is short, so we'll see how it all goes.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
For years I chopped straw rather than bale it. Set the blower at one end of the barn and filled it. After adding a one story addition on that end, I filled from the side. Barn was gothic arch, cut two holes on the underside of the eave, and shoved a short silo pipe inside. Rafters acted as a chute to guide straw up and in. Had 4 holes in the floor to use to fill the straw cart. 4x4x8 was big enough to bed 70 cows. Chopped straw went farther than long straw.......cows didn"t push it out of the stalls as much.
 
With a manure auger, baled straw is a huge no-no. It'll just wrap in the auger and plug it up. Dad found out the hard way.... Even if it's chopped long it's better than baled.

And it's very true, chopped goes much farther and is more absorbent than baled any day. My prefered bedding is march grass. Holds better than oat or wheat straw, but you use what's available.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
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