Today's funny

jon f mn

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• Jan 23, 2020

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farmerjohn

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• Jan 23, 2020

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Very true!

 

Bruce from Can.

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Woodville, Ontario, Canada

• Jan 23, 2020

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Water troughs are child?s play. Stable cleaner with a 40 foot shoot and below Zero Fahrenheit temperature, that will divide the men from the boys.

 

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Bob Bancroft

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Aurora NY

• Jan 23, 2020

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Did it break again?

 

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Charlie M

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• Jan 23, 2020

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Going out to spread manure with a tractor with no cab and the wind blowing can add to your experience.

 

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Brown Swiss

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• Jan 23, 2020

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Had an 18 footer then an old box spreader to take it out with, start to finish you cross your fingers and start praying nothing goes wrong! Lol

 

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IaLeo

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• Jan 23, 2020

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Separating men from boys? I remember the boy part: In the dark, with the Coleman lantern, kneeling on dirty ice, trying to light the kerosene burner down under the water tank for the hogs. Farming was not too appealing at that moment. Leo

 

Bruce from Can.

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Woodville, Ontario, Canada

• Jan 23, 2020

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There is a nice view from the top of the stable cleaner shoot , let?s just leave it at that, lol

 

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stevob671

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• Jan 23, 2020

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...or when the barn stanchen water cup feed line froze up and now carrying multiple 5 gallon pails to each and every cow in the barn. Lucky if they only drank 1. You also learned to keep the cistern full so the supply pipe from the well didn't freeze up. Then you were hauling water outside 200' from the chicken coop. Only did that once! (or twice?)

 

formerly ny bill

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• Jan 23, 2020

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add to the water and manure fun, plowing the driveway for 2 or 3" of snow (or more), day after day so the milk truck, feed truck, etc etc can get in with minimal ice buildup, followed by the inevitable ice buildup and unfrozen sand search.......

 

tomstractorsandtoys

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• Jan 23, 2020

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I started with a loose housing bedding pack barn but always thought one of those manure stackers would be great if you had a stable barn. The farm we have now had just a regular barn cleaner that went up just enough to get over a spreader. With all the problems it caused I can't imagine what it would be like to have a stacker. On mine I could stand in the loader bucket for repairs.LOL Worst I ever heard was a farmer that had a Knight slinger spreader and to get all of his manure to fit would let the pto run on the spreader while filling it. Patz chain came apart behind the sprocket and fed the chain into the spreader which wrapped it around the augers. Tom

 

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Fatamus

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• Jan 23, 2020

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(quoted from post at 05:09:10 01/23/20) Going out to spread manure with a tractor with no cab and the wind blowing can add to your experience.

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Man, you sound exactly like Sam Elliott. :shock:

 

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john in la

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What part of in La do you not understand

• Jan 23, 2020

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Other then the mud because there is not enough heat to evaporate all this rain I will take winter every day and twice on Sunday.

The high of 62 we are expecting today sure beats the heat of summer.

 

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fixerupper

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• Jan 23, 2020

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(quoted from post at 05:09:10 01/23/20) Going out to spread manure with a tractor with no cab and the wind blowing can add to your experience.

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When you are sweaty after pitching it on by hand.

 

Fawteen

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Downeast Maine

• Jan 23, 2020

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Oy. Been there, done that. All while praying the "frost proof" hydrant hadn't frozen up overnight. Again.

 

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DRussell

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• Jan 23, 2020

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Been there, done that.

 

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big jt

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• Jan 23, 2020

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Early spring also, OOHHH THE MUD!!

 

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ss55

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• Jan 23, 2020

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A high of 62F isn't summer?

 

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K Effective

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• Jan 23, 2020

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to the OP: a tank very similar to that led to my best ever lesson learned- whilst swinging the axe enough to break the ice, BUT not out of control so as to not puncture the tank, and meanwhile, stretching the 1970's blue nylon snowmobile suit super tight across my backside, I managed to locate the electric fence, and found out that the suit does NOT provide electrical isolation!!

 

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jeffcat

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• Jan 23, 2020

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No that raises your testosterone levels!

 

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aFORDable

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• Jan 23, 2020

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Had the pleasure of doing that this morning.

 

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bcdave

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• Jan 23, 2020

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I used to do that twice a day when I was a kid. Hauled warm water from the house in buckets. Dad figured the cows would drink more if the water was warm. I spent my Easter holiday cleaning the pens and spreading by hand. I didn't have to go to the gym. It was sure sweet when we borrowed a friend's old Ferguson and loader one year to load the trailer. I only had to handle it once by hand.
Dave