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We had a spectacular day today weather wise, but unfortunatly the fellow who hosted this years plowday had decided to cover the field my club was to plow in a few hundred thousand gallons of liquid manure just before we got there this morning.

I refused to put my tractor in it for fear the rubber tires would soak up that stench and never be able to get rid of the smell, not to mention that field stunk something aweful and I can think of way better things to do.

Anybody else have a ruined plowday like that that?
 
I run my tractors in manure cover fields every spring. That's part of farming.

The smell doesn't seem to stay on the tires.

Gary
 
What a P U S S Y! ('Scuse me, I just had to say that!)

Sounds like a pretty much normal part of farming and plowing where I came from!
 
If it wasn"t for the manure, you would have had to allowed your tractor to come into contact with DIRT.....Ohhhh MY. That can"t happen!!!!

I have tractors that have spent their entire life driving around in manure and a few minutes with a pressure washer and they"re clean as new.
 
Guess I'll be the odd man out and side with the OP. The guy new a bunch of antique tractors were coming to plow his ground for free. He could have spread the poo earlier so it had some dry time, found another field, or let the people coming to plow his field for free know this was going to happen. The stench will come off, but I've tried plowing wet ground before and it sucks. Sounds like some poor communication on the hosts part. I haul poo with my WC and WD, but I wouldn't want to spend all day slipping around a sopping wet field just for the fun of doing it.
Aaron SEIA
 
50% of the Nitrogen value (the main reason to go liquid manure) of lost in the first 24 hours on the field. basicly time on the field before incorporation equals fertilzer value lost. at $500 per ton comercial nitrogen, it's a sugnificant monitary loss. Rain runoff is polution. Maybe next yoar he can spread the manure and plow it down himself and save being called a bad guy for trying to farm responsibily.
 
I don't think manure would be cause to ruin a plow day.Kind of part of the process if you ask me. It would have been nice if he had done it a day earlier but a I really fail to see the problem.
We did have a guy disc the field we were going to plow then it rained. THAT pretty much did in the plow day...
 
Plow Hand,
By his post you would think they are a bunch of yuppies playing with their shiny toys,but we all know this is not true.

Vito
 
It wasn't worth it to me. Instead I came home and resumed work on my math final, which is what I really needed to be doing anyway. Like I said, I could think of better things to do with my free time than playing in that poo.
 
Sounds like a feller I used to run with to show a few years back. He actually got mad at me for entering my tractor in a tractor pull. Now he won't run with me any more.

If you are afraid of working your tractor and a little poo, please, please stay at home with your barbie dolls.
 
OH what a wise man you were . I put my S/MTA in a neighbors shed one time on top of fresh manure as he had turned out his beef cows and we had some sever weather coming in was only in there for a few days till i got a spot in the shop cleaned out to bring it back over , OH MY GOD I put it in the shop at night as i was leavening for the evening and it was warm weather and the shop was warm The next morning i opened up the shop and oh my god this place STINKS where is this smell coming from , it was coming off the tires on the S/MTA the shop doors came open and the mta went outside and it stayed outside all summer come fall the tires still stunk . took about a year for it to go away. Smart Man
 
wish I would have known where that was at
I would have traveled up to 150 miles one way to sink a plow in the ground and be able to plow without a lot of crybaby trailer queens around stopping for everything and anything.
manure needs plowed down right away, he should have spread it while you all were unloading to get the maximum benifit

Like was said he should just chisel or otherwise incorperate it hisself and save him all the headache's of getting that field back in shape to plant after it is plowed poorly

Ron
 
You don't like the smell of poo? Oh c'mon, that's like perfume to a good ole country boy like me.
I prefer that to the smell of the city any darn day.....
Unless of course it's solid waste from the waste treatment plants, and then you can keep that in your cities......
 
Sounds like a bunch of city boy pussies to me.

Imagine that... having to get cow schitt on your tractor tires....hehehe! I'd be ashamed to admit something like that.
 
so basically the field you were going to plow smelled like a field should, you must be a farmer that never stepped in schitt,,,Jim
 
Just a little extra work when you get home, take your trailer queen to the car wash then armor all the tires again so it still looks pretty and be glad that you found someone who would even let a bunch of cowboys root up HIS field. If you can't stand the smell stay out of MY kitchen and go on tractor rides or some other city hobby.
 
Sounds like a schitty situation. Good thing you didn't step in the schitt. Hey, you could have plowed and then ran it up the stream and re-named it Schitt's Creek. All said in fun with no ill intent.

Jack
 
I, too, host a plow day. There must have been a major lack of communication here. I have worked with liquid manure, it stinks, and everything that touches will also stink. There is no way I would have held it if the field was just spread with it. It would have needed a couple of days to dry and then it would work. What about the people who walk around the field and listen to the tractors work? I wonder if the owner/operator changed his mind and didn't want you guys to plow it.
Brian(MN)
 
Before you left did you go over, rub your tractors fender while telling it softly "its okay baby your not getting shutt on your tires today, i still love you" and give it a kiss on the front hood before heading home?.
 
PPUUSSYY!!!!! Thats nothing, mine I drive through a mix of old hay, cow pee and poo, horse pee and poo and never think twice(its only a 50'x50' area but its almost shin deep sometimes and unfortunately its near the only gate we can bring rolls through).
 
Well.... with a year like this, manure is money. Big money. When you stand to lose 50 % of the N in a day or so, you don't want to dog around waiting to get it plowed under. Plain and simple, he stood to lose a lot more by waiting for it to dry up than it would have cost him to plow the field himself. Waiting for free plowing would have cost him a lot of money...
Mabey that point should have been made clear ahead of time... but I tend to think that tractors were made to work in $hit. He probably didn't think much about it at all, nor would I.

Rod
 
I hear what you're saying but its kinda the facts of life. Tractors get dirty and sometimes a little manure on them too. Your tractor will clean up. Right now my 3020 and both 4020's are a absolute mess from the mud and manure from the last 60 days. When it dries up in the cattle lots I will give them a good cleaning and they will look like new again. Playing in the dirt is a dirty business!
bill
 
Could've been worse. Could've got dug in and then you might've had to get off, or out if you have a cab and then had to do some digging around the tires and then hope it don't get dug in more before you get out of that area. Then it'd have been on your boots and in the cab if you have one. I don't have any cabs, but it comes off the foot boards eventually, usually in a hard rain before next season. Only time manure catches me off guard is on a hot, hot summer day, and then it don't bother me as much as it clears the nostrils pretty good, sometimes so good makes the eyes water. And if you pull off to the Quick Mart for an ice cold soda, you can clear that out pretty quick. Maybe thats why they call it a quick mart.

Mark
 
Hey i am A Dairy Farmer and What the Guy did was DUMB ! Just why would he have done this ? Most guys who go to these things have Rebuilt there Tractors and Painted them Extra Nice & some better than new ! And take the time to Drive a Few minites and some even Hours to come the this type of farm Show Just to find out they are going to Plow Through Manure.I WOULD NEVER THINK OF ASKING ANY ONE TO PLOW THROUGH THIS MESS !!!
 
I'm with you on this one. If he knew the kind of tractors coming and what is involved in a plow day, he should have held back. I know it's important to get the shitt worked in as soon as possible, but in this case he should have either hauled sooner to let it dry, or held back and hauled it later.

On the farm we plow under the manure as soon as we can, but there are 2 major differences. We don't have Liquid manure, and we don't host plow days. Plowing in wet manure can be miserable. You can just sit there spinning the tires at times, going no where.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
There's a nearby town that has a 4th of July parade every year and every year, ever since one of the local farmers got PO'd at one of Town big wigs, the local farmer spreads thousands of gallons of liquid manure on his fields the day before the parade. The parade route is covered in liquid manure from spillage but all parties involved are too stubborn to stop. Been going on for 8-10 years I know of.
 
Funny story... There is actually a Sh!t Creek near where I live. As far as I know, there is no other name for the stream. One of it's primary sources is from the sewage treatment plant of a town of a few thousand. Clean these days, but you can guess where it got the name. The funny part is overhearing small children refer to it as Sh!t Creek and nobody bats an eyelash. It's a proper name, so it's allowed I guess :)
 
Guy across the road from me spread chicken litter all over the road last week before the rain set in. I have been drive'n in brown puddles on a chip and seal road for a week know. Have not noticed flys on the tires of any of my rides yet.

(I'd rather drive a good ways to stand in chit than have it tossed in my yard, wander when he's gonna come mow it for me)

I have heard alot of crap about crap, never heard of it stink'n up tires long term.

Dave
 
with commercial nitrogen at $500 a ton how money did the farmer stand to lose a day?How much nitrogen is in raw liquid manure per pound to begin with? A pound of liquid manure cant be 100% nitrogen.Just trying to see how much it would have cost to let it dry. bill m.
 
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