Lets try this again.

Posted by billonthefarm on August 14, 2011 at 18:03:06 from (216.24.115.57):

As I was saying sometimes it seems like if we werent busy I would be bored but once in a while it seems like it might be worth a try. We are getting alot of work done and things reflect our long hours of work.

We are in the middle of a project. We are remodeling our cattle feedlot. After a trial run with a small scale layout we are going forward with the full plan.

The feedbunks came from Iowa Concrete products. I would recomend these folks in a second.

There are 200ft of bunks in this line. It is two truck loads and they really look nice set in place.

I had the local concrete contractor build this. It is 15ft x 56ft and we will store wet gluten, processed corn stalk and hay in here.

Since we were rebuilding the feedlot we thought it was a good time to build a sorting pen. Its three pens really. The first is 30x56. The next is 30x40. The final one is 16x30. They funnel into a set of pens that allready exist that are 20x30.

This was part of the feedlot originally but now will be our bull pen. Its 72x90 with its own waterer and building access. We are hoping the guardrail will hold up well to the abuse bulls inflict on everything.

This showed up about noon on friday. They are all set to drill and will be here in the morning. They are hoping at 5-6 hundred feet they should hit a virtually endless water supply. I am hoping they hit oil instead. A guy can hope right?

This thing looks expensive and complicated. Anybody know how it works?

When we havent been busy here we still have cattle in 4 different pastures to keep track of.

Yesterday we took time to replace a coupld of washed out culverts in on of the pastures. Nick ran the hoe and wrigley and myself supervised. Well mostly me. Wrigley was busy playing in the creek about half the time.

If you are wondering wrigley has partial driving priviledges restored. Nothing bigger than the 4 wheeler so far but if he does well...

So thats what is going on here. We have been busy and truley enjoying seeing this project come together. Its time to get ready to work cattle, chop silage and then start harvest in earnest in the next 4-5 weeks. Around here we usually joke that we can sleep when its winter, untill then we work! Actually today we had a very nice day at a very comfortable pace and we quit working right after chores at 5pm.

I'll get some pics of the well drilling tomorrow. Heck, if your in the neighborhood, just stop in and pull up a lawn chair!

bill

Replies:

• Re: Lets try this again. Tony in Mass. 07:38:35 08/15/11 (1)
  • Re: Lets try this again. Scottymudguy 08:55:21 08/15/11 (0)
• Re: Lets try this again. ohiojim 07:16:29 08/15/11 (0)
• Re: Lets try this again. cuttman 06:25:13 08/15/11 (0)
• Re: Lets try this again. scottymudguy 19:21:33 08/14/11 (2)
  • Re: Lets try this again. showcrop 09:23:32 08/15/11 (1)
    • Re: Lets try this again. scottymudguy 09:38:24 08/15/11 (0)
• Re: Lets try this again. Justin SE IOWA 19:03:03 08/14/11 (0)
• Re: Lets try this again. paul 18:25:57 08/14/11 (0)
• Re: Lets try this again. GordoSD 18:23:54 08/14/11 (1)
  • Re: Lets try this again. NW MO Poppers 08:55:41 08/15/11 (0)

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