Should we let animals onto boggy area now the land is so dry.

[Radio]

In ESA years ago and was stipulated for cattle to graze the hill in the middle of which was a large bog,their grazing helps the biodiversity . If no danger of them getting stuck go for it. Big tick from environmentalists into the bargain.

 

[Uggman]

that would be my only concern, would they sink and get stuck? I would be happy to try to lift out a stuck cow with the tractor, not so sure I would want to try to pull out a sheep by hand! And I would definitely be a little unsure about a stuck horse.

You got to pull a horse out if it's stuck by its front feet cows you can do round the neck but be careful you can pull there neck out

 

[Yale]

Det a digger in there and drain it while it’s dry!

 

[Mur Huwcun]

If it's wet now it's a lake not a bog

It’s surprising how wet some wet areas still are. We tried ditching here last week and about 50m from the end 14 tonner broke through well over its tracks, we know fortunately that there’s clay lower down so weren’t too concerned but this is just a wettish, covered in rushes area that is grazed all year around and quad bike will travel even in winter. All land drains are still running here, been around them this week and was very surprised.

 

[nails]

You got to pull a horse out if it's stuck by its front feet cows you can do round the neck but be careful you can pull there neck out

Quite right , i know a farmer on the Somerset levels and pulilng cows out is a regular thing.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

You got to pull a horse out if it's stuck by its front feet cows you can do round the neck but be careful you can pull there neck out

how about using a hip clamp to lift?

 

[Uggman]

how about using a hip clamp to lift?

We've never tried that but we mainly pull out of dicthes or renhyes another thing cows will work out where the wet spots are and avoid them

 

[Vader]

We have a wet area. Cows love it, upto their bellys in it grazing something off.

 

[AftonShepherd]

We've never tried that but we mainly pull out of dicthes or renhyes another thing cows will work out where the wet spots are and avoid them

I remember as a teenager getting a sweating from my grandfather for getting the tractor stuck whilst topping. As he pointed out the worn pad round the rushes his exact words were "even the cows have the brains to go round the wet bits!"

 

[puppet]

Just posted this on another thread. They don't all keep to the edges

 

[Ffermer Bach]

damno, looks like you will have trouble getting a loader close to lift as well, long rope and pull?

 

[steveR]

Just posted this on another thread. They don't all keep to the edgesView attachment 1056546

Oh f*ck!!!!!

Somehow, I don't the Fire Service will be wanting to be bothered with this one either Should be some grip on the gorse?

But that green was so tempting.....

 

[puppet]

You will have to go to Today at Work to see the multinational effort involving diggers, tunnellers, mobile cranes and helicopter.

OK maybe a wee exaggeration