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Telehandler vs tractor for daily chores ?
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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 7913595" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>The supply of good reasonably priced local Fresian x Hereford calves direct from farm dried up. Dairies went Holstein. End of beef here.</p><p>We even stacked small bales of straw on the self feed silage clamp so as the clamp went back you just threw a few more down for bedding. Small bales were hard work in the summer usually got in by a gang of school kids, though we could have improved that with block handling and better access to sheds. But small bales made it easy in the winter. I still prefer them. Less waste. Better trodden muck. Dodging bullocks doing 30 mph round the pen could be tricky but you made sure you got bedded up before they had finished eaten up at the tumbrels. A single electric fence wire stopped them climbing the clamp face. Getting the bags of feed to the tumbrels necessitated stick in one hand, bag of cake on your shoulder, then turn tumbrel right side up as they’d always flip them over after they’d cleaned them out. We also had racks of hay on the walls to keep the muck drier. My uncle always came out of the pen with the baler bands hung round his neck. It looked like a considerable risk amongst energetic cattle but he never came to grief. Nowadays you would say the shed was a recipe for pneumonia or n a grand scale but for sure me reason we never had a problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 7913595, member: 2119"] The supply of good reasonably priced local Fresian x Hereford calves direct from farm dried up. Dairies went Holstein. End of beef here. We even stacked small bales of straw on the self feed silage clamp so as the clamp went back you just threw a few more down for bedding. Small bales were hard work in the summer usually got in by a gang of school kids, though we could have improved that with block handling and better access to sheds. But small bales made it easy in the winter. I still prefer them. Less waste. Better trodden muck. Dodging bullocks doing 30 mph round the pen could be tricky but you made sure you got bedded up before they had finished eaten up at the tumbrels. A single electric fence wire stopped them climbing the clamp face. Getting the bags of feed to the tumbrels necessitated stick in one hand, bag of cake on your shoulder, then turn tumbrel right side up as they’d always flip them over after they’d cleaned them out. We also had racks of hay on the walls to keep the muck drier. My uncle always came out of the pen with the baler bands hung round his neck. It looked like a considerable risk amongst energetic cattle but he never came to grief. Nowadays you would say the shed was a recipe for pneumonia or n a grand scale but for sure me reason we never had a problem. [/QUOTE]
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