OK, I know most of you think of farming and ranching as a glamorous lifestyle where we drive around in John Deere tractors and Ford pickups looking good or ride our horses off into the sunset. I'm going to shatter that illusion in this post. There are quite a few stinky jobs that have to be done on the farm and this is one of them......hauling manure! After last year's calves were weaned in the fall, they spent most of the winter in the corrals behind Grandmas. After a winter of feeding the calves and strawing the pens when they got a little "gooey" the pens get pretty thick with manure. The calves were sold in the spring and the manure was left to compost over the summer. Now that it is time for this year's calves to come home from the ranch, the corrals need to be cleaned out. This job fell to Alan this year.
As you can see it is pretty deep. About three foot deep on the level.
He put the bucket attachment on the telehandler and started scooping
and scooping. 
It takes about eight scoops to fill the manure spreader.
He then drove to the field behind our house and drove up and down while the manure spreader flung the manure over the field.
Cheap fertilizer!
The manure in our corrals covered about 90 acres. It took about a week to complete this task. There's a lot of driving between the corrals and fields. A spreader full only covers about a land and a half. It's a crappy job but somebody has got to do it.
3 comments:
k, somehow, that still looks like a little bit of fun! :) maybe if you could blog the smell as well...
He He He I love the its a crappy job but someone has to do it part!!
As for the smell part, Grandpa Clark and Roger always said it smells like money. So you get used to it and smile all the way to the bank:)
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