Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions

[ben ji]

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[ben ji]

We turned the Auger on after and it works, should be able to start storing grain in there again.

[ben ji]

I took my brothers jacked up golf cart out to the pasture and the steering strut(?) Broke on a front wheel while I was going 5mph.

Got my dad and we tried to tow it but the wheels wouldn't stay straight. We ended up jacking the front of the cart up then backed lil red up to it and chained the front axle to the truck. This was an impressive engineering feat for 2 city boys.

[ben ji]

I did some actual disgusting work at the cat ranch today. The large grain bin had not been used since 2011 and had a bunch of old rotted/wheat in the bottom by the Auger that I shoveled out along with like 10 mummified starlings that got down the Auger. (Sidenote- I'd never seen the bottom of a grain bin and had no idea they went below ground)

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Also please tell me that most people use some sort of vaccum thing to do this job. I had a shovel and a 5 gallon bucket and it suuuuuuccccckkked.

Filled up 4 feed sacks with wheat/dirt/gunk that my dad is using as compost.

[steve dave]

No, that’s how you do it. I had to do that tons. It sucks crap.


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[KST8FAN]

We turned the Auger on after and it works, should be able to start storing grain in there again.

Need a grate over that auger benji.   I know a guy who lost a foot in one of those meat grinders.

Tom

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[KST8FAN]

I would not trade places with you benji but hauled a winters worth of cow crap today out of the corral. 10+ dump truck loads.


Tom

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[Spracne]

I would not trade places with you benji but hauled a winters worth of cow crap today out of the corral. 10+ dump truck loads.


Tom

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And just like that, the term "dump truck" makes sense.

[ben ji]

We turned the Auger on after and it works, should be able to start storing grain in there again.

Need a grate over that auger benji.   I know a guy who lost a foot in one of those meat grinders.

Tom

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I was not in there when we tested it. If no one is going to be in there when its running is a grate necessary?

You are the grain bin savant so I will trust whatever you say.

[ben ji]

I would not trade places with you benji but hauled a winters worth of cow crap today out of the corral. 10+ dump truck loads.


Tom

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On a similar vein my I saw my dad shoveling cow poop from the massive pile by the corral into lil red. He emptied 1 load into some low spots on the lawn and gave me a tub to take home to use in my garden.

Do you dump the poop on fields for fertilizer?

[steve dave]

Let me tell you a grossout farm poop fertilizer story. Feedlots are like industrialized cow poop creation facilities. They will often be kind of sloped so the poop runs downhill when it rains or whatever. There is one that is next to a bunch of land of ours. They have a giant poop containment pond on the downhill side of it. Just a black water poop holder. Anyway, we put this giant lawn sprinkler thing connected to a fire hose in it. Like one of those that goes in a circle but gigantic and shoots a fire truck hose amount of water (or in this case like cow diarrhea). It blast it all over a field of ours whenever we fire it up. So it’s like a massive spray of cow diarrhea airborne for like a quarter mile. Imagine like you are a majestic bald eagle or a 12 point white tail buck and you’re minding your own business eating whatever sd dad grows in this field and all of a sudden you are just blasted off your feet by cow diarrhea. Sickening.


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[DaBigTrain]

I didn’t know the SD family owned land in SF too.

[ben ji]

Im assuming SD's dad gets the poop for free? Pretty good deal for both parties IMO.

Also LOL at the visual of a 12 point buck chomping on some corn then getting blasted with cow Diarrhea.

[KST8FAN]

Farmers Fight John Deere Over Who Gets to Fix an $800,000 Tractor
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-05/farmers-fight-john-deere-over-who-gets-to-fix-an-800-000-tractor

I would like to hear thoughts from you software geniuses on this forum.


Tom

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[KST8FAN]

I would not trade places with you benji but hauled a winters worth of cow crap today out of the corral. 10+ dump truck loads.


Tom

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On a similar vein my I saw my dad shoveling cow poop from the massive pile by the corral into lil red. He emptied 1 load into some low spots on the lawn and gave me a tub to take home to use in my garden.

Do you dump the poop on fields for fertilizer?

Clean manure went on terraces.  We'll let it dry out then disc it in.  The hay manure goes to ravines to slow erosion.

Not enough volume to justify the SD crap shower, but we probably need a spreader if the head count gets any bigger.

Fanningbrag... it takes talent to get ma nure out of a 50s era IH dump truck.  You dont want one huge pile.  Get the dump bed at the right angle then pop the clutch in low to get it sliding then floor it to "spread" it.


Tom

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[DaBigTrain]

[steve dave]

Tom, I am very familiar with that move on getting stuff out of the back of dump trucks. It is certainly an art and one I may have mumped completely up multiple times.

[chum1]

Farmers Fight John Deere Over Who Gets to Fix an $800,000 Tractor
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-05/farmers-fight-john-deere-over-who-gets-to-fix-an-800-000-tractor

I would like to hear thoughts from you software geniuses on this forum.


Tom

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Sounds like an opportunity for someone to create after market software, just as people do with other parts.

[sys]

i am also interested in the directionality and magnitude of cash changing hands in the crap slurry story.

[Katpappy]

Are the cats aggressive at meal time?  Our two house cats know what spoons clinking in bowls means they are getting ice cream residue or milk and cereal crumbs.  To the point of in your lap meowing hurry tf up so we can lick those out.

Tom

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When I lived in town, my cats and dogs refused to drink cereal milk or straight out of the carton.  When I lived on the farm, the cats would drink it as I squirted it at them from the cow's teats.  I think the difference was the hormones and antibiotics in store bought milk.

[Katpappy]

No, that’s how you do it. I had to do that tons. It sucks crap.


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Canco that! 

[steve dave]

i am also interested in the directionality and magnitude of cash changing hands in the crap slurry story.

I’m not 100% certain but I think it’s a no money changes hands thing. Also irl we could shut their entire operation down if we wanted based on the direction of diarrhea flow towards our land. I think the holding pond may actually be on our ground. We sell them an entire semi truck load of ground alfalfa every single day so we are pretty much on good terms one way or the other. Also I believe all of their other business type financial arrangements are handled by the sd family so there’s a lot of handshake farm mafia type crap going on.


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[steve dave]

I think I’ve mentioned this already ITT but there are two things you need to be successful in cow farming. 1) your family already owns an absolute assload of land and cows and equipment 2) you are a master political deal master of farm mafia activities both farm to farm and farm to gov.


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[steve dave]

Basically it’s hard AF to just decide to do cow farming is what I’m saying.


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[steve dave]

sd dad checks both of those boxes and I still nope’d the eff out of that life at like the age of 4.


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