Clean and use it. Your old friend should be looking down happy to see you back in the saddle. Hope you got two. Horses are herd animals and do better when you have more then one.
Not what I expected to use my tractor for
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farmboy12
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Never had horses. We did bury a goat one time. We used the backhoe on the Case 450 track loader. We went by a few weeks later and it was dug up. We had it narrowed down to four things that would have dug it up. Bear, fox/racoon, bobcat, illegal immigrant.
Rotties are good dogs. We have the PERFECT dog for us. He's a 5yo, 70lb, rotty, chocolate lab, bull mastiff, and one more???. He may have some great dane in him from his structure and speed. Had him since he was a puppy. I'll dig up a picture of him somewhere...
Kyle
Rotties are good dogs. We have the PERFECT dog for us. He's a 5yo, 70lb, rotty, chocolate lab, bull mastiff, and one more???. He may have some great dane in him from his structure and speed. Had him since he was a puppy. I'll dig up a picture of him somewhere...
Kyle
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Thanks. He's a momma's boy though. There was a time he wouldn't even take a step outside without his momma. His human momma.
He's caught mice and squirrels and groundhogs and gotten sprayed by skunks 5+ times, gotten in fights with racoons. He's fast.
He's smart too, if you're just standing in the kitchen, and say "uh oh" or "oops", he immediately comes running to see what's fallen on the floor.
He's a very good farm dog. There's a picture somewhere of him with a leash dragging on the ground, and another puppy grabbing it and following him. He lets babies tug his tail, and try to climb on his back(unknowingly hurting him), and he stays calm and gives kisses.
Sorry to get this off subject!
Kyle
He's caught mice and squirrels and groundhogs and gotten sprayed by skunks 5+ times, gotten in fights with racoons.
He's fast.He's smart too, if you're just standing in the kitchen, and say "uh oh" or "oops", he immediately comes running to see what's fallen on the floor.
He's a very good farm dog. There's a picture somewhere of him with a leash dragging on the ground, and another puppy grabbing it and following him. He lets babies tug his tail, and try to climb on his back(unknowingly hurting him), and he stays calm and gives kisses.
Sorry to get this off subject!
Kyle
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Neighbour had his older draft horse die in the middle of winter in a small 2 horse straight stall in the stable. The door is very small and not inline with the stall and it was a huge percheron. Luckily they were able to get the other horse out to make more room. It was rough manhandling his friend out the door of the shed with the tractor.
They took the horse way out back and buried it with several feet of snow and brush. Next spring when an excavator was there a proper hole was dug.
They took the horse way out back and buried it with several feet of snow and brush. Next spring when an excavator was there a proper hole was dug.
My father had a friend with a similiar situation. After struggling to dig a hole in the frozen ground (backhoe) and getting the horse in, the legs stuck up above ground level, so he got out his chainsaw and cut the legs off and buried them with the horse.
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My first Great Dane, Molly, died of heart disease in February 2008; when there was four feet of snow in my forest. So, I had to put her in a deck box and bury it, and her, behind the house in the snow.
When April came and the ground started thawing I took the box up my hill and into the forest where I dug a grave for her with my tooth-bar equipped loader.
The whole episode was very unpleasant and I wished I would have been able to give her a more dignified send-off.
When my second Great Dane, Delmar, died in September 2008 of a heart attack I had to pull him a kilometer out of the forest (we were grouse hunting) in an ice fishing sled to a logging road. From there we put him in the loader bucket of the tractor and drove back two kilometers to the house. I easily dug a grave for him, with the tractor, beside his beloved Molly.
I miss my big dogs
When April came and the ground started thawing I took the box up my hill and into the forest where I dug a grave for her with my tooth-bar equipped loader.
The whole episode was very unpleasant and I wished I would have been able to give her a more dignified send-off.
When my second Great Dane, Delmar, died in September 2008 of a heart attack I had to pull him a kilometer out of the forest (we were grouse hunting) in an ice fishing sled to a logging road. From there we put him in the loader bucket of the tractor and drove back two kilometers to the house. I easily dug a grave for him, with the tractor, beside his beloved Molly.
I miss my big dogs
