FROZEN MANURE ON BUCKETS

[patti24]

It starts disintegrating and breaking, does not work as well as it seems.

The 6ml stuff? It’s pretty heavy weight. Surely it would be okay for the winter? If it was outside for a few years there might be a problem with it disintegrating. I think the stuff at TSC is specifically for outside use (ie. covering windows) It’s also used for vapour barrier I believe.

 

[CausticUrbanCoast]

Plastic sheet I imagine would be worse, it was a heavy tarp that I had to dig out. Wasn't good for anything after.

 

[patti24]

Wife wants a horse; would need to purchase new property. I don't know much about horses but have heard two things about them.

1) 100 years ago, everyone had horses and only the wealthy had cars. The reverse is true today (except those that are "horse poor").

More importantly to me:

2) Horses eat money and $hit work.

No thanks, I'll stick to my Harley's and current ten acres.

Well…yahhh… they are a lot of work…and…cost a lot of money… but it’s a small price to pay for SANITY!!!

(Just like those good ole expensive gas guzzlin’ Harleys all chromed up!!)

Male is to female as
HARLEY is to HORSE!
And just remember….
HAPPY WIFE=HAPPY LIFE!

IF MOMMA AIN’T HAPPY….
AIN’T NOBODY HAPPY!!

 

[patti24]

Plastic sheet I imagine would be worse, it was a heavy tarp that I had to dig out. Wasn't good for anything after.

Hmmmm. Something to think about… yes… I do know the whole ‘tarp’ thing… been there, done that too…and you’re right! It was a P.I.T.A!!!
Maybe if I oiled the bucket well first, THEN put the plastic in…
Might have to do some experimenting!!

 

[patti24]

I'll give you a third one: horses start at a 20yr life span, and like dogs, the smaller the horse the longer they live. Miniatures live 40+years.

Really? 40 years?? I didn’t know that!! One of my big Canadians turned 30 in June!! (She is the smaller of the 2 I have right now…she’s 16++ hh and 1600lbs) so I might be the exception to the rule about big & small!)

 

[patti24]

That’s not something a group of male viewers can answer... and the OP hasn’t tuned in since you asked.

Hey!! As I was reading through comments I THOUGHT I saw one from you about some products you suggested. ???
I’ve looked through all the comments 4 times now and I can’t find it!
Was it you that posted something like that? Can you post it again for me- or tell me where I could try to find it? (Crazy stuff happens with my phone sometimes..maybe it got sucked into cyberspace never to be found again???) Thanks!

 

[CausticUrbanCoast]

Hmmmm. Something to think about… yes… I do know the whole ‘tarp’ thing… been there, done that too…and you’re right! It was a P.I.T.A!!!
Maybe if I oiled the bucket well first, THEN put the plastic in…
Might have to do some experimenting!!

If you want to go that route, it might be better to cut a thinner stall mat to your bucket shape (bottom back and sides). Maybe wire the two ends to one of the larger peices.

Then you just pick it up and throw it back in the bucket. Or use a rope/chain on them and they can hang when you dump.

 

[patti24]

Could line the bucket with UHMW. Dump trucks and mining equipment use it. $15/sqft, 1/4” sheet. Maybe a commercial tote, garage can or bin in the bucket? Repurposed IBC tote with the top cut out?

Our horses/mules had access to cover but preferred to stay outside most of the time.

Thanks for those suggestions!! I will give it a try! Where can I buy UMHW?
Mine stay out 24/7 too…but I still have straw in the barn for them and in dead of winter I put it in the hay shelter where I feed them to warm their feet up (& help melt the huge ice balls that are created in their feathers!). The spoiled brats also have a foot deep straw ‘bed’ outside the barn!

the things you do for love!! Haha
(Well…one of my girls IS 30… so she deserves a nice soft spot to lay those bones on!
(And WHY would they EVER want to go INSIDE a barn whenever they want- out of the snow, wind, & ice to lie down on the foot of straw in there, where there’s lot of room for them both to lay down, or stand looking out, when they can stay outside in it??!?!? NUTS!!! )

 

[patti24]

I was moving some clay with my front end loader a few days ago and forgot to clean it out before freezing temperatures. This morning, I parked it in the sun, turned the bucket over and threw a tarp over it. I will check later and see if that warmed up enough to make a difference.

Ohhh clay is THE WORST- My whole property!
It’s like cement- but cement you can’t even SMASH!! Just like the horse manure!!!

 

[patti24]

Use a plastic wheelbarrow and haul the road apples out to the pile. Why do women/girls love horses so much?

yah… but then I end up picking it up twice because I have to load it in the spring to take it wayyyy back to the manure pile. Wheelbarrows, snow, frozen mud, and me…just don’t work well together!
I’m trying to work smarter, not harder!!
And honestly, I just don’t have the room to keep it up by the barn because I need room to blow the thousands of feet of snow we get!!

 

[patti24]

Try painting your bucket with this;

Slick-Coat LLC - Super Slippery Industrial Coating

Super slick Industrial Coating for plows, dumps,silos, metal roofs, snowmobiles, skis, race cars, pontoon boats, and more. Plow Slick anti stick coating

www.plowslick.com

JUST FOUND IT! ignore my other message!

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^^^
It may not work, but is worth a try. It's made to help snow slide off plows.

 

[3 Horse Ranch]

Thanks for those suggestions!! I will give it a try! Where can I buy UMHW?

I worked for a gravel company and about half of the dump trucks had the stuff lining their boxes. Those drivers spent a lot less time shoveling out spoils/waste/dirt excavated for construction sites than the rest of us. (Nothing like dumping out 24 yards of waste material and checking the boxes and finding 8 yards still in them.) I'm not sure how well it would work of frozen HS though, I think it would help some.

 

[Jchonline]

Just realized that when I say ‘backhoe bucket’ you guys think I’m referring to the actual excavating bucket Noooo! I’m generalizing!!! I load it into the front loader bucket!!
Horses need manure picked up every day or so and that’s why it’s sometimes sitting in the bucket for a period of time!!

Ah well holy crap (no pun intended) that makes a lot more sense now!

 

[CobyRupert]

Does a sledge hammer applied to outside of bucket pop off frozen innards?
The obvious solution is to not store manure in the bucket. Don’t start the job if you can only do 1/2 of it.
Why can’t OP just pile up a bucket worth of manure in a pile on the ground until she’s ready to take it? Either way she has to, or can, move tractor once every bucket load, and can use tractor or skid steer more readily because they always have empty buckets.

 

[Jstpssng]

Does a sledge hammer applied to outside of bucket pop off frozen innards?

Short answer, no. And when shoveling wet material into a steel bucket that is only 0' F, it doesn't take long to freeze. In the past I've taken a 100K BTU torch to mine, just to clean wet snow out if we've had a rain/snow event which then came off cold.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Yes! Backhoe because I have a HUGE skidsteer bucket that is heaped with wood snd I don’t have time to unload it right now (And I’m NOT dumping it in front of the shop, only to have to bend down to the ground to pick it all up AGAIN to take inside to stack! )
Where do you live? I live in the snow belt in Ontario, Canada. It was +6C (43F) yesterday during the day (a rare event in December here)…and it was -11C last night.

yup! It usually is!
Yesterday it was 6C(43F) and by evening it was -11C (12F), high winds, 4” of snow and everything frozen solid, until I went out at 4:00am and it was 5C (41F) and almost all of the snow had melted!!! So the snow that was coming down fast & furious while I was cleaning the paddock was also filling the backhoe bucket (and the dump trailer). After working in that crap, I was wet and frozen, and the LAST thing I wanted to do was drive out back & dump it- because at that point my fingers were so cold they were tingling & I was losing feeling!!
So, yup it froze. And a snowstorm is descending upon us as I speak. And -14C tonight!
So THAT is the craziness that helps contribute to buckets sitting & not getting dumped!

My location is listed under my name.

Bismarck, North Dakota.

Yeah, it gets cold here too. It was -2F this morning when I went to work. Didn't know we were competing on that one.

Pretty simple. Muck out the stall, drive the backhoe over to the "pile" and dump it. Then you don't have to worry about it freezing.

 

[Raul-02]

But if anybody has come up with a creative way t

If the stuff is sticking to it from setting overnight lift the bucket and leave it in the air or ya can't cos the hydraulics drain down put a contractor's type garbage bag over it

"custom bucket liners out of a certain plastic with specialized seam sealing and attachment to the bucket."
Make your own. CLean the bucket sand blast or abrade it and coat it with truck bed compound.
It won't hold up long to dirt work but it'll get ya by for manure.

 

[Boss 302]

I guess if you live in Bismarck you have to prepare for things that a lot of us don't even think about.

 

[patti24]

If the stuff is sticking to it from setting overnight lift the bucket and leave it in the air or ya can't cos the hydraulics drain down put a contractor's type garbage bag over it

"custom bucket liners out of a certain plastic with specialized seam sealing and attachment to the bucket."
Make your own. CLean the bucket sand blast or abrade it and coat it with truck bed compound.
It won't hold up long to dirt work but it'll get ya by for manure.

Thanks! Definitely an idea to think about! Yesterday went from +15C in the day to -7C last night. crazy weather!