Front-End Loader A Better way to pick up and move manure piles

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farm guy

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Hi Guys,

Got a question, I just finished clearing out one of my barns. I use a pitch fork and a four wheel cart to load up the manure and the very wet spent hay. This stuff is thick and quite heavy. My FEL can pick it up fine. The problem is getting it into the bucket. When the pile is big enough I can scoop down and roll it into the bucket. But after a few loads I just push the pile. I am looking for some sort of bolt on forks or spears that can pick it up without just pushing the pile. Now I have to hand load it into the bucket. Not much fun! When I clean out the barns I am moving several tons of material.

Thanks

Farm Guy
 
   / A Better way to pick up and move manure piles #2  
The easy way is to get a "horse girl" to clean stalls daily and put shavings and manure into a big Rubbermaid 2-wheel cart which then can be emptied into the FEL bucket. That's how I do it. Keeps the flies at bay as well.
 
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Hi Fawken,

I do deep litter in my barns and only clean them out 3 or 4 times a year. This gives them a warm floor in the winter months, from the decomposing manure and hay.

Farm Guy
 
   / A Better way to pick up and move manure piles #4  
Three 'thumbs up' for a "horse girl"!

There are even pictures on the web... er, um...

or so I've been told.
 
   / A Better way to pick up and move manure piles #5  
Something to push against, like a stack of RR ties or a concrete barrier. Here is a 3-sided one, but a back wall alone will work

ManureStorageBay.JPG

1manurebin.jpg

Bruce
 
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Hi Bruce

Your idea would work like a charm but, the area I dump is also the path I use to bring in my round bales of hay and that would block it completely. I live in the mountains and there is very little flat land here.

Farm Guy
 
   / A Better way to pick up and move manure piles #7  
Hi Bruce

Your idea would work like a charm but, the area I dump is also the path I use to bring in my round bales of hay and that would block it completely. I live in the mountains and there is very little flat land here.

Farm Guy

I know how that works! My only flat land is under the house.

Here is what I did. The notch only has to be as wide as the bucket.

LoadingNotch.jpg

Bruce
 
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Hi Bruce,

I like your idea, but with my lay of the land I can not do that. The uphill side has a another building and the downhill side has a pasture fence, straight ahead is my hay hut where I store my round bay hay. I have been looking at getting this: Multi-Spear Ultra Fork I think it would do well picking up the manure. Since it will act like a large pitch fork. What do you think? I am trying to upload a picture of the pile to give you an idea what I am up against.

Thanks

Farm Guy
 
   / A Better way to pick up and move manure piles #9  
Bobcat, as well as others im sure, make manure fork attachments. Basically 1" square stock steel about 2 feet long spaced about 3" apart. Could probably fab something to mount to your bucket. Yea like that.
 
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Manure grapple is what I would use.
 

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