cutipacker for breaking up manure in pasture?

[cglaser104]

Ye' ol' landscape rake! I have one of those....one of my favorite attachments truth be told. I use mine for driveway work, dirt's grading and debris cleanup. Its action is similar to a spring tooth harrow but with a more dense set of fingers

 

[5030]

Do what all us poors do; grab a piece of hog panel, through a couple bricks on one end, use an old beat up piece of rope (must break at least twice during the process) to tie it to your fourwheeler or tractor, and zigzag all over that place.

Works too. I use a Fuerst tine harrow drag mat myself, with the tines facing forward. No rope here. I use a length of chain myself. Had it for about 15 years and no discernable wear on the tines.

 

[Elviscaretaker]

I like the idea of the landscape rake. Even though I found some stripped mattresses, chainlink fence and enough old oil pipe today to be able to weld something up. I've cable, tug rope and chain on hand for linking up. I have a 12.5 +/- area that I need to keep up on which is much better than last years boondoggle. Thinking with the landscape rake it'll thatch it also and if I pull one direction that'll make it easy to clean it up and run it to the compost... Thanks for the ideas, now to just implement one!

 

[Elviscaretaker]

These are my pulling options. While the green one is very nice, I prefer to use the blue one most of the time. It just can't run the baler...

 

[bcp]

Just bolted together laying down,, if you get real rambunctious, you can add a second row.

If you bolted 5 together, pull from #2 and #4,, for a more even pull.
I use a cable as a drawbar, rather than chain. The 5/8" cable stays pretty rigid.

Illustrations:

To keep them from collecting rain water, you could cut off the bottom sidewall. It looks like the builder in the left photo did that

Bruce

 

[Elviscaretaker]

Illustrations:

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To keep them from collecting rain water, you could cut off the bottom sidewall. It looks like the builder in the left photo did that

Bruce

I like this also, could even let the grandkids "pretty" them up with some paint on the tires. Then I can just leave it in the bull pen and they can abuse them instead of my fence?

 

[CADplans]

I like this also, could even let the grandkids "pretty" them up with some paint on the tires. Then I can just leave it in the bull pen and they can abuse them instead of my fence?

Are your grandkids THAT hard on your fence??

I fixed it so the grandkids had something to tear up,, and it is made out of tires,,
it is going on 4 years old,, and it is VERY popular,,

as welded (out of scraps)





Painted, buried, and the tires going on.



It ended up with six tires,, and NO ONE has been on top of the top tires,,,,,, YET!!,,

 

[kubota shifty]

A harrow, fence panel or gate will work best to break up manure piles, however that also depends on what kind of manure piles. I built a 3 pt mounted arena rake that is basically a glorified spike tooth harrow with a drag bar on the back and it worked quite well on a horse pasture last week. Grass kind of bunched up on the teeth which made it drag and spread poop piles even better.

I'd be interested in how you built a 3 pt frame. I pick up my drags with the front loader, get them in the arena, and then connect them to the back. A pain in the rear. One is a chain harrow and one is a chain link get.

 

[Gord Baker]

An old square toothed spike Harrow works well. I like the truck tire idea too, except when it is cleanup time. Perhaps leave them on the rims!

 

[Elviscaretaker]

Are your grandkids THAT hard on your fence??

I fixed it so the grandkids had something to tear up,, and it is made out of tires,,
it is going on 4 years old,, and it is VERY popular,,

as welded (out of scraps)

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Painted, buried, and the tires going on.

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It ended up with six tires,, and NO ONE has been on top of the top tires,,,,,, YET!!,,

LOL, I should have clarified, the bulls are hard on the fence. The grands found out the hard way it's electrified so they won't go near it. I have 3 that will be moving next door on a lot we put aside for them, I'll find out later how hard they are on things. Hopefully they want to learn this stuff while we do. I like the tire toys though...

 

[BeezFun]

I made a manure vacuum because we only have 4 horses, but you can buy commercial ones that will handle pretty large amounts of cattle and horse manure. It depends how much land and how many cattle and how much trouble you have with parasites. Depending on how hot and dry it gets where you are, dragging the manure may not help much controlling the parasites and may actually make it worse if the weather stays cool and damp.

 

[bcp]

I'd be interested in how you built a 3 pt frame. I pick up my drags with the front loader, get them in the arena, and then connect them to the back. A pain in the rear. One is a chain harrow and one is a chain link get.

Try using a boom pole. Here is one example.

Bruce

 

[Elviscaretaker]

I made a manure vacuum because we only have 4 horses, but you can buy commercial ones that will handle pretty large amounts of cattle and horse manure. It depends how much land and how many cattle and how much trouble you have with parasites. Depending on how hot and dry it gets where you are, dragging the manure may not help much controlling the parasites and may actually make it worse if the weather stays cool and damp.

Pretty dry here except when I irrigate. Our big problem is flys. I picked up a gadget called a durabull, it's built locally and it's for the cattle to rub against. While they do that it dispenses bug control on them. I was also informed that we will be getting chickens this morning so I think I'll have them in behind the cows as we move them paddock to paddock. I've heard good things doing that but I also doubt they can keep up with the poop machines we have.
Right now we are herd building, 7 with 2 on the way. It'll take a while unless I pick up a few more girls. Pretty sure the 2 yet to be born are bulls.

 

[Elviscaretaker]

Try using a boom pole. Here is one example.

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Bruce

That's a clever idea! Only drag where you want it.

 

[kubota shifty]

Try using a boom pole. Here is one example.

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Bruce

Yep. I need to stop cheaping out and get one.

 

[jeff9366]

Try using a boom pole.

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[Joe Batt]

To spread after I clean out the sheep barn wih the bucket and a dump wagon, I run the bush hog over it. It doesn't work great, but better than nothing.

 

[Elviscaretaker]

I think I'm starting to formulate a plan here. Since I hate leave my place these days, while out cleaning up stuff left here over the years I've found more that enough stuff to try a few of these ideas out. A little change up on the boom though. I use my 3 pt tow hitch for more than just towing, I made a fence roller out of a dead disk harrow axle and now I think I can weld something together to add a boom to it also. Hang the tires or chainlink but I think I saw a partially buried tooth harrow (?). If that what it is I have 3 ways to play around with it. The idea of being able to lift it completely off the ground will be helpful. Then using it to pop up young weeds would be great also. I freaking hate goat heads!

 

[Elviscaretaker]

To spread after I clean out the sheep barn wih the bucket and a dump wagon, I run the bush hog over it. It doesn't work great, but better than nothing.

Right now I clean their pen by hand and put it into a compost pile, then turn it with blue. Then I move it to another location with green (faster) when the pile gets too big and it's time to start a new one. Comes out pretty fine with all the moving of it but I still need to figure out or buy something to spread it on the fields. Amazing how much poop 7 cows can generate in a short time, all while pooping out in the fields also. I might be too much of a clean freak to be a good farmer.

 

[Elviscaretaker]

Yep. I need to stop cheaping out and get one.

It's good to be cheap sometimes. You can spend and spend on attachments!