Another stinking day on this job

[Bruce from Can.]

Someone once said “as long as you keep livestock, you’ll have dead stock”. And indeed this is correct, but I never heard anyone say, as long as you keep livestock, you’re going to have to spread manure!

 

[DRussell]

Stinky, but it's the sweet smell of progress. What my dad used to say about it.

 

[Mike Groom]

I always thought the worst smelling was cleaning calf pens on our dairy farm, you had to smell it twice, when you pitched it on the spreader and when you spread it in the field!

 

[Tgrasher]

I can still see that brand new Case 350 with loader, sitting next to the barn, as I got off the school bus in 1958. Oh happy day! No more forking spreaders full. Smell, what smell? There were only three scents in those days, cow poo, plowed dirt, and fresh cut hay.

 

[4520BW]

I always thought the worst smelling was cleaning calf pens on our dairy farm, you had to smell it twice, when you pitched it on the spreader and when you spread it in the field!

Worst smell is rotten beans! I'll take hog crap over that any day.

 

[rustred]

Someone once said “as long as you keep livestock, you’ll have dead stock”. And indeed this is correct, but I never heard anyone say, as long as you keep livestock, you’re going to have to spread manure!

thats the smell of farm money ,lol.

 

[Bruce from Can.]

thats the smell of farm money ,lol.

And worth more each year as fertilizer prices climb

 

[ss55]

Someone once said “as long as you keep livestock, you’ll have dead stock”. And indeed this is correct, but I never heard anyone say, as long as you keep livestock, you’re going to have to spread manure!

If you need a feed grinder you also need a manure spreader.

Some Wisconsin T-shirts say it quite well.

https://www.amazon.com/Wisconsin-Smell-Our-Dairy-Air/dp/B07NVVTYMW

 

[560Dennis]

what mfg. is that spreader ?

 

[560Dennis]

what mfg. is that spreader ?

 

[Bruce from Can.]

what mfg. is that spreader ?

Hagedorn

 

[john in la]

as long as you keep livestock inside you’re going to have to spread manure!

 

[Bruce from Can.]

as long as you keep livestock inside you’re going to have to spread manure!

Or in confinement yards.

 

[TerryfromSWIowa]

Dad never got a loader till I left home; said I was his loader.

 

[SweetFeet]

Someone once said “as long as you keep livestock, you’ll have dead stock”. And indeed this is correct, but I never heard anyone say, as long as you keep livestock, you’re going to have to spread manure!

I'll bet you enjoyed it.

When I was a little girl, I'd go "help" the old neighbor across the road (as my dad was at work). I'd help him clean the piglet pens, and my fave thing was to ride along on the tractor while he spread manure.

Thanks for sparking a great memory!

 

[Fred Werring]

I can still see that brand new Case 350 with loader, sitting next to the barn, as I got off the school bus in 1958. Oh happy day! No more forking spreaders full. Smell, what smell? There were only three scents in those days, cow poo, plowed dirt, and fresh cut hay.

Felt the same when dad bought that one arm trip bucket loader and put it on the Ford 4000 with no power steering. Not much by today's standards, but it sure beat a pitchfork.

 

[jhwis]

Stinky, but it's the sweet smell of progress. What my dad used to say about it.

My favorite job is spreading manure from the hay pile. Something satisfying about making the grass grow.

 

[Jim Hanson]

My dad used to clean the gutters in the milking barn with a shovel and wheelbarrow ,then push it up a 2× ramp into the spreader. One nite during milking ,when I was 4 or 5, I was running up and down the ramp. Mom and dad told me numerous time to cut it out before I get hurt. I didn't listen and ran right off the end into the spreader waist deep. They tell me I stayed there silent for probably half an hour before they found me , I was to scared I was gonna get in trouble. Maybe why my hair's so thick.

 

[Dwoklahoma]

"Where there are no oxen the manger is clean, But much increase comes by the strength of the ox" Proverbs 14:4

 

[Tom in TN]

Felt the same when dad bought that one arm trip bucket loader and put it on the Ford 4000 with no power steering. Not much by today's standards, but it sure beat a pitchfork.

Fred, Believe it not. that is the exact configuration of one of my tractors. I don't get a lot of use from it, but occasionally it is really helpful.