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Love the Worn and Ugly (Saddles)
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| I give up. I've been so meticulous about picking the paddocks out everyday. When it got cold it was difficult when it was frozen but I managed. Now that there's a foot of snow I just can't keep up. It takes so much longer, I can't push the wheelbarrow or muck bucket cart and I didn't get to do it for a few days when I was sick and now it's gotten way ahead of what I can do by hand. How do you all do it? My gates are frozen into the ground because we had floods, then mud, then freezing rain and now a blizzard so I can't get in with a tractor to do it and I don't know if I could dig any up with my little tractor anyway. I feel guilty leaving it till spring. I'm a little but OCD and its driving me crazy. |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Just breath. Relax.  Do yoga.  LOL You're way too OCD. |
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Location: Central Montana | What I do is wait until it thaws out and gets past the really muddy stage and the 4 wheeler with a drag and just drag our pens. If your tractor is small enough to get in and around the corners with a drag you could do it that way. |
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Love the Worn and Ugly (Saddles)
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| GoinJettin - 2014-02-16 1:10 PM What I do is wait until it thaws out and gets past the really muddy stage and the 4 wheeler with a drag and just drag our pens. If your tractor is small enough to get in and around the corners with a drag you could do it that way.
This may sound like a stupid question but does dragging it break it up enough so that it's not going to turn into a sloppy manure pit? My paddocks are only approx 100x100 so not a lot of room which is why I have to keep on top of the cleanup. I do have a 4 wheeler and drag and that would be so simple to do but I always thought I had to remove it all. No? |
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Love the Worn and Ugly (Saddles)
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Lmbo, I know :( I try to stop but I really have anxiety over it. Breathing now. Lol |
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| I gave up cleaning stalls/paddocks until spring. We haven't had this much snow since the late 70's. The snow is so high that *if* the horses wandered much further away from the water tank they could just step right over the gates and be on the loose.
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Location: sunny california | am I a bad person for laughing when I saw those photos? it was only a chuckle not a belly laugh and no knee slapping.... |
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Night Watchman
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Location: Central Montana | Prndi - 2014-02-16 12:10 PM GoinJettin - 2014-02-16 1:10 PM What I do is wait until it thaws out and gets past the really muddy stage and the 4 wheeler with a drag and just drag our pens. If your tractor is small enough to get in and around the corners with a drag you could do it that way. This may sound like a stupid question but does dragging it break it up enough so that it's not going to turn into a sloppy manure pit? My paddocks are only approx 100x100 so not a lot of room which is why I have to keep on top of the cleanup. I do have a 4 wheeler and drag and that would be so simple to do but I always thought I had to remove it all. No?
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| Thank you for posting this! I am so OCD about cleaning my pens, I just freak out about muck, and horses standing in muck!
After this last snow dump, I just couldn't get to it, now it's all melting and becoming stinky black sludge where they have tromped through it. I have been so upset...I just want my sandy clean pens back! |
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| kwanatha - 2014-02-16 5:57 PM am I a bad person for laughing when I saw those photos? it was only a chuckle not a belly laugh and no knee slapping....
Yes you are a bad person for laughing!! We farm and the snow is so high on the side of our pig barns that you can't see the walls, the snow blends up from the ground to the roof. We could literally go sledding off the roof. (#&)$ |
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