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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Roxy on April 22, 2011, 11:13:43 pm

Title: What are we like!!
Post by: Roxy on April 22, 2011, 11:13:43 pm

Oh to be normal ......normal people would take their water containers up the field to their horses in a wheelbarrow, or perhaps a quad or 4x4, maybe even a tractor.

What do we use??  Just a massive 6 ton dumper thats what.  The fields where some of my ponies are belong to the man my hubby works for.  He has a quad, but quite often we get half way over the 15 acres, up on the hillside, and it stops, so thats no use.  My hubby hit on the idea of putting all the  water containers in the dumpers enormous bucket, and off we chug.

The ponies come over, but once we start the dumper up, thats it, they are away over the field.

Hubby last week chain harrowed two fields - using the chain harrows pulled by the blooming dumper!!!

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Title: Re: What are we like!!
Post by: SallyintNorth on April 23, 2011, 12:17:23 am

Very very envious of ground solid enough to take a dumper!  We have tractors and quads but no better methods... Luckily the natural water supplies on our ground rarely run dry!

Title: Re: What are we like!!
Post by: Womble on April 23, 2011, 06:58:00 am

What are you like?  Inventive, that's what!  Well done! ;D

Title: Re: What are we like!!
Post by: Daisy on April 23, 2011, 08:29:27 am

ROFL I can just see hubby harrowing the field  ;D

Title: Re: What are we like!!
Post by: Rosemary on April 23, 2011, 08:39:17 am

 ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: What are we like!!
Post by: kaz on April 23, 2011, 06:32:10 pm

That's real initiative and saves some real backbreaking work otherwise. ;D

Title: Re: What are we like!!
Post by: princesspiggy on April 24, 2011, 10:09:11 am

Quote from: Roxy on April 22, 2011, 11:13:43 pm

......normal people would take their water containers up the field to their horses in a wheelbarrow,
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so im not the only one thats never been orgainised enough to have automatic troughs? thats a relief, i curse myself every year, must use up so many hours lugging water containers around. the egyptians managed to get water flowing up hill, but wer still pushing a barrow...flat tyre or not  ...lol   ::) :o

Title: Re: What are we like!!
Post by: bazzais on April 24, 2011, 12:54:58 pm

I want a dumper truck too!!!   :farmer: :farmer:

 ;D

Baz

Title: Re: What are we like!!
Post by: poppajohn on April 24, 2011, 12:58:58 pm

Dumpers are cool, JCBs are cooler.......... :farmer: