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Roxy

  • Joined May 2009
  • Peak District
    • festivalcarriages.co.uk
What are we like!!
« 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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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: What are we like!!
« Reply #1 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!
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Stirlingshire, Central Scotland
Re: What are we like!!
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2011, 06:58:00 am »

What are you like?  Inventive, that's what!  Well done! ;D
"All fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once." -Terry Pratchett

Daisy

  • Joined Mar 2010
  • Near Earlston Scottish Borders
Re: What are we like!!
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2011, 08:29:27 am »
ROFL I can just see hubby harrowing the field  ;D

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: What are we like!!
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2011, 08:39:17 am »
 ;D ;D ;D

kaz

  • Joined Jul 2008
  • Ceredigion
  • Dust yourself off when life throws you down.
Re: What are we like!!
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2011, 06:32:10 pm »
That's real initiative and saves some real backbreaking work otherwise. ;D
Penybont Ryelands. Ystwyth Coloured Ryelands.  2 alpacas, 2 angora goats, 2 anglo nubian kids, 3golden retrievers a collie and a red fox labrador retriever, geese, ducks & chickens.

princesspiggy

  • Guest
Re: What are we like!!
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2011, 10:09:11 am »
......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

bazzais

  • Joined Jan 2010
    • Allt Y Coed Farm and Campsite
Re: What are we like!!
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2011, 12:54:58 pm »
I want a dumper truck too!!!   :farmer: :farmer:

 ;D

Baz

poppajohn

  • Joined Apr 2011
  • Fenland
  • Grass cutting, what old fellers do!
Re: What are we like!!
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2011, 12:58:58 pm »
Dumpers are cool, JCBs are cooler.......... :farmer:

 

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