You think your job is xxxxty?

[fArMeRkNoWsBeSt]

Well as the name implies. MANURE TIME!!! Now I don't do this job very much, pretty well the only times I do it is when my guys are on holidays, like they were this past week.

We run a small feedlot finishing on an average year about 400 steers to market. That amounts to a lot of ****. About 1 million gallons a year that have to be dealt with.

The following video, and photos if you want them demonstrate what happens every 6 days (usually) in the barns. The only difference, is much of the year, instead of spreading on the fields, the spreader is unloaded in our million gallon lagoon. However, due to the ridiculous amount of rain we got this summer, it is full and will hopefully be emptied sometime this coming week.

Ok, enough babbling.

VIDEO TIME! This is one of my most elaborate videos and probably the most editing I've done. Lots of angles, lots of information to glean. I hope you enjoy it.

Warren

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ouUf7gfpIY

[dirt digger]

that ain't nothing....this is poop haha

[Grader4me]

You did a great job with your video. I enjoyed watching it. Don't think I could handle moving that type of "material" around though. :throwup :D

[digger242j]

You guys may have me on volume, but I can just about guarantee that nobody on this board has handled a wider variety than me.

I used to be a zookeeper.

Aardvark to Zebra, and everything in between. :yup

[Dirtman2007]

that ain't nothing....this is poop haha

That's one thing I don't do...

You might get me to take a couple of shovel fulls digging for a septic leak, but I don't play with human poop:bash



I'll push cow crap all day though

[dirt digger]

turd hurding gets a bad wrap....its an easy truck driving job with really only 3-4 hours of "actual work" all day...it only gets easier if the lids are at grade, to tell you the truth you hardly even smell it

servicing sewage pumps is a little worse, especially first thing in the morning, but the worst thing i have ever had to do was go down into a man hole...the smell, the sight of turds washing between my feet....it was enough for me

[jimmyjack]

like dirtman said i'll work in cow crap all day, people crap is gross

nice video, in highschool working on the dairy farm i did that every day, only was about one spreader load though

[bigblueox]

are the barns you have typical for canadian feed lots? seems like a lot of dead ends. my family runs a dairy farm and we had the self loading bunks like you but have convereted to a fence line feeding system. it's much easier in my opinion and gets the cows out of those musty old barns. i've never been big on stansions. also what barnd of unloaders do you have. and what type bedding is that? we had a large amount of badger equipment and use sand to keep somatic cell count down.

[Electra_Glide]

I used to be a zookeeper.


Ah ha!!!! Always wondered what qualifications you needed to be a moderator/administrator on this board...now I know :D

[Dozerboy]

like dirtman said i'll work in cow crap all day, people crap is gross

nice video, in highschool working on the dairy farm i did that every day, only was about one spreader load though

X2 we had hogs too that worse then cows. When I've done sewer jobs I don't go near it one of our hands got really messed up when some sewage splashed in his face and eyes.

[WColtharp]

Yep, climbing down 15ft into a sewer man hole with everything slowly rushing by gets old quickly. I was once informed I had to go chip out an invert while with the sewage continually flowed, and I was told the reason for this was to save the $ on not needing to bring in a vac truck and plug the line. If I had done it before and knew that this was going to have the main city line of the street running through it I probably would have declined. It's never an easy task to overcome the smell and the sight of everything you could imagine running between your legs at a decently high rate of speed, nasty stuff.

[WColtharp]

Yep, climbing down 15ft into a sewer man hole with everything slowly rushing by gets old quickly. I was once informed I had to go chip out an invert while with the sewage continually flowed, and I was told the reason for this was to save the $ on not needing to bring in a vac truck and plug the line. If I had done it before and knew that this was going to have the main city line of the street running through it I probably would have declined. It's never an easy task to overcome the smell and the sight of everything you could imagine running between your legs at a decently high rate of speed, nasty stuff. I always liked water and sewer utility installation until that point....:Pointhead

I always liked water and sewer utility installation until that point....

[bigrus]

That's one thing I don't do...

You might get me to take a couple of shovel fulls digging for a septic leak, but I don't play with human poop:bash



I'll push cow crap all day though

A few years ago I had to resheet the gravel in 2000 head feedlot. I watched one of the staff sit under tree in the lot and eat his "smoko" (morning tea, I'm an Aussie) I said how do you handle the smell? His response was "after about 3 days your nose switches off to it". :eek: He was right but I wasn't eating my lunch in there ;):D

Cheers Russ

[Bumpsteer]

A friend of mine has a system similar to this in their freestall dairy barn. It cycles twice a day. Kinda cool to see it run, it's slow enough that the cows can step over it.

http://en.delaval.cn/Products/Manure_handling/Scraper_for_open_alley/default.htm?wbc_purpose=baAbout

Ed