Outdoor bagged ration field stores

johngalway

The current system of feeding on Dads farm is nothing short of a penance. Ewe & lamb ration is weighed at the shed, driven to various locations around the area, then shoulder carried over rough ground to the troughs, in some cases over quite long distances.

I want to get to a stage where we have "feed dumps" around the farm. What I mean are weatherproof, vermin proof small stores that I can stockpile an amount of bagged ration at a time. The idea is then that we only need to walk ourselves to the fields and not be carrying weight and making multiple trips in some cases.

Ideally, these outdoor stores would need to be the size that I could fit around 40 25kg bags inside.

I'm interested in hearing what solutions are out there to our problem. I think I have him leaning towards the idea that less work is better, finally :pac:

We cannot move large heavy items around the land such as containers.

jeff greene

Old transit van, old cattle trailer, those large calf hutches, garden shed. Some ideas, don't know if there are applicable.

Bodacious

johngalway wrote: »

The current system of feeding on Dads farm is nothing short of a penance. Ewe & lamb ration is weighed at the shed, driven to various locations around the area, then shoulder carried over rough ground to the troughs, in some cases over quite long distances.

I want to get to a stage where we have "feed dumps" around the farm. What I mean are weatherproof, vermin proof small stores that I can stockpile an amount of bagged ration at a time. The idea is then that we only need to walk ourselves to the fields and not be carrying weight and making multiple trips in some cases.

Ideally, these outdoor stores would need to be the size that I could fit around 40 25kg bags inside.

I'm interested in hearing what solutions are out there to our problem. I think I have him leaning towards the idea that less work is better, finally :pac:

We cannot move large heavy items around the land such as containers.

Hi John,

NCF do those one tonne black plastic meal bins that have place for the forks underneath. In your case though mount her up on few concrete blocks(spout is at bottom) in sheltered place and will have to draw the bags to it on quad/tractor. Word of advice with quad dont overload her with weight on a regular basis its designed to pull heavy loads (ie small trailer with floatation tyres) rather than carry it. think mine is 30kg max front cargo and 60kg max cargo rear. she will carry it like but will buckle her in time especially long distances/rough ground etc

Few clean barrells with lids would also do the finest:)

moy83

A quad and trailer with a lid would be ideal . If you had a silo at the home place to fill it from it might pay itself back eventually by buying in bulk instead of bagged .Might even justify buying that quad you're always on about

dar31

old steel diesel tank, the rectangular ones.
cut a hole in one side, hinge the cut out piece, seal up with some light rubber.
keep up off ground, drain plug in the bottom for moisture, vermin proof it.
bit hard to come by them now, we used them for feed bins, feed bunkers, spray bins,chemical bins or for any thing that needs locking up.

johngalway

IBC tanks or those large 4 wheeled plastic rubbish skip/bins for pubs/restaurants are ahead at the moment.

I should have been more descriptive of the land, it's too awkward to be moving trailers, vans, metal drums etc

Light weight and plastic is what I'm thinking, very much doubt anything would be robbed from where I'm thinking of putting it.

Thanks Bodacious for the warning re the quad cargo racks

We have a few barrels with lids already, but they only hold about 2.5 bags of ration each if you don't take the stuff out of the bags, which I'd ideally rather not do.

Not sure about the grain silo, would get run out of this area for being above my station :pac: But, have thought along the lines of a storage container for bulk deliveries, but I've already had a thread on that :pac: Something for the future

Bizzum

Right John, I know where all this talk is coming from and I know what your hoping to hear so I'll say it loud for ya.

BUY A QUAD!

Ya know ya want to:D

johngalway

I know I want to too! :pac:

You pay for it I'll buy the hell out of it :pac:

reilig

There are loads of types of pvc coal bunkers out there at the moment.
JFC do a 4 bag one which would easily hold your 4 bags of ration. Parents bought one in the local co-op before christmas for around EUR50 or EUR60.
The same price as an IBC tank and comes ready made with a waterproof lid.

kay 9

1/2 tonne meal bin John is very handy. We have a couple of them around the place and they can be put on a bale handler full or dragged from place to place to place empty. http://www.jfc.ie/FeedStorageBins.html

Muckit

JohnGalway

How do you intend to bring the ration to these proposed outdoor feed stores?

From your previous posts and photos of your ground I think it'I be by foot, so is it not the same thing then as to when you bring it?

5live

Muckit wrote: »

JohnGalway

How do you intend to bring the ration to these proposed outdoor feed stores?

From your previous posts and photos of your ground I think it'I be by foot, so is it not the same thing then as to when you bring it?

Time to get working on Johngalway junior:D. Great for those jobs but can work out more expensive than a quad. Especially when he is driving a quad.... or not driving one, as the case may be

johngalway

Muckit wrote: »

JohnGalway

How do you intend to bring the ration to these proposed outdoor feed stores?

Got two options, kinda...

• Be very nice to the quad owner in the hope I can borrow it the odd time.
• Bring the feed part of the way on the tractor, far, far from ideal as the quad handles the ground much better and the tractor doesn't go all the way, IMO.

blue5000

Ah john are you getting old or what?

I just buy 4, or maybe 8 25kg bags of ration at a time. Young lad in the store usually lifts them into the jeep with me, then I simply drive to the troughs/creep feeder over the next few days, feed the meal, go back for more when its gone. Simple. There is no huge price difference between bags verses delivered bulk meal. :pac:

johngalway

blue5000 wrote: »

then I simply drive to the troughs/creep feeder over the next few days, feed the meal, go back for more when its gone. Simple.

Ah, but it's not simple for me As we can't drive to where we feed. I measured it today on >here< and between the three places, from where we park the car there's two 1,200 metre return journeys and one 900 metre return journey. So two 600 metre and one 450 metre trips one way carrying feed. IF we could drive there, this thread wouldn't be here

blue5000

Will a quad get to where you want to go?

johngalway

blue5000 wrote: »

Will a quad get to where you want to go?

Sure will. I was to all three spots yesterday on a quad I had borrowed. Awkward, but no great trouble to the machine. I would scout easier routes though to bring a big lot of bagged feed.

keep going

probilly wont suit you but i cut up old steel diesel tank t0 make trough which mounted on a drawbar with car wheels 2/3 rds of the way back then i put an old mollasses applicater on top with pipe under it. just turn pipe to feed ration and i load it with the loader every so often