ruwithme wrote: » Having watched a couple of farming you tubers in recent days, land rollers got mentioned & water in them maybe freezing over the winter & them cracking the barrel in a real hard frost if the barrel wasn't drained early in the winter. Don't know how common this is,but my father put used engine oil in the roller here in the past & never needed to concern with draining it every season end.
rushvalley wrote: » Our roller is full of waste oil too, don't have to worry about frost
wrangler wrote: » My roller is full of only water since 1985 ,
emaherx wrote: » Similar here. The oil filled roller sounds like a potential environmental disaster down the road.
DBK1 wrote: » That’d be my thoughts as well. I have mine about 90% full of water so that if it freezes there’s room for expansion. The local soccer club used to borrow it every year before the winter to roll the pitches. I hooked it up to the lift arms one spring and knew the tractor wasn’t as light out front as it would normally be so I said I better check it. One side full to the neck and the other side empty. I started filling the empty side and the water started coming out the centre. Had to pull it all apart and weld up the centre of one barrell. I questioned the lad from the soccer club and he told me when they got it they wanted it as heavy as possible so filled it to the top. They never let any back out when finished and never told me what they done. They didn’t get the loan of it any more.
Wildsurfer wrote: » The kowloon bridge was an environmental disaster. A roller full of oil not so much.
wrangler wrote: » Never a borrower or lender be
patsy_mccabe wrote: » Plus, if you want to reduce weight in the roller by letting out oil, how do you do that?
ruwithme wrote: » If your rollers too heavy patsy, your grounds not yet fit for rolling,so stay out of it til it is.farmer's nowadays,many don't have the patience of lads gone before us in the job.
DBK1 wrote: » When it’s for a local sports club or the like where lots of people get a benefit you like to try do a bit to help them out but lesson learned.
Kevhog1988 wrote: » Anything like that its nearly easier to do it yourself than borrow someone the machine.
minerleague wrote: » In terms of labour saving has any suckler/drystock farmer here fenced off a passageway for moving cattle with posts and wire but no stone? long narrow farm here and to get cows and calves to yard I put up white cord and pigtails to make temporary passage, works ok but when older cows realize going all the way to yard they tend to stop and bunch up and sometimes bust out, also takes a bit off time putting up and taking down. Would ground turn to mush without stone? ( only be using rarely) or is it a waste of ground ?
mr.stonewall wrote: » Roadways are never a waste of ground. They are a necessity, the time save moving cattle huge and cattle get into the hang of being moved as it the fresh grass at the end of the trip. I'm on an ex dairy farm it's a pleasure. Still putting in short extensions every year. Lucky to have slig on the farm. So handy as it really becomes a one man job. Even access for machinery is great, What about doing a bit of the roadway which gets the heavy traffic and a few of the softer spots and then do a small bit every year. Roads that dont get much traffic, grow grass and in wet weather it is handy to graze a few on it without damage.
patsy_mccabe wrote: » No, I've done just that and it works a treat. Pigtails are left there permanently. I can get cows and sucklers into a pen in the corner of the field that way no bother. It's about 20 feet wide and I just treat it like a long narrow paddock. I leave it to graze on the day I want it, like next Tuesday when I have my Herd Test.
patsy_mccabe wrote: » No, I've done just that and it works a treat. Pigtails are left there permanently. I can get cows and sucklers into a pen in the corner of the field that way no bother. It's about 20 feet wide and I just treat it like a long narrow paddock. I leave it to graze on the day I want it, like next Tuesday when I have my Herd Test. (Sorry, I replied to the wrong post above)
minerleague wrote: » Would you be able to move 1 cow for AI at that width?
minerleague wrote: » an finally do you move machinery along these green corridors ( slurry + silage traffic )
minerleague wrote: » Thanks to everyone who responded, I'm guessing at 20 feet wide its wide enough to graze but narrow enough for 1 person to herd cattle forward. Would you be able to move 1 cow for AI at that width? an finally do you move machinery along these green corridors ( slurry + silage traffic )
Deleted User wrote: » Thoughts on this as if it works it could save me a few headaches - namely having anything to do with my nemesis, a petrol water pump that refuses to work 100% of the time I really need it. I often see farmers asking how to pump water, my own issue is often the sources of water on my farm are in low spots with no flow, ponds, lakes etc. If something lower tech works then I'd rather not be dicking around with engines, solar, or windmills.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHJUl5wl9WI&t=3s If the above gets water out of a pond or lake, the next question I'd have is would it then drive a ram pump to pump water uphill?
[Deleted User] wrote: » Thoughts on this as if it works it could save me a few headaches - namely having anything to do with my nemesis, a petrol water pump that refuses to work 100% of the time I really need it. I often see farmers asking how to pump water, my own issue is often the sources of water on my farm are in low spots with no flow, ponds, lakes etc. If something lower tech works then I'd rather not be dicking around with engines, solar, or windmills.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHJUl5wl9WI&t=3s If the above gets water out of a pond or lake, the next question I'd have is would it then drive a ram pump to pump water uphill?
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