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    Best Electric Fence Charger - GOT ONE. Another question about ground rods...

    If you want a fencer that will last, get a taylor. For solar, buy a good 12 volt fencer and a solar panel & charge control. Make your own. Make the mount for the solar panel so panel can be tipped straight up during snowy weather. Then snow won't stick to it and with sun reflecting off snow on...
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    Angled stirrups

    Neeling was almost to painful to do after surgery. Now almost 2 years later it aint to bad. I never went back to physical therapy after my trip, possible they would did something to help that. I had lots to get caught up on and the 2 hrs a trip road time was more than I wanted to do. Other...
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    Angled stirrups

    Neeling was almost to painful to do after surgery. Niw almost 2 years later it aint ti bad. U never went back to physical therapy after my trip, possible they would did something to helo that. I had lots to get caught up on and the 2 hrs a trip road time was more than I wanted to do. Other...
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    Angled stirrups

    A month before your knee surgery, gi to physical therapy one time & have them give you some exercises to do. You need to stretch muscles out, so that when they cramp up, they are still long enough to not have a Charlie horse that dont go away. I tore my miniskus & had scope surgery. No...
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    Why do you buy cake?

    You are not taking into account the extra energy in the cake. I do not feed much if any cake but an feeding some ddg. My experience us when I start feeding hay, cows tend to want to quit grazing cornstalks. They hear a tractor or pickup going down the road and go stand along the fence begging...
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    Automated weighing

    Local get has a portable chute that has legs on each corner hydraulic to rsise it to put wheels on. That might be a option to clean under a chute setting on a concrete pad. What ever you do, it has to be easy enough to clean out that it actually gets done.
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    Automated weighing

    I would not want a solid cement slab under my chute. I had mine supported at both ends sitting on a railroad tie. Poo would get packed in tight under the scales, so it would not weight correctly. It was really hard to clean out. if didn't get it cleaned out quickly in winter, it was froze in...
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    Creek crossing

    The barbed wire keeps the tape in place, and not slidding. most animals will not get hung up in a barbed wire that is 6 or 7 feet off the ground.
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    Creek crossing

    What I am trying out for a river crossing: This about 100 yards side. One side of river, I have a pole about 10 ft high. Other side I have a post with a good anchor behind it, about 50 ft high on the hill side. Between the two, I strung two strands of barbed wire. Wires were hung down from...
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    Machine?

    That is a swather. Hay goes through conditioning rollers to crimp the stems so the hay dries faster. For fine stemed grasses crimping might not help much. Tremendous difference on alfalfa & sudan type crops. Don't have to be looking back all the time. Most tractor mounted rigs have a much...
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    bale decks

    I don't have a bale bed, but wished I did. Something to think about: my brother had a hydra bed and used it several years on 2 different pickups. He had bent the spinners doing things it wasn't made to do. Then it had a major problem. He needed to use it and didn't want to wait for parts...
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    Bale grazing

    If it was me, I would turn them in for 2 hours & no more ( only 1 hour for first few days) run them out & feed some bales. After a few days they drive out fairly well. Why risk several cows? Neighbor woman counted ears cows ate per number of minutes. One time I turned my cows into heavy down...
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    Letter to Cherry County Commissioners regarding Wind Energy

    My concern with with the anti wind movement is setting a presedent of more control over what I can and cannot do on my land by people miles or hunderds of miles away. Just because you don't want wind towers on your land shouldn't give you the right to say I can't have them. Disclamer, I am not...
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    Windows 10

    I have wondows 10 and it isn't that bad, except for popup windows that I can't stop. Wish I could stop those as they use up bandwidth and probbly gona give some viruse or something.
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    Old ponds and drinkers

    I would say that it will be to plugged to force air through. Water and possibly air through a pipe pushed up the outlet pipe will wash it out. I Would consider using pex tubing to run up the pipe. Good luck on there not being a elbow at the end. On tank overflows i put in now, i use pvc...
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    Corral Design

    Am I understanding that the cattle enter the corral south of the barn via the pen on the east side of the barn? I would consider the second drawing. Put a gate in your tub between your tub gate hinge and the alley going to your chute. When you bring cattle in, bring them all the way through...
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    ice free water tanks

    I was asked last evening how come my stock tank near a county road isn't iced over. That tank is on a a well across the road that also supplies another tank. Both tanks have bleed valves on portable floats. Floats are adjusted to open valve when tank is half empty. 11 ft tanks hold over 1000...
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    Seems hardly fair

    Get a led headlight. Just do it. I have one that has the battery on the back. 2 aa batteries will last for a lot of hours with a bright light. I use mine a lot in winter. Unlike flashlight, always have light right where you are looking. Check out the lumens, more is better, but uses up...
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    fire fighting outfits?

    The medium pressure pumps will use up your water quite fast, and you can fight a lot more fire with 100 to 150 psi than you can with 40 or 50 lbs. Lots of places online to get the Davey twin impeller pumps on line. One is rated 20 gpm @ 200 psi, and 60 gpm @ 40 psi. Larger one i looked at was...
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    fire fighting outfits?

    Tell me more about how the foam is rigged up.
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