As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
This one is for the agrarian children of mine. The rest of you just speed read on and click away as you will not get this anyway.
So large round bale feeders are like over 300 bucks now. Those long trailers are like 10 to 15 thousand to feed bales. Too expensive and this came from necessity as the "neighbor" we had asked to dump hay into our feeders, on the setting in of winter, chewed my ass, told me to sell the cattle and bitched me out for not having a trailer. Was all shocking and he felt bad later, but I unhooked that plough in I will never deal with him again.
The Holy Ghost told me to use a ratchet come along to move hay from the pile, into the coral and then put the round bale feeders around them. That is one ass big piece of work in flipping 1800 pound bales that feel like two tons. I got hurt some, and sweated more, so we went to the original idea I was given by the Holy Ghost.
By now if you had sense, I posted about the demon nun. That tool of satan as a ghost had interfered with my plans on feeders from JYG as he had hog farrowing crates, and they would work for feeding hay.
Well once the demon nun was in hell, JYG calls about getting things, well he calls about having another pick up box trailer for me, which we did get as it is quite manufactured and not like his beast that he turned out.
He wanted us to get those panels, but I had trouble with the pick up as was recorded here in repairs so that delayed us, and satan tried to delay more, but on a cold windy day, we stopped at JYG's and he was most eager for us to get them.
So TL and I pulled them off his truck, off piles and in places he had hid them to keep the car mashers from baling them up.
JYG was helpful as always in cutting up these rectangular metal pens to keep sows from suffocating baby pigs by laying on them, and we ended up with 16 of these 3 feet by 8 feet panels. They have attachment points on the end which I can put in rerod which is what I wanted.
So in a windstorm we dragged them up Grandpa's driveway as things had to get done......as the rich readers have not donated for the tractor or the 4 x 4 pickup.
Anyway leopards do not change their spots and God will care for them as they have cared for me, like the bitchy neighbor.
So we set up the large cattle panels like before, but I only needed two of these hog panels to make an L shape which you can see, and this will keep the cattle from pulling all the hay down and laying on it which is wasteful. This is exactly what I had envisioned and could not be more pleased. This requires no heavy equipment. I just use a come along to ratchet the ends together and it is a sealed pen.
I will flip the outside bale to put a ring around that eventually, if necessary, but this will work.
I know the Mulberry gal wanted a Jersey and others have animals, but all said in done, I paid scrap metal price to JYG, 160 dollars for 16 panels, 8 feet long. I intend to weld some U shapes on the bottom so there is not so much to freeze down and with extra height I can use them as sorting panels for cows. That is 128 feet of extra panel space.
So God has by Inspiration given me 4 hay feeders which only I saw as hay feeders as other people threw them away. That would be like 1400 dollars.....compared to my 160.
For panels......40 bucks a panel is 640 bucks at least. Again mine in God is 160.
Meet you on the other side.
This will solve lots of problems, now and in the future, as Spring will arrive early. Lemonade out of lemons again by God's Inspiration.
Nuff Said
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