[j.l.holt]

I guess get some haying equipment and start..do all you can do. Try not to get to far behind. Some of the same things happen with tractors or horses. Just keep in mind that there is only one thing in farming that needs to be done now,,thats making hay. everything else can wait a week or two.

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Its called ‘hardware dieses” but it just a case of bad luck.

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That’s him,,,,sorry,,just shoot me

[j.l.holt]

Guy in central New York by the name of Norman Mc Nair. has all the things you spoke of.

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We are dealing the animals that trained by repetition. Same as with horses and dogs. Same thing with either.. Sounds they are used to going out and back. Like with a scoot to get one load of wood. or throw off a load of barn cleanings. Keep mixing things up should do the trick. How about just a wake around the loop?

[j.l.holt]

The next time you get around the slaughter house, ask to dump the gut on a couple of cattle..might find something..Or ask them if they ever seen anything.

[j.l.holt]

That’s how they pick it up..They don’t look for it.   I have also seen  wraps of rusty barbed wire,Like you would see if you picked a piece and wraped it around your hand to through away.  Might of got into the hay or feed bunk from your pocket.  Or through the baler..many ways,,just need to find out at this point.

[j.l.holt]

I used to feed sled dogs beef scrap..  I have 11 sets of car and truck keys that cows had picked up from the feed bunk…So it might not be a nail or staple.  There was talk one time of finding as 10 in piece of re bar..i would do the magnet thing and see what happens.    A fist size wad of baler twine might cause this as well.

[j.l.holt]

near horse…you are right,,we do this life style because we like it.   A good farmer never gets done. He always finds something else he can do to make his farm better.  At least in his eyes.

[j.l.holt]

I don’t know a thing about working Oxen, but if you want to hook two, you will have to take what ever steps necessary to get them.

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Just a side note on compaction.. When I was out west a few years ago, they were flooding their land on water shares. This would  settle and need broken up every few years.  The way I saw them doing this was with a very large one bottom plow,pulled by a large track machine.  This was plowing  to about 4ft..   Big clods were breaking off as they came up.  100%  compaction. This plow was pulled with a cable that steam was coming off in the cool morning air. They work all their land with tractors and have a huge problem with this when they add the water effect over years.  So compaction is a problem for everyone to deal with in one form or the other.

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Well here is a different way to rid your self of weeds….When I worked for the Rail Road and they needed weeds worked on,,and they did not want to call in a contractor.  They put a boom arm out the side and ran steam and scalding hot water on them..Cooked them in there tracks.  The end.

[j.l.holt]

They hang grapes on Hi tinsel fence.  not hard to take down to work the ground in the start.  I would use PVC pie for posts.  Set them in a fence and once is all you ever set that post again.

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Don,,,,,,Nice picture album.   Wish I could post things like that.

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Three inch poles and need to horse to pull down ?  I would just grab them and walk them out to a pile..Then bring in the horse.   just sayn.

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