[drivingpairs] Re: Virus in Ben Hur posting
- From: "DELL M. MANGUM" <target@xxxxxxx>
- To: drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 12:04:22 -0700
I hope I don't get a virus from Ben Hur ... I don't think I could get up
and walk away afterwords.
I get my hay here in South East Idaho delivered for around 75.00 to 95.00
per ton. I Get a double semi trailer load delivered each fall. About 45 ton.
I prefer the "Mid sized" large bales. I stack it four layers deep and cover
the top with a decent tarp. I Have a tractor (John Deer 2010) with a front
loader equipped with a set of hay bale forks. I move bales as needed and
feed free choice. I set bales out in paddocks in a new clean space each
time and then move feeder panels around the bales. I have "pure bred
Sheep" and they feed through the lower areas and my team eats over the
top. I have a feed manger on the side of my horse corall that just holds
one of these bales. ( 3 x 4 x 8 ) It will last a week or more for my 1800
pound ponies.
As for availability.... Alfalfa fields are part of the farming field
rotation to help grow those World Famous IDAHO POTATO's ... But there is a
new company here that "MAKES" hay bales.
They have several different quality groups of hay .... some Alfalfa, some
grass/ alfalfa and some just grass hay... several differamt grass varieties.
They shred the various bales and mix them together and re bale in small
bales. Then thy ship them out either by rail car loads or on semi trucks
to other areas of the USA. They send about 3 truck loads a week to
Florida. It is then distributed to feed stores so that anybody needing
just a few bales can get some to take home in the back of their SUV.
You might check into becoming a dealer. And getting a train car load
delivered to a rail sideing near you.
Or consider getting a contract with the county to mow and maintain the road
way right of way.....
At 07:01 AM 3/2/2004, you wrote:
>Did anyone else get the DrivingPairs email inquiring about Ben Hur, that
>included a virus? My mailer filtered it, I hope everyone else was okay.
>Answer to the Ben Hur question: no one died making that movie, but a
>preliminary take to a silent movie on chariot racing resulted in a death
>in Rome, so they moved shooting to another location, where there were no
>further deaths. http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/benhur.htm
>
>I am so jealous to hear that some of you pay $1.50/small bale stacked. I
>have to beg to get $3, and I even bought a hay elevator from him so he
>wouldn't have to manually swing 204 bales ;). My hay guy may now lose
>half of his hay fields, as he was in charge of maintaining county land,
>but they now want to turn it into soccer fields and the like. He's losing
>interest anyway, because his kids are about to graduate high school (no
>more slave labor), and it's the Ann Arbor area, and just in the last
>couple years they won't even let him into the field to mow until a common
>bird, that isn't even endangered, is done nesting. This cuts the number
>of cuttings from 3 to 2, and the cuttings he does gets are too mature and
>have already lost much of their protein. I remember the back yard of my
>high school -- the mower/janitor used to pick the killdeer nest up, mow,
>then put it back down, and the mother would return. She nested every
>year, in the middle of our yard, for years. I definitely need to find a
>way to get my hay delivered and stored in triple the qty I can store now
>(above the aisle of my barn), as he has no problems selling me hay right
>out of the field, but is less and less likely to sell me what he has
>stored (I'm a tiny customer compared to the 40 and 50 horse barns he
>services).
>
>Anyway, can anyone tell me of creative ways to store larger rolls of hay,
>and who I can talk to about getting small bales and larger bales/rolls in
>SE Michigan? There are 8 full size furry critters, and 3 on the way. I
>also might buy my neighbor's land, so I may also need to borrow a baling
>setup to mow it (if I can convince him to subdivide -- anyone want to live
>in Belleville, MI next to a horse farm in a nicely kept 1400 sq ft 90's
>prefab, on an acre plus, for about $160K?) ...
>
>Insurance: has anyone discussed that recently, and how that varies for
>your own horses, horses you lease, and whether or not you have boarders?
>
>Thanks!!!
>
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