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letting cattle do the fertilizing ???
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<blockquote data-quote="RDFF" data-source="post: 1733375" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>If you've been unrolling, you pretty quickly learn that the cattle will pack most of the snow down wherever the swaths are... and that includes off to the sides of the swaths too for a little ways... at least enough to be able to drive along where you'll want the next swath. If you put out several swaths with the right space between them, their "packing" will consistently be across the whole area. Then you're able to get across it alongside of the last swaths. If you kind of stagger where your swath ends going down the field so you've got one that goes out further than the rest, they'll pack a line forward for you at least to the end of the longest swath, which helps you to be able to get further with the next feeding's swaths.</p><p></p><p>That being said, you're still going to have to get out into areas where you didn't have any rolled out previously, so a FWA or 4WD is really helpful when it gets too deep. THAT being said though, you'd be surprised just how far you can get with a 2WD with chains on and a bale or two hanging on the back end.</p><p></p><p>Stocker Steve, I'm still feeding with just my Allis 185 with a set of chains on it, and it hasn't even been "challenged" yet this year. Without chains though, I'd have been left out there just about every day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDFF, post: 1733375, member: 39018"] If you've been unrolling, you pretty quickly learn that the cattle will pack most of the snow down wherever the swaths are... and that includes off to the sides of the swaths too for a little ways... at least enough to be able to drive along where you'll want the next swath. If you put out several swaths with the right space between them, their "packing" will consistently be across the whole area. Then you're able to get across it alongside of the last swaths. If you kind of stagger where your swath ends going down the field so you've got one that goes out further than the rest, they'll pack a line forward for you at least to the end of the longest swath, which helps you to be able to get further with the next feeding's swaths. That being said, you're still going to have to get out into areas where you didn't have any rolled out previously, so a FWA or 4WD is really helpful when it gets too deep. THAT being said though, you'd be surprised just how far you can get with a 2WD with chains on and a bale or two hanging on the back end. Stocker Steve, I'm still feeding with just my Allis 185 with a set of chains on it, and it hasn't even been "challenged" yet this year. Without chains though, I'd have been left out there just about every day. [/QUOTE]
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