Compost the poop. Bag it with some rich soil compost @ 25 & 50b bags and sell it as flower bed fertilizer and enriched lawn dressing out of your store.
We used to drag a metal gate or something framed in metal and spread the manure by just dragging the metal gate or metal flat old farm equipment with a pickup truck or a tractor. Works best with a heavier metal piece with lots of cross pieces to break down the pieces. Didn't do it when the cow pies were frozen.
The pioneers in the wagon train days would hunt for bison patties to use for fire as there weren’t many trees on the prairie. Think how it would be to have the,job of patty collector. It probably smelt awful burning it. Then they would use it to cook their meals over. Ugh!
We dragged our fields 1 or 2 times a year but it was more to knock down the ant piles and the poop. But as someone that lived in a 500 acre farm. If your dragged weekly or even monthly you would never have time to do anything else. You have to pick your battles and what is more important. Sometimes cow poop isn't important. People don't realize how busy farming is. You never get a break from it.
Dusty, Daniel has a Haaro known as a rake that you can hook to to side by side or tractor. You don't have to do anything with the patties but rake over them .
Hiya Dusty n Merissa. Pulling a 'Harrow' behind your tractor to breakdown & spread poop, while fresh & soft, across your pasture. Thus returning to the earth. Best done twice a week. 👍🏼😊
Hi Dusty ,Marissa and Brooke. Love watching yall working with the bison. Thanks for bringing back the bison they are magnificent creatures. My favorite is Dunbar. I have learned so much from you about the bison. God bless and love yall ❤❤
Thank you for sharing everything I love Eleanor I love all the bison every time you get on there's a bit of learning experience which I'm so happy that you share with us❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I suggest that you get a harrow that you can pull behind a tractor. This would spread both dried and wet piles. Spreading it out will benefit your pastures. No mechanical machine other than a tractor would be necessary. Your pickup or skid steer may also work.
How we used to level out the stone ball diamonds before we got the diamond groomer might just work to spread out the fund (without the spikes we had to loosen the stone, of course). To make this understandable, I will call the length you could attach to a tractor, the ball on a pickup or possibly even your ATV, the front. Opposite that will be the back and that just leaves two sides. Basically, we took one or two layers of heavy duty/commercial chainlink fence. For your purpose, I would start with two 8' x8' pieces of fence. Lay the two layers, off-set by a half 'hole' flat on the ground. Next lay a 8' heavy steel tube/pipe along the front and back ends. Cut both in half to allow flex since naturally your ground won't flat like a diamond is. Fasten a cable or chain through them end to end to hold them almost as if they hadn't been cut. Attach the fronts and backs of both layers of chainlink securely to the tubing. You could try cable or steel chain wrapped through the chainlink and around the tube. I would use 4 pieces of 2" x 8" boards and secure the chainlink between them and the tubes. This will add weight to keep the front and back down. You will need four small cables to run front to back from each end of tubing. This will stop the chainlink from getting overstretched/going askew. To attach this drag to a vehicle you will need to hook four chains (Two longer and two shorter. One from each end of each front tube) to a bar, to keep them equidistant from the vehicle. From that bar you can use a chain hooked through a loop or something to allow it to swing, to tow it from a vehicle. What you choose to attach it to a vehicle is up to you. That's about it except that you may decide you want to add some more weight to the back and maybe the front. Too much on the front will make it dig in too much. A little longer chain between the vehicle and drag will help to keep the front of the drag on the ground. I don't know the exact weight of the exact materials you will use, so you will have to play around a little. Short scraps of pipe, extra board pieces or sand in the tubes are all things I might consider. You could add a little weight on top of the chainlink between the front and the back I guess. We used doubled up 2"x8" boards front and back, with small spikes, heads between the boards, protruding out one side. These were to loosen the stone dust/fine gravel surface of the diamond. Because the surface was flat, and we wanted to keep it that way, we had one solid length across both the front and back. When we were constructing a soccer field, we used the same sort of thing but without spikes. On our finished soccer fields, after aeration (The type that pulls 'dog turds' out of the ground) we had a an implement sort of like a flail mower but instead of the metal "flails" we had 1" rubber-coated, multiple strand cable cut into 6" lengths fastened in place (A straight piece of steel welded across the width of the drum. Then a another pieces or multiple pieces used to clamp the cable in place securely. These rows of cable would be spaced evenly every 3 or 4 inches of the circumference. The spacing and weight would all have to be well-balanced because the drum spun at high speed. about 1/4" off the ground. Attached to the back of this modified flail, we had a manufactured drag to even out the pulverized "dog turds." We both know flail mowers come in varying sizes. A narrower one is better for uneven ground but a wider one covers more area. In general, in the fields, a pickup travels faster than a tractor but an ATV is faster than both. I used to just roll up the drag between diamonds amd pop it into the back of a pickup or on top of the 3-point hitch of a tractor. Just thinking of cheaper ideas. Good luck, whatever you choose to do.
You can easily spread the pasture material using a weighted chain link fence piece behind your ATV!! It always works for us with cattle and horses, I see no reason to spread a ton of money when the KISS policy always works well
here they use a hard raking in tool that sit behind the tractor and even breaks soil of the land when it is kind of solid on top - like what you have and than you have both things done after grazing - my mother used to do it manually and break up and she would spread it out and it patch itself is will grow after again
You use a drag,or farrow behind your tractor ,4 wheeler , side by sideI use chainlink fencing on a metal oblong frame it works great .This is to rake in the manure no need to pick it up unless you want to use it in a garden or flower beds .
DUSTY Love our Princess Eleanor !!! She is one Sweet Bison to me !!! Keep her and let her live a good Life !!! Bison chips are great at heating in the winter time !!! Try it they don't give off that much odor or smell !!!
You know you can use a drag then disk it, maybe your brother in law, Daniel has a tool or two you could use for that. Just thought that might help with getting the pastures ready for native grasses, especially after the prescribed burns.
If you drag your paddocks to breakup the pills it helps with parasite control, fertilizers the pasture and also spreads the seeds that were not broken down in the digestive system.
You get you eight pieces of timber, put you some fencing in between them put you a tow chain and pull it behind your truck or skidsteer, that’s how they drag and disperse the dirt around on the ball fields, same could apply for your spreading of the poop !! Cheap and it works !!
Couldn't you drag a harrow or a rake behind a tractor to break up the buffalo patties? Wait a bit until it is warmer so they will dry out some, then rake/harrow it. It is nature's fertilizer. I know you don't have a tractor, but perhaps your BIL eould loan you his monthly or quarterly. I am not a farmer--could you drag a harrow or rake behind your pick up?
I love Eleanor. Use old wire bed springs to spread the patties in the field. Stay safe & take care of you all. Thanks for sharing, eh :))
A harrow rake, old chain link with weighted areas or like you said old bed springs. Maybe with a little weight on (couple logs).
Compost the poop. Bag it with some rich soil compost @ 25 & 50b bags and sell it as flower bed fertilizer and enriched lawn dressing out of your store.
Eleanor is special. Love seeing her.
Dried manure can be rehydrated. We used to collect the dried pats from a friends farm, add water and use on our respective gardens.
The early settlers used cow patties to burn for heating their homes or even to cook on in their stoves. All it is, is dried grass!
My sweet Eleanor ❤ Yes
We used to drag a metal gate or something framed in metal and spread the manure by just dragging the metal gate or metal flat old farm equipment with a pickup truck or a tractor. Works best with a heavier metal piece with lots of cross pieces to break down the pieces. Didn't do it when the cow pies were frozen.
Yep that's what I used
Eleanor is so precious..
I remember my grandfather dragging an old bed spring around the field. City folks worry about funny things
Hello Precious Eleanor❤❤Take good care of her please❤❤❤
Good day to all, peace.
Dusty, appreciate a longer, informative clip. Thanks!
You need to make bison fire sticks. Lol
The pioneers in the wagon train days would hunt for bison patties to use for fire as there weren’t many trees on the prairie. Think how it would be to have the,job of patty collector. It probably smelt awful burning it. Then they would use it to cook their meals over. Ugh!
We dragged our fields 1 or 2 times a year but it was more to knock down the ant piles and the poop. But as someone that lived in a 500 acre farm. If your dragged weekly or even monthly you would never have time to do anything else. You have to pick your battles and what is more important. Sometimes cow poop isn't important. People don't realize how busy farming is. You never get a break from it.
Dusty, Daniel has a Haaro known as a rake that you can hook to to side by side or tractor. You don't have to do anything with the patties but rake over them .
Fence on a gate pulled behind your tractor works great
Hiya Dusty n Merissa. Pulling a 'Harrow' behind your tractor to breakdown & spread poop, while fresh & soft, across your pasture. Thus returning to the earth. Best done twice a week. 👍🏼😊
Thanks for the memories….. 😊
Love your videos and enjoy watching them. May the lord bless and protect you and your family and the bison and the other animals.
I love Eleanor!
I ❤️ Eleanor
Hi Dusty ,Marissa and Brooke. Love watching yall working with the bison. Thanks for bringing back the bison they are magnificent creatures. My favorite is Dunbar. I have learned so much from you about the bison. God bless and love yall ❤❤
Thank you for sharing everything I love Eleanor I love all the bison every time you get on there's a bit of learning experience which I'm so happy that you share with us❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I suggest that you get a harrow that you can pull behind a tractor. This would spread both dried and wet piles. Spreading it out will benefit your pastures. No mechanical machine other than a tractor would be necessary. Your pickup or skid steer may also work.
When I was I kid we lived on a cattle farm. Fenced in area…pasture in front of our house we played frisbee with the dried meadow muffins!! 🤣
How we used to level out the stone ball diamonds before we got the diamond groomer might just work to spread out the fund (without the spikes we had to loosen the stone, of course). To make this understandable, I will call the length you could attach to a tractor, the ball on a pickup or possibly even your ATV, the front. Opposite that will be the back and that just leaves two sides.
Basically, we took one or two layers of heavy duty/commercial chainlink fence. For your purpose, I would start with two 8' x8' pieces of fence. Lay the two layers, off-set by a half 'hole' flat on the ground. Next lay a 8' heavy steel tube/pipe along the front and back ends. Cut both in half to allow flex since naturally your ground won't flat like a diamond is. Fasten a cable or chain through them end to end to hold them almost as if they hadn't been cut. Attach the fronts and backs of both layers of chainlink securely to the tubing. You could try cable or steel chain wrapped through the chainlink and around the tube. I would use 4 pieces of 2" x 8" boards and secure the chainlink between them and the tubes. This will add weight to keep the front and back down. You will need four small cables to run front to back from each end of tubing. This will stop the chainlink from getting overstretched/going askew. To attach this drag to a vehicle you will need to hook four chains (Two longer and two shorter. One from each end of each front tube) to a bar, to keep them equidistant from the vehicle. From that bar you can use a chain hooked through a loop or something to allow it to swing, to tow it from a vehicle. What you choose to attach it to a vehicle is up to you. That's about it except that you may decide you want to add some more weight to the back and maybe the front. Too much on the front will make it dig in too much. A little longer chain between the vehicle and drag will help to keep the front of the drag on the ground. I don't know the exact weight of the exact materials you will use, so you will have to play around a little. Short scraps of pipe, extra board pieces or sand in the tubes are all things I might consider. You could add a little weight on top of the chainlink between the front and the back I guess.
We used doubled up 2"x8" boards front and back, with small spikes, heads between the boards, protruding out one side. These were to loosen the stone dust/fine gravel surface of the diamond. Because the surface was flat, and we wanted to keep it that way, we had one solid length across both the front and back.
When we were constructing a soccer field, we used the same sort of thing but without spikes. On our finished soccer fields, after aeration (The type that pulls 'dog turds' out of the ground) we had a an implement sort of like a flail mower but instead of the metal "flails" we had 1" rubber-coated, multiple strand cable cut into 6" lengths fastened in place (A straight piece of steel welded across the width of the drum. Then a another pieces or multiple pieces used to clamp the cable in place securely. These rows of cable would be spaced evenly every 3 or 4 inches of the circumference. The spacing and weight would all have to be well-balanced because the drum spun at high speed. about 1/4" off the ground. Attached to the back of this modified flail, we had a manufactured drag to even out the pulverized "dog turds."
We both know flail mowers come in varying sizes. A narrower one is better for uneven ground but a wider one covers more area. In general, in the fields, a pickup travels faster than a tractor but an ATV is faster than both.
I used to just roll up the drag between diamonds amd pop it into the back of a pickup or on top of the 3-point hitch of a tractor.
Just thinking of cheaper ideas. Good luck, whatever you choose to do.
We use a drag behind and ATV, UTV, or tractor to break up the paddies and get the nutrients back in the soil. Works very well.
Many people use a piece of chain link fence . Attach it to a chain and pull it behind your 4wheeler, tractor or truck. To break up the poop.
I now much more about bison poop then I ever did. You are a hoot Dusty.
You can easily spread the pasture material using a weighted chain link fence piece behind your ATV!! It always works for us with cattle and horses, I see no reason to spread a ton of money when the KISS policy always works well
Love sweet Eleanor.
Some people like the boys but Sweet Elinor is my favorite
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Nature provides, in time it will get spread out 👍
here they use a hard raking in tool that sit behind the tractor and even breaks soil of the land when it is kind of solid on top - like what you have and than you have both things done after grazing - my mother used to do it manually and break up and she would spread it out and it patch itself is will grow after again
One youtuber mows it over and then drags a chain link panel behind the tractor to who fertilize
I do remember a comment, a few weeks ago, you drag a piece of chain link fence behind you to spread the droppings around.
You use a drag,or farrow behind your tractor ,4 wheeler , side by sideI use chainlink fencing on a metal oblong frame it works great .This is to rake in the manure no need to pick it up unless you want to use it in a garden or flower beds .
That's a lot of information about poop LOL😂
😊ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO DUSTY
Thanks.
DUSTY Love our Princess Eleanor !!! She is one Sweet Bison to me !!! Keep her and let her live a good Life !!! Bison chips are great at heating in the winter time !!! Try it they don't give off that much odor or smell !!!
If you are going to gather it up, why not look into bagging fertilizer. Cross Timbers Garden Manure! Maybe in a couple of years?
I have seen other ranchers pull those metal cattle panels behind an atv in the field the spread the manure
You know you can use a drag then disk it, maybe your brother in law, Daniel has a tool or two you could use for that. Just thought that might help with getting the pastures ready for native grasses, especially after the prescribed burns.
If you drag your paddocks to breakup the pills it helps with parasite control, fertilizers the pasture and also spreads the seeds that were not broken down in the digestive system.
Watch Stoney ridge farmer. He pulls a soil rake behind his tractor and spreads it on his soil to improve soil health. Drag chain harrow.
Love your short videos.
I would think the dung beetle would take care of the dung in the summer no?
You get you eight pieces of timber, put you some fencing in between them put you a tow chain and pull it behind your truck or skidsteer, that’s how they drag and disperse the dirt around on the ball fields, same could apply for your spreading of the poop !! Cheap and it works !!
Use bed springs works great
Make a Haro to drag behind 4x4 piece of wire fence will do
Sell the poop for fertilizer or fire starters.
Could you get a rake pull behind to drag and spread it out
I think Dunbar and Big Joe are so Majestic. Beautiful Bison but wouldnt want one sitting on my lap lolol
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Hi Dusty
No you won't have to gather them you just need the thing to break up and spread the patties
Do parasites live in bison patties? 💖🌞🌵😷
Google is your friend 😊
Couldn't you drag a harrow or a rake behind a tractor to break up the buffalo patties? Wait a bit until it is warmer so they will dry out some, then rake/harrow it. It is nature's fertilizer. I know you don't have a tractor, but perhaps your BIL eould loan you his monthly or quarterly. I am not a farmer--could you drag a harrow or rake behind your pick up?
Drag your fields with old bed springs!
Wash your hands dusty after handling the 💩 💩 💩
I'll never gripe about stepping in miniscule tiny poop my two tiny Shih Tzu Ladies make in my back yard again!
Would old fencing being dragged by chains spread it.
You can pull a harrow to spread the manure.
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Sack it up and sell it. Fertilizer!!!
Bag it and sell it
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