[AT] Don't scratch the paint!

[Cecil Bearden]

we would unload silage wagons in much the same way.  We would lay Hog 
wire with one end fastened to a pipe which rode on top of the sidepaords 
at the front.  The wire was then covered with chicken wire to hold the 
silage on top of the hog wire.  The wire was long enough that it would 
go from the top of the sideboards down to the floor and then to the rear 
of the trailer where it was turned up and held with a rope between the 
sideboards to hold the wire up to make an endgate.  When we got to the 
silo with a loaded wagon, untie the rope, hook a long cable to the 
bridle chain attached to the post at the front and pull off an entire 16 
ft wagon load of silage in about 30 seconds.  A kid on each end would 
pull the pipe and wire back into the wagon and tie up the rear end and 
"fly" back to the field to get another trailer.  We had 3 trailers 
running between the silage cutter and the silo.  One time we had 5 miles 
between the field and the silo.  We got 2 more trailers and a truck and 
used a pickup to pull the trailers.  When all the kids went away to 
college and got jobs, we quit putting up silage....

Cecil in OKla

John Hall wrote:
>  Slightly OT but we have been working 1-2 days a week for the last month 
> clearing trees around the field edges--tired of dodging limbs and risking 
> damaging equipment, or worse yet operators. Anyway, I bought an electric 
> pole saw a while back and must say it sure is safer and faster than riding 
> in a loader bucket with a chainsaw. I know there was great discussion over 
> the last year on the list about grounding the generator for this type of 
> work. We decide to do it. It only takes about 15 sec to set up the ground. I 
> have the ground lead attached to a metal T I use to check how hard the 
> fields are before drilling. A couple whacks with a mall and it is in the 
> ground. If you use a 100 ft drop cord you can cut 200" of  treeline before 
> moving the generator (mine rides in the back of the Mule). Trust me, you'll 
> be more than ready  to take a break by the time you need to move the 
> generator. Today we  used a hay wagon with the tailgate out so I could reach 
> another 3 ft. higher. Also, we had one area where the brush had to be hauled 
> away. Dad devised a neat trick to unload the wagon. We ran a chain the 
> length of the wagon and hooked one end at the back of the wagon. When we got 
> ready to unload we tossed another chain on top and hooked it into the  chain 
> underneath the load. The other end was hooked to the tractor and a few 
> seconds later had the entire load off on the ground---sure beats having to 
> unload that mess by hand! Dad told me he had used this same method for 
> loading logs.
> 
> John 
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