May I make a request that whoever starts the "new" month please put a link and post in the old thread so it shows up for those that are watching. I think I did that the last time I started one. I didn't know this was here till I looked specifically for it. Muchas gracias.
The milking job was not without its problems, but we managed to get through it in pretty decent shape. The milking was ok, it was the outside feed mixing and subsequent problems the SU had with his portion of the job. A slat broke on the discharge conveyer of the mixer wagon; thought it was fixed but, noooooo.........next day it jumped the sprocket and came off because there was no slat there to hold things where they should be. So he found an old one, cut it to size, and welded it in. The guy needs a new chain for that discharge part, but he kind of blanched when the SU told him it cost $1600.00 when he replaced the one on ours a couple of years ago. His mixer also has 2 big "screws" in it for chewing up hay bales and I guess those are getting bad. They told him it would be $10.000.00 to replace them. The SU told him he'd be better off replacing the mixer..........it is old and not big enough for the amount of feed that needs to be mixed for the milking herd. We'll see what happens on that. LOL
The guy's hired boy was a piece of work; your typical 15 year old male that thinks he is indispensable and knows EVERYTHING around the farm. Well, he's not, and he doesn't. On Monday night............colder than all Billy Pergatory, he decides that the 6 foot long cattle waterers in the free stall building needed to be drained and cleaned out. Imbecile.................he managed to get only half of them before the SU told him DO NOT EVEN THINK OF DRAINING THE REST OF THEM. What a mess. Oh, there was more, but it gives me a headache to think of it.
Zero on the temp scale here, but at least the sun is shining and the sunroom will be fit to go bask in a little later. Had some snow, and wind, of course, to relocate the snow to all the inappropriate areas, making it necessary for the SU to go and re-relocate it. LOL
