Baymule’s Journal

[Mini Horses]

I located some peanut forage hay 1.5 hrs away. Trucked in from the south. Arranged for 5 of them, pick up Sun as guy isn't there until sat this wk. Goat auction is Sat, so I need to go there. Anyway -- smaller rolls, 550-600#. Way more manageable for me. This type hay I've heard, read & talked to friends in FL using so glad to find some to try. My trailer isn't as large. Hope hay equals reports. Higher protein "southern alfalfa".

 

[Finnie]

Wait- what? Goats?!!

Did you get them yet?

 

[Baymule]

Wait- what? Goats?!!

Did you get them yet?

No. I’m thinking on it. Heck I’ve got 3 young rams that are a PIA, I might throw them in there.

 

[Baymule]

I could only get 3 bales on my trailer. Not so small after all. Instead of hay forks, I have a spear with 2 smaller ones under the long one. My trailer has a rail on it, so I had to stab the bale a lot higher. Naturally I hung the rail on the short ones and lifted the trailer on the first bale. Oops. I can’t see over the tractor, so I stood up. I learned a lot today.

I flipped one bale up and took my little tractor and pushed it on the other side. Back on big tractor and I stabbed it. Tilt bale back, raise it and go set it down. Third bale completely flipped over with the flat side up. I tied a rope around it intending to drag it off the back, but it flipped on the round side. Got off tractor, retired rope, got back on big tractor, backing up, bale flipped back on flat side. Got off again, retired rope again, got back in tractor again, it flipped over again but I dragged it off.

Went back for the other 3 bales. Unloading them went a little better. I’m almost good at this now.

 

[farmerjan]

@Baymule... in order to deal with the shorter spears which are to keep the bales from twirling around when picking them up... go in to the bale with the loader higher... spear angled down into the hay, then use just the tilt, to lift it off the trailer, and then lift the whole loader again... without catching the short spears on the rail...
Yeah, with no one there to watch you can play with it and learn... I HATE for my son to be around when I do some of those things... I am NOT GOOD with the darned bale bed arms on the truck... hate to move bales when he is around...

Because the short spears will stabilize the bale... if you put the top (long one) in far enough... the short ones will stick in and the long one will not pull through the top of the roll.... because they will help lift the bale already.

 

[Baymule]

Yeah, I had to work at it. I made mistakes but that’s how you learn! My son is supposed to be in late next week. He wants to do so much, if I could do one of “my” chores, that means he doesn’t have to.

 

[Baymule]

Yesterday I went to a small rural community in my county to help with a food distribution. Trinity county has a food distribution place but it is on the opposite end of the county some 40-50 miles away. It is a mostly black community from many many years ago when segregation ruled, but they turned it into a positive, built a community center and do lots of good in the community. I don't know how long it took to get this food distribution off the ground, but a lot of work has gone into it. It kicked off 2 months ago and I have volunteered 3 times. There are 2 food distributions a month. It is very well organized and keeps getting better. They have a man directing traffic, a long line of cars line up on the road, the traffic man stands out in the road letting so many in at a time. The community center is a large metal building and food is dropped on a concrete slab outside. There is a roll up door where more food is, plus a few freezers.

The cars/trucks come in, circle around a clump of trees and pull up to the stations where volunteers are. I was on the first station, bagging oranges out of a huge box, 10 oranges to bag. There was also some frozen food, another huge box of lemons and those little clementine oranges, I was bagging those too. 2 other ladies were bagging the fruit also. There were boxes with plastic bags of organic pears in them. I don't even know what all there was, milk, frozen strawberries, butternut squash, cucumbers, boxes of this, bags of that, an abundance of food. There were 3 or 4 stations, cars pulled up, we loaded food in the back seat, the back of the truck or pop the hatch on a SUV. Many were picking up for multiple families. How many? One family was picking up for 9 families and had not done the paperwork, but Marvin, the man running it said load them up, we are not going to let anyone go hungry.

It was fast and furious. Then it started to rain. Nobody ran for cover, we all stood out in the rain, bagging up food, loading up people with groceries. The people remained in their cars, they got what we put in their car. It rained on us for awhile, then stopped, we all looked like drowned rats.

I just naturally save my plastic grocery bags and I had a lot of them. YES! they were delighted that I brought them. They have boxes of the plastic bags, but every little bit helps. People bring their own boxes, laundry baskets, whatever they have. We bagged loose items in the plastic grocery bags and tied them shut. At one point, I had my head buried in that huge bag of oranges, bagging them up, in the rain, and I heard my name being called. I looked up to see a friend of mine, in her car, getting loaded up, smiling at me. She said, "There you are, doing what you do best". I shouted out I love you and she said I love you too and drove up to the next station.

Pick up was from 4 to 6, it finally stopped raining and we kept going. Traffic slowed down and the volunteers started picking through, bagging up items for themselves. The ladies didn't know what butternut squash was. There were a few spaghetti squash and acorn squash. Yellow summer squash they knew, but not winter squash. So I explained what they were, how to cook them and that when they buy a can of pumpkin to make pie with, they were buying the butternut squash. So they got squash for themselves, to try it. I have my favorite lemon chess pie recipe on my phone and shared it with one of the ladies. I brought home two bags of butternut squash, lemons and a couple packages of prunes, to share with my sister in law.

I had so much fun! I hit it at full speed. Everyone was so gracious and having fun helping the community. I can't wait to go back.

 

[murphysranch]

Of course, I love love love this.

 

[drstratton]

Yesterday I went to a small rural community in my county to help with a food distribution. Trinity county has a food distribution place but it is on the opposite end of the county some 40-50 miles away. It is a mostly black community from many many years ago when segregation ruled, but they turned it into a positive, built a community center and do lots of good in the community. I don't know how long it took to get this food distribution off the ground, but a lot of work has gone into it. It kicked off 2 months ago and I have volunteered 3 times. There are 2 food distributions a month. It is very well organized and keeps getting better. They have a man directing traffic, a long line of cars line up on the road, the traffic man stands out in the road letting so many in at a time. The community center is a large metal building and food is dropped on a concrete slab outside. There is a roll up door where more food is, plus a few freezers.

The cars/trucks come in, circle around a clump of trees and pull up to the stations where volunteers are. I was on the first station, bagging oranges out of a huge box, 10 oranges to bag. There was also some frozen food, another huge box of lemons and those little clementine oranges, I was bagging those too. 2 other ladies were bagging the fruit also. There were boxes with plastic bags of organic pears in them. I don't even know what all there was, milk, frozen strawberries, butternut squash, cucumbers, boxes of this, bags of that, an abundance of food. There were 3 or 4 stations, cars pulled up, we loaded food in the back seat, the back of the truck or pop the hatch on a SUV. Many were picking up for multiple families. How many? One family was picking up for 9 families and had not done the paperwork, but Marvin, the man running it said load them up, we are not going to let anyone go hungry.

It was fast and furious. Then it started to rain. Nobody ran for cover, we all stood out in the rain, bagging up food, loading up people with groceries. The people remained in their cars, they got what we put in their car. It rained on us for awhile, then stopped, we all looked like drowned rats.

I just naturally save my plastic grocery bags and I had a lot of them. YES! they were delighted that I brought them. They have boxes of the plastic bags, but every little bit helps. People bring their own boxes, laundry baskets, whatever they have. We bagged loose items in the plastic grocery bags and tied them shut. At one point, I had my head buried in that huge bag of oranges, bagging them up, in the rain, and I heard my name being called. I looked up to see a friend of mine, in her car, getting loaded up, smiling at me. She said, "There you are, doing what you do best". I shouted out I love you and she said I love you too and drove up to the next station.

Pick up was from 4 to 6, it finally stopped raining and we kept going. Traffic slowed down and the volunteers started picking through, bagging up items for themselves. The ladies didn't know what butternut squash was. There were a few spaghetti squash and acorn squash. Yellow summer squash they knew, but not winter squash. So I explained what they were, how to cook them and that when they buy a can of pumpkin to make pie with, they were buying the butternut squash. So they got squash for themselves, to try it. I have my favorite lemon chess pie recipe on my phone and shared it with one of the ladies. I brought home two bags of butternut squash, lemons and a couple packages of prunes, to share with my sister in law.

I had so much fun! I hit it at full speed. Everyone was so gracious and having fun helping the community. I can't wait to go back.

What an amazing day! Just like you!

 

[fuzzi]

Yesterday I went to a small rural community in my county to help with a food distribution. Trinity county has a food distribution place but it is on the opposite end of the county some 40-50 miles away. It is a mostly black community from many many years ago when segregation ruled, but they turned it into a positive, built a community center and do lots of good in the community. I don't know how long it took to get this food distribution off the ground, but a lot of work has gone into it. It kicked off 2 months ago and I have volunteered 3 times. There are 2 food distributions a month. It is very well organized and keeps getting better. They have a man directing traffic, a long line of cars line up on the road, the traffic man stands out in the road letting so many in at a time. The community center is a large metal building and food is dropped on a concrete slab outside. There is a roll up door where more food is, plus a few freezers.

The cars/trucks come in, circle around a clump of trees and pull up to the stations where volunteers are. I was on the first station, bagging oranges out of a huge box, 10 oranges to bag. There was also some frozen food, another huge box of lemons and those little clementine oranges, I was bagging those too. 2 other ladies were bagging the fruit also. There were boxes with plastic bags of organic pears in them. I don't even know what all there was, milk, frozen strawberries, butternut squash, cucumbers, boxes of this, bags of that, an abundance of food. There were 3 or 4 stations, cars pulled up, we loaded food in the back seat, the back of the truck or pop the hatch on a SUV. Many were picking up for multiple families. How many? One family was picking up for 9 families and had not done the paperwork, but Marvin, the man running it said load them up, we are not going to let anyone go hungry.

It was fast and furious. Then it started to rain. Nobody ran for cover, we all stood out in the rain, bagging up food, loading up people with groceries. The people remained in their cars, they got what we put in their car. It rained on us for awhile, then stopped, we all looked like drowned rats.

I just naturally save my plastic grocery bags and I had a lot of them. YES! they were delighted that I brought them. They have boxes of the plastic bags, but every little bit helps. People bring their own boxes, laundry baskets, whatever they have. We bagged loose items in the plastic grocery bags and tied them shut. At one point, I had my head buried in that huge bag of oranges, bagging them up, in the rain, and I heard my name being called. I looked up to see a friend of mine, in her car, getting loaded up, smiling at me. She said, "There you are, doing what you do best". I shouted out I love you and she said I love you too and drove up to the next station.

Pick up was from 4 to 6, it finally stopped raining and we kept going. Traffic slowed down and the volunteers started picking through, bagging up items for themselves. The ladies didn't know what butternut squash was. There were a few spaghetti squash and acorn squash. Yellow summer squash they knew, but not winter squash. So I explained what they were, how to cook them and that when they buy a can of pumpkin to make pie with, they were buying the butternut squash. So they got squash for themselves, to try it. I have my favorite lemon chess pie recipe on my phone and shared it with one of the ladies. I brought home two bags of butternut squash, lemons and a couple packages of prunes, to share with my sister in law.

I had so much fun! I hit it at full speed. Everyone was so gracious and having fun helping the community. I can't wait to go back.

Spaghetti squash, I'm so there! @canesisters introduced me to that delight!