Our good neighbours, Willowtree Farms, have had one of those little compact Kubota tractors with a loader on their farm all summer. So when it came time to try and clean out these sheep, I asked if maybe we could borrow it to see if it would do the job. It has a much smaller turning radius than our loader tractor, plus it’s 4wd so it has lots of traction to get that packed down manure out. Of course they were quite willing and it worked well.
The funny thing is, it isn’t their tractor. Mike’s , who is a friend of Alex McKay, grandfather left it to his grandkids, and Willowtree is just ‘storing’ it at their farm. So it’s one of those friend of a friend situations.
Since it worked so well, and we have another couple of barns to clean out over the winter, we have the Kubota parked in our coverall, and since it has the manure fork that we made on it, it is kinda handy to set a round bail in for the sheep every once in a while. In fact, we are kinda thinking we’d be lost with out it, and need to find one of our own.
Then last week, Jordy from Willowtree, came and borrowed it back to clean out one of their barns. He was good enough to return it as soon as he was done, so I told him, they could borrow it anytime!?!
Where ever you are Mike, we thank you!