Long Fork Helps Clean Out Lambing Pens

Long Fork Helps Clean Out Lambing Pens MANURE HANDLING Equipment With 90 ewes Timothy Yoder’s lambing pens build up a thick layer of manure and bedding Cleaning them out at the end of the season takes a lot of time and labor Yoder’s skid steer bucket wouldn’t fit in the 4-ft wide pens “I don’t want to do it by hand if I don’t have to ” says Yoder “I don’t mind hard work but if it’s not necessary and you can get the job done faster another way why not do it?” The faster way involved fabricating a long fork with a 6-ft 2 by 6-in “handle” The handle slips over a forklift fork on his skid steer The business end of the fork is a 2-ft wide spread of 1 1/4-in wide 28-in long tines on 8-in centers The tines were left over from a front-end loader manure bucket “I cut holes for them in a 3/8-in thick 3 by 3-in angle iron and welded them to it ” says Yoder “Then I welded the angle iron and the ends of the tines to a 24-in long 1/2-in thick 1 by 5-in base plate ” The angle iron and base plate were then welded to the end of the steel handle Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Mr Timothy Yoder 460 Shaffer Rd Waterford Ohio 45786 ph 740-749-0182

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