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O/T The Box Stall

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Michael Soldan

03-12-2006 08:46:38




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Welp, yesterday I decided that I had to separate some calves, move some cows and release my maternity ward for the next birth. I convinced the cow and calf to follow me out of the box stall but they paniced and turned around and went back in. I just leaned against the gate and talked to her and after a few minutes the calf came out, then the cow followed. Well it was time to clean up the pen and then it was"Deja Vue all over again" as Yogi Berra used to say. Suddenly it was Saturday morning 42 years ago and there I was forking out the box stall just as my Dad had told me to do. Dad had a way of knowing what I had been up to the night before and the reward for being late or consuming alcohol was "Better be up early ,you have a box stall to clean out in the morning" Those darned box stalls were cleverly designed by Dads to straighten up their boys. The reason I say this is that they were usually not accessable by tractor and bucket and you had to fork them out by hand. Well I havent changed the barn much since I took over the place and that may be something I need to do down the road Anyway I was 16 years old yesterday forking out the box stall and 58 when I got it done what a feeling like Dad was still there in the barn watching that I got it done properly, scraped clean to the cement and swept...and oh, yeah I had a few barley pops the night before. Now I am pretty sure that you guys had a box stall too and that's how your Dad made a man out of you so God bless all your Dads and the Box Stalls. There's a lot of young people out there that could sure use a Box Stall and their father's love and wisedom, it takes cleaning one out 42 years later to understand it fully the way your Dad did...Mike in Exeter Ontario PS I might keep the Box Stall as is, I have two young'un grandsons

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SGT K

03-12-2006 23:38:47




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 Re: O/T The Box Stall in reply to Michael Soldan, 03-12-2006 08:46:38  
I have also been there. Dad had a 10'x10' Bull Stall and a 12'x24' old milking parlor you could only clean by hand. You brought back some fond memories. It's funny, at the time I could not have imagined them ever being "fond".
Thanks Michael,
Paul



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Jimmy King

03-12-2006 14:46:54




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 Re: O/T The Box Stall in reply to Michael Soldan, 03-12-2006 08:46:38  
Michael, you are lucky our box stalls had dirt floors hard to tell when you were done some times. I fed my show calves in a stall that was about 20 ft long. Pitchfork at a time that 20 ft got long.



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Fawteen

03-12-2006 12:37:04




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 Re: O/T The Box Stall in reply to Michael Soldan, 03-12-2006 08:46:38  
I'm one of those sicko's that LIKES pitching p'nure. When I was a kid, our beef critters winter shelter was an old milking parlor that was too small to get anything bigger than a pitchfork in. I loaded many a load into the old ground drive spreader just for the joy of getting to drive the tractor whilst spreading it.

In fact, I did much the same thing just today, cleaning out the chicken coop and sheep shelter by hand and lugging it off behind my old F14.

My punishment for youthful indiscretions was mowing the lawn. All 2 acres of it. With a 20" push mower. Not a great deal of fun on a humid July day with a massive hangover. Mow for a while, puke for a while, mow for a while...

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Steven@AZ

03-12-2006 10:06:04




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 Re: O/T The Box Stall in reply to Michael Soldan, 03-12-2006 08:46:38  
Been there, done that. Not the drinking part, I never did like the taste and the headache wasn't any better...

Pitching out the small stalls in the barn is always fun. I made it my job one year when I was about 13, went to the junk row and drug home the old IH 100 spreader, loosened things up and put on a decent pair of used tires. Hooked it up to the Farmall A and started pitching. Had the barn cleaned out in about 3 days. Dad loved it, he used to do the same thing when he was a youngin', except they had a B back then instead of an A.

I sure am glad my parents raised me to know the value of a good day's work, I hope I can do the same for my kids someday...

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the tractor vet

03-12-2006 09:13:58




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 Re: O/T The Box Stall in reply to Michael Soldan, 03-12-2006 08:46:38  
Well i guess i was lucky as i never had to cleanout a box stall but i use to get stuck with cleaning out the tater storage barns about this time every year and haul tons and tons of rotten taters out to the back of the farm and dump them . one thing about it it sure did cure the night before consumption of liquid refreshment Ah the smell of rotten taters that is one smell you never foget.



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Dick Davis

03-13-2006 01:25:01




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 Re: O/T The Box Stall in reply to the tractor vet, 03-12-2006 09:13:58  
Nah, hogs now that smells- and you do for days. My nickel Dick Davis



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