Dad's been getting the feed for a couple years now. The barrels have holes drilled in the bottoms to drain out some to help them loose weight. During the summer he leaves them outside and dumps them into the loader bucket, and then dumps that on top of the silage before taking a scoop from the bag. Mixes in pretty good, but most of the girls really like it as it is as well.
In the winter it's a little more work because they bring them in the barn to keep from freezing solid in the barrels. Normally scoop it out with a pail and feed it on top
of the silage as it's fed.
I will say the girls seem to have gone up some on milk, and the way they eat it dad will be getting it for as long as he can. They like dad down at the brewery because he'll come if they need some empty barrels provided they give him an hour or 3 lead time so he can make sure to dump a few out. Other guys they had were driving farther and much slower at turn around with a barrel of it.
The dock they have is basically an extension of they're wooden deck (they also have a restaurant) and the parking lot is kinda bowl shaped, so they already havea large concrete slab on one side just to level out the trucks. Adding another ramp to that would get kinda hairy in my mind. Going to the trailer isn't so bad because gravity helps him get them down to the trailer.
If he could afford one,a dump trailer would certainly be nice, but I really don't think they'd want it outside and there is no where inside to park it either. A dump bed on a running gear would be a no go as it's tight enough backing a trailer sometimes with the way some people park. Even hit an employee's car after warning him several times that it was a bad place because he needed to swing in there.
Food for thought right now and not all suggestions are impractical. Would just take some figuring on the brewery's end as to how to move it as well.
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