My Ex-wife is a milk inspector, so they are not the smartest folks in this world. That being said this spring we remodeled a milking barn unit and milk house. The milk house is five foot below the grade of the dairy barn. The barn is tails together so the manger is closest to the milk house. The lady milk inspector said she would check to make sure that the manger had 1 ½ inches of slope towards the cows. This she explained was very important so if the gutter ran over, it would not run into the milk house.
Now I’m not real sharp, but I did have to ask how she figured that the manure would run back into the gutter? In order to get the manure into the manger it would have to jump up 2” for the cow platform, and over a 16” high free stall curb. So where would this slope drain into? Over the 16” curb? She then insisted that she knew what she was doing, because she had done it for fifteen years. I then decided that I best just shut up, and let her be the boss so the farmer would not have to deal with any problems that I would cause for the over all picture.
I could go on and on with the very stupid ideas she had, but we all would be old and gray before I got done. By the way the inspector was not my ex.
I should add that my ex-wife was fired from three previous jobs, mainly because of her attitude---but the State of Iowa found her as a gem in the prairie. A person just has to shake his head and wonder. Her only qualifications were very visual to any bosses (male) eyes.
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