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Just found a machine that mucks out stables!!!!!!

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#1 ·
Hi guys,

I've just found a machine that MUCKS OUT STABLES!!! :clap: I went to a show the other day and they were handing out leaflets. I've just watched a video of it, thought you might wanna see it. The website's www.jotomac.co.uk. I think it looks really good! What do you guys think?
 
#7 ·
This!


I laughed through the whole video. It was just too funny.

Would it not make sense for them to show it cleaning a stall that was actually used? Not one that a few manure piles were carefully plopped on top of a fresh clean bedding.

Even my very neat horse does not manage to leave all the manure piles carefully placed on top of the shavings.

Dya reckon it's actually any quicker than muckin out yourself?
I could have cleaned that stall in half that time with my pitch fork and wheel barrow.

Horsemad, have you never cleaned a stall?




Another note. People might find the video far more believable if the person in it was using some basic horsemanship, ever heard of a lead rope.
 
#16 ·
I just do not see how that is less of a chore.

Drag this big machine into the stall and try to control this long hose while sucking up only manure, not all the expensive bedding. Oh wait, flick the lever so you are sucking the bedding into the save chamber. Keep having to clean the edges (as it shows in the video) of the wet spot so you do not accidentally get any good bedding. Flick the lever back to suck up the wet spot that does not come overly easily. Lather rinse repeat if you have a horse that pees in more than one spot. Oh wait, there is a manure pile buried over there. Flick the lever to suck up clean bedding, oops, got a manure ball, flick the lever to suck up manure (and all good bedding that was too close because clean shavings will suck up much easier than manure will). When you manage to find your way through all that you have to empty the manure well some where (so you either drag the big machine to where ever you do your manure or you carry by hand the now heavy well filled with manure and bedding). Then you have to dump the clean bedding back into the stall. Oh but wait. You have a horse that makes normal quantities of manure (vs the few piles shown there) which means that manure well is not near big enough for a full days worth of manure so you have to empty the manure well 2 or 3 times per stall. Wow, that is awfully efficient. NOT!


Why waste money on things that can be done better by hand? IMHO
I agree! Totally!
 
#17 ·
Hardly seems practical to me. Looks like it took a long time to vaccuum one poop; and the capacity of the bag seems like less than a muck tub. Hardly worth the effort of dumping out the bag.

Now, I worked in a big Belmont-style racehorse barn with a narrow aisle that ran down the middle/backs of the stalls and had a conveyor underneath. To muck, you turned on the conveyer and opened a small hatch at the back of the stall and pushed the dirty bedding onto the conveyor, which emptied out into a dump truck. Since the stalls had mats, and were designed so you could rebed with a front end loader, it was an incredibly efficient barn and lightning quick to muck. *That* was a process improvement over mucking into a tub, wheelbarrow or manure spreader.

This is just.....silly.
 
#28 ·
bahahaha erikalynn seriously?? you would spend money on a hoover??
i dont get it though you would have to bring your pitchfork with you anyway to go through the entire bed to make sure you dont miss a spot surely that defeats the purpose?
Also my horses pee ALOT more then that little trickle they hoovered up if i got one id spend all day hoovering up pee and running to empty my poo bucket
 
#29 ·
It doesn't seem like a bad idea... but it's kind of un needed. Like not every horses poop will be seperated into perfect little balls and you have to suck it up one by one when I could just take a rake and pick up a whole pile at once. Maybe when they invent a machine that can clean a stall like one of those cat litter cleaners... I will be interested.
 
#33 ·
personally if i had money to buy a glorified hoover id hire someone to clean my stables properly. They cant make a lazy mans way out of every chore with machines what happened to plain satisfactoin of completing something without technology interference
 
#35 ·
No longer a point to this thread since it's been reported several times for trolling and rudeness.
 
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