The camera crew had barely left this morning (see post below) when the grain crew arrived. On board the trailer were one ton of equine "senior" grain in 50 lb bags for the old blind horses like Scout, and one ton of equine "growth" grain for our blind youngsters like Cash, plus another 500 pounds of salt and mineral blocks.
Now, after seven years of unloading these kinds of shipments by hand (i.e., the ranch gym work-out), we finally got a set of pallet forks for the tractors this spring. Whew! Alayne took this photo of me lifting the first pallet load off the trailer. (Note farmer's tan on right arm.)
Of course, the pallet forks make it much easier to unload, but we still have to stack the grain sacks by hand inside the barns. (There isn't enough room in the barn aisles to maneuver the tractor around to place the pallets where we need them.) So we still get quite the work-out, just half of what we used to get -- and that's progress!
(Click on photo for larger image.)
perhaps one of the few blog titles where "tons" really does mean just that! You guys available to help me bring the three large dog food bags into my house? :-)
Don't throw your backs out in the hand moving part.
Posted by: danielle | August 09, 2007 at 09:48 AM
Wow! So glad you got machine help with unloading all of that food!Will Cash be searching for a bag of milk replacement? He might think you just ran out & they put some on this shipment of goodies!
Posted by: Mary Young | August 08, 2007 at 09:51 AM
What comes to mind when I see this and read your mention of farmers tan is Kenny Chesney's song, "she thinks my tractor's sexy". Just change the tractor to trailer, I'm sure you know the rest of the song. I would agree with it in your case too. :-)
Posted by: Boundforglory | August 08, 2007 at 09:40 AM
We're glad you've made progress because that means more time to spend with your lovely residents at the Rolling Dog!!!
Posted by: Shirley & James | August 08, 2007 at 01:48 AM