Muck Boots 'n' Slickers - Life of a Livestock Hauler

Here; in Tupelo, you take your blade off and out to Scruggs Farm Supply and match it up off the sandwich board full blades.
Go home and install the new, cut the grass, then sharpen your old. Ready for next time just swap.
Prices are up I am sure; since I bought, but, he will still be way under the OEM.

This works until my daughter moved to Lexington, KY and found no one would sharpen a blade. Said unsafe.
Do Daddy bought her a spare here (I had fixed them for her here before her move) , and delivered next visit.
So now...The BIL who moved up there makes the swap and sharpen as needed.

She requested a new "push mower" on a birthday years ago. She just enjoyed cutting the grass they had then and to do it her way.
Little Craftsmen still hums along fine, bout 8 years up there...

 

I can help y'all look but I ain't doin shat today.

 

See; absence that affects their pocketbooks, makes the women grow fonder of your wallet....

 

And then the guys of conservative fashion stick it to him.. "Won't run.. Put chrome on it.".
Not as a put down, just a quiet observation.
But like tattoos, over chromed is hard to reduce...

 

Look guys, It is on wheels. Bump it gently ....... Maybe experienced hands only?

 

That is nice. Got a piece of 6" x 6 " or so to go under the lip as a stiffener/bumper/target.
Sort pretreat the blam... of hitting the lip.

 

We primarily use this in a little spot called Rocky Hollow.
It gets set on a slope and usually gets shoved back at least 15' over the course of several days worth of unloading.

I thought about devising some sort of flag mechanism that swings up as you bump it but I think we'll just tie a chain to it that everyone can back over.

 

I got an idea for a 4 wheel portable and a 12v winch to hold it to the trailer but I hadn’t sat down and worked it all out just yet

 

Well, you could get one of the Mississippi "M'on Back's" to stand by the reversing trucks driver door, chanting "Whoa up Now" repeatedly...

 

Well, there is the ole Southern option... 5 bales of hay (Soybean, wire tied, Case baled) preferred... Heavy-tight....
Stack in stair steps of 3,2,1 ground and open the endgate and stand aside... Few off, bales collapse, bovine stand in gate ..
Restack and apply low voltage to restart...

If you can figure out how to hold them up in place, you can reverse this to load using two aluminum 12' gates as wings.
Most time there is couple of hands when this described that yell, Yeah, "Me and Otis can hold them... NOT...
Both these work fine with a straight truck, or SA trailer, with axle in the ditch to lower the bed floor to bank level. One bale to hide the hole...
Tandem requires higher ditch bank, may have to drive the cattle a little piece.
But then, That is cow trucking... Nothing easy about it.