Shoveling

Today I had the privilege of doing something that my dad and grandpa are apparently perfectly content with. I am talking about shoveling corn so they can grind feed for out cattle we have in the barn. I don't know about them, but I have no intention of shoveling corn at least once a week during the winter for the rest of my farming life. Something needs to be done to mechanize or automate that process. I am not sure if I can convince them to put in an old hay elevator on the floor of the corn storage place or not. I'm trying to envision how that would work but am coming up with some difficulties. One, an auger would work better, but we don't have any old augers of sufficient length to accomplish this means. Second, I would have to make up a whole system where we would expose sections at a time so the elevator doesn't get overloaded. Both of these solutions would be a major break from my elders like of doing things the hard way. I like to think of better ways to do things though.

I also need to figure out a way for them to pull the feed mixer inside of the barn to unload it, but don't think they are going to like that either. Right now we have to go through a big song and dance to back in and unload the freshly ground feed. If we were able to pull in, things would be much easier to do.

times typed "oftern"-1. I actually typed that in another writing prompt today, but feel I should count it.