How is everyone copeing with their muckheaps in this weather

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Cann't start our tractor in this weather,so cann't shift the muck trailer, managed at the week-end to move 2 weeks worth and now it's full again, brought battery home to charge up and covered bonnet hopefully so the deisel fuel doesn't freeze. So how are you coping?
 
We aren’t. We usually load into a trailer on the back of the tractor as well, and then it’s dumped but obviously that hasn’t been happening (the ramp is lethal). So it’s being dumped in a pile at the back of the stables and something will have to be done with it when the weather improves. We only have the three horses at home though.
 
Fine. Gets moved every other day - rain, shine or snow
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the yard were at is brill
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it gets taken away daily and we just dump it outside the entrance of the stable block, then it gets picked up with all the cow muck
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mine only gets moved once a year so fine apart from the badgers digging for worms......
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sorry not at all relevant but only 2 horses!
 
I'm loading the trailer as usual, hitching up the landrover and driving up to the field to dump the 3 tonnes of poo and then enjoying the fact that this year with the landrover and tipping trailer it is SO much easier than hooking the old trailer up to the Skoda, driving that up to the field, unhitching it and attaching it to the rideon lawn mower, driving that up the track and across the field and then forking all the poo out by hand!

One of the low points of last year was getting the car and trailer stuck on the track and taking over an hour to dig and lever it out by hand in freezing rain.
 
The muck heap at the yard has gone to pot a bit - it was beautifully crafted with all these different levels and ramps, but obviously the ramps have been waaay too slippy to do anything with for the last couple of weeks so we've just been dumping the muck at the bottom. When the ramps are usable again we'll have to straighten it out and just make the stray heap into another step. It gets taken away about twice a year, and it's due soon, so won't have to worry for too long.
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tractor not working in the snow so ours goes in the paddock with the walker for now will have to move it again when the tractor will start. (we have 11 horses so it gonna be fun
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Our muck heap hasn't seen muck for over two weeks now. It is much too icy to even wheel the barrows over to the muck heap so we are mucking out twice daily and throwing it out onto the concrete in front of every stable so at least us and the dogs don't break our necks out in the yard. It's going to be one hell of a job to pick it all up when the weather does eventually thaw especially as we have a large number of horses all in their stables.
 
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