Never seen mucking out done like this!

[Cinnamontoast]

http://sulia.com/channel/animals/f/03fa99e2-2b21-49f9-9565-90cc57944dab/

Not sure how much time you save, but definitely lots of bedding saved!

 

[Mrs B]

Love it, except what happens to the wet bedding?

 

[Spring Feather]

yes that popped up on my newsfeed some time ago and I thought it looked pretty neat. It does look like sawdust they are using though, not shavings like you guys use in the UK so not sure how it would work with thicker fluffier flakes.

 

[Horsemadsmother]

It wouldn't save much time but that is pretty damn cool

 

[smellsofhorse]

http://sulia.com/channel/animals/f/03fa99e2-2b21-49f9-9565-90cc57944dab/

Not sure how much time you save, but definitely lots of bedding saved!

Firstly cost, not that expensive but some involved making the contraption!
Secondly you would need to use sawdust as opposed to shavings for the flakes to fall through but leave the muck.
Thirdly, you wouldn't want to put the wet through or you would just be reintroducing the smelly wet bedding,

Good idea though and it worlds for them.

 

[Fides]

My oh is going to make me one. You only put the dry through, skimming it off the top of the wet then just chucking the wet in the barrow. Looks like a good time saver and crumb remover

Eta - I use wood chippings

 

[starry23]

Oh my, I loved it... look how it picked up those annoying bits of hay. I used to be able to muck out my horse's bed in 5min or less when she was deep littered on wood pellets. It does look like that stable hasn't been used over night though (a couple of poos and no wet patches I could see?). I don't know how practical that would really be (not sure where I'd have stored it on any of the yards I've been at) and it'd be annoying when it broke etc. To me it is a novelty product really!

 

[MerrySherryRider]

Saw this a while back but don't think you can buy them direct in the UK. OH said he'd make me one. Sometime...

 

[Wagtail]

Ah just posted about this. I would certainly give it a go.

 

[friesian76]

I want one, you could get all those little annoying bits of poo out. It would work with wood chips, just need the sievey bit to have the right size holes. I don't think time wise it would be much different though!!

 

[pixie]

I could certainly see the advantage if you had a messy horse who trod poo all over the stable.

 

[Cinnamontoast]

Might be ok with pellets. Yes, stable was suspiciously dry!

 

[Greylegs]

All she needs now is some sort of mechanical shovel as well and it's mucking out sorted!!

 

[dominobrown]

I want one! I have a horse who does 'dottles' and mixes his hay in with his bed.

 

[JustKickOn]

Wouldn't work with a straw bed!! Pair of rubber gloves and you're golden.

 

[Kat]

Might print the details out for my YO and give it to her when I tell her that my filthy messy mare needs to start coming in for winter on full livery lol!

 

[Sebastian]

Is that really saw dust? Looks more like sand to me.

 

[Exploding Chestnuts]

What happened to those horse nappies for geldings?
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=h...niv&sa=X&ei=KMYQVIzXA4GtPPTlgOgJ&ved=0CCUQsAQ

 

[Mince Pie]

Might be ok with pellets. Yes, stable was suspiciously dry!

Pretty sure the bedding in the video is pellets, I've used them before and wet clumps together really well, looks like ice hockey pucks.

 

[Talyn]

How about one of these then! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSxhTmtaVOU

 

[Spring Feather]

Is that really saw dust? Looks more like sand to me.

If it's in the States, and I think it may be as this video has been around for a while over here, then it will most likely be sawdust as that's the usual bedding over here.

 

[Tnavas]

Awesome, best invention since shavings forks. For you young'uns, we used to use a leaf rake and hands, or a potato fork which weighed a ton!

 

[MerrySherryRider]

It's a company in Norway but they ship internationally and according to their FB page, they can put a screen on that works with shavings. The stall shifter is expensive though. https://www.facebook.com/Farmerfun/timeline

 

[Elsbells]

Is that really saw dust? Looks more like sand to me.

I'd say its sand too, it's being put through a screen just like they do in the quarries, only smaller!

 

[Tnavas]

Definitely sawdust - She was using a shavings fork, you certainly can't pick up sand with a shavings fork

 

[MochaDun]

Would love to see how it deals with sloppy cowpat poos! Can you imagine the mess it would make of that grill over time! For those that want to make their own there's going to be a run on old pram wheels Would be a really useful tool though if you dropped a ring or something in the stable though...or a needle..

And...what weird music to put with the video!

 

[fatpiggy]

An interesting bit of kit but I used hemp bedding and it was quicker than that - 3 poos to pick up every morning (she didn't produce much!) and the bed swept back tidy while the water bucket was filling up. Job done until the weekend when I would take out a single barrow of wet, half a bale of clean in and off I went. Even the full dig out only took 20 minutes and was not hard work considering I have a really bad back and my mare made up for her lack of poos with lots of pee!

 

[Exploding Chestnuts]

I thought it was slow, but the main problem for me is lifting the fork so high, it is tiring.
Collecting it to a wheelbarrow would be better I was thinking a small child with a seive instead of a battery ......... they run for about ten minutes in one Haribo!

 

[Exploding Chestnuts]

We dropped a brass tubing plug in paper bedding and spent about two man hours trying to find it, including metal detector, but it was gone

 

[ester]

I don't think it is time saving but good for those who are OCD about their stables