Find the right Tow and Collect for your property

less precise than we preferred. We can spin around and have the paddocks for 6 horses cleaned up in about 2 hrs a week! Much faster than hand mucking! The amount of flies are noticeably less, truly . We started on one end of our farm with 4 horses and were getting the hang of it over there for about a month before using on the other end as well, during that time the difference in flies was very noticeable as the other end of the farm where we were hand mucking and using the skid steer still had many more flies (even though we were using feed through fly control). From a practical perspective we do still need to rake away from the fence as this cannot get right up to the fence. We have a couple horses that favor going pooh right on the fence 🙁 if you have a square corner in your paddock or pasture then you will need to hand-muck a portion of the corners as you just can't get right up there given turning radius and so forth, but can minimize that, especially if your horses just dont go pooh there. It does create quite a dust storm if it has been dry and you are sweeping in a dirt only paddock or one that has not grown back in yet. A solution for us has been to use the tow and collect when the ground is still a bit wet after a rain, not soaking wet but maybe a little damp as it keeps the dust down and helps with collection of manure. It is important to pay attention to your chain tension and adjust as needed, you dont want too much slack in your chain or you can do damage to your machine (which I learned the hard way). We chose a manual/non-motarized option so as yo not have an additional maintenance required. It works great, although it might be nice to have slightly larger capacity that the motorized version offers but this capacity honestly works fine for us. All in, I am extremely pleased with the lower amount of flies, the cleaner paddocks and the amount of time is has saved. I own a business and have 2 very young children and we manage our property ourselves so "spare time" is not a thing for us. We absolutely needed something to help us be more efficient in our maintenance and this is absolutely the best thing!
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