Thursday May 29, 2014

Day 85..

Machinery
Practical

Our morning practical turned into another teleporter handling session - practice for those soon to be doing the test! And today we had the bucket attached and headed off to the muck heaps for some joystick and boom action! The more compact your muckheap is, the easier it will rot down and the higher the temperature will be so that any parasites, eggs or larvae are killed off before it is spread back onto the fields. A muckheap that has been shaped into different levels or steps makes it far easier for a tractor to come in and remove it one level at a time, but for farmers this is time consuming, so the idea behind 'pushing-up' is to compact the muck and make more space for new muck to be stacked. It is quite difficult to move the teleporter forward whilst grabbing muck with the bucket whilst tipping the bucket the right ways so not to spill anything whilst extending the boom whilst moving the boom up and down!!! But great fun!


Livestock
Theory

This lesson turned into a coursework review lesson with Dom going through all our grades and modules. One assignment to do and I will have completed all the course work for this year! (excluding any resubmission work that I could have to do!) Here's to one more day!!!!!