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  • From: "Kathryn Kerby" <kakerby AT aol.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Insurance for the trailers
  • Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 12:26:06 -0700

I’m actually glad this topic has come up.  Insurance issues aside, I’m glad for the discussion on the cost effectiveness of moving compost from point A to point B, about 10 miles apart.  We have a goofy setup here where we winter animals here at home, then move them all down to pasture (part of our hayfield) right about now each year.  So we have a stockpile of compost at home.  I’ve been trying to figure out the logistics of moving that compost to the hayfield where it can be put to really good use.  But most folks look at my questions like “you want to move lots of compost from home?  Why?  Just buy it in!”  Um, I want to move it because it’s free and other compost is not.  So while I had some pointers on the insurance angle, I’d love to hear more about the specific trailers/trucks/hitches that folks use, and issues with loading/unloading.  We have trucks, trailers, loaders etc at both locations, but somehow my normal advisors are treating this like trying to plan a trip to the moon.  I’d love to hear about how folks do it themselves.

Kathryn Kerby

Frogchorusfarm.com

Snohomish, WA

 


From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Richard Moyer
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 10:24 AM
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Insurance for the trailers

 

Michelle,

I'll be loading compost today, for a 30-mile trip back home.  A week ago I had a trailer 'mishap', but fortunately no injury to me or truck/trailer, and all made it home OK.

 

Got me thinking about options.  Got estimates last weekend from previous guys who hauled and spread compost on our pastures; compost we also use on cultivated ground.  

Then talked with a neighbor who hauls/logs/digs, etc. Was a more leisurely Sunday afternoon conversation, where he gradually shared of a huge pile of compost, free for hauling, only 4 miles away.  And the reality that I could buy a spreader for the price of one year's worth of paying others do it all when hauling from 30 miles away.  My time is also an issue, but this creative neighbor, who makes a living doing more with less, is asking me to think closer to home.

 

Don't know if any of the above fits your situation, but sharing your needs/challenges with enough people might scare up more options.  Which is what you're doing now!

 

Richard Moyer

SW VA  


To all on the list -?
Have you had any experiences hauling a trailer with material or equipment and broken down?
I have several times.

I have had AAA Premium. But they don't cover me. Just got off the phone with them (again). So my questions were not answered...again.

So what do you do?
?
I need to be able to move a dump trailer with compost form point a to point b. Maybe 150 to 200 miles (mostly 150 miles). I need to go pick up farm equipment in another state maybe 500 or 600 miles away. Yes I habve the dually and the trailer. But what if i break down with a new or slightly used tractor?

What would you do? Would you pay to move things? What companies out there would cover me?

I am curious to know what the list knows.?

Michelle Hromyak
Romy Farms
SC E & W




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