Shane Handy of Thompson's Station, Tennessee became an instant believer in the new Schweiss portable horse manure conveyer. It was only purchased about a month ago and now gets daily use at The Jaeckle Centre Equine Facility located about 30 miles south of Nashville.

Billed as the South's Premiere Equine Facility for sport horses of all disciplines, Jaeckle Centre boards approximately 60 horses or more at times in its premium quality 12' x 12' stalls and additional 12 inside groom stalls. You can bet that with that many horses, it takes a lot of work to keep stalls clean.

"We started investigating conveyors and ran across the Schweiss Motorized Manure Conveyor. We have six or seven stall cleaners who clean anywhere from 7 to 12 in the morning and from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. They just continuously run in the morning and then go back through and mildly pick stalls again," said Handy.

What Handy likes most about conveyor is the convenience of it and wondered why anybody waited this long to come up with this conveyor idea.

"We had people who actually quit their jobs because they just physically couldn't do it anymore..."

It was a lot of work forking manure and piling it up - it just killed their backs. Now once we get to the conveyor compared to rolling it up on a long ramp to the wagon, it has probably cut our time in half and the physicality part is 90 percent less once you get it to the dump station. The mucking time (in the stalls) is about the same, but we were mucking it out to a wheelbarrow and then wheelbarrowing it out. I'd give it thumbs up all around. Anybody who does this for a living knows the physicality of it - what the conveyor does is unreal," said Handy.

The new Schweiss portable horse manure conveyor/elevator is a perfect way to speed up and take the tedious, backbreaking work out of transferring manure from horse stalls to a larger holding unit. It eliminates the need of handling manure multiple times and reassures that your dumpster will be filled to the brim.

"We've got some girls who work here too, and we were looking for ways to make the job of mucking less stressful for our employees. Before we got the hydraulic manure conveyor, you'd have to fork it up into a pile toward the front of the 6 ft. x 16 ft. dump wagon with 6 ft. walls so you'd get as much room as you could on the dump trailer. We'd pretty much fill two to three of those a day. Now you just roll it up a small ramp and dump it into the conveyor. The top of the rail is probably nine foot, it will lift higher than that. Other than that, it's done," added Handy.

The hydraulic cylinders will raise the conveyer up to 16 ft. high. When shoveling by hand, you can't possibly load your holding unit or dumpster as efficiently as with the Schweiss Manure Conveyor. You actually get more material into the dumpster without having to crawl in the dumpster to re-level the load.

By popular demand, Schweiss has also engineered an electric manure hauler that makes mucking your horse stalls and transporting it to the pile or conveyor with ease. The hauler, resembling an electric motorized wheelbarrow has a tub that raises up to unload manure contents. It was designed to dump the load directly onto the Schweiss manure conveyor or your dumpsite with the push of a button. It is compact enough to wheel directly into your horse stall.

To find out more about the Schweiss Manure Conveyor or Electric Shit Hauler, call 507-426-8273 or go to http://autumnschweisseventing.com/manure-handling.php

The Jaeckle Centre

Jaeckle Centre is the South's Premiere Equine Facility for sport horses of all disciplines. Their state-of-the-art facility provides Equine and Rider Training and Conditioning Programs. Their Equine Performax Veterinary and Rehabilitation Therapy Services Center specializes in injury prevention, lameness diagnostics, innovative treatment protocols and rehabilitation therapy for performance maximization of sport horses. The Equine Performax Veterinary Clinic and Surgery Center and Therapy Services Center is equipped with the most current technology and equipment used for treatment of injuries.

The Jaeckle Centre, which opened in 2006, has quickly become a popular location for a variety of equestrian clinics with top clinicians including Betsy Steiner, Geoff Teall, Karen Healey, Ralph Hill and Lendon Gray. They also host events such as the USHJA Emerging Athletes Program, Trent William Celebrity Roping and The Celebrity Barn Dance.

The facility and staff provide superior personalized care for their clients' horses with a completely gated facility with 24-hour on-site professional management. An Olympic-size, climate-controlled indoor arena devoted to rider and equine training and conditioning is equipped with state-of-the-art footing to reduce joint and musculoskeletal stress during training.

Two show-quality outdoor riding/warm up arenas have state-of-the-art footing and one specifically has Western footing. Fifty-five premium quality 12' x 12' stalls with ¾" rubber mat floors over concrete and hygienic stainless-steel automatic waterers with monitor gauges ensure adequate hydration. In addition to that there are 12 inside groom stalls/wash racks with hot and cold water and six semi-private temperature-controlled tack rooms with sink areas for cleaning tack. A well-appointed lounge and viewing area to the indoor arena. Rubber mat floors on inside walkways provide a non-slip surface to keep horses and people safe.

The Jaeckle Centre has a full-rated hunter/jumper show schedule throughout the year for clients or one of their professional riders to show. Equine training is available for horses that need the attention of our qualified trainers. It's tailored for all horses that need to be schooled and exercised when a rider cannot always be consistent due to unforeseen life circumstances.

Jaeckle Centre has 90-plus acres of prime pasture with individualized paddocks for safe turnout and five miles of beautiful wooded trails with rolling hills perfect for keeping horses fit. It is also a place where you can buy quality Hunter, Jumper, Equitation, retired racehorses and ponies.

Jaeckle Centre is located at 100 Saddle Springs Blvd., Thompson's Station, Tennessee. Ph. 855-523-2553. https://thejaecklecentre.com