I just learned that the term "muck" is cleaning out a horse stall. How long has that term been used? I'm wondering if that's where Muck boots came from? To me Muck has alwsys been sloppy mud.

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When i worked down in the mine the pile of rocks that was made when they shot the face and bench was called the "muck pile"

I learned what mucking out stalls meant when I started doing it at about 8 years old.

And in parts of Western MD and WVa, I've heard the pile left outside called the gob pile.
At least that's what I THINK they were saying, lol

My youngest daughter mucked out stalls in trade for riding lessons starting about the same age trapdog did.

I knew a guy in high school.
Muck this, muck that, he was an avid duck and goose hunter always mucking somthing.

it could be where the muck boots got their name they were popular with farms and horse folk

muck out a stall , muck out the barn

my grandpa talks about working the one round barn they had , thought the trolley system they had was the slickest thing it was a rail system that hung from the ceiling and the large wheel barrow like trolley hung from the rail and pushed easily you didn't have to lift anything and it was a trip bucket.
you shoveled and pushed it along around in the circle of the barn and then pull the lever to dump it.

have to muck out after milking

That track system and clean out system , worked really well. I filled and dumped a lot of loads. We called it a litter carrier.. The track was a great spot for the young tough guys , to show how strong they were. How many chin ups they could do. Also skin the cat . old 243

Origion is from roughly the mid 13th century so it has been around for a few generations!

Bryce

Muck was used in surviving texts as far back as 1268 to refer to manure in a barn.

Keith

LOL me too trapdog. Eric

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