Mobile slurry store..

Tractor tom7480

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• Oct 6, 2015

• #1

Anyone ever thought or built a mobile slurry tank using a 20 or 40 foot container axle at the back & drawbar at front, internal wall braces, outlet at bottom man hole to fill on top. Truck fills it, tanker empties & spreads. Saves the tanker road working.."

 

Beef farmer

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Livestock Farmer

Location

North cornish coast. It's always windy here

• Oct 6, 2015

• #2

Tractor tom7480 said:

Anyone ever thought or built a mobile slurry tank using a 20 or 40 foot container axle at the back & drawbar at front, internal wall braces, outlet at bottom man hole to fill on top. Truck fills it, tanker empties & spreads. Saves the tanker road working.."

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There is a few round here. Seem to never move tho, more of just a holding tank to keep full with road tankers and spread with umbilical.

 

Blue.

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Livestock Farmer

• Oct 6, 2015

• #3

Walmsley agri have just made one out of a hooklift bin,top job.

https://www.facebook.com/WalmsleyAg...7764859696871/637764793030211/?type=3&theater

 

Mouser

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Location

near Belfast

• Oct 6, 2015

• #4

20ft container here just sits on flat trailer, boom in top, tanker/umbilical out bottom. Needs well strengthened and doors securely closed and plenty of sealant! Holds over 5000 gal iirc.

 

Mouser

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Location

near Belfast

• Oct 6, 2015

• #5

Can also blow in from normal tanker through pipe up front

 

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mad contractor

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• Oct 6, 2015

• #6

We have one built by Richard Western, holds about 70m3

 

MickMoor

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Location

Bonsall, UK

• Oct 7, 2015

• #7

William Gilder made this several years ago, from scratch, about the same time I built his tanks . Sure he'd make another ifyou asked.

 

Blue.

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Livestock Farmer

• Oct 7, 2015

• #8

Mouser said:

20ft container here just sits on flat trailer, boom in top, tanker/umbilical out bottom. Needs well strengthened and doors securely closed and plenty of sealant! Holds over 5000 gal iirc.

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Should be 7500g or so.

 

BAC

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• Oct 8, 2015

• #9

Martin1985 said:

We have one built by Richard Western, holds about 70m3

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Don't see many S series about!

 

Digester Man

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• Oct 10, 2015

• #10

Our contractor has converted a silage trailer to do same

 

Mursal

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• Oct 10, 2015

• #11

Half pipe would be best .............

 

RAF

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Location

staffs

• Oct 11, 2015

• #12

Seen old artic tipping trailers used here , ex john pointon, so back doors are sealed

 

Nearly

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Location

North of York

• Oct 13, 2015

• #13

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NURSE-TANK-/252117411304?hash=item3ab35e65e8

Eeek!

Makes this look cheap.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/7-500mtr-...0d333cb&pid=100005&rk=1&rkt=2&sd=251698049437

 

Hookwood

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Location

Ruinerwold, The Netherlands

• Oct 21, 2015

• #14

We call them over here: mestcontainer

https://www.google.nl/search?q=mest...DcQsARqFQoTCPjks5jg0sgCFYjxFAodndgJ8g#imgrc=_

This one is based on a trailer, very easy to move it. He tows it with the Vervaet from one farm to the other.

 

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Speedstar

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Location

Scottish Borders

• Oct 21, 2015

• #15

There is a contractor in Yorkshire with a 100 cube one

 

Digester Man

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• Oct 21, 2015

• #16

Why do the rigs above use tankers when they could be pulling a pipe? Surely defeats the objective of ground pressure

 

Andrew

Never Forgotten

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Location

Huntingdon, UK

• Oct 21, 2015

• #17

Have never had anything to do with slurry but saw this being built when I was working in Czech Republic, 2009 I think.

 

Hookwood

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Location

Ruinerwold, The Netherlands

• Oct 22, 2015

• #18

Rob_AD said:

Why do the rigs above use tankers when they could be pulling a pipe? Surely defeats the objective of ground pressure

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Mostly because the fields are not close enough to the farm or the fields are too small or a combination of both.

 

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Philip Watkins

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Location

Back in Shropshire

• Oct 22, 2015

• #19

Rob_AD said:

Why do the rigs above use tankers when they could be pulling a pipe? Surely defeats the objective of ground pressure

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Hookwood said:

Mostly because the fields are not close enough to the farm or the fields are too small or a combination of both.

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Seeing as they are using a nurse tank anyway, why not umbilical out of the nurse tank?

 

Hookwood

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Location

Ruinerwold, The Netherlands

• Oct 22, 2015

• #20

Philip Watkins said:

Seeing as they are using a nurse tank anyway, why not umbilical out of the nurse tank?

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In my opinion using a draghose system is only interesting when you want to apply a lot of manure on one location. Here in the area it is only used in the spring when the farmers apply manure on all their fields. Appying 25 - 30 cubic metre of manure per ha. Even then it can be cheaper using tankers in stead of the draghose system.

During the season most of the time the amount of cubic meters of manure is less per ha and the fields will not be fertilized at the same time. Especially when the cows go out grazing.