Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
AH i see .Done with precast slabs on top of beams and then a skim of concrete on top to form feed passage.
AH i see .Done with precast slabs on top of beams and then a skim of concrete on top to form feed passage.
Would having a setup where i could open one end once a year and muck out with forklift be ok ??
Was that David clarkes. If so it's some shed.When I was in Clarke's I thought that was some shed they built recently?
Can't recall seeing slats tho.
I'd rather sheds than machinery, considering we're not far off 5-6 month winters, it's a sound investment.
About time you spent it!
No sell them at year old, dont like finishing and cant make it pay here anyway, enables me to have more cows.
Ours does have a rating but i can't remember what it is, maybe the shed guys will know. @RWG Contracts @Graham Heath Construction
Im wondering if i could design a door that sealed, would only need open once if the pit was big enough, then no need for a tank.plenty of high level slatted sheds built in the 70's with brick around here. built into the side of a hill, passage way at top, sleepers for the slurry doors at the bottom. and mucked out into a dung spreader which saved spending a fortune on slurry equipment. as sheepwise said, you'd need an effluent tank now, but cant see how it wouldn't work fine
Im wondering if i could design a door that sealed, would only need open once if the pit was big enough, then no need for a tank.
Ramp would collect rain water tho !, im now thinking have a eff tank and use a weeping wall for the door, with land drain pipe up the sides like a silage pit, mean the poop would be nice to spread, be like cream cheese !If you had a ramp down into it then I wonder if you'll have enough volume for the effluent
Ramp would collect rain water tho !, im now thinking have a eff tank and use a weeping wall for the door, with land drain pipe up the sides like a silage pit, mean the poop would be nice to spread, be like cream cheese !
Good idea would just have to be carefull of height for loader but it wont need 12` at the door. i think i could get almost the perfect design out of you chaps.Have the ramp internal after your sealed door.
Contractors spread 2/3 of our 100' x 60' x 8' tank in February with umbilical in 1 day over approx 70 acres.Total cost £890 + 420Litres of diesel.Would have been a week with dungspreader and forklift and the pleasure of driving in below slats with cattle still on top!!!A ramped tank is a waste of time , there were a lot of them here years ago but they are now all gone and converted to slatted tanks , emptying a ramped tank would cost a fortune compared to a slatted tank .
why is it that fattening doesn't pay in your area?What are you asking ?
there can be quite a bit of pressure on sleepers we use to shut up end of our high level slats, just lift 1 out at a time with bucket, then take a couple of scoops, before taking next 1 out.Im wondering if i could design a door that sealed, would only need open once if the pit was big enough, then no need for a tank.
Because im a hill farmer cant grow barley everything would have to be bought in, and price of stores its a no brainer just to have more cows, my immediate area is predominantly sheep, further inby like 10 miles down hill alot do fatten.why is it that fattening doesn't pay in your area?
the price of feed barley the last 5 years I wouldn't have thought there would be much difference?Because im a hill farmer cant grow barley everything would have to be bought in, and price of stores its a no brainer just to have more cows, my immediate area is predominantly sheep, further inby like 10 miles down hill alot do fatten.
Probs cheaper buying it ! but i also don`t have shed capacity and don`t like fattening them, when you see the price of stores i cant see much in it for myself especially if i had to build another shed or rent grazing , also don`t even like fattening cattle i like producing stores, fattend them up till reference years then stopped built up another 100 cows and hopefully never have to fatten cattle again but you never know.the price of feed barley the last 5 years I wouldn't have thought there would be much difference?