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Moorlands

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West yorkshire
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Concrete down and groved.
 

coomoo

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New blend turned up tonight not what I’d emailed and asked for, substituted beet pulp with soya hulls and added molasses when it wasn’t requested. Nutritional value of hulls compared to beet must be crap?
 

supercow

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Location
Dumfriesshire
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We have got a grant for putting a lagoon in, I don't know the first thing about lagoons, how big is your lagoon going to be? I'm guessing your rubber sealing it? I got told if ur clay soil u won't need to seal it but probably for grant purposes we best be sealing it. I also got told all drains that you dig up have to go into the lagoon which I found absalutly insane
 
Location
Cheshire
We have got a grant for putting a lagoon in, I don't know the first thing about lagoons, how big is your lagoon going to be? I'm guessing your rubber sealing it? I got told if ur clay soil u won't need to seal it but probably for grant purposes we best be sealing it. I also got told all drains that you dig up have to go into the lagoon which I found absalutly insane
No grants, not in a catchment sensitive area or even an NVZ. Just need to do a better job to look after the soil and nutrients.
The concrete floor is also a footing for a precast tank, the excavation is to place it 1.5m down, and we will use some of the spoil to backfill and landscape leaving at least 2m as a barrier. Capacity is 1m gallon, somewhere at 4 months + capacity, we shall see next winter now!
 

supercow

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Location
Dumfriesshire
I was thinking about 1 million gallon but I'm also think we can't go too big, it's a shithole of a field we r putting it in so not exactly losing valuable ground. So majority of slurry stored will be above ground? Think we will have to dig deeper to get to hard ground. Does any of the Scotland/dumfrieshire boys know anyone to contact regarding doing the whole job of a lagoon????
 

coomoo

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I was thinking about 1 million gallon but I'm also think we can't go too big, it's a shithole of a field we r putting it in so not exactly losing valuable ground. So majority of slurry stored will be above ground? Think we will have to dig deeper to get to hard ground. Does any of the Scotland/dumfrieshire boys know anyone to contact regarding doing the whole job of a lagoon????
Done my site work at same time as dairy so plant lot done that. The rest done through Gordon’s. Mines 1m gallon with .2m gallon freeboard. There’s loads round me here done by Gordon’s. What a bloody day with that blend aswell 244 bit to come off and mins now since I said wasn’t wanting it.
 

supercow

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Location
Dumfriesshire
thanks @coomoo you got them and they were all good? Reasonably priced? Bit of a nightmare with us aswell my man yesterday said to me to hold the blend off till Thursday cos we wouldn't fit in the bin, ran out tonight !! But we r with Davidsons for the blend and they are brilliant for deliverys, they provide a fantastic service so they are sending it first thing tomoro morning and I phoned at 10 past 4.
 

coomoo

Member
Yeah was quite happy with them put a protective membrane down on ours, an outlet and also ours has a 1.2 m channel running into it which they sealed no probs. That blend is off Carr’s first one aswell :facepalm:
 

supercow

Member
Location
Dumfriesshire
Funny consultant said this morning to try Davidson’s
Honestly they are the sharpest feed company iv dealt with, this has been the first morning the feed isn't here when they said it was going to be here but the m74 is shut!! And they are competatively priced, our blend is 228 with minerals
 
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