Thick sandy slurry

crashbox · Nov 9, 2021

How are people getting this out and spreading it? Our pit 4m deep, goes from water-like slurry on the top to stackable stuff in the bottom.

Lot's of talk of precision application etc. But not sure that possible for the bottom layer of the pit...

Not idea how it would analyse either with all that sand.

davidroberts30 · Nov 9, 2021

shellbourne Reynolds

Scholsey · Nov 9, 2021

360 and some else’s muckspreaders.

Moorlands · Nov 9, 2021

Just get stuck in and take it out with dual spreader here.

dairydurham · Nov 9, 2021

crashbox said:
How are people getting this out and spreading it? Our pit 4m deep, goes from water-like slurry on the top to stackable stuff in the bottom.

Lot's of talk of precision application etc. But not sure that possible for the bottom layer of the pit...

Not idea how it would analyse either with all that sand.

Just done ours for the first time .big long reach 360& fleet of rear discharge spreaders.Over 800t sand plus some slurry came out and spread lovely

vantage · Nov 9, 2021

Three Shelbourne Reynolds spreaders and a JCB 434, put it out onto 3rd cut stubbles, 4th cut yielded 50% more than usual, no fertiliser.

frederick · Nov 9, 2021

crashbox said:
How are people getting this out and spreading it? Our pit 4m deep, goes from water-like slurry on the top to stackable stuff in the bottom.

Lot's of talk of precision application etc. But not sure that possible for the bottom layer of the pit...

Not idea how it would analyse either with all that sand.

Tanker everything we can never stir it. Two days one man takes the bottom out with tractor and loader and a west spreader. 250 cows.

Others will find me boring but the question going forwards is not how to deal with the sand now. It's how to deal with it when you've put a cover over your lagoon.

vantage · Nov 9, 2021

frederick said:
Tanker everything we can never stir it. Two days one man takes the bottom out with tractor and loader and a west spreader. 250 cows.

Others will find me boring but the question going forwards is not how to deal with the sand now. It's how to deal with it when you've put a cover over your lagoon.

Two lagoons, original to settle the sand, new one to increase capacity and store the liquid.

early riser · Nov 9, 2021

vantage said:
Two lagoons, original to settle the sand, new one to increase capacity and store the liquid.

But under current guidance all slurry stores are going to have to be covered, so would still have to cover the original slurry pit and find a way of removing cover to access it easily

vantage · Nov 9, 2021

early riser said:
But under current guidance all slurry stores are going to have to be covered, so would still have to cover the original slurry pit and find a way of removing cover to access it easily

Wasn’t aware of that, can you put this guidance up?

davidroberts30 · Nov 9, 2021

early riser said:
But under current guidance all slurry stores are going to have to be covered, so would still have to cover the original slurry pit and find a way of removing cover to access it easily

It's not storage, just a wier into the main lagoon

lazy farmer · Nov 9, 2021

vantage said:
Wasn’t aware of that, can you put this guidance up?

There is nothing official yet. We are all waiting for the clueless xxxxxxx to give detail. This is for England. God knows what your lot will do in response.

Mc115reed · Nov 9, 2021

Best thing too do with sand lagoons Is leave them alone, pump out the water and what your left with is border line stackable stand, spread it with dual spreaders or rear discharges, do it every year don’t ever be tempted too miss a year you’ll seriously regret it come winter….

crashbox · Nov 13, 2021

What's best pump for the water stuff?
Tankers struggle to suck much more than a couple of metres here...

Mc115reed · Nov 13, 2021

crashbox said:
What's best pump for the water stuff?
Tankers struggle to suck much more than a couple of metres here...

Farrari the best for water.. cheap to run and go output on water…. No pump will suck more than I think it’s 5metres without a pit pal too force feed it

frederick · Nov 16, 2021

So everyone else can get a separator on the grant scheme apart from those of us on sand

lazy farmer · Nov 16, 2021

frederick said:
So everyone else can get a separator on the grant scheme apart from those of us on sand

(In an Irish voice )”I’m not bitter”

ollie989898 · Nov 16, 2021

You want a clapped out dual spreader to load the residual sand/slurry stuff into and spread it that way.

If you are going to pump the liquid out it does pay to have a settling pit or similar to pump out of to avoid ingesting too much sand.

crashbox · Nov 16, 2021

ollie989898 said:
You want a clapped out dual spreader to load the residual sand/slurry stuff into and spread it that way.

If you are going to pump the liquid out it does pay to have a settling pit or similar to pump out of to avoid ingesting too much sand.

Would be a big pit given a good 20T a week goes into the beds...

Mc115reed · Nov 16, 2021

crashbox said:
Would be a big pit given a good 20T a week goes into the beds...

Place we pump at uses 3 artics a week and they’re lagoon is litrally 1 solid block of sand after winter takes about 5 days with 3 dual spreaders too empty

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