All things Dairy

upnortheast said:

Just common sense IMO.
Say 100 cows @ 30 litres a day is near enough £1000 day

Soon covers the cost of a genny. especially an event like the last few days

Power networks do seem to be more robust now. My views were hatched in the 70`s & 80`s when power cuts were common & then we had the 3 day week when power was turned off for (I think ) a number of 4 hour slots every week

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pine_guy said:

It really depends where you are and luck. Dad milked cows here for 20 of years in the parlour (byres before that) up till foot and mouth. And only once remember a power cut causing a major problem, at which point we did 3 milking with the slurry tanker as the vac pump and small genny to power the 13amp plug for the control boxes. Genny went on the freezer in the house the rest of the time. No idea what happened about milk cooling. We had a plate cooler so would hit the tank reasonably cool. Guess they just took it (nestle for powder). It definitely didn’t go down the drain.

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pine_guy said:

It really depends where you are and luck. Dad milked cows here for 20 of years in the parlour (byres before that) up till foot and mouth. And only once remember a power cut causing a major problem, at which point we did 3 milking with the slurry tanker as the vac pump and small genny to power the 13amp plug for the control boxes. Genny went on the freezer in the house the rest of the time. No idea what happened about milk cooling. We had a plate cooler so would hit the tank reasonably cool. Guess they just took it (nestle for powder). It definitely didn’t go down the drain.

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Happy hillbily said:

Things are starting to take shape
View attachment 1000336
I need some sensible ideas of getting the sh1t from this side of the road to the lagoon.
I'd rather let gravity do the work.
I don't want to put channels under the road, as i have been told it would be classed as a bridge, and would need a yearly inspection, with all the bureaucracy and costs that would come with it. So thinking a 600mm twinwall pipe.
Everyone has said it needs to be level, with a wier to hold water in the bottom so the slurry floats down the pipe. There is a 14' fall from the concrete you see in the picture to where a pipe would go under the road, and probably the same again to the lagoon.
This side of the road i haven't the distance to do multiple drops, so say a 6ft drop into the bottom of the reception pit, i then need a 8 ft drop to get under the road, would concrete chambers do the job, would an 8ft drop be too much, another idea that has been out forward is to use the twinwall with a pair of Tees to do the drop, but at nearly a thousand pounds a Tee it's Fxxxxng expensive . Anyone have ideas of how to do it without bankrupting me

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Happy hillbily said:

Things are starting to take shape
View attachment 1000336
I need some sensible ideas of getting the sh1t from this side of the road to the lagoon.
I'd rather let gravity do the work.
I don't want to put channels under the road, as i have been told it would be classed as a bridge, and would need a yearly inspection, with all the bureaucracy and costs that would come with it. So thinking a 600mm twinwall pipe.
Everyone has said it needs to be level, with a wier to hold water in the bottom so the slurry floats down the pipe. There is a 14' fall from the concrete you see in the picture to where a pipe would go under the road, and probably the same again to the lagoon.
This side of the road i haven't the distance to do multiple drops, so say a 6ft drop into the bottom of the reception pit, i then need a 8 ft drop to get under the road, would concrete chambers do the job, would an 8ft drop be too much, another idea that has been out forward is to use the twinwall with a pair of Tees to do the drop, but at nearly a thousand pounds a Tee it's Fxxxxng expensive . Anyone have ideas of how to do it without bankrupting me

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Jdunn55 said:

Can you not just scrape it across the road and wash it with a volume washer afterwards?

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Beef farmer said:

Not with your scraper tractor.

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Beef farmer said:

Not with your scraper tractor.

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bigw said:

I hope its deep enough to allow for your massive rainfall @Happy hillbily

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In the pit said:

Just stick a twin wall pipe in
With that amount of fall (28 foot) it would have to be thick slurry to block up

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Happy hillbily said:

Things are starting to take shape
View attachment 1000336
I need some sensible ideas of getting the sh1t from this side of the road to the lagoon.
I'd rather let gravity do the work.
I don't want to put channels under the road, as i have been told it would be classed as a bridge, and would need a yearly inspection, with all the bureaucracy and costs that would come with it. So thinking a 600mm twinwall pipe.
Everyone has said it needs to be level, with a wier to hold water in the bottom so the slurry floats down the pipe. There is a 14' fall from the concrete you see in the picture to where a pipe would go under the road, and probably the same again to the lagoon.
This side of the road i haven't the distance to do multiple drops, so say a 6ft drop into the bottom of the reception pit, i then need a 8 ft drop to get under the road, would concrete chambers do the job, would an 8ft drop be too much, another idea that has been out forward is to use the twinwall with a pair of Tees to do the drop, but at nearly a thousand pounds a Tee it's Fxxxxng expensive . Anyone have ideas of how to do it without bankrupting me

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Happy hillbily said:

Any views on these ? https://storthmachinery.co.uk/static-pumps/

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