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Bald Rick

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Livestock Farmer
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Anglesey
Would be interesting to know the cost per 1000gl of moving slurry by road tanker on clear diesel, vs tractor on red.

Just done the maths & it works out at just over 1p per gallon to move it by artic & just over 5p by tanker simply due to speed of carting & capacity carried. Of course, you would have to factor in double handling out of a nurse BUT we are intending to put our lightest tractor on the end of pipe on LGP tyres
 
Just done the maths & it works out at just over 1p per gallon to move it by artic & just over 5p by tanker simply due to speed of carting & capacity carried. Of course, you would have to factor in double handling out of a nurse BUT we are intending to put our lightest tractor on the end of pipe on LGP tyres
You all main roads? Hgv no quicker round here than tractor
 

Blue.

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Livestock Farmer
Would be interesting to know the cost per 1000gl of moving slurry by road tanker on clear diesel, vs tractor on red.

Local chap moving sewage cake will far rather use his artic over his tractor and trailers,twice the load size etc (can't remember his mpg:banghead:)

My fendt does 4mpg + adblue runs on about £10k worth of tyres and was going to cost £48k to swap last spring with 2000hrs on the clock,then there's the tanker on top.:hungover:

I've bought a hooklift tank and this will give me the option to drag with my own tractor or get a lad in with a hgv to move it,only downside is your limited to 16t payload with a hooklift on a 8 wheeler.

I'm favouring the options of buying near land,sticking the umbilical pipe down the pavement at night or scaling back.

Till then I'll keep doing the sums,thinking wow this is expensive.
 

vantage

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Pembs
Hmmmm ..:unsure:
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Still more work needed to find out what's causing the high bactoscans. Don't think we've EVER had higher bacto than SCC other than the odd one off blip! There's always something with dairying... just commending ourselves on SCC being best ever and we get 2 toxic E coli in 10 days, almost lost one of them but vet intervention saved it although we have lost the quarter. When we had higher cell counts we only had a bad E coli once every 2- years. Both over 100 days in milk too.

Shows how good the collars are! (Silent Herdsman). Blue line is eating, green is cudding. Drop in both at time a good indicator of a poorly cow. Orange line at the bottom is motion (for heat detection) and a red line at bottom indication of increased activity - the 'red loop' is when we put her back in with the others after her being in critical care unit for a few days. She was feeling better so then obviously scoffed for so long she didn't have time to ruminate and then caught up by doing a lot of ruminating!View attachment 776066
I'll swap my bactos for your cells! My cell count has been climbing for six weeks,to near 250 average,no mastitis and clean filter.:scratchhead:
 

Bald Rick

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
So tractors are either 2p or lorrys 2.5p. Lorrys only 50% more capacity than your tanks

See where you're coming from. Maths was never my strongest point but I have included wages and other stuff in tractor values that is all inclusive on the lorry cost on its day rate. I also suspect that down time on the lorries will be less but we will see
 

pappuller

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Livestock Farmer
Location
M6 Hard shoulder
@Bald Rick the ad says near offer, id be intrested in the tank on 710s @15k
Don't think you'd be to far off the money at that, this will be similar spec ?
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