All things Dairy

[Happy hillbily]

Twin wall pipe will work fine, lay the pipe level and step it so the slurry drops off a edge, the slurry dropping will displace slurry and keep it all moving, it will always be half full. Got 200m of 450mm working fine using the same principle. Longest run being 50m

Been doing fag packet sums each drop is going to cost £1000-1500 plus labour (using concrete chambers) plus the road crossing, still haven't had a price for that, but it's a minimum of a 3 day road closure with ambron doing all the paperwork (no they won't do it on the qt over a weekend) Pumping the slurry through a 5 or 6 inch main could probably get that moled under the road much cheaper than a full road closure , and the rest put in cheaper too.

 

[Farmer Keith]

Surely just leave I so you can run a tanker load of parlour washings or such like down it every now and again if you think it’s going to block? Can’t see it being an issue myself though

 

[Scholsey]

Been doing fag packet sums each drop is going to cost £1000-1500 plus labour (using concrete chambers) plus the road crossing, still haven't had a price for that, but it's a minimum of a 3 day road closure with ambron doing all the paperwork (no they won't do it on the qt over a weekend) Pumping the slurry through a 5 or 6 inch main could probably get that moled under the road much cheaper than a full road closure , and the rest put in cheaper too.

Shouldn't need concrete pits just overlap the pipes, cut top/bottom out of pipe, would be better sealed as if you had concrete chambers the slurry would rise up the chambers rather than building head to clear the blockage. Obviously would still need a road closure though, think I would rather the road closure and digging than relying on pump 24/7 365.

 

[Manney]

Lovely sky this morning, photo doesn't do it justice but that was the view from the parlour this morning.

 

[dinderleat]

Been doing fag packet sums each drop is going to cost £1000-1500 plus labour (using concrete chambers) plus the road crossing, still haven't had a price for that, but it's a minimum of a 3 day road closure with ambron doing all the paperwork (no they won't do it on the qt over a weekend) Pumping the slurry through a 5 or 6 inch main could probably get that moled under the road much cheaper than a full road closure , and the rest put in cheaper too.

Looks a quiet enough road to rip a trench through early Sunday morning a twin wall the full length or a 6 inch with a pump nether are wrong but obvious difference in running costs. Some sort of flush system for the twin wall would be ideal but with the amount of rain you have doubt it would be a problem

 

[lazy farmer]

Cows are in

 

[lazy farmer]

And they are not happy about it.

 

[Jdunn55]

And they are not happy about it.

Kept mine in on Saturday as I didn't fancy standing in the rain for half an hour while they walked out and then scraping up after, they were also not very amused!

 

[Beef farmer]

View attachment 1000371Cows are in

Cant quite read the ear tag, but don't send that cow that backs in down to me next year!!

 

[lazy farmer]

I must start making a list.

 

[pine_guy]

May have to start getting the shed ready for the OAD low yielders.

 

[Blue.]

Things are starting to take shape
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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

If you start at 7’ deep and it drops 7’ into the lagoon you can run your pipe level.

another way is run the pipe with the ground and have a gate valve that you open to empty a reception pit,I’ve slurry running down 315mm mdpe pipe and also 100m or so of 750mm pipe,only had the bigger one block when we sent too much water down it,sorted it by feeding some 90mm mdpe down it connected to the tanker jetter pump.

 

[Farmer Keith]

spring calvers still happy at their work here. Not often we’re grazing snow covered paddocks.

 

[Jdunn55]

Pictures of cows to cheer me up after ordering calf powder a nice fresh heifer too

 

[Mr Jones]

Pictures of cows to cheer me up after ordering calf powder a nice fresh heifer too

What's the breeding of the hfr? Great looking udder.

 

[Jdunn55]

What's the breeding of the hfr? Great looking udder.

Not bad for a friesian! Sired by goonhilly elijah, grand Sire is wa-del junction tv (holstein) and great grand sire would be moet melody (friesian)

 

[dinderleat]

Not bad for a friesian! Sired by goonhilly elijah, grand Sire is wa-del junction tv (holstein) and great grand sire would be moet melody (friesian)

Moët melody was a holstein

 

[Shaunie]

View attachment 49356 A couple of pics of milking cows about 10 mins ago whilst out looking for anything bulling.

Cute! Do you have cows? My partner who is a farmer has, he has pigs too.

 

[Jdunn55]

Moët melody was a holstein

Ahh yes, guy I bought them from has him down as friesian for some reason

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

Moët melody was a holstein

Our melody’s lasted for years.