Yes, sand. You’re right about the cost of the other pumps, Landia was the cheapest, £5k+. I’m not dealing with a lot of slurry, only from the shed which goes into a sand channel and then through a short length of 6” pipe into a 5’ square pumping chamber . 100 cows, probably 6 cubes a day of slurry so hard to justify an expensive pump, the one I’m going for is expensive enough!
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Spudley
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- Pembrokeshire
Nice shed! Bet you are glad to be in!
Couldn’t fit a quart into a pint pot any more!
Hopefully this will do the job, changed my mind about a peristaltic pump as the feed to it could have blocked with silage, as it was only 32mm, also it was a lot of money £3k, a bigger pump was an eye watering cost![/QUOTE]
We had a pump like that with sand, unfortunately it didn’t last long. Sand to abrasive and silage blocked the intake.
We had a pump like that with sand, unfortunately it didn’t last long. Sand to abrasive and silage blocked the intake.
We had a pump like that with sand, unfortunately it didn’t last long. Sand to abrasive and silage blocked the intake.
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Like the yellow pump in the pic? If that conks out I’ll think about making a long shaft pump, the workings will be out of the slurry, just have to make it small enough to drive with 5.5kW.
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- Derbyshire
Like the yellow pump in the pic? If that conks out I’ll think about making a long shaft pump, the workings will be out of the slurry, just have to make it small enough to drive with 5.5kW.
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We put in an electric pump to lift out of slat's chamber and into the lagoon. Persevered with it for some 4 years before going to a farm sale and buying a long leg pto pump for a fraction of the price.
The problem with the electric pump was that it didn't agitate the tank enough as it was pumping. Over time anything that floated formed a crust and eventually nothing would pump. Would have to clean out with vaccy tanker and start again.. Changed to long shaft pump never had an issue.
Sorry to be a bit negative, just our experience.
Like the yellow pump in the pic? If that conks out I’ll think about making a long shaft pump, the workings will be out of the slurry, just have to make it small enough to drive with 5.5kW.[/QUOTE]
Yes like that yellow one.
Piston type pumps seem to be the only ones that last with sand.
- Location
- North Norfolk
Build one yourself from a Land Rover tyre. Next time I would put the inlet and outlet on the bottom, and move the top plate. Forces involved are quite high.
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- South Molton
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Mr Jones
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Notch another 1 to next doors Herefod bull, small heifer born Dec -18, calved with some assistance, but no jack required.
Now, if he would only start fencing his herd in.
Now, if he would only start fencing his herd in.
Lucky he doesn't send a bill for bull hire
Headless chicken
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- West Wales
Cows 'n grass
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- Modbury, South Devon
We had the same scenario about 10 years ago where some rather young heifers popped out white faces calves when we only had jersey bulls on the place. No calving problems but they several were BVD PIs when our cows were all naive.
Went to go get cows one morning and was met with two luings bulls and a whitebred shorthorn bull trying to bull cows. Luckily none in calf to them though, was fairly jumping when I got to the gate
Got out of neighbours come up road and through our fence on road side
Got out of neighbours come up road and through our fence on road side
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Mr Jones
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- Llancwmbwlchrhydyfoncenfach
lazy farmer
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- som/dor border
2 clear tests
Headless chicken
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- West Wales
they knew what was going on. Need to rearrange the gateways so that we end up the right side of them as it’s lethal trying to cross back through them.
Jdunn55
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- Helston, cornwall
Clear test here as well