Anyone using one of these ?

[Farmer Roy]

Average humidity here in spring/early summer is in the 70's% range, so as long as you use it up in 2or 3 months your okay. Have used the loader bucket to break up a few big clods before.
Urea or ammonium sulfate that is, as @Farmer Roy said ammonium nitrate isn't a fertilizer in the government's eyes.

yeah, any bulk urea / SOA is generally used when it’s delivered or straight off the truck. If it is stored, then most likely in a shed / bunker that would be emptied with a loader as said

 

[neilo]

haha - nitram hasn’t been available here since the 11/9/01 event . . .

someone might make bombs out of it

One terrorist cell here was only discovered when 4 'suspicious' gentlemen walked into an ag merchant and tried to buy a 600kg bag of AN. The police were alerted and a surveillance operation began, culminating in a plot being foiled.

Maybe putting up 'Nitram R Us' adverts might flush a few more out?

 

[Brisel]

I'm just curious why would you use fertilizer in bags? Seems it would be more economical to buy in bulk,say a truck load dumped on farm,not?
Split the load with the neighbor if you can't use it all... unless of course you are getting custom made blends

That's fine for urea or base (P and K) fertiliser but not ammonium nitrate. AN is so hygroscopic that you'd have a solid lump in less than 24 hours. I left a few kg in a hopper once in August overnight and it was solid the following morning. I had to wash it all out with a hose pipe and spread the liquid with a slurry tanker

 

[Deerefarmer]

Your spring/summer humidity is definitely higher than ours

 

[Farmer Roy]

Doesn’t nitram go solid in bags ?
that would be a nightmare

at times I’ve had to deal with old bulka bags full of fert that have gone solid here, by dropping them or rolling them around with a FEL

 

[Brisel]

Not if they are well sealed

 

[Farmer Roy]

Our bags are a woven synthetic material - water will run off then, but they certainly aren’t waterproof & they will absorb moisture over time if in damp conditions

 

[Farmer Roy]

Anyway, nitram isn’t an available product here unless you are blasting open cut mine sites . . .
not an agricultural product anymore

 

[Deerefarmer]

In my teens I helped a farmer install a long stretch of water pipe, ran into some large rocks at several places, we hand drilled them, pneumatic hand drills, blew up the rocks with black powder and a special fertilizer mix worked like a charm

 

[Farmer Roy]

In my teens I helped a farmer install a long stretch of water pipe, ran into some large rocks at several places, we hand drilled them, pneumatic hand drills, blew up the rocks with black powder and a special fertilizer mix worked like a charm

I actually had a “powder monkey’s” ticket back in the day, before the world turned to sh!t & the fun police took over

nitro prill ( effectively, prilled AN ) & diesel was a very common & widely used explosive. Still is in the mining / construction industries

 

[Farmer Roy]

Doing the explosives course, our instructor was an ex US Marine Vietnam veteran, who due to his war experiences had turned his back on the US & moved here.
He was a character, to say the least

 

[Deerefarmer]

I've a friend who is the licensed powder monkey for a local excavation/ site prep company, the red tape involved is astounding, every move he makes is practically recorded. He can also tell some stories.
We mixed urea and diesel to make our "fertiliser" back in the day.
I also spent quite a few of my early teen summers helping a one man site prep operation, he would also drill and blast with his own mix, small jobs as I said, I spent hours wrestling a pneumatic rotary drill for him, which weighed about as much as me at time. Fun times on looking back now...