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Concrete slurry store.

Chippy

Member
Location
Cumbria
Any more people put any shuttered concrete slurry stores buried in the ground? 1 million gallon Moore concrete store is around £150,000. Surely a shuttered 30mX40mX4m tank in ground would be a lot less?
 

rob1

Member
Location
wiltshire
Any more people put any shuttered concrete slurry stores buried in the ground? 1 million gallon Moore concrete store is around £150,000. Surely a shuttered 30mX40mX4m tank in ground would be a lot less?
thinking of doing one for roof water collection
 

Blue.

Member
Livestock Farmer
Any more people put any shuttered concrete slurry stores buried in the ground? 1 million gallon Moore concrete store is around £150,000. Surely a shuttered 30mX40mX4m tank in ground would be a lot less?

Bit of a fag packet cal,5m x 1.2 x .150 panels would be £25k
The floor at .200 thick would be £21k

Of course you’d need mesh for the floor and concrete to set the panels,I’d be doing it for under £70k easy.
 

Mrs Brown

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Orkney Islands
Think 5mts of slurry is going to put a fair pressure on the wall and if you have earth
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/rubble at other side it would put a fair strain in opposite direction when slurry store was empty. Double row of reinforcing mesh and well tied into foundation .Ours was for a silage pit and is just 3.3mtrs deep
 

early riser

Member
Location
Up North
Just sank steels in the ground and poured walls, then concreted the floor and a ramp. Could easily roof it if needed

do they want a roof to keep rainwater out or a cover to keep gas in though? That is the big question a lot of us are trying to find out.
Will we have a design a swimming pool style cover that will roll back and forth for mixing etc :unsure:
 

frederick

Member
Location
south west
do they want a roof to keep rainwater out or a cover to keep gas in though? That is the big question a lot of us are trying to find out.
Will we have a design a swimming pool style cover that will roll back and forth for mixing etc :unsure:
I think the cover rather than the roof is the likely answer but don't think natural england know what they want yet.
 
We have got this slurry problem. when covered how to stir ?? the skin
at the top can get very thick
They can be very gassy kill you with in minutes/Seconds I have herd
of two men being killed minutes What come first your health Live or Death if you want to live get rid of the cows.
 

jg123

Member
Mixed Farmer
Just sank steels in the ground and poured walls, then concreted the floor and a ramp. Could easily roof it if needed

What spec did you build? Looking to price building a 100 gal dirty water tank, shuttered. One side above ground one side backfilled. Thinking 8inch steel shuttered 10inch think to cover steels, rebar etc 10ft high but not checked any spec. Do you use something to seal the shuttering joints? Thanks
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

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