rusty
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- Location
- Buxton Derbyshire
No sand here and we have a slurry separator. Never had to flush the pipes out or use compressed air.
Cost to setup and run an umbilical slurry system
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Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Or straw I'd imagine, let alone a bit of baled silage pulled through a feeder barrier and scraped into the lagoon by accident
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
We bought a tramspread engine-on pump with remote control, reeler and pipe - later a secondhand reeler and further pipe - along with a slurrykat 7.5m trailing shoe. Very happy with all the tramspread kit - less so with the SlurryKat (build quality and after service) - but as a system, a big saving on cost of contractors, more flexible and far better utilisation of slurry.
Deal with that fine.Or straw I'd imagine, let alone a bit of baled silage pulled through a feeder barrier and scraped into the lagoon by accident
As posted not regular used so your always mending something,coming up 15 years since I bought mine,being a control freak I like the flexibility of it but also it’s a hassle I could do without,I do the spreading so it’s usually a part timer who sorts the pump or my wife,fairly complicated system here using a hydraulic pump to feed the umbilical pump,I had to go down that route because getting the pump primed out of a very deep pit was a nightmare.
I’ve it set up now with a remote linked into the tractors headland management system ,I can start the pump and stop it via a simple text message or a remote control,I like the text system because it sends you a text saying it’s got the message.
If building a new lagoon build the outlet out of the side so you don’t need to prime the pump,it’s easier pumped and will have far less down time.
I’ve it set up now with a remote linked into the tractors headland management system ,I can start the pump and stop it via a simple text message or a remote control,I like the text system because it sends you a text saying it’s got the message.
If building a new lagoon build the outlet out of the side so you don’t need to prime the pump,it’s easier pumped and will have far less down time.
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Some pumps seem to prime a lot easier than others
ollie989898
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For a farmer system surely a PTO powered pump with a chap sat on it would be cheapest and easiest?
Agree you want a coupling on the side of any tower to save a lot of grief rather than having to draw from the reception pit.
Agree you want a coupling on the side of any tower to save a lot of grief rather than having to draw from the reception pit.
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
When we considered the best way to operate, we considered that a one man system using remote control would, in the long run, be far cheaper and easier. Each situation/farm is different, but finding a body sit on a pump tractor when you want them is not easy and soon becomes expensive. We can spread night or day with one man, at short notice and no second tractor or seat jockey to organise. The remote control system has already paid for itself several times over I reckon.
Dead Rabbits
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- Location
- 'Merica
They do but they can’t be 4”. Whole 4” system here underground and unused. Can’t cope well with unseperated manure and sand. Cows hooves bring it in, none used here.
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
@ollie989898 we have in the last 12 months added the compressor which is also linked to the remote control and mounted the whole unit on an old trailer chassis. It really is now a completely independent, one man system. The addition of the remote controlled compressor has also made the operation much quicker the operator reports. The only items it has been suggested should be added is a drone so that the operator can fly up and down the pipeline to check for problems and a camera on the pump unit.
No. A 2nd pump would help, and decent size pipe