Dual Purpose Silage clamp / Slurry store ?

[Niall310]

I've had a chat with a farmer lately who wants to build a new slurry tank on his out farm.

The idea he has is that he can clamp silage in it during summer or then over winter/spring when it's empty he can fill it with slurry when the main yard is full.

This is only an initial thought atm but the basics would be a mass concrete clamp with some sort of barrier/wall that can be erected to make it 'slurry tight'. He mightened necessarily want the full depth/height of the silo to hold slurry but you get the idea.
He doesn't want the cost of build 2 separate structures that will only ever have one full and the other empty.

Has anyone heard or seen anything like this before?

 

[George Mitchell]

Shitshow in the making, send us pics of when it all goes wrong

 

[YELROM]

I think the only safe way would be a hole in the ground with a ramp down into it to get the silage out,as posted above. It’s a recipe for disaster putting a temporary wall in a slurry store

 

[Mouser]

Never seen it personally but know there's a few round here that make a bank of dung across a clamp to hold 4/5 feet of slurry for extra spring storage. No dramas reported yet.

 

[miniconnect]

I'd say it's a recipe for hardship, if he wants dual purpose put a roof over it. then there's no pressure to have it empty, washed out in time for silage, or pressure to empty it when running out of slurry storage.

 

[thorpe]

I've had a chat with a farmer lately who wants to build a new slurry tank on his out farm.

The idea he has is that he can clamp silage in it during summer or then over winter/spring when it's empty he can fill it with slurry when the main yard is full.

This is only an initial thought atm but the basics would be a mass concrete clamp with some sort of barrier/wall that can be erected to make it 'slurry tight'. He mightened necessarily want the full depth/height of the silo to hold slurry but you get the idea.
He doesn't want the cost of build 2 separate structures that will only ever have one full and the other empty.

Has anyone heard or seen anything like this before?

if tom pemberton can get away with it im sure we all can!

 

[spark plug]

if tom pemberton can get away with it im sure we all can!

Tom also keeps the feed bin in the silage clamp, so anything is possible.

 

[Wesley]

Don’t know where you’re from but if its England then run it past the EA & see what they say….good luck

 

[Nearly]

Everything will be full at the wrong time.
Half slurry on before first cut then rest on after, oh hang on grass needs to go into clamp.

It could work with 2 clamps / stores.
But if you can get a grant on a muck store why make it complicated?

 

[thorpe]

Tom also keeps the feed bin in the silage clamp, so anything is possible.

and selco with sh!t running into it muck midden maize clamp and all on his RT audit day, and me and the the big lad have just lost half a day mouse proofing the grain store doors after 40 od years of which 25 have been good enough fo RT

 

[Niall310]

Never seen it personally but know there's a few round here that make a bank of dung across a clamp to hold 4/5 feet of slurry for extra spring storage. No dramas reported yet.

A more positive outlook than some Same idea only make it properly.it'll give him storage on the outfarm to hold some slurry for spring application on the block of ground surrounding it. then it will be empty for silage.

 

[Niall310]

if tom pemberton can get away with it im sure we all can!

What did he do?

 

[Niall310]

Everything will be full at the wrong time.
Half slurry on before first cut then rest on after, oh hang on grass needs to go into clamp.

It could work with 2 clamps / stores.
But if you can get a grant on a muck store why make it complicated?

No grants for slurry stores here atm unfortunatly.

His plan would be to cart enough slurry up when the main yard is full and it will be there to pipe in spring.
It's all only a thought atm and to see if there was anything like this done before, there's a solution to everything, it just whether its practical or cost effective.

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

There's a solution to everything, it just whether its practical or cost effective.

A good approach to life

 

[puppet]

https://www.farminguk.com/news/amp/...gal-slurry-store-fined-over-15-000_64663.html

A bank of muck not a good idea.
The cattle don't eat the silage until March but produce slurry from October. How does that work?

 

[Mouser]

https://www.farminguk.com/news/amp/...gal-slurry-store-fined-over-15-000_64663.html

A bank of muck not a good idea.
The cattle don't eat the silage until March but produce slurry from October. How does that work?

It's been quite clearly explained, it's an out farm the silo is empty when the main farm is full of slurry in late spring.

 

[yin ewe]

Never seen it personally but know there's a few round here that make a bank of dung across a clamp to hold 4/5 feet of slurry for extra spring storage. No dramas reported yet.

There's one particular boy I'm thinking of and I doubt he'd be happy unless the slurry was at the top of the wall.......

 

[Blue.]

No reason you couldn’t have a clamp with a 20’ opening and fit concrete panels once empty of silage,neighbours have a store with wood sleepers in one corner to allow access with a tractor,been fine for forty years or more.

 

[puppet]

It's been quite clearly explained, it's an out farm the silo is empty when the main farm is full of slurry in late spring.

Thanks, see that now. However I suspect the engineering required to have a sealed wall at one end which can somehow be lowered and raised would be too expensive. What if the clamp wasn't empty in time as you have to show you have 6 months storage. Nice idea but won't be accepted I think

 

[yin ewe]

No reason you couldn’t have a clamp with a 20’ opening and fit concrete panels once empty of silage,neighbours have a store with wood sleepers in one corner to allow access with a tractor,been fine for forty years or more.

You'd want to keep the opening as small as practical for buckraking to reduce the risk of slurry leaking. 6" Panels with a plastic sheet over them would probably do the job and maybe a good channel along the front.