Emptying a digestate lagoon

[ILovebaling]

Anyone any suggestions how to make this job easier? Currently digger into jcb into trailer. Slow job and there is ALOT of stuff to shift. Can't get anymore with slurry pump ?‍?‍?‍

 

[sjt01]

Anyone any suggestions how to make this job easier? Currently digger into jcb into trailer. Slow job and there is ALOT of stuff to shift. Can't get anymore with slurry pump ?‍?‍?‍

We had these guys a couple of years ago Jex Plant www.jexplantukltd.co.uk, did a good job.

 

[nick...]

You can get pumps to move it.nearly hired one to empty a semi liquid castle moat a few years back but customer could not afford it.call be of the big plant hire firms.
Nick...

 

[Bald Rick]

Anyone any suggestions how to make this job easier? Currently digger into jcb into trailer. Slow job and there is ALOT of stuff to shift. Can't get anymore with slurry pump ?‍?‍?‍

Is it just me or does the liner in the top pic look as though it’s rippling and coming away from the bank?

 

[Luke Cropwalker]

Find a contractor with a pit boss pump. This basically a hydraulically driven lift pump that sits in the lagoon and lifts the liquid up to the main pump.

 

[Al R]

Can’t tell if it’s lined or not but I know a lot of friends who put their loading shovels into slurry lagoons which are clay lined, they have the spreaders in with them when they can and often a few loading shovels when the lagoons are big enough

 

[ILovebaling]

Liner was knackered before I got there and has now been cut with still saw all the way round so it's not really an issue.

To be honest digging it out isn't an issue. Just how long it's going to take seeing as it's still at least 5 foot deep.

 

[kiwi pom]

Why not just suck it out with tankers? Doesn't look that thick.

 

[Gerbert]

Positive displacement pump and hang the suction hose on the diggerarm to move it about?
And then maybe a powerful watersource to ease up the thick stuff.

 

[ILovebaling]

Why not just suck it out with tankers? Doesn't look that thick.

To thick to just pump. Water runs into where I've dug so looks loose. They've gone back in with the stirrer they have now I've dug a ramp in. Really we need a better stirrer in to properly move the water and slurry about. Know a man with a storth mega mix that looks like the machine we need. Just need to get them persuaded to get him down to have a go.