Muck midden advice please

[JMTHORNLEY]

Afternoon all,

We are in the process of putting a new shed up and I really would like to keep the muck nearby. I have a few ideas re middens but unsure of what could be most effective..

Will have to cope with a mixture of scraped off feeding area and a bit of straw from other sheds ect.. We currently use an old concrete midden from a mill that shut down a few years ago but is up for sale so no doubt at some point in the near future I will lose the ability to stack it up in there. It has been a great thing to use for us as we just used to heap up in the field and that caused a right mess at times as it never seems to stop raining here... It has a flat floor and VERY high sides, about 15ft in total and about 60ft in length so as you can imagine it can hold some. We dump trailer it round there and with it being flat the sloppy stuff can slip and not always want to play ball so my thought was a sloping floor?
Questions are how steep to have it and how deep? Anyone else have a similar set up and could you post some pictures for some inspiration please?

 

[Paul E]

I've no constructive input other than make it twice as big as you think you need to.

 

[holywell farmer]

I've no constructive input other than make it twice as big as you think you need to.

Build it so water or effluent runs off into tank if can, so won't get huge puddles near the heap then !

 

[Purli R]

What he said^ make it big enough,then make it a bit bigger

 

[hendrebc]

Cant buy the old mill thats for sale to keep using the pit?

 

[milkloss]

Build it so water or effluent runs off into tank if can, so won't get huge puddles near the heap then !

With a roof over it.

 

[Hilly]

Make the shed bigger and keep the midden indoors.

 

[holywell farmer]

With a roof over it.

Yeah,

 

[JMTHORNLEY]

I'd like to do this but it's going to be a bit of a multi purpose shed with some machinery in so it's a bit difficult to stack much indoors. How deep do people suggest I dig the ramp out? I could very easily put a tin roof on that mind..

 

[Philip Watkins]

.... We dump trailer it round there and with it being flat the sloppy stuff can slip and not always want to play ball so my thought was a sloping floor?
Questions are how steep to have it and how deep? Anyone else have a similar set up and could you post some pictures for some inspiration please?

If you have a ramp down into it and scraping sloppy stuff in there, you won't want to be parking machinery or anything else in there.

 

[JMTHORNLEY]

If you have a ramp down into it and scraping sloppy stuff in there, you won't want to be parking machinery or anything else in there.

I'd hope not as well . The midden would be in a separate location either to the back or side of the shed

 

[Philip Watkins]

I'd hope not as well . The midden would be in a separate location either to the back or side of the shed

It just the way you worded your post #9 above, sounded like you wanted to stack it inside a GP shed