Old Dairy shed and Slurry issues

[charlie94]

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We've a cattle shed with 4 slatted channels linked up at the ends with head to head cubicles. Channels approx 8 to 10 wide and 6ft deep. Was for dairy but we've been using it for blue dairy crosses for beef. Now muck a bit thicker but we struggle like mad to mix it and empty it completely. We've probably never emptied channels aren't deep enough to get a bob cat in to muck it out. Looked into bubbler system but want 50k to do it
She'd is big about 220ft long, which is part of the problem. Keep thinking whether to rip all the infrastructure out and fill slats in, sell slats and cubicles then concrete it up and bed with straw get some gates made

Or can we sort this slurry problem out

Any help much appreciated again

 

[RWG Contracts]

Have you tired them slurry bug things?

Or divert some rainwater in to wet things up a bit

 

[Speedstar]

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We've a cattle shed with 4 slatted channels linked up at the ends with head to head cubicles. Channels approx 8 to 10 wide and 6ft deep. Was for dairy but we've been using it for blue dairy crosses for beef. Now muck a bit thicker but we struggle like mad to mix it and empty it completely. We've probably never emptied channels aren't deep enough to get a bob cat in to muck it out. Looked into bubbler system but want 50k to do it
She'd is big about 220ft long, which is part of the problem. Keep thinking whether to rip all the infrastructure out and fill slats in, sell slats and cubicles then concrete it up and bed with straw get some gates made

Or can we sort this slurry problem out

Any help much appreciated again

plenty water & good mixing pump , will sort it out fine

 

[upnortheast]

Near neighbour has arrangement that can divert the shed downpipes into the slurry pit as required

 

[idgni]

add some water and slurry bugs,
when you have tank emptied add about 1ft of water first , this will stop the dung cakeing up on you, works similar in sheep slats also.
the Bugs will then get it mixing itself

 

[grass man]

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We've a cattle shed with 4 slatted channels linked up at the ends with head to head cubicles. Channels approx 8 to 10 wide and 6ft deep. Was for dairy but we've been using it for blue dairy crosses for beef. Now muck a bit thicker but we struggle like mad to mix it and empty it completely. We've probably never emptied channels aren't deep enough to get a bob cat in to muck it out. Looked into bubbler system but want 50k to do it
She'd is big about 220ft long, which is part of the problem. Keep thinking whether to rip all the infrastructure out and fill slats in, sell slats and cubicles then concrete it up and bed with straw get some gates made

Or can we sort this slurry problem out

Any help much appreciated again

When you say channels, are they for storage or just to keep the slurry moving to be pumped away to some other storage facility on a regular basis? If this is the case i dont think the bugs will work. Have you any manholes along the 220ft to allow mixer access? Seems a shame to fill in something that sounds so good. If you have a lagoon or tower for storage could you pump some thin liquid out of the bottom of it into the other end of the channels to try and keep them flushed out while transferring the slurry out from the other end

 

[Scholsey]

Do you want/need slurry? Block the outflow if there is one into a lagoon etc Fill the whole lot up with water to stop it filling anymore, bed on chopped straw/sawdust every few days and scrape when required, lovely beef cattle FYM that can be lugged out and tipped wherever it’s needed?

 

[deere 6600]

Pal of mine lifted the slats mini digger the sh!t out slats back on plenty water from then on bit of work but was succesfull

 

[Sheep]

How deep is it and what are you mixing with?