Pig shed washing water.

[womble8350]

Hi I need to create some way with out spending a fortune to deal with the washing water out of the pig sheds. There will only be about 16-20 cube and we could put a pit in to collect and ideally I would pump some where to dispose. However I think I would have no end of trouble with the straw content. Any bright ideas out there??

 

[Pan mixer]

Hi I need to create some way with out spending a fortune to deal with the washing water out of the pig sheds. There will only be about 16-20 cube and we could put a pit in to collect and ideally I would pump some where to dispose. However I think I would have no end of trouble with the straw content. Any bright ideas out there??

A few settlement tanks in the run to the large storage tank and then something like a Briggs irrigator to spread it on grassland.

That is what I have done anyhow.

Pigs have almost gone now so no further problem for me. I will keep the irrigator in place though for a while as altering everything back to clean water drainage will be as big a pain as it was to divert all the dirty water back in the 80's.

 

[womble8350]

Do you have any pics of your settling tanks. How often did you clean them out??

 

[Pan mixer]

Strangely I have a photo of one that we cleaned out last week before filling it with rubble and concreting it over.

This was for an outside yard about 90 feet by 20 feet, not washed (until last week) but built in 1989 and cleaned out for the first time last week, the plastic screen held stuff back from the pump that speeds the liquid faction along to the big tank. These pumps are capable of taking solids up to golf ball size.

The big pump in the main tank is a macerator type that sends the chopped juice along to the scroll and stator pump which runs the irrigator. Unnecesarily complicated for you perhaps but I was coping with an old site where everything went into the ditches before hand and now pump liquid under a B road and then back again for various reasons of site growth and immediate need. A neighbour put in a fishing lake of about 4 acres just downhill from my previously irrigated grass so I had to pump it back again over the road to land in another catchment.

Midland Slurry for the irrigator if you decide to go that way - Giles will advise you.

 

[womble8350]

Thank you for that

Strangely I have a photo of one that we cleaned out last week before filling it with rubble and concreting it over.

This was for an outside yard about 90 feet by 20 feet, not washed (until last week) but built in 1989 and cleaned out for the first time last week, the plastic screen held stuff back from the pump that speeds the liquid faction along to the big tank. These pumps are capable of taking solids up to golf ball size.

The big pump in the main tank is a macerator type that sends the chopped juice along to the scroll and stator pump which runs the irrigator. Unnecesarily complicated for you perhaps but I was coping with an old site where everything went into the ditches before hand and now pump liquid under a B road and then back again for various reasons of site growth and immediate need. A neighbour put in a fishing lake of about 4 acres just downhill from my previously irrigated grass so I had to pump it back again over the road to land in another catchment.

Midland Slurry for the irrigator if you decide to go that way - Giles will advise you.