pisten bully.......for spreading slurry

[bigrigg150]

I don't suppose anybody has had much experience driving one.....on a field.....a wet field? with those big wide tracks it looks like they could nearly walk on water but I wondered if they'd make a mess when turning around on the headland etc. Make a real umbilical slurry spreading machine. Just a wild idea, that's all.

 

[Sharpy]

I don't suppose anybody has had much experience driving one.....on a field.....a wet field? with those big wide tracks it looks like they could nearly walk on water but I wondered if they'd make a mess when turning around on the headland etc. Make a real umbilical slurry spreading machine. Just a wild idea, that's all.

Neighbour had a big case, 200hp (?) on Stocks style tracks hired in a few years ago for pulling an umbilical. Amazing where it went and how little mess.

 

[Blue.]

I don't suppose anybody has had much experience driving one.....on a field.....a wet field? with those big wide tracks it looks like they could nearly walk on water but I wondered if they'd make a mess when turning around on the headland etc. Make a real umbilical slurry spreading machine. Just a wild idea, that's all.

There’s a clip on YouTube of someone spreading with a tracked dumper,I’ll try and find it.

Be best if you rotated the cab and snaked up and down the field.

 

[defender]

Pister track and drives would be knackered in no time , something like a musket would work ok as still rubber tracked but made for heavier work

 

[Tarw Coch]

If the grounds that wet should you really be spreading slurry? I appreciate the weather doesn’t allways play ball with the practicalities of farming but is it any surprise we end up with NVZ’s .

 

[Sharpy]

If the grounds that wet should you really be spreading slurry? I appreciate the weather doesn’t allways play ball with the practicalities of farming but is it any surprise we end up with NVZ’s .

Quite often we will get a cool dry spell where you couldn't get a tanker on, or pull a hose uphill on tyres, but the ground is not wet, just greasy on top. Tracks get the job done without damage.
Ps we dont have slurry, just observation of neighbours.

 

[Blue.]

If the grounds that wet should you really be spreading slurry? I appreciate the weather doesn’t allways play ball with the practicalities of farming but is it any surprise we end up with NVZ’s .

But with nvz your farming by dates rather than ground conditions or weather.

 

[FarmyStu]

But with nvz your farming by dates rather than ground conditions or weather.

In NVZs you have to take account of both.

 

[Blue.]

In NVZs you have to take account of both.

Many go out and plaster land in unfit conditions just before the closed period then as soon as the closed period ends there out doing the same,you cannot farm by dates.

Simple thing is,we should all have 12months storage so we can spread at the correct timing.

 

[bigrigg150]

There’s a clip on YouTube of someone spreading with a tracked dumper,I’ll try and find it.

Be best if you rotated the cab and snaked up and down the field.

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Yes I’ve seen that, looks a big heavy lump. The Piston bully looks a bit smaller and had a far nicer cab on it.

Pister track and drives would be knackered in no time , something like a musket would work ok as still rubber tracked but made for heavier work

why would they be knackered in no time? Dragging a slurry pipe up and down wouldn’t be much harder work than pushing tons of snow up a mountain would it? Or do you mean the weight of carrying a reeler?

If the grounds that wet should you really be spreading slurry? I appreciate the weather doesn’t allways play ball with the practicalities of farming but is it any surprise we end up with NVZ’s .

Yes it would have to be used sensibly, not when it’s lashing down with rain or just after or just before it’s about to.

 

[defender]

The grouser bars are mostly aluminium for snow to keep weight down although you could fit steel, the sprockets are not suitable for running in sh!t as the nylon type material is designed to be lubed by the snow
There are plenty of cheaper machines the would stand up to the work better

 

[Blue.]

Clamping with them would be harder on the undercarriage than dragging a pipe.

 

[holywell farmer]

Seen YouTube clip of a challenger tractor on a spreader bar

 

[czechmate]

The ground in this region won’t support anything when moist, so it’s very common here for these things to come out in February and March fert spreading.
Hardly any mess where they turn and running up and down, they make less of an imprint than you do walking