poultry muck storage

[ollie989898]

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Prob not much help to you as you are multi teir , but this is our muck store with flat deck muck in , we push it up to about 15 feet high with a grain pusher
Building is 75×40 with 12 foot walls
Holds 2× 16000 bird houses worth of muck easily

That looks so dry and nice I bet you could pay for that store with the reduced volume/cost of haulage easily?

 

[ollie989898]

Just don't build on a hillside.

Sometime back in the 60s a family who shall remain nameless built some poultry sheds at a place called Cragg Vale, between Halifax and Hebden Bridge, kept expanding rapidly, muck became a problem to shift certain times of the year, they dug a huge hole in the banking side as a reservoir even put a lid over to keep the rain out, bear in mind this was from caged birds.

One winter the drains at The Vale got blocked and the only way it found to go was into the pit, the walls gave way and it flowed down the hillside towards Mytholmroyd, in it's path were one or two cottages, the River Calder and the Rochdale Canal. As far as I remember it bankrupted the business with the clean up costs.

Seen that happen on a farm that had a lot of sewage sludge stacked up...

 

[R J]

That looks so dry and nice I bet you could pay for that store with the reduced volume/cost of haulage easily?

Yes it's great , it doesn't matter what time of year we muck out , it goes straight in the shed so no need to travel on wet ground , then spread straight out of the shed onto stubble in the autumn , keeping it dry is a huge bonus as layer manure goes like sludge when wet