Slurry channels

[Callum85]

I have to install slurry channels from a couple cubicle houses acros a field to a new store we are building. I’m think of putting a precast channel so it acts as extra storage and was going to install them level with concrete lids so slurry stays wet enough to work its way along. The alternative is twin wall pipe which I’m not so keen on as it will be buried. Keen to know what others have done or seen that works.

 

[RWG Contracts]

I have to install slurry channels from a couple cubicle houses acros a field to a new store we are building. I’m think of putting a precast channel so it acts as extra storage and was going to install them level with concrete lids so slurry stays wet enough to work its way along. The alternative is twin wall pipe which I’m not so keen on as it will be buried. Keen to know what others have done or seen that works.

What distance are you going?

Chanels with removable lids will definitely be better twin wall pipe If it gets blocked

 

[Courier]

If they have a level flat base they need a 100mm lip at the discharge end to retain the wet bottom permanently and prevent it drying out - we used to have one 30 metres long which was covered with slats where we scraped the cubicles and collecting yard out on to and worked well. Never once blocked in 25 years.

 

[Callum85]

If they have a level flat base they need a 100mm lip at the discharge end to retain the wet bottom permanently and prevent it drying out - we used to have one 30 metres long which was covered with slats where we scraped the cubicles and collecting yard out on to and worked well. Never once blocked in 25 years.

I intend on laying them level although as we go across the field we will have to step the channels down every so often. Distance is about 70m

 

[RWG Contracts]

I intend on laying them level although as we go across the field we will have to step the channels down every so often. Distance is about 70m

At the distance you need to put weirs in to trap water so that muck runs over it

 

[farmerste]

i put a load of slurry channels in few years ago, installed them all level but built wiers in them every 40 ft to keep liquid in bottom. they work well and never block

 

[MickMoor]

If set up as described, channels work very well, I would recommend them.
I believe twin wall is not allowed for slurry, drainage water only. If I were putting pipe in, I would probably pump it through 150mm pressure pipe, so would only be worth doing if there was a significant difference in levels.
In all these things, the cost of installation is more significant than the cost of materials. It wouldn't be worth getting a trencher in for 70m.

 

[Scholsey]

If set up as described, channels work very well, I would recommend them.
I believe twin wall is not allowed for slurry, drainage water only. If I were putting pipe in, I would probably pump it through 150mm pressure pipe, so would only be worth doing if there was a significant difference in levels.
In all these things, the cost of installation is more significant than the cost of materials. It wouldn't be worth getting a trencher in for 70m.

Why is twin wall not allowed for slurry? What regs stop it being used?

 

[MickMoor]

Why is twin wall not allowed for slurry? What regs stop it being used?

I was told by my pipe supplier when I tried to order some. Ironically, dirty water and slurry should be in black MDPE, not blue!

 

[Courier]

When I put my channel in in the late 70’s I also put in a re-circulating pipe from the pump through the same sized pipe work as the pump outlet ( I had forgotten ) but although it worked I never needed to use it.
I wouldn’t have expected twin wall to stand the pressures involved .

 

[RWG Contracts]

When I put my channel in in the late 70’s I also put in a re-circulating pipe from the pump through the same sized pipe work as the pump outlet ( I had forgotten ) but although it worked I never needed to use it.
I wouldn’t have expected twin wall to stand the pressures involved .

Yes I know what you mean. We’ve put them in before, can buy them off Storth. 6” pipe I think it is

 

[Courier]

Yes I know what you mean. We’ve put them in before, can buy them off Storth. 6” pipe I think it is

IIRC it was solvent joined water main.

 

[RWG Contracts]

IIRC it was solvent joined water main.

Probably cheaper than Storth sell the same stuff for

 

[MickMoor]

Yes I know what you mean. We’ve put them in before, can buy them off Storth. 6” pipe I think it is

I can supply too, and my supplier is not the same as Storth. I prefer metric, because there is more choice of fittings.
Please only enquire if you have a specific project in mind. Conecting pipe to a pump through a Bauer coupling can be quite costly.

 

[Grassman247]

Sorry to drag this thread up, still on the slurry channel idea, has anyone formed an opening in the channels like the pictures below, in one picture there is steel used but not keen on that idea as it will rot

 

[MickMoor]

That looks a nasty trap for legs! I would make it in to a leter box type for safety.

 

[Grassman247]

That looks a nasty trap for legs! I would make it in to a leter box type for safety.

Idea is cows don’t go anywhere near that area, slats always hold dry stuff on top creating a job

 

[multi power]

Idea is cows don’t go anywhere near that area, slats always hold dry stuff on top creating a job

Gates DO get let open
Cows DO escape

 

[Grassman247]

Gates DO get let open
Cows DO escape

This is a good point, I guess cow safety vs a small amount of hand scraping over slats is a small price

 

[Blue.]

Sorry to drag this thread up, still on the slurry channel idea, has anyone formed an opening in the channels like the pictures below, in one picture there is steel used but not keen on that idea as it will rot

I’m about to start a new channel on the end of my main cow shed,having an open letter box like above,I’m going to shutter the top rather than have metal.

Scratching my head as to how to make doors/gate or even drop down lids to stop cows,not having access behind the channel so just needs to be idiot proof.

One here looks like what I’m doing.

Be ok if I ever fit scrapers as I’d have a fixed gate and the scraper running underneath.