Slurry tanker dribble bar

[Gerbert]

Yes in conjunction with a watering down of slurry. You gotta add 33% water or something like that. They just chucked in that option without any real way to moniter that but hey. On a sidenote you can also go splashplate in special cases. All a bit vague though so most people just go with discs to be done with it (especially as the government has made a point of screwing you retroactively for things that you didn't have any way of knowing but they say you should though they sure as fek didn't themselves, rant over). In short: alot more offer, alot less demand. It's a buyers market.

 

[James]

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Was speaking to the chap who sells these at Lamma, less than 1k and supposed to get more nutrients into the plant than a dribble bar. Anyone use or know someone who uses one. Certainly a cheaper option if it works. Will it pass the new ammonia regs as it isn't much different from a spreadplate?

From what we could find out as the department have no research results for the moscha it's getting banned the same as the splash plate

 

[Blue.]

Do you really need a maserator on a dribble bar? My 1st tanker was a Joskin with a 6m dribble bar. It was just 6"pipe folding booms, with a load of smaller pipes coming out the bottom. Worked well.

We moved on to Moscha nozzles. The only advantage I can see to a dribble bar is the Moscha doesn't go well in wind. I think they will be banned fairly soon thou.

I had a dribblebar without a macerator,ok with dirty water and was made for pig slurry,no good with true cattle slurry was forever blocked.

 

[Gee]

I had a dribblebar without a macerator,ok with dirty water and was made for pig slurry,no good with true cattle slurry was forever blocked.

Ok that makes sense. Its digestate that I like to chuck about!

 

[yin ewe]

From what we could find out as the department have no research results for the moscha it's getting banned the same as the splash plate

That's a shame, if it works as well as a dribble bar. More of a farmer friendly option at a lower cost than a dribble bar. Typical of the department guilty until proven innocent.

 

[daveydiesel1]

Do you really need a maserator on a dribble bar? My 1st tanker was a Joskin with a 6m dribble bar. It was just 6"pipe folding booms, with a load of smaller pipes coming out the bottom. Worked well.

We moved on to Moscha nozzles. The only advantage I can see to a dribble bar is the Moscha doesn't go well in wind. I think they will be banned fairly soon thou.

Tell me more about the 6inch foldin dribble bar as was considering next winter making 1 myself? Any pictures?

 

[Gee]

Tell me more about the 6inch foldin dribble bar as was considering next winter making 1 myself? Any pictures?

Hmm, I did have pictures. They are on my old phones memory card, that corrupted. I'll look tomorrow, see what I can find.

 

[Gee]

Tell me more about the 6inch foldin dribble bar as was considering next winter making 1 myself? Any pictures?

 

[daveydiesel1]

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Thanks. Any pics of actual dribble bar. Did it block up much and was it real handlin to get cleared or just pull spool valve and blockage just fell out when pipe was straight up like if it was bits wood or somethin

 

[Gee]

Thanks. Any pics of actual dribble bar. Did it block up much and was it real handlin to get cleared or just pull spool valve and blockage just fell out when pipe was straight up like if it was bits wood or somethin

Sorry, I've searched and searched for pictures of the back of that tanker. No luck!
It blocked occasionally, usually folding it up allowed the blockage to fall out of the 6" pipe. Very occasionally I had to resort to shoving drainage rod up the smaller pipe to sort the job out.
The boom basically consisted of a frame mounted to the tanker, with a 6"pipe along the bottom. The slurry entered this pipe centrally via a flexible hose. The two booms pivoted just above the ends of the central pipe. A ram both sides lowered the booms into position, sealing onto the ends of the centre pipe. I can't remember what diameter the short pipes were, 3"ish. They were welded along the bottom of the 6"pipe with lay flat hose taking the slurry down to the ground. Simples!

 

[daveydiesel1]

Sorry, I've searched and searched for pictures of the back of that tanker. No luck!
It blocked occasionally, usually folding it up allowed the blockage to fall out of the 6" pipe. Very occasionally I had to resort to shoving drainage rod up the smaller pipe to sort the job out.
The boom basically consisted of a frame mounted to the tanker, with a 6"pipe along the bottom. The slurry entered this pipe centrally via a flexible hose. The two booms pivoted just above the ends of the central pipe. A ram both sides lowered the booms into position, sealing onto the ends of the centre pipe. I can't remember what diameter the short pipes were, 3"ish. They were welded along the bottom of the 6"pipe with lay flat hose taking the slurry down to the ground. Simples!

Thats kinda thing i had drew up in my head to make. Reckon few hundred quid would nearly make it

 

[Gee]

Thats kinda thing i had drew up in my head to make. Reckon few hundred quid would nearly make it

Yes. The rams and a few bauer pipe ends are the main expense.

 

[Sid]

I had a dribblebar without a macerator,ok with dirty water and was made for pig slurry,no good with true cattle slurry was forever blocked.

So my thoughts are.
We need to keep water out of stores much as possible to reduce storage needs.Roofing will become a requirement.
Splash plates work well for dilute and thick slurry. Leave slurry on leaves
Dribble bars leave slurry on leaves and beds to relatively dilute. Can leave rows of slurry
Trailing shoes gets the slurry to the ground, but thick slurry stays in rows .

I had all mine done with shoe last year and seen a greater uptake of N but did leave lines under the canopy and it cost more, but not as much as if on sand!
What we need is multiple splash plates with low trajectory? Like on umbilical. Less chance of blockage. But still has the contamination risk.
Answers on a post card please!

 

[cvx175]

So my thoughts are.
We need to keep water out of stores much as possible to reduce storage needs.Roofing will become a requirement.
Splash plates work well for dilute and thick slurry. Leave slurry on leaves
Dribble bars leave slurry on leaves and beds to relatively dilute. Can leave rows of slurry
Trailing shoes gets the slurry to the ground, but thick slurry stays in rows .

I had all mine done with shoe last year and seen a greater uptake of N but did leave lines under the canopy and it cost more, but not as much as if on sand!
What we need is multiple splash plates with low trajectory? Like on umbilical. Less chance of blockage. But still has the contamination risk.
Answers on a post card please!

Disc injector and put it in the soil

 

[Sid]

Disc injector and put it in the soil

Cost effective? Yield benefits?

 

[Blue.]

So my thoughts are.
We need to keep water out of stores much as possible to reduce storage needs.Roofing will become a requirement.
Splash plates work well for dilute and thick slurry. Leave slurry on leaves
Dribble bars leave slurry on leaves and beds to relatively dilute. Can leave rows of slurry
Trailing shoes gets the slurry to the ground, but thick slurry stays in rows .

I had all mine done with shoe last year and seen a greater uptake of N but did leave lines under the canopy and it cost more, but not as much as if on sand!
What we need is multiple splash plates with low trajectory? Like on umbilical. Less chance of blockage. But still has the contamination risk.
Answers on a post card please!

Weeping wall store.

 

[Speedstar]

Disc injector and put it in the soil

A good trailing shoe is as good as a disc
injectioner

 

[Gerbert]

@Sid Best of both worlds (or worst) ?

 

[ridger]

Sorey I can't draw or explain very well, but I had thought of an attachment like a big steel pipe, folded down across the back of tanker, closed at each end, being fed with a 6 inch pipe from tanker, with outlets every 18 or so inches apart, and 4 inch angle iron welded onto the big steel pipe to run the slurry down on to the ground. Or maybe a big deep channel would be better but then it could run over.

 

[Agrispeed]

Something like this looks ideal?

I think they outlawed the angle iron setup in the Netherlands? There were an awful lot of them for sale a year or so ago.