Who’s been a naughty boy?

Location
West Wales
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Anyone know the actual full story here? Apparently it runs straight onto a stream but looks like a fair tree line to me.
 

vantage

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Pembs
View attachment 932908Anyone know the actual full story here? Apparently it runs straight onto a stream but looks like a fair tree line to me.
It looks bad, but no slurry will get to the river, it will disappear in the forest. Don’t know where or who it is in the photo, but a large local outfit has a similar situation to this and spread when we’re on stop.
What’s the issue with long grass, surely preferable to a billiard table?
 
Location
West Wales
It looks bad, but no slurry will get to the river, it will disappear in the forest. Don’t know where or who it is in the photo, but a large local outfit has a similar situation to this and spread when we’re on stop.
What’s the issue with long grass, surely preferable to a billiard table?

rumour has it that a certain Carmarthenshire based dairy had been utilising covid to its advantage and sending it straight to the river through the night. I truly do hope that this would be beneath even them!
 
Location
West Wales
We don't help ourselves doing things like that

agreed. We had no choice but to pump before Christmas and it was wetter than I’d of liked. We’re no where near a river but we may a clear effort to only spread the flat in the fields to minimise run off. Chap pictured could’ve done the same. Atleast he would then have half an argument
 

Wombat

Member
BASIS
Location
East yorks
agreed. We had no choice but to pump before Christmas and it was wetter than I’d of liked. We’re no where near a river but we may a clear effort to only spread the flat in the fields to minimise run off. Chap pictured could’ve done the same. Atleast he would then have half an argument

We have been in an NVZ for the last 20 ish yrs so the things in the picture are just not seen, i am sure the person in the pic would be the first to complain about being in an NVZ
 

Agrijas

Member
It’s not the best of photos , can’t see clearly what is happening there but that looks an extremely wide spread, it ain’t half blackening it up and the spread line has a very sharp bend in it, I couldn’t say with any certainty but that picture doesn’t look quite right.
Was thinking the same 🤔 it’s certainly not an umbilical set up
 

kiwi pom

Member
Location
canterbury NZ
It’s not the best of photos , can’t see clearly what is happening there but that looks an extremely wide spread, it ain’t half blackening it up and the spread line has a very sharp bend in it, I couldn’t say with any certainty but that picture doesn’t look quite right.

Dribble bar maybe? You could get a pretty wide spread with two splashplates and plenty of pressure though. Easy to put a kink in it like that if following a headland but i agree, its hard to tell.
 

Bald Rick

Moderator
Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
Few points:

EA allow for spreading on frozen ground provided that it is not frozen for more than 24 hours (odd, but there you are) and I would be far happier travelling on that than a pudding

It is very likely that the guy's slurry pit was full to the point of overflowing. Provided that there was no danger to a watercourse, better diffuse than point source

Not good PR but there are two sides to every story
 
Dribble bar maybe? You could get a pretty wide spread with two splashplates and plenty of pressure though. Easy to put a kink in it like that if following a headland but i agree, its hard to tell.
No accounting for how others might operate but everyone I see seems to like straight runs, ok, they might follow a slight curve but that’s a 90 degree bend them back to straight
 
One things for sure, there's enough detail in that picture for him to know who's dobbed him in, should imagine they can look up now, frozen ground, long grass, sounds perfect conditions, wouldn't take much of a sprinkle to make it look black, just making some thing out of nothing.
 

Sid

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
Its only January. Shouldn't the farm have more storage, and possibly separate the clean water better. I don't know the rules.
Grass is still growing in the SW
Without being too much of a miserable git (me that is) why put that on here if you've not got concrete evidence, just makes us all look bad.
From a previous thread it seems to be rife in Wales 🤔
 

kiwi pom

Member
Location
canterbury NZ
No accounting for how others might operate but everyone I see seems to like straight runs, ok, they might follow a slight curve but that’s a 90 degree bend them back to straight

I used to get bored and try all sorts of different ways of doing paddocks without tying the pipe in knots :nailbiting:
Used to try and do it the same way the mower would travel if the ground was a bit soft to avoid making it rough, back before there were these hose humper things. The aim was always to have the minimum amount of wheel tracks.
Years since I've done any but I thought you were supposed to have enough storage for winter these days?
 
I used to get bored and try all sorts of different ways of doing paddocks without tying the pipe in knots :nailbiting:
Used to try and do it the same way the mower would travel if the ground was a bit soft to avoid making it rough, back before there were these hose humper things. The aim was always to have the minimum amount of wheel tracks.
Years since I've done any but I thought you were supposed to have enough storage for winter these days?
Different rules in different parts of the country though
 

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