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slurry mixing

  • 10-10-2011 1:01pm
    #1
    oldsmokey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 802 ✭✭✭


    Hi..We've got an oldish slatted unit and have desperate probs agitating the slurry each year - the agitator sits in the slurry the usual way, but the design of the tank is odd - theres a wall built 6 or 8 feet ahead of the whisk, wall's 7' high, and its got what they call a 'fireplace' built into it - ie a hole around 30 inches squre, at its bottom. The idea being that when the slurry is being mixed, drawing it thru the fireplace helps break it up - the thing is , the crust is too thick to be sucked down, so breaking it up is a devil of a job.
    Would a 'push' rather than the 'pull' type of agitator be any better? Or should we knock the bloody wall?


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  • #2
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    oldsmokey wrote: »
    Hi..We've got an oldish slatted unit and have desperate probs agitating the slurry each year - the agitator sits in the slurry the usual way, but the design of the tank is odd - theres a wall built 6 or 8 feet ahead of the whisk, wall's 7' high, and its got what they call a 'fireplace' built into it - ie a hole around 30 inches squre, at its bottom. The idea being that when the slurry is being mixed, drawing it thru the fireplace helps break it up - the thing is , the crust is too thick to be sucked down, so breaking it up is a devil of a job.
    Would a 'push' rather than the 'pull' type of agitator be any better? Or should we knock the bloody wall?

    its a problem with old sheds smokey, i have one and have a pillar in the way when i try to shoot to one side..and I only have 1 agitation point..have you any scope to raplce a slat somewhere else with a manhole slat and agitate from another point?


  • #3
    TUBBY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 828 ✭✭✭TUBBY


    I ahd the same bother with an old tank but i found that adding in the bit of pig slurry early in the year meant the baled silage slurry did not crust as much and agitated much much easier. tank clean the last two years with some pig slurry added again during the emptying. same price as drawing water and a lot more beneficial.


  • #4
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Have you got an air compressor?
    I can't picture your set-up, but....
    You could fit a permanent pipe down where the slurry is getting blocked and keep it free with a blast of air. Use a light stainless pipe and it wont ever rust. Use breathing appartus too if you are going into the tank.


  • #5
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    anyone ever use the slurry bugs? i have and cant say they were a huge benifit ,but you could see froth and bubbles comeing up on the surface.


  • #6
    dar31
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,704 ✭✭✭dar31


    leg wax wrote: »
    anyone ever use the slurry bugs? i have and cant say they were a huge benifit ,but you could see froth and bubbles comeing up on the surface.

    was thinking of getting some this year for one tank in particular that is hard stirred.
    what type ones and where did you get them, there is a few different kinds, with a good variation in price.
    i believe some are just snake oil, and some do actually work.
    any insights any one


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