Using rain guns

Milton09

Does anybody know if there is a dept. restriction or ban in place on the use of rain guns for slurry application?
Thought I heard some mention of it a while back.

Thanks,

Tipp Man

Milton09 wrote: »

Does anybody know if there is a dept. restriction or ban in place on the use of rain guns for slurry application?
Thought I heard some mention of it a while back.

Thanks,

I assume the same dates apply as regular spreading?

Milton09

Same dates would apply allright but I thought there was a particular restriction on rain guns, for environmental reasons or some such.
Maybe its just that you're not allowed spread off the road ?

Black Smoke

If you ask me, the rain gun, has been firing non stop, since last June:rolleyes:

rancher

Milton09 wrote: »

Same dates would apply allright but I thought there was a particular restriction on rain guns, for environmental reasons or some such.
Maybe its just that you're not allowed spread off the road ?

An upward spreading plate on your slurry spreader is banned, same probably applies to the rain gun

grazeaway

rancher wrote: »

An upward spreading plate on your slurry spreader is banned, same probably applies to the rain gun

That sounds about right from i remember. contractor we had in a few years back had a gun on his tank as it used to be used for work on the roads and in a quarry back in the boom times. he had never used it for slurry but taught you could still use it for spreading soiled water, but wasnt too sure. If you need to use a slurry gun because the field is too wet then the field is not suitable for sprerading slurry.

49801

grazeaway wrote: »

That sounds about right from i remember. contractor we had in a few years back had a gun on his tank as it used to be used for work on the roads and in a quarry back in the boom times. he had never used it for slurry but taught you could still use it for spreading soiled water, but wasnt too sure. If you need to use a slurry gun because the field is too wet then the field is not suitable for sprerading slurry.

+1
That is my understanding too. Parlour washing etc can be spread with a rain gun.
Proper slurry through a rain gun would be a against the regulation that requires low trajectory spreading. So a splash plate is required.

Muckit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrgixJAEBpA

Bactidiaryl

Rain guns are banned completely . Had an inspection a few years ago and the guy wanted to see my slurry tank to see if it had a gun on it. All part of nitrates. The great environmental nightmare .

Rovi

Here we go, S.I. No. 378/2006 — European Communities (Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters) Regulations 2006, Section 18 (4) Requirements as to manner of application of fertilisers, soiled water etc:

Organic fertilisers or soiled water shall not be applied to land -

(a) by use of an umbilical system with an upward-facing splashplate,

(b) by use of a tanker with an upward-facing splashplate,

(c) by use of a sludge irrigator mounted on a tanker, or

(d) from a road or passageway adjacent to the land irrespective of whether or not the road or passageway is within or outside the curtilage of the holding.

"Sludge irrigator" is legalese for "rain gun".