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Slurry Agitating

  • 22-07-2013 11:00pm
    #1
    Hilltopman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭


    Just wondering if anyone has had any problems getting their slurry tank emptied. The contractor has agitated twice already and still the bottom few feet of tank very thick. Put some pig slurry in it already. Should I wait for a few weeks after putting it in as someone said pig slurry helps break it down. A couple of neighbours have difficulty getting theirs agitated also. Is there some additive can be used to help ? any info welcome. Thanks


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  • #2
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Hilltopman wrote: »
    Just wondering if anyone has had any problems getting their slurry tank emptied. The contractor has agitated twice already and still the bottom few feet of tank very thick. Put some pig slurry in it already. Should I wait for a few weeks after putting it in as someone said pig slurry helps break it down. A couple of neighbours have difficulty getting theirs agitated also. Is there some additive can be used to help ? any info welcome. Thanks

    A couple of loads of water worked fine for me. Slurry is extra thick because of stemmy silage.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #3
    grazeaway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭grazeaway


    Hilltopman wrote: »
    Just wondering if anyone has had any problems getting their slurry tank emptied. The contractor has agitated twice already and still the bottom few feet of tank very thick. Put some pig slurry in it already. Should I wait for a few weeks after putting it in as someone said pig slurry helps break it down. A couple of neighbours have difficulty getting theirs agitated also. Is there some additive can be used to help ? any info welcome. Thanks

    there is an additive, water.

    why are you lookign to spread slurry in the middle of the hottest weather we have has in years? unless you contractor has a dribble bar or a trailing shoe your going to lose all the nutrient vaue to evapration (and even with them they take up will be poor unless the temps drop to the mid teen and you have damp over cast weather


  • #4
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    We emptied a 4 bay double last week. Usually can agitate it in about 2 hours, but it took at least 6 and we had to draw a lot of water to it, even though we let a foot of water into it from the roof.

    I think the problem was the heat. Formed a big thick crust on the top of it about a foot thick and this was very hard to break down. I had the whole tank agitated last april and only took 3ft out of it then. It shouldn't have been as bad as it was.


  • #5
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    grazeaway wrote: »
    there is an additive, water.

    why are you lookign to spread slurry in the middle of the hottest weather we have has in years? unless you contractor has a dribble bar or a trailing shoe your going to lose all the nutrient vaue to evapration (and even with them they take up will be poor unless the temps drop to the mid teen and you have damp over cast weather

    You'll just lose the N, the P + K will still be in it!


  • #6
    Dampintheattic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 839 ✭✭✭Dampintheattic


    reilig wrote: »
    We emptied a 4 bay double last week. Usually can agitate it in about 2 hours, but it took at least 6 and we had to draw a lot of water to it, even though we let a foot of water into it from the roof.

    I think the problem was the heat. Formed a big thick crust on the top of it about a foot thick and this was very hard to break down. I had the whole tank agitated last april and only took 3ft out of it then. It shouldn't have been as bad as it was.

    Bet there was some amount of the bad gas hydrogen sulphide locked in under that crust.


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  • #7
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Dampintheattic wrote: »
    Bet there was some amount of the bad gas hydrogen sulphide locked in under that crust.

    I don't know really. Our tank is back to back and the shed over it is open on both sides - much safer than one of those closed sheds that the department approved grants for in the 00's


  • #8
    grazeaway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭grazeaway


    reilig wrote: »
    You'll just lose the N, the P + K will still be in it!

    would the N not be what is required most for growth and what gives the slurry most value?


  • #9
    grazeaway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭grazeaway


    reilig wrote: »
    I don't know really. Our tank is back to back and the shed over it is open on both sides - much safer than one of those closed sheds that the department approved grants for in the 00's

    good to have plenty of open sides, i hope we dont get a raft of slurry gas deaths in the coming weeks from agitaing well crusted slurry.

    i was thinking of agitaing the tanks to release the gas as i'll proably have some cattle housed before i spread again. might be an issue if the crust breaks while they are inside. anyone do this before they start to house cattle again?


  • #10
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    grazeaway wrote: »
    would the N not be what is required most for growth and what gives the slurry most value?

    Better out growing grass than in the tank growing crust. P and k will be beneficial for grass growth - maybe not as good as N, but better than nothing! :D


  • #11
    F.D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 718 ✭✭✭F.D


    there is slurry bugs you can get to break it down, have never tried them but seen them advertised in the farmers weekly i think


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  • #12
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Anyone else spreading slurry today, goin at it later but just made a downpour there, sure i spose a bit of rain is no harm its just the odd shower were getting


  • #13
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    quadboy wrote: »
    Anyone else spreading slurry today, goin at it later but just made a downpour there, sure i spose a bit of rain is no harm its just the odd shower were getting

    yep at it yesterday and today im going regardless of rain better than it cakeing to it and losing N


  • #14
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    reilig wrote: »
    Better out growing grass than in the tank growing crust. P and k will be beneficial for grass growth - maybe not as good as N, but better than nothing! :D

    And you need the P & K to get a response to your N ;)


  • #15
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Anyone use additives for their tank?

    I have seen relations in the USA add baking powder + yeast into their septic tanks and it stops a crust forming.

    I know that those slurry tank additive ingredients are top secret, but I imagine that they are mainly baking powder + yeast (the yeast being the bacteria that they talk about).


  • #16
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    The N in most slurry isnt worth talking about. PKS and micro nutrients are the goodies and weather doesnt make that much of a difference. I always trying and wait for rain as I like the slurry washed off the leaf, but if it was on marginal ground I would be taking this opportunity with two hands and getting it on. once the lads that are looking for rain get their way these fields wont be travelable again


  • #17
    yellow50HX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,828 ✭✭✭yellow50HX


    put spinner on the tractor last night to have ready for this evening, bags of CAN in the yard and pallet forks on the digger. have a slurry tank 60% full at the mo but reckon i'll get better return from my CAN this time of the year (and o wont have to wait ages to let the cattle back in if the slurry cakes to the ground. plenty of slurry gone out in spring time, will put the rest out on fields after late cut of silage planned for sept


  • #18
    Birtles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭Birtles


    For thick slurry and if you have access to Pig slurry get the stuff from the farrowing houses as it has more water in it. only get it from the fattening houses when we want to improve the cattle slurry. we get it delivered in for a cost but still cheaper than drawing fecking water ourselves!


  • #19
    Birtles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭Birtles


    Hilltopman wrote: »
    Just wondering if anyone has had any problems getting their slurry tank emptied. The contractor has agitated twice already and still the bottom few feet of tank very thick. Put some pig slurry in it already. Should I wait for a few weeks after putting it in as someone said pig slurry helps break it down. A couple of neighbours have difficulty getting theirs agitated also. Is there some additive can be used to help ? any info welcome. Thanks

    Same as! Just spread some the past weekend and tought it was nice and watery and well mixed. spread until it was 2 feet from the bottom and its just solid from there down.

    Always thought the solids would float on top of the the liquids.....Confused?

    there is a small layer of gravel in there but this definitely crust


  • #20
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    Birtles wrote: »
    Same as! Just spread some the past weekend and tought it was nice and watery and well mixed. spread until it was 2 feet from the bottom and its just solid from there down.

    Always thought the solids would float on top of the the liquids.....Confused?

    there is a small layer of gravel in there but this definitely crust
    ffs :cool: put a straw into a pint of guiness and suck will the creamy head be last to be sucked out yes as it floats on top.


  • #21
    Birtles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭Birtles


    leg wax wrote: »
    ffs :cool: put a straw into a pint of guiness and suck will the creamy head be last to be sucked out yes as it floats on top.

    was well mixed as prev said. what you are saying to keep mixing..... its a closed pit so its a bit of a B*stard get it all


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