Ag. Builders in Cork

Milked out

Looking at putting up two new silage slabs side by side, and putting a cubicle shed with around 48 cubicles on to the site of the old silos. Anyone know of good builders in Cork area. Also anyone put in a silage slabs/ cubicle shed recently and have a rough costing? thanks in advance

dungfly

i am interested in walked silage pits. any info on good designs and costs? can railway sleepers be used for walls? any other options?

Sam Kade

dungfly wrote: »

i am interested in walked silage pits. any info on good designs and costs? can railway sleepers be used for walls? any other options?

Sleepers wouldn't work, what about pre cast slabs?

Milked out

I'll be looking at putting in walled slabs as well, our current pits have walls and are a super job, put up with 8x2 pans years ago, just are a bit on the small side and in the way of adding to our housing capacity. In terms of design, would people but a wall at the back of the pit as well, or just on the sides?? Was thinking if the front and back of the pit were open it would leave the option of taking silage from the better half of the pit for the milkers if there was two separate cuts or a split cut in the one pit..

Sam Kade

Yeah leave both ends open.

moy83

I would leave both sides open aswell . You can use last years stuff first from alternative sides each year .

Milked out

Can't remember when the second pit here had no walls, is there much waste without walls, we have very little to no waste at the walls I assume due to better packing?? The plan is to put up two pits, 3 walls would serve them, with a 25 ft. apron front and back, and allow space for another slab to be poured against an outer wall if needs be/ funds allow in the future. Just to locate them out of the way but not too far away at the same time. In the past most concrete work was done by ourselves with help from cousins, etc. but more or less on my own now so don't have time to build/ manage everything else.

freedominacup

Sam Kade wrote: »

Sleepers wouldn't work, what about pre cast slabs?

Sleepers would work perfectly. I've seen pits in the U.K. with walls upto 20 feet high done with sleepers.

whelan1

moy83 wrote: »

I would leave both sides open aswell . You can use last years stuff first from alternative sides each year .

we had a movable wall at the end of one of our pits, it was there about 15 years... we moved it this year as it was the fiirst time pit has been empty in 5 years. We will now be able to work from both sides and we where also having problems with a build up of water on the pit

td5man

freedominacup wrote: »

Sleepers would work perfectly. I've seen pits in the U.K. with walls upto 20 feet high done with sleepers.

Costly compared to concrete though.

freedominacup

td5man wrote: »

Costly compared to concrete though.

Are they? I never realy costed it out.