Cleaning out cubicle house

mickmac1

just after building slatted tank outside cubicle house. no access to scrape out cubicle shed with tractor. was thinking of buying a large hand scraper with wheels.
does anybody know if they are a good job or is ordinary hand scraper just as good.

bogman_bass

its good for moving a lot of slurry quickly but you would still need the hand scraper to get it fully clean.

It also doesnt handle thick stuff well.

I would think about getting one of those ones with a honda engine if you want to clean it any way regular

freedominacup

mickmac1 wrote: »

just after building slatted tank outside cubicle house. no access to scrape out cubicle shed with tractor. was thinking of buying a large hand scraper with wheels.
does anybody know if they are a good job or is ordinary hand scraper just as good.

You might be surprised at how relatively cheap auto scrapers are.

mickmac1

not gonna go the price on an engine one. only have two handy passages to scrape. i presume the push scraper on wheels would work good if it was cleaned twice a day??

td5man

mickmac1 wrote: »

just after building slatted tank outside cubicle house. no access to scrape out cubicle shed with tractor. was thinking of buying a large hand scraper with wheels.
does anybody know if they are a good job or is ordinary hand scraper just as good.

We use a small tractor here wouldnt be
much heavier than a couple of cows

whelan1

mickmac1 wrote: »

not gonna go the price on an engine one. only have two handy passages to scrape. i presume the push scraper on wheels would work good if it was cleaned twice a day??

tried the handscraping for a while and as freedominacup said the automatic scrapers are not that dear, you get fed up of having to handscrape them and there will be days when you dont have the time

mickmac1

td5man wrote: »

We use a small tractor here wouldnt be
much heavier than a couple of cows

no access for tractor

td5man

mickmac1 wrote: »

no access for tractor

Ours is 4 foot wide and not much higher.
The wheeled is ok for wet slurry but a f****r to push if anyway dry

Timmaay

You got a quad? I made one for the front of my quad, it was a really quick diy job with abit of timber, but did the job fine, when the automatic scrapers went tits up last winter. Two runs and most the muck would be gone. It's on the to do list to make a more permanent steel one this year, something like this, would be handy for the holding yard also, which is alittle too awkward for the tractor scraper.

yellow50HX

td5man wrote: »

Ours is 4 foot wide and not much higher.
The wheeled is ok for wet slurry but a f****r to push if anyway dry

+1 on that. my dad got one of those before took 2 of us to push it down a 3 bay shed, use the uncles dexta for the winter now, he dose't use it much and it was just parked up for the winter anyway.had looked at the auto scraper route but we always have a few cows that calf in teh cubicles so wouldnt want the scraper pushing the new born calf onto the slats.

if the run is short then one of those scraper should be ok. how much sh**e are you looking at pushing and how far?

whelan1

yellow50HX wrote: »

+1 on that. my dad got one of those before took 2 of us to push it down a 3 bay shed, use the uncles dexta for the winter now, he dose't use it much and it was just parked up for the winter anyway.had looked at the auto scraper route but we always have a few cows that calf in teh cubicles so wouldnt want the scraper pushing the new born calf onto the slats.

if the run is short then one of those scraper should be ok. how much sh**e are you looking at pushing and how far?

just turn off the scraper last thing at night and back on first thing in the morning. Had one of them blue wheeled scrapers , think i ended up blue each time i used it... too hard to push it

yellow50HX

whelan1 wrote: »

just turn off the scraper last thing at night and back on first thing in the morning. Had one of them blue wheeled scrapers , think i ended up blue each time i used it... too hard to push it

i pulled our one out of a ditch a few weeks ago, himself dumped it in there with the loader a few years ago.

cows are only in at night so it wouldnt make much sense to have one that would only scrape once a day. also i tend to but a calving pen at the back of the cubicle house sometimes if im caught for room. one cubicle shed is fine for a scrpaer to the other is in an older part of the shed and has a ramp at the front. would mean i would have to dig up the passage back about 20-30 feet to take out the ramp. had a lad around a few years ago to look at but it the sheds werent really suitable. if the cows were in full time i might revisit it, but at the mo the dexta will scrape it out and give the slats a clean too once a day and it only takes about 5-10mins from start to finish.

mickmac1

yellow50HX wrote: »

+1 on that. my dad got one of those before took 2 of us to push it down a 3 bay shed, use the uncles dexta for the winter now, he dose't use it much and it was just parked up for the winter anyway.had looked at the auto scraper route but we always have a few cows that calf in teh cubicles so wouldnt want the scraper pushing the new born calf onto the slats.

if the run is short then one of those scraper should be ok. how much sh**e are you looking at pushing and how far?

22 cubicles in each shed. cows will be feeding on the slats so should not be much ****e in the cubicle shed if it is cleaned out morning and evening.

J DEERE

What length is your passageway? Make use of the rainwater that lands on the shed. Divert it into a water tank, hook up a pump to it and purchase some hose and use to wash it down

yellow50HX

mickmac1 wrote: »

22 cubicles in each shed. cows will be feeding on the slats so should not be much ****e in the cubicle shed if it is cleaned out morning and evening.

you woiuld be surprised how much shi*e 44 cows will leave enven away from the slats. our place is slightly bigger but was too much to scrape by hand once a day, had to take in in sections. not too bad when wet but a right pain when a bit on the dry side.