Slurry additives for agitating

cavandown

Anyone out there use any these slurry additives powders which you mix with warm water and then put in your slatted tank. Lad round here in spring selling this stuff which he said would reduce time agitating, increase nitrogen, reduce smell etc. Said he be back before winter. Think it around €150 for 120k gallon tank but not sure. To listen to him you would think you only need egg beater to mix slurry!!. Did you use and did it work. Thanks

iverjohnston

many years ago we had a huge lump in a tank. From the floor to the slats, and perhaps 30 foot long. In a tank under the cubicles and no agitation point nearby. A lad selling a bacterial powder called Pit-Boss swore it would turn the lump into liquid in a few weeks. But he wanted something like 400 pounds for sufficient quantity for the tank. We declined and emptied what we could, then got about 4 lorry loads of pig slurry during the winter. Lump had disappeared completely by April, when we next emptied the tank

cavandown

Ya can't bate pig slurry for agitating. Especially if gets chance to 'marinate' as i call it. An living in cavan there no shortage of it. An cost nothing!

cavandown

Ya can't bate pig slurry for agitating. Especially if gets chance to 'marinate' as i call it. An living in cavan there no shortage of it. An cost nothing!

hoseman

Why any body would be selling that is beyond me.Agitators have improved big time in the last few years.Contractor for me changed his 2 yrs ago to bigger one,plenty of horses in front of it,some difference .When it is agitated he can drive it approx.80 ft now with old one about 60 feet.

bbam

For the last few years our neighbour gets 2000g of pig slurry thrown in just before housing stock.
Swears its halved agitating time as its working away the whole winter.

freedominacup

bbam wrote: »

For the last few years our neighbour gets 2000g of pig slurry thrown in just before housing stock.
Swears its halved agitating time as its working away the whole winter.

After having it our own way for years the lads around here have taken to sneaking into local piggery late in the evening to get a few loads hoping they won't be spotted and the rest of whatever bit of slurry that was there gone before they get back. There's lads hauling it 15 and 20 miles with 2k tanks:eek: (including one joker who decided he hadn't enough in the tank and brought one of the neighbours suction hoses with him attached to the rear coupler through the outskirts of Tramore and on for Dunmore)and nothing left for the locals for grass never mind to say putting it into slatted tanks at the start of the winter.

bob charles

Was talking to the Agro boys at the ploughing as Im badly looking for something to reduce the odour when spreading slurry. Their new product is called Actiglene and when I enquired about the cost and the amount I would need it was going to cost €2500 a year

Dont be daft

bob charles wrote: »

Was talking to the Agro boys at the ploughing as Im badly looking for something to reduce the odour when spreading slurry. Their new product is called Actiglene and when I enquired about the cost and the amount I would need it was going to cost €2500 a year

€2.5k just to say your sh*t doesn't stink.......

jay gatsby

Dont be daft wrote: »

€2.5k just to say your sh*t doesn't stink.......

yeah but if it's a choice between 2.5k and not being able to spread on your land due to complaints/inspections etc it might be a runner for people in certain locations

Dont be daft

jay gatsby wrote: »

yeah but if it's a choice between 2.5k and not being able to spread on your land due to complaints/inspections etc it might be a runner for people in certain locations

Ah yeah, obviously.
But at what price does a trailing shoe become more attractive?

Local contractor is €15 more per hour with trailing shoe. Saw an Abbey one working and hardly any smell at all and all the other advantages like lower nutrient loss, quicker return to grazing, uniform spread etc.

bob charles

Dont be daft wrote: »

Ah yeah, obviously.
But at what price does a trailing shoe become more attractive?

Local contractor is €15 more per hour with trailing shoe. Saw an Abbey one working and hardly any smell at all and all the other advantages like lower nutrient loss, quicker return to grazing, uniform spread etc.

Even when we use the trailing shoe (which I use allot) there is still a pretty bad smell lingering around for a few days. biggest benefit is the offender cant be spotted for the clueless city people

Dont be daft

bob charles wrote: »

Even when we use the trailing shoe (which I use allot) there is still a pretty bad smell lingering around for a few days. biggest benefit is the offender cant be spotted for the clueless city people

I didn't think it was too bad meself but I suppose there's a big difference between what I'd consider stink and what would send a city slicker running for the phone.
Sad state of affairs when we have to come up with ways of "getting away" with spreading.
We've land taken beside an estate and we'd nearly be waiting all year for the right conditions to get slurry onto it.
But when we do spread it, we go in at night and get it done in one go.
Sort of a stealth operation and when the townies come out in the morning and we're nowhere to be seen:D

iverjohnston

cavandown wrote: »

Ya can't bate pig slurry for agitating. Especially if gets chance to 'marinate' as i call it. An living in cavan there no shortage of it. An cost nothing!

Yeah, and if we had bought the bacteria stuff, we would have swore blind that it had worked wonders!

Sharpshooter82

Dont be daft wrote: »

But when we do spread it, we go in at night and get it done in one go.
Sort of a stealth operation and when the townies come out in the morning and we're nowhere to be seen:D

my kinda job

Signpost

Just following on from this thread, does anyone use any of these additives? If they do as they say on the agitation they would pay for themselves in diesel alone but are any better at increasing the Nitrogen levels of the slurry has anyone found?

Sam Kade

Only job for crusted slurry

Sam Kade

I heard great reviews about plocher, one farmer put 1kg of it in the tank as it was impossible to agitate. He left it over the weekend after lightly agitating it in and the slurry was bubbling and easily agitated. I don't know about the reduced smell and improved N uptake though. I'd say a lot of those additives are expensive. Extra water in the tank and frequent agitating is the only way.

Signpost

Has anyone any experience of Slurry Cal - http://farmcal.ie/
I'm wondering if using this would double up as adding an additive much like adding in a sachet?

peterofthebr

i was looking at using one of these additives ...as ive seen where pig slurry was mixed into tank and when spring came the fields were awash with weeds '..the pig slurry was from a dirty tank'... looking at slurry King or Slurrycal etc... if is a once of cost say less then €50 for a 4-bay ... im just wary of the free pig slurry that might result in weeds.

leg wax

i used ploucher this winter and after buying a bigger amount, moved a solid lump that had not moved under slats for 2 years,,no real crust on slurry in tank.

satstheway

There was a ploucher and homemade mix up here a couple of weeks ago

Mushy06

i used a form of additive a few years ago. Biggest waste of money. i think €140 for 4 bay tank and turned slurry in to massive solid lumps. we were very close to taking out the slats and digging it out. it was a painful week of taking out 1 load slurry and putting in 2 loads of water

corglass

Mushy06 wrote: »

i used a form of additive a few years ago. Biggest waste of money. i think €140 for 4 bay tank and turned slurry in to massive solid lumps. we were very close to taking out the slats and digging it out. it was a painful week of taking out 1 load slurry and putting in 2 loads of water

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