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underground concrete tank

  • 13-12-2014 5:44pm
    #1
    learnabout
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭


    I have an underground concrete tank 8x8x16 foot with concrete slabs on top that was used to catch run off from an open slurry pit built in the 70s ! Not its obsolete as the slurry tank is totally sealed with the new nitrate regulations
    Just wondering would it be an idea putting up a small shed over this with a lie back area behind and replacing the slabs with slats to house a few calves or yearlings? Any body done anything like this and how many cattle would this size tank accommodate ? Just fishing for ideas as I only recently acquired this farm but don't want to be laying out any big money tbh ! ,


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  • #2
    learnabout
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭learnabout


    Anybody ever build a shed over these water catch tanks and put slats on tank?


  • #3
    Miname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,984 ✭✭✭Miname


    seems ike a fair bit of work for a very small tank. youd want to be getting second hand short single slats and bring water to it for a drinker and then put a shed on it . it could work for a pen of light weanlings if you put a big enough lye back as well. it should be easily mixed if anything.


  • #4
    learnabout
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭learnabout


    Miname wrote: »
    seems ike a fair bit of work for a very small tank. youd want to be getting second hand short single slats and bring water to it for a drinker and then put a shed on it . it could work for a pen of light weanlings if you put a big enough lye back as well. it should be easily mixed if anything.

    The water would be no problem ! There must be thousands of these tanks just sitting obsolete around the country!


  • #5
    49801
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭49801


    Rather then a shed could you divert silage effluent to it?

    If your still thinking a shed woul you consider a straw bedded shed and divert the run off to your tank... Would not need agitating that way.


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