PIPING Slurry with agitator and quad ??

jjjjjjjk

Just wondering fields are all around the tank . I have NC 3000 slurry agitator and lots of lay flat hose. If I made a fitting for the quad and connected the pipe. Would the agitator pump the the watery slurry. Anyone doing this ?

foxy farmer

What size piping?

jjjjjjjk

foxy farmer wrote: »

What size piping?

I have 4 inch piping lay flat in the shed fields are all near. Just need an idea to fit splash plate to quad if it would work .

foxy farmer

Not on you nelly would a quad pull a full 4 inch pipe. Every metre of slurry in the pipe would 2.5kg. I've done a bit with umbilical and a quad wouldnt shift a full pipe far before the wheels were spinning.

einn32

foxy farmer wrote: »

Not on you nelly would a quad pull a full 4 inch pipe. Every metre of slurry in the pipe would 2.5kg. I've done a bit with umbilical and a quad wouldnt shift a full pipe far before the wheels were spinning.

Yeah that's what I thought. Tis hard enough to pull them pipes empty with a quad.

jjjjjjjk

einn32 wrote: »

Yeah that's what I thought. Tis hard enough to pull them pipes empty with a quad.

I have a ford 5000 and put something like this on it would it work then. With the agitator at the slurry tank

einn32

jjjjjjjk wrote: »

I have a ford 5000 and put something like this on it would it work then. With the agitator at the slurry tank

I've only ever used agitators to transfer slurry from one tank to another over a short distance. I don't see why it wouldn't work depending on gradient and slurry thickness.

jjjjjjjk

Would it build up enough pressure to spread .all the fields are very near .

einn32

jjjjjjjk wrote: »

Would it build up enough pressure to spread .all the fields are very near .

You would need serious pressure to get a good spread from that attachment I would think.

White Clover

jjjjjjjk wrote: »

I have a ford 5000 and put something like this on it would it work then. With the agitator at the slurry tank

Best thing to do is go ahead and buy it , see how you get on.
Don't forget to report back, it might help someone else out....

_Brian

jjjjjjjk wrote: »

Would it build up enough pressure to spread .all the fields are very near .

Near is subjective in this conversation.
Someone mentioned above that every meter of pipe would have 2.5kg of slurry.

It wouldn’t be long until you were trying to shift 500kg and then produce pressure on top of that, amd without any head height to the spreader. I’ve no experience of the pumps for piped systems but I’d presumed they were different to a regular agitator and required significant more hp.

whelan2

Would you not be quicker and cheaper to get the professionals in to spread it they have the gear

Castlekeeper

White Clover wrote: »

Best thing to do is go ahead and buy it , see how you get on.
Don't forget to report back, it might help someone else out....

:D
Be sure and record the pressure points on a mobile phone camera...

alps

Photograph on newspapers of a guy 2 years ago with a Gator or similar doing exactly what jjjjjjjjjk suggested. Dont know what diameter the pipe was, but I could see a 3in being half the capacity and weight of a 4in..

Say my name

alps wrote: »

Photograph on newspapers of a guy 2 years ago with a Gator or similar doing exactly what jjjjjjjjjk suggested. Dont know what diameter the pipe was, but I could see a 3in being half the capacity and weight of a 4in..

That was a tanker on a roadway with umbilical pipe attached going to the utv on a slope below the tanker...I think?