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Trailing Shoe or Dribble bar

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  • #32
    F.D
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    bogman_bass wrote: »
    how do you get a block of a euro pallet through slats?
    Its probably the rotten one covering the manhole at the end of the with a bits breaken off :eek: Only joking before i'm attacked
    On a serious note i have drawn slurry from a piggery and the amount of rubbish that gets blocked in the splash plate is a joke sometimes, from wood to bottles bits of plastic


  • #33
    blue5000
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    bogman_bass wrote: »
    how do you get a block of a euro pallet through slats?

    The cows lift the slats up and then ****e them out when you're not looking.

    No seriously its usually the yard scraper that puts it down the slats along with bits of hydrodare and whatever else happens to be lying round the yard.

    I'd like to see a macerator after it has macerated a few feet of hi-tensile wire, old bucket handles, bits of net wrap etc.:D

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #34
    reilig
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    blue5000 wrote: »
    The cows lift the slats up and then ****e them out when you're not looking.

    No seriously its usually the yard scraper that puts it down the slats along with bits of hydrodare and whatever else happens to be lying round the yard.

    I'd like to see a macerator after it has macerated a few feet of hi-tensile wire, old bucket handles, bits of net wrap etc.:D

    The tanker won't suck up wire or bucket handles so it won't get to the macerator. There is a mesh to stop larger pieces getting to the macerator blades. But it will handle smaller bits of net, wrap or twine


  • #35
    BalingMad
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    reilig wrote: »
    The tanker won't suck up wire or bucket handles so it won't get to the macerator. There is a mesh to stop larger pieces getting to the macerator blades. But it will handle smaller bits of net, wrap or twine

    My nearly finished emptying the slurry tank, was out on field spreading and the splash plate got blocked, a fecking half a crow stuck in it


  • #36
    PMU
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    bogman_bass wrote: »
    how do you get a block of a euro pallet through slats?
    local contractor say "he was a great bullock to sh... out that board"


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  • #37
    PMU
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    saw both dribble bar and trailing shoe at gurteen on thurs. both doing the same job and dribble bar is about half the price


  • #38
    I said
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    Many these been used this season with the glas specs on the way


  • #39
    darragh_haven
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    I said wrote: »
    Many these been used this season with the glas specs on the way

    we got a contractor in to spread approx 110,000gals with the trailing shoe. more to do with heavy covers of grass than Glas. The contractor said he was very busy with it.


  • #40
    Reggie.
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    darragh_haven wrote: »
    we got a contractor in to spread approx 110,000gals with the trailing shoe. more to do with heavy covers of grass than Glas. The contractor said he was very busy with it.

    I'll take it you had no hay or silage in the tank


  • #41
    grazeaway
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    The in laws use a dribble bar to spread thier slurry. They used to spread on grass in spring but have now changed to a dribble bar in early summer and put a good bit out on the corn too. Tank needs to have a chopper to break up the clumps and it needs to be well watered too. They reckon they get a much better up take but if the covers are bare the splash plate does just as well. Apperently you need the grass cover in summer to prevent evaporation. It's a pain if you get stones though.


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  • #42
    darragh_haven
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    Reggie. wrote: »
    I'll take it you had no hay or silage in the tank

    there would have been a small amount of silage from feeding about 160 bales, but the mulcher on the trailing shoe unit would have taken care of it.
    did a trial on one field where splash plate and trailing shoe was use. the trailing shoe has slight better cover than the splash plate, probably due to better nitrogen utilisation


  • #43
    visatorro
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    said on another thread that if you smell slurry your losing nitrogen. with dribble bar you can't smell much. first year using it here, only tried it because tanks were full at the time and driest field had a good cover of grass. spread back tank of cubicles so very little silage. worked out well I think. lad working for contractor said a tank at a feeding barrier can be very difficult to spread.


  • #44
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,614 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    visatorro wrote: »
    said on another thread that if you smell slurry your losing nitrogen. with dribble bar you can't smell much. first year using it here, only tried it because tanks were full at the time and driest field had a good cover of grass. spread back tank of cubicles so very little silage. worked out well I think. lad working for contractor said a tank at a feeding barrier can be very difficult to spread.

    I know all about it. Spent 5 hours on an agitator and was an expert at unblocking it by the end of the day


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