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PIPING Slurry with agitator and quad ??

  • 16-01-2021 12:54am
    #1
    jjjjjjjk
    Registered Users Posts: 127 ✭✭


    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 ?


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  • #2
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    What size piping?


  • #3
    jjjjjjjk
    Registered Users Posts: 127 ✭✭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 .


  • #4
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭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.


  • #5
    einn32
    Registered Users Posts: 980 ✭✭✭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.


  • #6
    jjjjjjjk
    Registered Users Posts: 127 ✭✭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


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  • #7
    einn32
    Registered Users Posts: 980 ✭✭✭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.


  • #8
    jjjjjjjk
    Registered Users Posts: 127 ✭✭jjjjjjjk


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


  • #9
    einn32
    Registered Users Posts: 980 ✭✭✭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.


  • #10
    White Clover
    Registered Users Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭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....


  • #11
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,468 ✭✭✭✭_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.


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  • #12
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,051 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


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


  • #13
    Castlekeeper
    Registered Users Posts: 1,638 ✭✭✭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:D:D
    Be sure and record the pressure points on a mobile phone camera...


  • #14
    alps
    Registered Users Posts: 4,922 ✭✭✭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..


  • #15
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,020 ✭✭✭✭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?


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