Big manure hauler

JLG

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Came outside this morning to see this set
up. The dairy farm near me had a custom
outfit combining the cornfield behind me
last night. I bet this will be running in
that field Monday. It's from the same custom
place, must have moved in last night. I've
seen this working one other time. The wings
in the back fold down and incorporate the
manure right into the ground. Last year they
had a big tank they set in the field. A
smaller spreader kept the field tank full,
hauling from the farm manure pit. Then this
big spreader would suck it out of the field
tank. This might be old news to some of the
livestock guys on here, but I was impressed!
Back in the early 90's my grandfather had a
hog farm with a 1.2 million gallon pit. He'd
haul from it with a 4000 gallon tank behind
a Deere 8630, and a smaller tank behind a
4640. Hauled to the field with semi's. My
brother would help, I was too young, but I
thought that stuff was big at the time.

Side story that just came to mind- one day a
DOT cop set up and pulled Grandad over in
one of the semi's loaded with manure. He
thought Grandad was overweight (which he
was) and told him " Pull on these scales or
it's a $xXxX fine " Grandad pulled his
calculator out of his pocket and quickly did
the math on what the fine would be for how
over weight he was. Decided the fine was
cheaper to not pull on the scales. Told the
cop he wasn't moving. Really made the cop
mad. Ultimately, he said he shouldn't have
done that. They went to court, cop said " He
knew exactly how overweight he was, he
figured out his fine on a calculator!". Made
a good story though!
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It's beyond me. I do not understand why a person would want to haul overweight and tear up the road that goes by their house.
 
If they get to the stage the big foreign guys are around here, they'll have 10 of those running around the clock. Except most of the ones around here aren't equipped with a knifing set up on them. They'll show you how good the base is under your road and how wide they would like to make the road into your yard.
 
I dont see that happening at this particular place. It's a father and son dairy. Newest tractor they have is a 50 series Deere. Had a 4400 jd combine until a few years ago but sold it. They've hired a guy to do their combining and manure hauling ever since. I figured it must be cheaper and quicker for them to hire it done. The business that has this spreader are mennonites up the road. There was an article about this particular spreader in Lancaster Farmer a year ago but I didn't read it. I see there's a bunch of names of businesses and organizations decaled on the side. I see University of Maryland is one. I know they are always worried about run off getting in the Chesapeake Bay. Thought I heard it was brought in to help against that and is for rent. But I'm not 100% sure about that.

Dairy farms are dieing off here. We're an hour from DC and Baltimore. When a farm sells it goes to houses and shopping centers.
 
I figured 3 axles and the floater tires would help with that. Maybe not enough. I didnt do the math on how much weight is there.

If you're referring to my story about Grandad, come on, we've all tried things at one time or another we shouldn't have right? This was 25 years ago. I just thought it was a funny story.
 
Out here there's some farms that haul to the field with a tanker and spread with the tractor. I also have a big holding tank that they irrigate out of. I'm pretty sure I don't want to know what some of the stuff is they spread. I have heard they have a few different contracts. Couldn't pay me enough to do that work.
 
Around here they pump it all in a 6 or 8 inch hose. Up to 5 miles and add a pump and 5 more if they want. No ripping up the road
 
When I lived at Hawk Point Mo. on the corner of the prairie, there was a rig mounted on a truck chassis that had large flotaion type AG tires on both axles, and a subsoiler type attachment that plowed about 2 feet deep injecting liquid manure from a local chicken farm. It took an 8 foot wide strip at about 15 to 20 mph. sure hated it when I was down wind of it. Got behind a tractor trailer tank rig hauling to the plow one day in a light rain. I pulled off the road to let him get a good lead so I could breath. :lol:
 
I grew up in Montgomery county MD ,ain't been back for 30 years bet I couldn't find the road I grew up on! Used to be several big farms near there. Wonder if they still are.
 
We're 2 counties west, in Washington county. Montgomery county is very built up that's for sure. Seems like there was a big hold out, the King farm or something like that it was called, right in tbe middle of everything. They finally sold out a few years ago for a small fortune. There are still some farms around Damascus and Poolesville. I have a good friend that grew up farming in Germantown. He's in his late 60s now. Says they should rename the town because there's nothing left of what it was.
 
We lived in spencerville. Nearest big town was laural. In prince Georges Co . family moved to Alabama in '85. Been here ever since then.
 

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