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!
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!