Manure value

[Mother Deuce]

Like rondig we added it to topsoil to produce a better product. We would mix it with a 980 in some alchemy invented by our boss. We had lots of sand, native topsoil, subsoil and what manure we could score. Blend vigorously on a blending deck and toss it in a McCloskey 621. Sometimes we couldn't make it fast enough. However there are probably 5 million people people within an hours drive of where the pit and plant were. About 3 million of them were rabid gardeners or landscaping companies doing developments Even at that though we didn't purchase much. It was usually a farmer looking for a close dump. It was very popular and our landscaping guy's were long term customers. We would have been purchasing it for blend had the situation been different.

 

[RZucker]

Like rondig we added it to topsoil to produce a better product. We would mix it with a 980 in some alchemy invented by our boss. We had lots of sand, native topsoil, subsoil and what manure we could score. Blend vigorously on a blending deck and toss it in a McCloskey 621. Sometimes we couldn't make it fast enough. However there are probably 5 million people people within an hours drive of where the pit and plant were. About 3 million of them were rabid gardeners or landscaping companies doing developments Even at that though we didn't purchase much. It was usually a farmer looking for a close dump. It was very popular and our landscaping guy's were long term customers. We would have been purchasing it for blend had the situation been different.

I used to work on one of those "Scarab" mixers for a local compost outfit. they used mostly Mint waste and piled manure and wood waste onto the windrows with loaders then mixed it with the scarab. It came out nice and black, with a good smell, not minty at all.

 

[Tenwheeler]

Manure is sometimes hard to give away. A bad day is when your tank is sucked flat. Thankfully many people let you know you are number one every day.

 

[Tenwheeler]

 

[RZucker]

I think that tank has seen a little too much Vacuum . Is that a shank trailer behind it? A guy up here has a 4 wheel machine with shanks to inject liquid for a couple of dairies.

 

[Tenwheeler]

Yes but we call them a plow. It had a vacuum relief on it. Sometimes they stick. These tanks also get weak on the top. This one may have had a baffle broken in it. They are also supports. Being a 2505 with a Cat it is probably around 18 years old.

 

[RZucker]

Got one of the local spreader trucks in the shop for a rebuild on the bed, new shaft and sprockets for the drag chains, new front idlers, and new drag chains.

 

[Truck Shop]

Manure value? That depends on how big of a piece of sh!t it is.---That floor is too nice RZ, you need some cracks in it so your creeper gets stuck.

 

[RZucker]

Manure value? That depends on how big of a piece of sh!t it is.---That floor is too nice RZ, you need some cracks in it so your creeper gets stuck.

It does have some creeper trap joints, You make darn sure how you park a transmission jack project.

 

[RZucker]

Now this is a spreader. Had it in last year with a broken bracket on the suspension cross shaft. 45,000 lb capacity I think.

 

[Mother Deuce]

Are those bail strings?? Those eastside cows must have a serious constitution!

 

[RZucker]

Are those bail strings?? Those eastside cows must have a serious constitution!

Yep baling twine, I don't think it's in the feed but it seems to be everywhere around these dairies. Really does a number on shaft seals.

 

[petepilot]

Yep baling twine, I don't think it's in the feed but it seems to be everywhere around these dairies. Really does a number on shaft seals.

they play hell with a zero turn mower too

 

[RZucker]

they play hell with a zero turn mower too

I had a Bush Hog mower come in about two years back with a bad main gearbox. It was one of the big fold up jobbies, Dropped the pan that holds the blades and found about 200 lbs of baling twine up inside there. Nice mess, of course it got the seal and lost all the oil in the box.

 

[cw4Bray]

If the manure comes with "grubs" its value may be diminished.

 

[gwhammy]

The feedlots around here pile and spread all the time. Pig barns either use an irrigation or they pump to a tractor and injector and plow it in. Another big thing around here is turkey litter. They haul it in from southern Missouri for corn ground. The microbes and nitrogen are suppose to be great in it.

 

[sandy]

local contractor has a fleet of these, emptying dairy effluent ponds
tractors and tankers have got bigger since photo was taken

 

[Truck Shop]

https://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/threads/manure-value.74709/page-2#post-1078641

Many hidden values too-like standing in line at grocery store check stand and there is some
stuck to the bottom and sides of your shoe--you will find it will be a quick check out.

 

[FarmWrench]

LoL don't count on a stinky boot for a quick exit. There's a lot of the country with human-----manure in the parking lots and sidewalks. Pack bedding is sweet compared to junkie.

My own experience has been job offers. If you're an unknown person sporting the right look, the BTO starts with offering a job. Then they offer to buy you out.