Manure Tour
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pit not be emptied just exactly at
the time it is full.
Paul also said he strongly
recommended tractor guards at the
scrape-in area.
Although several people talked
about fatal accidents involving
tractors which have slipped into
manure pits, Paul said it should be
taken very seriously. He said that
originally he had not had the pro
tective devices installed, but when
his tractor slipped in during the
winter, he immediately went to
have them put in.
He said he ended up on top of
the tractor and had to hire a crane
to come in to get the tractor out of
the pit.
The pit is emptied in May, with
the tilled ground getting the first of
it.
As far as problems with sche
duling a custom hauler, Kreider
said that any problems are probab
ly a blessing. He said that when he
and his brother think they are
ready, is probably too early and the
ground too wet He said the haulers
do a good job and it seems as
though it is done at the right time,
both for the needs of the pit and the
fields.
“It is not cheap though. It costs
about $4,000 a year to have it emp
tied two times,” he said, but it is
less headache and probably a lot
cheaper than buying their own
equipment and used their own time
and finances to do it.
Custom Design
While all systems are custom
designed, and or approved, by the
Soil Conservation Service, they
are not mandatory, although nutri
ent management legislation is
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One exceptionally design is on
the farm of Jay Brandt in
Bachmanville.
Brandt’s bam gutters (milking
herd) and a barnyard (heifers),
empty into a huge manhole-like
opening that has enough space
between the bam floor and the
opening of the manhole in which to
park a manure spreader.
Some 200 feet of underground
pipe carries the manure to a circu
lar cement tank which can keep up
to six to eight months worth of
manure, at a depth of about 12 feet.
The 200 feet of underground
pipe is more than twice the length
of most long systems.
He said he located the tank so far
away from the tie-stall, because of
possible future plans.
Five years were spent planning
the system. It allows for additional
hookups and future expansions of
the herd.
He left the space for the manure
spreader because, “I wanted to still
be able to get in under with the
spread in case (the gravity pipe
clogged and) it failed,” Brandt told
the group.
“There was more work involved
(in puting the long system in) than
I thought there was going to be,”
he said, adding that in the long run,
he thinks the provisions he made
will payoff.
“I planned for this. We spent
five years trying to make as few
mistakes as possible, and we still
made a few,” he said.
When Brandt first started think
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The tank is 12-feet deep and 70
feet in diameter. The 200-foot
gravity pipe has a 6-foot total
grade to it.
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milkhouse water in it, but he has
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made provisions for doing such a
thing should it become neccessary.
Pumping Uphill
The last farm on the tour was
George Ungemach’s 90-cow
freestall bam in Campbelltown,
Lebanon County. The system,
simply has two sub-storage tanks
and a main tank up on a hill, where
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manure from the lower tanks is
pumped, if it is not used soon.
The big tank can hold 64,000
cubic feet of waste material and is
fed from the two “reception pits.”
“Because we didn’t want to
pump manure eveiy week,” Unge
mach said.
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