@@charlesbaldo Yep, right up there with eatin' aint it? Take care of the basics and everything else falls into place. DON'T take care of the basics and everything else collapses.
We do all our manure draglining ourselves and I think you’ll start seeing compaction issues start going away the more you do this and keep those big tankers off the fields!! It’s definitely the most efficient way of getting rid of manure
That's one helluva pump to move that thick slurry a friggin' mile. I would wager they could go even further with more hose and a second booster pump. Sure beats the old way!
... but compared to the use of a tanker this method uses three diesel engines running one and a half day nonstop as well. This comes with additional cost for diesel, depreciation and service. (Whereas the tanker just uses a second engine whilst loading, if any. But if I have my fields as close to the farm like here and I can call a service provider to come with his equipment that's the choice to go too obvious.)
I appreciate the dragline method of spreading manure over the aerosol spray. Riding the back roads of upstate NY and Vermont on an early spring morning when a manure sprayer is employed is pure hell, what with the mist of manure on your goggles, windshield, and face, plus the splattering on the Harley. Not to mention the awful odor of ammonia. please keep the videos coming. they're great!
Farming sure has changed in the 50 years. From pitch fork into a wagon to liquid manure spread by piping it to the field. Impressed with your operation of the farm
Just checked out your merch Eric, beautiful looking hoodies and hats. Will be placing my order shortly... always look forward to your new videos being posted too. - Dave
I am more than impressed about this “ operation “ . Never ever even sought that 175 cows can “ produce “ so much manure . To me all this work that’s involved is mind boggling .I grew up in farm country sixty some years ago in northern Germany. . A lot of work and pretty much 24/7 on a dairy farm
Hello Eric , We got one of those equipment here in Central Indiana a big dairy farm hold over 75 hundred cows and renting out a lot of farmer’s land to plant and to spread manure in those hoses going through covert’s all over the fields. It’s awesome to watch them could in big semi’s loaded down with manure and dumping it in a big machine to push the liquid through the hoses to the spreader.
Nice views, the Triticale is doing pretty good before the manure, it will really shoot up with that. That is a neat way to deliver manure! Thanks for sharing, hope your weekend is great!
Great video, I do well, pump work on dairy farm, nobody knows the amount of work it takes to operate a dairy. They are milking 950-1000 cows a day. Keep up the great work!
Some farmers here are using the irrigation system to pump out the slurry. It amazing to see how effective it is and you can reduce the length of the hose as well.
Why am I always so early to the poop videos? Hope you got the pit emptied out well enough. I really like this concept and I'm very curious how the crops will look in spring. Cool footage today!
Until about a year or so ago, the only dragline I was familiar with was a big earth moving excavator. This fertilizer method moves a lot of manure quickly. No wonder it is popular.
Use to run equip like this at my last job.. we injected it tho… did about 1.2 million gallons in ten hours… fun job unless a hose burst then we’d have to fix it 😂 love draggin line tho! I miss it!
Great idea Oilfield has been doing this for years (water) with multiple pumps (10) and cover great distances. Should be implemented into fire fighting too.. if no culvert, man made steel ramps with a layer of gravel, usually good place for a pump so it's manned and no one does the dukes of Hazzard...that's alot of hose weight..I'm just amazed with that being tugged around..
The top application allows sunlight to kill pathogens. Going into winter, the cold will kill what the sun doesn't. It's not on grazing land, so pathogens aren't directly transmitted. Weed seeds are a different thing, but good chemical program eliminates that issue. Great question!
Love your videos been watching for long time, just a question about the drag hose that wont hurt the crop? Also from your drone views always wondered why the crops are in sweeping curved rows & not straight lines whats the benifit? Love your channel & progress you & dad have made over the years so if you have time to answer back that would be great thanks Eric.
Interesting process and informative. Definitely a job to contract out. I’m glad there isn’t a such thing as smell-o-vision. When your wife found out this was happening did she call the hospital and ask to be put on double shifts? We know how much she loves manure
I’m 55 years old. Owned a couple of businesses and had multi jobs thru my life. When i was 18 I worked on a tobacco farm near Brantford. Without a doubt the hardest job I ever had.
It’s unbelievable how you boys can move it, here in the uk 120,000 gallon a day is a good day, but looks like there running 9 inch pipes and here we run 4 inch pipes.
Question: How do they clean out the hose? It would take a tremendous amount of water/disinfectant for a mile of hose, plus machinery. What happens to that dirty cleaning water? If the drag line isn't cleaned, wouldn't it spread toxins and disease from farm to farm? Asking because we had issues with commercial citrus harvesters spreading Greening disease from grove to grove because no "infection control".
They use compressed air to empty the manure out of the hoses. Then they send a foam ball called a "pig" to clean out the remaining manure. As shown at 5:41.
@@MellowYe77ow Thank you for your comment. I did see that part of the video about the "pig". My concern was not so much just emptying the drag line, but in fact Cleaning it between farms. There would still be a great deal of residue after the "pig". Only a trace amount could infect the entire field. Infection Control is vital. It just surprised me. Happy Holidays!
@@alicekelly7808 yes there is still a bit of residue in the hose after blowing it out. Thankfully there aren't any major concerns about disease transfer and I haven't heard of any major haulers that clean equipment between every farm. Cows seem to have good immune systems however occasionally pig farmers will request it too prevent any change of diseases coming from other farms since pigs seem to get sick much easier.
@@stephenhoover4095 Thank you for your reply. Still doesn't sit right with me. Like the dairy herd literally living over a manure pit, breathing in those gases, and aerosolized manure bacterium. It's a wonder that's allowed too!
I love how nothing goes to waste on a farm... From the ground ..through the cow...you get milk and beef and then out of the cow back to the ground...quite an interesting cycle. What that manure would cost otherwise? $$$$$$$$$$$$
I know I have asked this before but why can’t u have a big field of one crop, why do u split it up so much. I know it has to do with soil erosion but wouldn’t they soil stay put after u plant in it either way
By using strip crops along slopes, something is always growing to hold the soil from washing away. Probably using NRCS recommended strip spacing, and it seems to work for them. Great question!
It's to control rainwater. The strips of alfalfa are never planted into a different crop, so they act as "gutters" almost. The rain that would otherwise erode the soil is instead absorbed by the alternating strips of crop.
@@MorganOtt-ne1qj I understand that it keeps a crop constantly growing but if it was 1 crop per field and just rotate them the same way. Would I not work the same way
@@jarretthickshicks2156 No, because it takes a while for newly planted crops to get root structure in place. Alfalfa or other hay is in place for multiple years, and can act like a silt fence to hold soil and slow water down. I totally understand your point, but I betting that they know more about thier place than I do. 👍
