B1rds3y3 I am sure their is a reason but why didn’t you just apply from the point of the field across the end row/headland to get to the unapplied area?

Ed Timmons a number of issues, most importantly loss of traction due to added weight, and hose rolling. Loss of traction is pretty easy to figure out: we’re driving across wet, disked ground. The weight in question is the hose, and the manure in the hose. Imagine the length of the hoses across the entire field as the number 100. There’s no significance to the number it’s just a nice round number for figuring and percentages. The black hoses are supply, the green hoses are drag. As a general rule you’ll only be pulling 50% of the hoses laid out across the field. That’s on the first pass. As you do round after round you’ll eventually get to the corner. What do you do when you get there? Cut back across the field of course. Now that we’re all up to speed on the situation, I can tell you, and maybe you can tell, why what you suggested won’t work. By cutting straight across I will only be pulling about 25% of the hose across the wet, bad traction ground. Once across, the man in the hose humper tractor grabs the hose, which gets our hose laying out straight, preventing rolling. Also, you may have noticed the notch I slid into once I was out of the wet ground? That’s because we start every field at a little less than half way across it. Now, if I drove across the edge, I would be fighting the traction less ground the whole way, I would eventually be pulling 50% of the hose, once again across tractionless ground, and assuming I could even do it, now my hose has rolled ALOT. And that brings us to rolling. Rolling hose is bad. It’s not bad while your pumping necessarily, though if you put too much strain on a hose you might blow it, it’s when you shut down. Before you shut down, the hose was inflated and couldn’t adjust itself because of all the manure flowing through it. However, once the pressure is off, the hose assumes it’s natural state, which, if the hose was rolled, is now full of twists. Twist a straw and try to drink from it. You can’t. Twist a hose and try pump manure through it. You can’t. And it is a royal pain to untwist it, because there’s basically no to do it, except by hand. That can take hours, hours in which you are constantly lifting and twisting heavy hose. Your arms and back WILL ache by the end of it. Anyway that’s why we don’t that.

Ayee I’m from Goshen too.. nice to see people from our area getting “noticed” since Goshen is such a small town

Fellow operator here, how do you like that tractor compared to say a John Deere 9r? If you have ran one.

clay pinkerton hey sorry it took so long to reply. I’m not really familiar with the 9r series, or John Deere tractors in general. Our company is very red. The reason we went with the versatile 400 is because it was much, much cheaper than a comparable Case IH. There are couple of things I like about the versatile. The 400 has a HUGE cab, much bigger than Case, so you are free to stretch out, and having a rider doesn’t make the cab cramped. And their air conditioning system is great. It definitely does the job, and it’s certainly better than Cases. Case needs to work on that. But I will say, I much prefer Case’s gear shift and throttle setup to versatile or John Deere. It’s very convenient to have the throttle and gear shift on the same joystick. Versatile is, in my opinion, needlessly complicated in this area. It’s fine once you get used to it, but it’s still not as nice as Case.

Probably smells good it went through a anaerobic digestor

im honestly more amazed by the volume it can move in such little amount of time.. we're talking in thousands of gallons per minute

Yeah I read that too. I would think some of it could be processed into some product. If not milk for schools and restaurants. Then cheese and butter, they would keep for quite some time. Especially aged cheeses. Companies that make shelf stable products such as Evaporated Milk, and powdered milk. Things that all stores seem to have sold of of during the panic buying. Those companies should step up their production and take some of the milk that's being wasted.

Somebody gotta pay for that though and it sure aint going to be any farmers... Not willingly at least.

Peter Agriconguy perfectly legal in most places some guys just spread on top of the soil

Bill Smith I’m also a nutrient application specialist and the hose is made to be drug it’s how many gallons that go through the hose that matters and that can depend right now almost all of our hoses have 20 million gallons through them and they are still decent

Acer Acres we actually don’t pump any dairies we are strictly hog barns now when I first started pumping I worked for a guy that did dairies and the hoses did wear a lot faster

We started using hose in 1988 the last of that hose was about 25 years when i retired it, oldest hose i have now is from 1998. If it gets a hole we have a loose sleeve on the hose that we can pull into position and glue in place.. the sleeve is a piece of hose that we cut off before we put on the end connection and just leave on the hose next to the connection until needed.

How did you do it?

Not too bad.

It sure beats City smog…!

@@1DirtyMutt Smells like $20 bills lol

Did i see that right on the Display? 22000 or 12800 Gal/Acre?? That would be 208 or 121 m³/ ha. Wow.

Holy crap, and I thought 40 m³/ha was plenty enough when last i did some manure carting...

I was just hoping for the best here cause I was not going swimming to retrieve it if something happened.

North Florida at the George/ Alabama line.

Funny Farm + put some this on your corn you planted the other day and make it jump!

Davidson Lankford that should make it Jump quick!

Would be a CVT no?

They told be for this application it works better with the singles.

Charlie Wolfe to much flotation

@Mr. Sunshine There absolutely is such a thing as too much flotation, dumbass. Try a muddy field with too much rubber and you'll just spin because you don't have enough ground pressure, ie too much flotation.

@Mr. Sunshine You wanna calm down there a bit, temperament like that can't be good for the heart you know? I'm not sure what you're trying to say when you're talking about getting a tractor stuck in the mud? Did you get the impression that I was saying flotation is useless? I'm saying that sometimes you can have too much flotation, a simple rule of thumb is that the more flotation you have the less force your tyres will be able to exert on the surface before they spin out due to a lack of grip..

@Mr. Sunshine Where did I change anything?

Hugh Perkins not N just Sh it and Pe e

It adds phosphorus

greg smith 1000 times yes. You go that slow with wagons too. This way you don’t have compaction in the fields if destroy the roads.

@Mr Sunshines no cleaning drinking water there