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Eastern ON | We have a small dairy barn with a cross gutter that feeds into a GEA hydraulic push unit to the manure pit. The cross gutter is 60' long, 2' wide and 2' high, fed by two alley scrapers. The cross gutter currently has a hydraulic scraper in it to clean it out daily but that scraper unit is towards the end of its life. We don't like the pricing we see to replace it. Many people who have visited the barn in the past say we probably could have got away with gravity flowing that gutter by exiting all waste water at the far end since we only bed with fine sawdust. The cement in the cross gutter floor was not sloped to help accomplish that though. Our milkhouse and robot waste water currently just dumps out in the middle of the cross gutter. Just looking for any advice on how to get good flow, we will route the wastewater pipe at the far end to try it. Does the floor absolutely need to be sloped, any sort of nozzle on the water pipe to help? Willing to try whatever, even if we can reduce the scraper being used to once a week that would extend its life greatly. | |
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Manure Flush advice
