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Faunsdale, AL | Watch out for any kind of 'weeping wall' design that is supposed to let the liquids go through and hold back the solids.
Unless you are flushing large amounts of water through that kind of system AND it has wide slots, like 1" or 1-1/2", it is going to just clog up and all the liquid is staying in the pit. This can work if you're flushing every day. Not so good if you flush every couple of days, not at all if you scrape and the only water you get is rain.
Scraped manure does not separate well, but with a lot of water included, some sort of slime or mucus is broken down and it's possible to get it to turn loose of the liquid. Of course by that time, you have increased the volume 10X! The trade off is pumping instead of loader bucket, but like you said, hauling dry is a lot more efficient when you can.
Now if that concrete pit shown above has a valve in it that is used to manually drain off the accumulated liquid into the second pit, them MAYBE it will work. IF the pipe and valve large diameter and are easily accessable to rod out when they clog. A large air compressor (100 CFM or larger) is really handy for unclogging pipes in manure handling systems! Just glue together some PVC pipe, 3/4" diameter or so and hook the air hose to one end, push it into the clog and turn on the air. Probe back and forth in the area of the clog..........something will let loose somewhere! This works best when you have liquid trying to run through the pipe to flush out the remining clog when you get it started.
Edited by ccjersey 4/4/2012 09:09
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Manure storage
