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Reloader Lets You Haul Manure By Truck
You can save a lot of time hauling manure to fields by truck but conditions don't al-ways let you get into the fields. That's why Jeffrey Bragg, Waterville, Maine, came up with his manure "reloader" which lets him quickly transfer a truckload of liquid manure to a tractor-pulled spreader.
"It lets me haul manure
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Reloader lets you haul manure by truck MANURE HANDLING Equipment 17-2-16 You can save a lot of time hauling manure to fields by truck but conditions don't al-ways let you get into the fields. That's why Jeffrey Bragg, Waterville, Maine, came up with his manure "reloader" which lets him quickly transfer a truckload of liquid manure to a tractor-pulled spreader.
"It lets me haul manure from pit to the field at road-speed using farm trucks I al-ready owned. No need to rig up a truck-mounted spreader with flotation wheels, etc. The idea works especially well when fields are too far away to economically haul with a tractor spreader and field conditions are too wet fora truck spreader," says Bragg.
Manure can be hauled with a sealed-up grain box with a modified gate, a semi-tanker, or any kind of tank mounted on a truck body. By going back and forth with a truck, all you need is one spreader which never has to leave the field.
Bragg's "reloader" consists of a receiver tank made from an old 500-gal. fuel tank. It's fitted with a 1,000-rpm pto-driven pump that discharges through a 6-in. fill pipe that runs up and over the top of the tractor. A rubber hose runs up the vertical column to the fill pipe. The edges of the opening on the tank are "fish bowled" to help reduce splatter and there's a sliding gate on back to drain the tank after use. Because the reloader mounts in a straight line with the tractor and is totally self-contained, Bragg says he can easily position the reloader on the road and move quickly to get into position.
`Because this system lets me get to distant fields faster and more economically, I no longer over-spread fields closer to home, resulting in more efficient use of manure and less nutrient run-off," notes Bragg. "The system also lets me make more use of farm trucks, which would otherwise sit idle much of the year, and reduces wear and tear on tractor and spreader."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jeffrey H. Bragg, Rt. 1, Box 5860, Waterville, Maine 04901 (ph 207 547-3814).
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