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Liquid Manure Fill Pipe
"It's easy for one person to set up and take down and I can pull it behind my pickup," says John Miller, Rodney, Ontario, about the liquid manure "fill pipe" he made out of a 6-in. dia., 25-ft. long pipe riding on the frame of an old corn elevator.
Miller uses the "fill pipe" to load manure from a pit into his 2
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Liquid Manure Fill Pipe HITCHES Hitches 19-1-9 "It's easy for one person to set up and take down and I can pull it behind my pickup," says John Miller, Rodney, Ontario, about the liquid manure "fill pipe" he made out of a 6-in. dia., 25-ft. long pipe riding on the frame of an old corn elevator.
Miller uses the "fill pipe" to load manure from a pit into his 2,000-gal. truck spreader. The 6-in. pipe had been part of an elevator leg used on grain bins. He made cuts and rewelded the upper end of the pipe so it runs horizontal to the ground and then bends down at a 90 degree angle for filling. A hand-cranked winch is used to raise or lower the pipe, which has a 10-ft. long steel fence post welded onto its bottom side. The fence post rides on a steel roller as the pipe is raised or lowered. A quick coupler at the bottom of the pipe connects to an 8-ft. long flexible rubber hose that hooks up to a manure pump.
"I've used it for the past five years to load hundreds of thousands of gallons of manure without any trouble," says Miller, who uses the fill pipe on his chicken farm and also does some custom work. "I can raise or lower it in seconds and it's easy to trans-port. I disconnect the rubber pipe and throw it over the 3-pt. mounted pump. I pull the fill pipe behind the spreader truck - an old GM 9500 with a Husky tank mounted on it. The unloading end of the pipe hangs out quite a ways so I can drive the truck right under it rather than having to back in."
The end of the pipe is supported by a cable attached to a steel bar welded onto the top of the pipe. Each end of the cable is attached to a chain link welded onto the pipe. A turn-buckle can be used to tighten the cable. Miller clamped a length of rubber hose on the end of the pipe to keep it from catching on the truck as it drives under.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, John Miller, Rt. 3, Rodney, Ontario, Canada NOL 2C0 (ph 519 785-2033).
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