We do all our manure draglining ourselves and I think you’ll start seeing compaction issues start going away the more you do this and keep those big tankers off the fields!! It’s definitely the most efficient way of getting rid of manure
@@charles-y2z6c Yep, right up there with eatin' aint it? Take care of the basics and everything else falls into place. DON'T take care of the basics and everything else collapses.
... but compared to the use of a tanker this method uses three diesel engines running one and a half day nonstop as well. This comes with additional cost for diesel, depreciation and service. (Whereas the tanker just uses a second engine whilst loading, if any. But if I have my fields as close to the farm like here and I can call a service provider to come with his equipment that's the choice to go too obvious.)
I appreciate the dragline method of spreading manure over the aerosol spray. Riding the back roads of upstate NY and Vermont on an early spring morning when a manure sprayer is employed is pure hell, what with the mist of manure on your goggles, windshield, and face, plus the splattering on the Harley. Not to mention the awful odor of ammonia. please keep the videos coming. they're great!
That's one helluva pump to move that thick slurry a friggin' mile. I would wager they could go even further with more hose and a second booster pump. Sure beats the old way!
Farming sure has changed in the 50 years. From pitch fork into a wagon to liquid manure spread by piping it to the field. Impressed with your operation of the farm
Just checked out your merch Eric, beautiful looking hoodies and hats. Will be placing my order shortly... always look forward to your new videos being posted too. - Dave
Hello Eric , We got one of those equipment here in Central Indiana a big dairy farm hold over 75 hundred cows and renting out a lot of farmer’s land to plant and to spread manure in those hoses going through covert’s all over the fields. It’s awesome to watch them could in big semi’s loaded down with manure and dumping it in a big machine to push the liquid through the hoses to the spreader.
Nice views, the Triticale is doing pretty good before the manure, it will really shoot up with that. That is a neat way to deliver manure! Thanks for sharing, hope your weekend is great!
Great video, I do well, pump work on dairy farm, nobody knows the amount of work it takes to operate a dairy. They are milking 950-1000 cows a day. Keep up the great work!
Some farmers here are using the irrigation system to pump out the slurry. It amazing to see how effective it is and you can reduce the length of the hose as well.
Why am I always so early to the poop videos? Hope you got the pit emptied out well enough. I really like this concept and I'm very curious how the crops will look in spring. Cool footage today!
Love your videos been watching for long time, just a question about the drag hose that wont hurt the crop? Also from your drone views always wondered why the crops are in sweeping curved rows & not straight lines whats the benifit? Love your channel & progress you & dad have made over the years so if you have time to answer back that would be great thanks Eric.
I am more than impressed about this “ operation “ . Never ever even sought that 175 cows can “ produce “ so much manure . To me all this work that’s involved is mind boggling .I grew up in farm country sixty some years ago in northern Germany. . A lot of work and pretty much 24/7 on a dairy farm
I’m 55 years old. Owned a couple of businesses and had multi jobs thru my life. When i was 18 I worked on a tobacco farm near Brantford. Without a doubt the hardest job I ever had.
Great idea Oilfield has been doing this for years (water) with multiple pumps (10) and cover great distances. Should be implemented into fire fighting too.. if no culvert, man made steel ramps with a layer of gravel, usually good place for a pump so it's manned and no one does the dukes of Hazzard...that's alot of hose weight..I'm just amazed with that being tugged around..
Use to run equip like this at my last job.. we injected it tho… did about 1.2 million gallons in ten hours… fun job unless a hose burst then we’d have to fix it 😂 love draggin line tho! I miss it!
Until about a year or so ago, the only dragline I was familiar with was a big earth moving excavator. This fertilizer method moves a lot of manure quickly. No wonder it is popular.
The top application allows sunlight to kill pathogens. Going into winter, the cold will kill what the sun doesn't. It's not on grazing land, so pathogens aren't directly transmitted. Weed seeds are a different thing, but good chemical program eliminates that issue. Great question!
Question: How do they clean out the hose? It would take a tremendous amount of water/disinfectant for a mile of hose, plus machinery. What happens to that dirty cleaning water? If the drag line isn't cleaned, wouldn't it spread toxins and disease from farm to farm? Asking because we had issues with commercial citrus harvesters spreading Greening disease from grove to grove because no "infection control".
They use compressed air to empty the manure out of the hoses. Then they send a foam ball called a "pig" to clean out the remaining manure. As shown at 5:41.
@@MellowYe77ow Thank you for your comment. I did see that part of the video about the "pig". My concern was not so much just emptying the drag line, but in fact Cleaning it between farms. There would still be a great deal of residue after the "pig". Only a trace amount could infect the entire field. Infection Control is vital. It just surprised me. Happy Holidays!
@@alicekelly7808 yes there is still a bit of residue in the hose after blowing it out. Thankfully there aren't any major concerns about disease transfer and I haven't heard of any major haulers that clean equipment between every farm. Cows seem to have good immune systems however occasionally pig farmers will request it too prevent any change of diseases coming from other farms since pigs seem to get sick much easier.
@@stephenhoover4095 Thank you for your reply. Still doesn't sit right with me. Like the dairy herd literally living over a manure pit, breathing in those gases, and aerosolized manure bacterium. It's a wonder that's allowed too!
Interesting process and informative. Definitely a job to contract out. I’m glad there isn’t a such thing as smell-o-vision. When your wife found out this was happening did she call the hospital and ask to be put on double shifts? We know how much she loves manure
It’s unbelievable how you boys can move it, here in the uk 120,000 gallon a day is a good day, but looks like there running 9 inch pipes and here we run 4 inch pipes.
I know I have asked this before but why can’t u have a big field of one crop, why do u split it up so much. I know it has to do with soil erosion but wouldn’t they soil stay put after u plant in it either way
By using strip crops along slopes, something is always growing to hold the soil from washing away. Probably using NRCS recommended strip spacing, and it seems to work for them. Great question!
It's to control rainwater. The strips of alfalfa are never planted into a different crop, so they act as "gutters" almost. The rain that would otherwise erode the soil is instead absorbed by the alternating strips of crop.
@@MorganOtt-ne1qj I understand that it keeps a crop constantly growing but if it was 1 crop per field and just rotate them the same way. Would I not work the same way
@@jarretthickshicks2156 No, because it takes a while for newly planted crops to get root structure in place. Alfalfa or other hay is in place for multiple years, and can act like a silt fence to hold soil and slow water down. I totally understand your point, but I betting that they know more about thier place than I do. 👍
If the field was fallow, yes. However, injecting it requires a lot more power from the tractor, because it needs to pull the nozzles through the ground.
Yes it's possible to inject with the dragline. We actually do quite a bit with a low disturbance injector into rye that will be harvested as spring forage
Do you ever have any issue mixing the slurry with cattle in the building? I realise your buildings are quite open, but in the UK there have been many cattle killed by gas the emitted during mixing.
I love how nothing goes to waste on a farm... From the ground ..through the cow...you get milk and beef and then out of the cow back to the ground...quite an interesting cycle. What that manure would cost otherwise? $$$$$$$$$$$$
We do all our manure draglining ourselves and I think you’ll start seeing compaction issues start going away the more you do this and keep those big tankers off the fields!! It’s definitely the most efficient way of getting rid of manure
I don’t think that people realize how much goes into this and how hard you folks work to provide dairy products. I’m impressed.
Don't get why they do all this when people can just go to the grocery store for their milk
Didn’t AOC say that?
Any farming is hard work and smart work. Farming is the backbone of any civilization.
@@P4p4Smurf I was born and raised of fresh cows milk all my life and still love it
@@charles-y2z6c Yep, right up there with eatin' aint it? Take care of the basics and everything else falls into place. DON'T take care of the basics and everything else collapses.
Amazing. Putting out so many gallons without stopping. Thanks for sharing.
Me too. I kept say AMAZING to myself. I had no idea this could be done.
... but compared to the use of a tanker this method uses three diesel engines running one and a half day nonstop as well. This comes with additional cost for diesel, depreciation and service. (Whereas the tanker just uses a second engine whilst loading, if any. But if I have my fields as close to the farm like here and I can call a service provider to come with his equipment that's the choice to go too obvious.)
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I appreciate the dragline method of spreading manure over the aerosol spray. Riding the back roads of upstate NY and Vermont on an early spring morning when a manure sprayer is employed is pure hell, what with the mist of manure on your goggles, windshield, and face, plus the splattering on the Harley. Not to mention the awful odor of ammonia. please keep the videos coming. they're great!
That setup is slick as 💩! Saves alot of compaction, reducing need for tillage 👍👍 Great video, especially the drone footage!
I am always amazed at the clever machinery that you use to work on your farm. Thanks for sharing.
That system of manure spreading looks awesome! I bet it saves a lot of time by not having to refill tankers plus all the saved drive time! ❤
And fuel!! Huge.
Not to mention all the compaction that the heavy tankers will no longer be producing.
Claiming, and repurpousing cow paddies, sooooo good.
When young we used dry cow paddies for 1st, 2nd, 3rd base in the pasture baseball, circa 1962
I bet nobody tried to slide into base after a rain! 😂
That's one helluva pump to move that thick slurry a friggin' mile. I would wager they could go even further with more hose and a second booster pump. Sure beats the old way!
You are correct. It's actually very common to run multiple booster pumps and I've seen setups where they could easily pump 3 or 4 miles.
Great video Eric. Thank you for feeding us and for taking so amazing videos
Had never seen manure being applied this way before you showed us. Looks very efficient.
Love your drone footage, Beautiful.
Farming sure has changed in the 50 years. From pitch fork into a wagon to liquid manure spread by piping it to the field. Impressed with your operation of the farm
Love your videos and I would Like to hear an update on what you are seeing in the way of results with your solar panels.
Great video...very very interesting....so much goes into running a big dairy farm....thanks for letting us in on what you do.
Just checked out your merch Eric, beautiful looking hoodies and hats. Will be placing my order shortly... always look forward to your new videos being posted too. - Dave
Now I know how dragline spreading works. Thank you.
Hello Eric , We got one of those equipment here in Central Indiana a big dairy farm hold over 75 hundred cows and renting out a lot of farmer’s land to plant and to spread manure in those hoses going through covert’s all over the fields. It’s awesome to watch them could in big semi’s loaded down with manure and dumping it in a big machine to push the liquid through the hoses to the spreader.
This is a really cool set up to spread that brown gold. Direct to the plant and less to the air. I’m sure the neighbors appreciate that.
Absolutely incredible! Love this application method.
Nice views, the Triticale is doing pretty good before the manure, it will really shoot up with that. That is a neat way to deliver manure! Thanks for sharing, hope your weekend is great!
Thanks for sharing. I'm non farming in uk and to see this and other farming methods on such big scale is amazing.
That's a really cool way to fertilize with the drag line. Stay safe.
Great video, I do well, pump work on dairy farm, nobody knows the amount of work it takes to operate a dairy. They are milking 950-1000 cows a day. Keep up the great work!
Very impressive configuration , great work on the camera and drone shots
I love the ingenuity... "we'll need custom everything, plus over a mile of hose".
"Okay then, we'll build that."
Some farmers here are using the irrigation system to pump out the slurry. It amazing to see how effective it is and you can reduce the length of the hose as well.
Why am I always so early to the poop videos? Hope you got the pit emptied out well enough. I really like this concept and I'm very curious how the crops will look in spring. Cool footage today!
Hi Eric and dad and families beautiful video love drone beautiful landscape and as always you all be safe 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Wow, very intriguing and informative. Thank you!
Love your videos been watching for long time, just a question about the drag hose that wont hurt the crop? Also from your drone views always wondered why the crops are in sweeping curved rows & not straight lines whats the benifit? Love your channel & progress you & dad have made over the years so if you have time to answer back that would be great thanks Eric.
Nothing is straight in Pennsylvania. I learned that the first time I visited there. All the roads follow the contours of the landscape.
Joe
Very kool set up Definitely enjoy watching just like I do with all your videos
You are amazing and awesome sharing your videos even though I don’t own a farm it’s very educational for me to watch it and I love the baby cows awww
Dragline Spreading 1 Million Gallons of Manure, Is just craz. Good work boys and keep it up👍😀
Stay warm and safe brother from the imperial county California 👍👍🇺🇲
I am more than impressed about this “ operation “ . Never ever even sought that 175 cows can “ produce “ so much manure . To me all this work that’s involved is mind boggling .I grew up in farm country sixty some years ago in northern Germany. . A lot of work and pretty much 24/7 on a dairy farm
I’m 55 years old. Owned a couple of businesses and had multi jobs thru my life. When i was 18 I worked on a tobacco farm near Brantford. Without a doubt the hardest job I ever had.
Eric thats awesome , bit i still miss the good old days when you used to spread the Liquid Manure from the Tanker , keep up the great work
Love the Bluegrass background music!
Been waiting for this video! The dragline is unreal
love you guys trying out the new tech!
Excellent video Eric! Thanks.
Nice video, Eric. In Belgium we can´t put manure on the ground from 15-8 until 15-2. Thanks to share...
First time I've ever seen this method. Thanx 4 sharin
Great idea Oilfield has been doing this for years (water) with multiple pumps (10) and cover great distances. Should be implemented into fire fighting too.. if no culvert, man made steel ramps with a layer of gravel, usually good place for a pump so it's manned and no one does the dukes of Hazzard...that's alot of hose weight..I'm just amazed with that being tugged around..
Use to run equip like this at my last job.. we injected it tho… did about 1.2 million gallons in ten hours… fun job unless a hose burst then we’d have to fix it 😂 love draggin line tho! I miss it!
6:39 I thought you were going to grab a handful and give a good whiff so you can tell us your thoughts on the quality, like you normally do… haha!
Until about a year or so ago, the only dragline I was familiar with was a big earth moving excavator. This fertilizer method moves a lot of manure quickly. No wonder it is popular.
Need to send a fleet of those guys to Washington D.C. !
I have alwats wondered how this worked. Thanks for the video!
Definetly amazing. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
That is an incredible piece of machinery
What a crappy job. 🤣 All kidding aside, Mr. Thomas Crapper would be proud of this new fangled turd slinging technology.
So amazing wow what a great process thanks for the sweet video
Is there no danger of disease spreading between farms when you share this kind of equipment?
The top application allows sunlight to kill pathogens. Going into winter, the cold will kill what the sun doesn't. It's not on grazing land, so pathogens aren't directly transmitted. Weed seeds are a different thing, but good chemical program eliminates that issue. Great question!
Do they shoot a type of weight with a string and then pull the hose through the culvert?
Great video and drone footage
Still would like to hear your thoughts on the solar panels and the whole system... A lot of folks think you have to buy a bunch of big batteries,👍👍
How do they get that hose pulled through the culvert, did not see anyone shoot an arrow through with a rope on it.
They pull it through
I love my ball cap bought couple years ago . Wear it everyday too ..
Question: How do they clean out the hose? It would take a tremendous amount of water/disinfectant for a mile of hose, plus machinery. What happens to that dirty cleaning water? If the drag line isn't cleaned, wouldn't it spread toxins and disease from farm to farm? Asking because we had issues with commercial citrus harvesters spreading Greening disease from grove to grove because no "infection control".
They use compressed air to empty the manure out of the hoses. Then they send a foam ball called a "pig" to clean out the remaining manure. As shown at 5:41.
@@MellowYe77ow Thank you for your comment. I did see that part of the video about the "pig". My concern was not so much just emptying the drag line, but in fact Cleaning it between farms. There would still be a great deal of residue after the "pig". Only a trace amount could infect the entire field. Infection Control is vital. It just surprised me. Happy Holidays!
@@alicekelly7808 yes there is still a bit of residue in the hose after blowing it out. Thankfully there aren't any major concerns about disease transfer and I haven't heard of any major haulers that clean equipment between every farm.
Cows seem to have good immune systems however occasionally pig farmers will request it too prevent any change of diseases coming from other farms since pigs seem to get sick much easier.
@@stephenhoover4095 Thank you for your reply. Still doesn't sit right with me. Like the dairy herd literally living over a manure pit, breathing in those gases, and aerosolized manure bacterium. It's a wonder that's allowed too!
nice easter egg at 5:08
wow....that's quite an operation !
Interesting process and informative. Definitely a job to contract out. I’m glad there isn’t a such thing as smell-o-vision. When your wife found out this was happening did she call the hospital and ask to be put on double shifts? We know how much she loves manure
Another very interesting video Thank you 😊😊😊😊
It’s unbelievable how you boys can move it, here in the uk 120,000 gallon a day is a good day, but looks like there running 9 inch pipes and here we run 4 inch pipes.
You guys have beautiful land.
I can't even imagine the "aroma" of that sewage being broadcast over that large area!
It actually wasn't that bad although I'm used to it
I know I have asked this before but why can’t u have a big field of one crop, why do u split it up so much. I know it has to do with soil erosion but wouldn’t they soil stay put after u plant in it either way
By using strip crops along slopes, something is always growing to hold the soil from washing away. Probably using NRCS recommended strip spacing, and it seems to work for them. Great question!
It's to control rainwater. The strips of alfalfa are never planted into a different crop, so they act as "gutters" almost. The rain that would otherwise erode the soil is instead absorbed by the alternating strips of crop.
@@MorganOtt-ne1qj I understand that it keeps a crop constantly growing but if it was 1 crop per field and just rotate them the same way. Would I not work the same way
@@jarretthickshicks2156 No, because it takes a while for newly planted crops to get root structure in place. Alfalfa or other hay is in place for multiple years, and can act like a silt fence to hold soil and slow water down. I totally understand your point, but I betting that they know more about thier place than I do. 👍
Do you use any other fertilizer?
Have you ever had trouble with gasses escaping into the barn when you adjitate? I know over here cattle get taken out of the shed before this happens
Greatly appreciate UA-cam not offering Smell-O-Vision.
Smells like $!
Available in the perfume isle.
If this turns out to be your best year yet , I won't be surprised
I can’t manage my vacuum hose, can’t imagine doing that. Lol
verey same way we do it in ireland just a smaller pipe and pump
Amazing! How much does this cost?
6500 gallons per acre. How big was the hose Erik, it looked like it was 5”-6” diameter.
How were u able to get it threw the culvert?
They pushed a strap through with PVC pipe, and pulled the hose through with the strap hooked to a truck. As seen at 3:16.
How much the hats in the the jackets? Send me a info please
Wow Eric I had no idea your pit was that big.
Great Vid hard working young man, Hard working family, Blessed 👍👍👍👍🌽🌽🌽🌽🐄🐄🐄🐄
Question, do u need a license to start a farm like yours or no and if u do wat kind?
liquid gold😊
Hopefully now, you don't undo your progress by deciding to plow those fields as was mentioned earlier. What was the verdict on yields?
How do they get the hose through the cuvert?
Watch the video again.... They pull it
Could they inject it with their pump?
Good question, but that will damage the crop quite a bit.
If the field was fallow, yes. However, injecting it requires a lot more power from the tractor, because it needs to pull the nozzles through the ground.
Yes it's possible to inject with the dragline. We actually do quite a bit with a low disturbance injector into rye that will be harvested as spring forage
A million gallons of manure? That's nothing compared to what flows out of Washington, DC, every day!
Most of it out the white house.
hi it looks like you have several grain bins and a leg do you do a lot of maize and beans but just show the dairy side of things
That is our neighbors business. We rent the farm ground around the bins but it's not our operation. They store grain from a lot of different farms.
does your soil not need lime with all the manure?
We rarely need to add lime. Our ph is usually plenty high with our limestone soil.
Hey we run a 120 cow dairy in Montour county. Was wondering if I could get this guys contact information to try this out thanks.
Check out Hoover ag youtube channel. They have contact info on there.
I can't believe that the weight of the hose doesn't create tension and drag to 1) snap the hose 2)destroy the crops behind it.
Do yall have any dairy cattle that don't produce milk any more
A new way to clean out culverts.
How do they get the cable through the culvert
Pushed it though with a pvc pipe
Do you ever have any issue mixing the slurry with cattle in the building? I realise your buildings are quite open, but in the UK there have been many cattle killed by gas the emitted during mixing.
Their pits are open because of the slotted floors so gas is minimized.
@@beckyumphrey2626 How do you think or cattle shit gets in our tanks? Yes slatted floors!
We try to open the barn up when agitating. We also use a manure additive which helps reduce gas.
@@10thgenerationdairyman Thanks for reply.
Will you do livestreams while on the dairy farm? It'll be cool to see real time 😁
I love how nothing goes to waste on a farm... From the ground ..through the cow...you get milk and beef and then out of the cow back to the ground...quite an interesting cycle. What that manure would cost otherwise? $$$$$$$$$$$$
Can you guys ship your merch to Canada??
You'll have to check out the second link for outside the USA. Not as many options there, sorry.
@@10thgenerationdairyman my brother lives in Minnesota is could have it shipped there and he can bring it with him next time he comes to visit
Its a great way to get the manure out.
You get 20% more nitrogen into the ground with those dribble bars, at least thats what a German agricultural high school found out.