About Manure Handling Equipment
Manure handling equipment might not be the most glamourous of farm machinery, but the machines, systems, tools, and other equipment you’ll find within the manure spreaders, manure systems, and poultry litter equipment subcategories play important roles in crop production and poultry operations alike. Within the manure spreaders category, you’ll find dry and liquid subcategories of equipment for sale.
New Holland 195 Dry Manure Spreader
Manure Spreaders
Also known as “muck spreaders” and “honey wagons,” manure spreaders have been around a long time. J.S. Kemp Manufacturing receives credit for constructing the first successful automated manure spreader in 1865. The company would later sell the design to International Harvester (now Case IH). In the late 1800s, Joseph Oppenheim and his New Idea company (now part of AGCO) would advance manure spreaders by constructing the first model to use rotating wooden paddles, which helped spread manure across a wider area behind the spreader.
While modern liquid manure spreaders entail a tank wagon and attachment that’s used to broadcast liquid manure over a field or directly inject it into the soil via aerators or cultivators, dry manure spreaders today typically consist of a trailer towed behind a tractor or mounted on a truck. Manure is moved through the trailer via a PTO-driven rotating mechanism, and spinners or beaters help spread it across the field.
Manure System Particulars
Tanks, solids separators, hoses and hose reels, agitators, injectors, scrapers, manure agitation boats, and lagoon crawlers are among the equipment used to store, handle, and spread manure. Manure systems equipment also includes various pumps, including lagoon pumps, high-pressure pumps, PTO pumps, vertical pumps, chopper pumps, and truck-mount pumps. In addition to general enhancements that help pumps and tanks better stand up to various weather conditions and elements, manufacturers have introduced electronic pump monitoring and management abilities, remote control systems for boats and crawlers, and other innovations.
Poultry Litter Equipment
Poultry litter includes the manure, feathers, bedding material, spilled feed, and other organic waste that poultry produce. New and used poultry litter equipment helps poultry operations work with the litter to windrow, compost, and reuse it, often for fertilizer. Such equipment includes poultry house blowers, litter windrowers, litter turners, litter blades, litter pulverizers, washers, sprayers, wall cleaners, cleanout machines, conveyors, and litter spreaders.
Find The Right Manure Handling Equipment
Leading manufacturers of new and used manure handling equipment for sale on MarketBook.ca include GEA, H&S, Houle, Kuhn Knight, Meyers, New Holland, New Idea, Nuhn, and others.
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