Menu

All articles about Slurry tankers

Advice and tips

SLURRY TANKERS

Advice on setting up the perfect umbilical slurry system

Spreading slurry through an umbilical system can be vastly more efficient than running tankers, but it’s not always a practical proposition for every farm, particularly those with outlying ground a…

See all

Case studies

SLURRY TANKERS

Cornish contractor diversifies with slurry bag hire service

Surrounded by dairy farms and an abundance of their main by-product, Cornwall-based contractors Josh and Helen Collins have recently branched out into slurry bag rental. Each with a 350cu m…

SLURRY TANKERS

Leics contractor rates 70t Vervaet Quad XL slurry spreader

Surging demand for cheaper crop nutrition in the face of last year’s volatile fertiliser prices drove farmers across the country to seek alternatives to synthetic nitrogen. The resulting appetite for…

SLURRY TANKERS

Martin Desborough's Tramspread and custom pumping trailers

For the past three years, Herefordshire contractor Martin Desborough has been spreading slurry using a remote-controlled pumping trailer built by Suffolk firm Tramspread. He purchased the 2015 model second-hand from…

SLURRY TANKERS

Graham Hayllar's custom umbilical slurry pumping trailer

Cumbrian contractor and agricultural engineer Graham Hayllar built his first slurry pumping trailer more than 25 years ago and has since added two more to his fleet. The idea for…

See all

Community

WORKSHOP SKILLS

Inventions Comp 2023: Mick Thompson's custom pumping trailer

Mick Thompson takes third place in the complex category of the 2023 Farmers Weekly Inventions Competition with his slurry-pumping trailer. Mr Thompson of Lancashire outfit Thompson Brothers built a remote-controlled…

WORKSHOP SKILLS

Inventions Comp 2023: Self-propelled pump and tank

The runner-up of the complex category of the 2023 Farmers Weekly Inventions Competition is Alistair Craig with his lorry slurry pumping trailer. Remote umbilical slurry pumping trailers and nurse tanks…

See all

Insights

MUCKSPREADERS

Muck and slurry field equipment: Where is it made?

In the face of intense competition, not only among themselves but from EU-based manufacturers, UK companies building muckspreaders and slurry handling equipment continue to hold their own with a decent…

TECHNOLOGY

How to improve slurry and silage kit with infrared sensors

Scientists have been using near-infrared spectroscopy for decades, analysing everything from blood and tissue samples to livestock forage and grain. But now this technology is starting to migrate from the…

See all

News

SLURRY TANKERS

SlurryKat mobile nurse tanks get high-strength sidewalls

Novel zigzagged sidewalls are the stand-out feature of the latest mobile nurse tanks built by SlurryKat. The chevron-style flanks of the County Armagh maker’s chassis-mounted “generation 3” vessels are press-formed…

SLURRY TANKERS

Greencrop adds models and features to vacuum tanker range

Greencrop’s vacuum tanker range has been expanded with new models and added features. The business – part of the Ben Burgess Group – specialises in irrigation, slurry and dirty water…

SLURRY TANKERS

Kumm-Technik KTS artic slurry tanker offers 32cu m capacity

A new high-volume articulated tanker has landed in the UK, allowing large quantities of slurry or digestate to be transported to the field. The KTS 32 Light from German maker…

SLURRY TANKERS

Betec trailing shoe disc promises faster slurry absorption

By incorporating a disc into a trailing shoe assembly, Slovenian firm Betec claims it can achieve far higher levels of penetration than a conventional setup. This is because it cuts…

See all

Test and reviews

SLURRY TANKERS

Vogelsang builds retrofit tanker-mounted trailing shoe

Family-owned Vogelsang has built its first dedicated Blackbird trailing shoe toolbar, with a redesigned distributor to help improve the accuracy of slurry spreading. See also:Advice on planning your slurry storage…

See all