Re: [AlpacaTalk] Re: How is everyone's week so far?, Manure Vac
Hi Janice and Susan,
I have wanted to build a vac for some time, but always thought it had to work like a shop vac, in other words, an engine with an impeller , ( blower ), attached to it, would pull a vacuum on a vessel or somekind of container. My thinking was that the poop would stick to the impeller and clog up things. It did happen once, so far, with the unit I got. That was not the case when I wrote to the group. Not a real big thing, now that I know what to look for: If it stops sucking, and the trailer is not full, clean the impeller / blower out!
I have seen the much over priced and over rated, Graystone units - they work like a shop vac, vacuum is pulled on the container, causing material to be sucked in to the container.
This unit was found on Craigs List. A llama farmer that had gotten out of the llama business had it for sale. I called as soon as I seen the ad, told him I WANT IT, DONT SELL IT!!
If you have or have seen the lawn vacs that are pulled behind a lawn mower, this kind of like that. Those vacs would work just fine.
When I first got mine home, I tried it out in my mini stallions field. Dried biscuits suck up FAST. On the unit, where the blower housing sticks into the collection box, there was a big hole. The crap dust would blow back out of it, and cover the tractor seat. My hair grew fast!! :) The manure is pulverized, which would make it break down much faster. In the past, B.V., ( before vac ) raking the raisnetts out of tall grass was impossible. With the vac, I dont bother raking, I just suck it up, so I get more picked up.
When it is full, there is a lever to trip and you raise the front of the box and dump it. The unit sits on what amounts to a garden trailer, smallish tires. It would take 12 feer to get the trailer emptied, and I would still have to scrape some out. The next day I took it to my shop and took it apart. I put 14 inch car tires, the donut kind you find as a spare tire in cars, under it. This after I made a new axel. I dropped the hitch so it would match my 18 HP Kubota tractor, installed a tongue jack and ball hitch coupler. Now it dumps in 4 feet. I took some rubber mat and cut out for the blower spout to fit it, and covered the gaping hole where the dust was blowing back. A little still comes out, but not in a cloud like it did.
This unit was built in Oregon in the 1980's, it has an 8 HP Honda engine. If you have access to a lawn leaf vac, you have a vac that would work.
Jim Guerin
Yelm, WA
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From: houckj@aol.com
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Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 7:58 AM
Subject: [AlpacaTalk] Re: How is everyone's week so far?
<<< Now on to cleaning out my manure vac. When it isnt caked up with
alpaca poop, it SUCKS!!! Best $250 I ever spent!! :) >>>
Missed this digest somehow, hope you're back 100% by now Heather.
Things moving along well here. The rains finally stopped and now we are
just entrenched in the hot muggy GA summers - ugh. Hosing down the
alpacas at least once a day and filling the pool for the ducks and the
one alpaca that likes to lay in it - much to the ducks' chagrin. Have 2
broody hens, 2 baby chicks born on Sat, now just waiting for the rest.
Had a broody guinea sitting on 28 eggs - outside protected area in the
raspberry brambles. After about a week I couldn't take the worry
anymore and decided to move her and her clutch to the protected area
inside the fence as I continue to hear coyotes close around at night.
Unfortunately that broke her "broodiness" and she abandoned the eggs
:-(. so very sad about that.
Have decided to go ahead and get the Pyr puppy; should be coming home
in a few weeks. I am not happy about starting a puppy when I have a
not yet 3yo dd. Got my current german shepard when 11yo dd was 2. Have
always said that was the epitome of insanity and now here I am doing it
again, sigh. But my boy is getting on up there and we *must* have a
protection dog out here alone, just me and the 2 girls. Not only
coyotes, but meth idiots abound in these parts. A neighbor just had an
incident not long ago, sitting on his porch one night, a guy pulled up,
got out of his car, walked up to him like he was going to ask a
questions, then pulled a gun and pointed it at him and demanded his
wallet. My neighbor calmly said ok, reached towards his back pocket and
whipped around a sawed off shotgun he just happened to have behind him
sitting out there on his porch late at night. Now I don't know about
you guys, but I don't generally think to take my gun with me when I go
to sit on my porch at night! Just my beautiful, wonderful, massive
german shepard <g>. Realized when I was being told about this incident
that my Sammy boy only has another good year, possibly two and I'd best
get started with his replacement pronto :-(.
OK, Jim, I've never heard of a manure vac - more info please :-).
Warmly, Janice
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