Farm smells

Ivan in Mich · May 11, 2017

The boys are changing the air smell today. I went to town and on the way home I counted 15 Case Internatioal tractors with big three axle spreaders going to or coming from the fields. This year one buch has several new Claus tractors and these have the biggest spreader I have ever seen on them. It has 4 axles and has to be at least 40 foot long. These guys are hauling at least 15 miles one way to get to the fields

gtractorfan · May 11, 2017

A mega dairy in this county I'm familiar with hauls liquid manure in semi tankers if it's any distance. They position a tractor by the road which pumps the liquid to another tractor with an applicator dragging a large hose. They can cover almost 80 acres from that one position. Seems they said it's possible to apply 1,100 gallons a minute but they go slower cause the trucks can't keep up.

Hayfarmer · May 11, 2017

when I was growing up my uncle next door to me had a chicken farm. When they were spreading manure we all got the benefit of the aroma. I think even the fumes from that stuff would make plants grow good.

glennster · May 11, 2017

lot of the farms up by my shop have the municipal sludge spread from the city sewer treatment plants. geez, that stinks to high heaven!!! cow or pig manure would be a breath of fresh air compared to that stuff!!!

jeffcat · May 11, 2017

Ahhhhhh smells like home. Being raise on a farm I don't mind at all. Pig is the worst one. Then you get all of the wimppy wusses who buy a home in the country and then start crying at the township meetings!

Ivan in Mich · May 11, 2017

Being raised in the country in a farming area I don't mind the smell at all. To me it is just part of living in the country and a sign that spring has arrived. It is doing it the old way with a fork that I may not like much now

Billy Shafer · May 11, 2017

My dad got me a job cleaning chicken houses. Really got bad in the summer time. Mom made take a bath in the barn. I always had to ride in the back of the truck.

RayP(MI) · May 11, 2017

I donvt care what anyone says, pig is strong, no doubt. But chicken is worse and turkey will corrode ceramics! Turkey hands down the worst.

farmerwithmutt · May 11, 2017

I hate to see that unfortunately i got lung problems and when i get a whiff i start trying to toss a lung the other day it got it going and when i got to work people wanted to call the paramedics. I can get by for now but i really worry about the unfortunate who do have problems and are stuck.
Its sad in a way because a little extra effort and it could be knifed in or there are additives that could be used to cut the smell. Some places use a digester to produce electric and cut the smell.But it ends up as the cheapest way no matter who gets hurt.

pete 23 · May 11, 2017

About 30 years or so ago, I had to go out on a hydraulic leak on a Farmall 886. Well, it was sitting out in the middle of his liquid manure pit that had about six inches of liquid. I knew the guy very well and told him, I'm not going out there. He says it leaks really bad. No, I said, you drive it out of there as it going to be rotten enough working on in on dry land. He lost a lot of oil but drove it out.

The end plate on the hydraulic valve stack blew an o-ring because the rookie we had working at the shop had installed the o-ring wrong. It was pot metal and now is warped. He needed tractor now. Took end plate to local machinist and he welded it up. He had to grind it out about four times as the oil kept coming through that pourus metal. Told me , last time he will do that as he had a whole lot of time spent. It never gave any problems though afer that.

I needed a shower real bad though when I got done.

Ivan in Mich · May 11, 2017

Once it is spread on the ground here they have it worked in in less than 3 hours after. Thee are always 2 very large tractors and disks a short ways behind the spreaders. I would not be surprized to see them planting corn in the fields tomorrow

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