But someone has to do it! Here we are spreading cow manure, or slurry, or muck, depending on where you live.
We are using a 1974 Massey Ferguson 1135 tractor. It's rated at 120hp PTO and weighs in at about 13,500lbs. It's pulling a Gehl spreader which is actually designed for spreading solids, but the pit is newly constructed and at the time of the video we had not yet purchased a tanker or tank type spreader.
The pit that contains the cow manure is 90ft in diameter and is 12ft deep, most of it is concealed under ground. This works out to about 570,000 gallons of liquid manure!
We haul it out to our fields in the spreader and apply it to our growing crops. This helps them to grow, which cuts down on the need for fertilizer and in some cases can work better anyway.