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Manitou MLT 634 | Picture made by PieterA
August 6, 2021 Photo of a Manitou MLT 634-120 LSU pushing up compost. This plot is not too high in the organic matter. This is grass seed stubble in which we want to plant tulips in October. Now the hay is still on it, but when that is finished, first compost and then cow manure goes on. I told the supplier that he can always unload with us; in case of drought, but also in case of rain. If it is too wet on this plot, the rest can be poured on the concrete near the barn. Then the crane has to scoop it into the spreader there. It is a 150 m drive from the yard to this dam. In the meantime, there are 14 walking floors, the last 4 will also be able to be dumped on the land next week. The supply is done with walking floors of Vakutrans. We always try to spread around 50 tons of compost per hectare. That will be about 65 tons here and then the phosphate and nitrogen space will be full again. We pushed it up from about 2007 with the front loader on the Agrotron 6.15. At that time it was still on narrow bands. Since we have a telehandler, we push with it. The biggest advantage is that we can then leave the tractor in front of a grain tipper. The pushing itself is equally good and fast with both, but with the front loader you do not have to blow the radiator clean as often and also fill up with diesel less often. When I push up, I always do that with the somewhat larger Wifobak. This is an old crane box to which we have welded a few ears ourselves. We sawed off the crane ears with the grinding tool. That went surprisingly well. They were off in 5 minutes. (Cost three thin grinding wheels I believe). If the compost is on the corner of a 550 m long plot, I assume that they can scatter it for 3 euros per ton and that it is then neatly distributed. Spreading is done with tap and 2 Tebbe wide spreaders for 220 euros per hour, so that is around 75 tons of compost per hour. I estimate that's 120 cubic meters. On the spreaders there is GPS, task map function (for other farmers) and air pressure change system. And on the spreaders are large tires (I don't remember the size, but I thought something with 900 mm and 42 inches), load cells and a spreading computer.
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