hi, does anyone know of any tankers on the market that have the ability to continue agitating to keep say for example, sand in suspension rather than settling. many thanks

Duport, Joskin, Veenhuis, Zunhammer (the best choice ), just about any tanker built in mainland Europe.  Hope that helps, good luck!

Depends on haw mutch you are spreding the gitators are good but there just another thing to brake realy that you do not need  there nice to have but ith a tanker you can get away with not having one for sand by after youv empteyd half the tank rocking the tank ( hit the gas then hit the brakes to get it all sloshing around that will mix it all up like the pump in the pit does) if you do that then youl be fine but if you are just doing sand then probubley a good idea to have one as well but if your spreding for lots of people and theres onley a few sand pits then your best just to rock the tank around whilst spreding the sand stuph then after that go to a place that has realy light manure and do them thats what we do and we dont have aney problems.

many thanks. we just spread our own stuff and we just have sand for bedding the cows and some saw dust, its about a third full of sand at the moment. cheers.

Wouldn't you be better getting the solids out of the pit with a digger, leaving it to dry and then using it for cow tracks or something?  Seems like a waste to spread it on fields.  Failing that, a Rotaspreader might do the job.

I always liked the idea of spreading dirty sand onto the fields. Thought it might put a bit of light onto my heavy! 

yere we used to pump the liquid out with the draglines as it was a lot quicker than tanks then wead take the Hiehoe and the bidirectonal and load it into solid truck spreders but we dont to the solids aney more as we got fed up with all the crap some farmers put into there pits. 

Hey Canadean, what size pipe do you use over there?  Round here everyone tends to use 4 inch, but I've found a good tanker is just as fast as an umbilical (dragline), uses less machinery and just one person instead of two (unless you use an unmanned pump).  Plus there is zero setup time and it's just as easy to do one acre as do one hundred.

Oooh, now I want a Terragator.......

 We use a 5in dragline but 6 off th epump in th epit into a booster pump then about 10 feet of 3in into a 6in out to the feald then its into the 5in dragline would prefer to youse 4in as there harder to twist. We use truck mounted spreders that are 3500gal and there fast but still nowere near as fast as the dragline in a bad day we can ushaley pup around 400,000gal with the dragline and around 200 with the trucks but it depends on the conditions. At the moment as we have a brand new line we need a minamum of 20ac tust to unwrap it that can be a bit of a problem idealy we like 70ac. yere it can be quicker to use the tankers if you have lots of 20ac fealds to do as its a *** to have to wrap everyting up to move but a well thats life. also every one of our crews weater its a tanker crew or a dragline crew is 2 people for saftey as we will keep on going no matter what time of day so we dont like to just have one persone on the trucks we have 2 trucks with 2 people just find that works best.

fair bit of expense to dry it out and also a fair bit of sand each year for tracks.problem is when it sucks out of the lagoon takes some sand with it and setles soon as you switch off the pump and over time end up with half the storage. it'll get emptied at harvest with a 360 if we ever see the bottom of it.