The Crawler on an agricultural manure lagoon

Wayne Martin’s Farm, Friedens, Pennsylvania — The same surface-operated equipment that works municipal lagoons, on a farm manure pit ten miles from the yard.

Vessels
Manure lagoon
Duration
Agitation
Started
March 2023
Client type
Private — agricultural
The situation
A manure lagoon on a Somerset County farm, crusted over and needing agitation before it could be handled. Agricultural lagoons behave differently from municipal cells — heavier crust, different solids, and no permit clock running.
What we did
The Crawler was set on the cell and worked from the surface. The photograph shows it mid-job with the discharge line run out across the crust, Pennsylvania farmland behind it and the trees still bare. Agitation only on this engagement, with no press or haul.
The outcome
The crust was broken up and the contents brought back to a state the farm could handle. Agricultural lagoons are not our main work, but the equipment does not care whose lagoon it is — the same machine that clears a municipal cell clears a manure pit ten miles from our yard.
Service
This job ran under Lagoon & pond cleaning. Working a vessel like this one? Send us dimensions and rough volume and we will tell you what the job takes.
On the pit
The Crawler working the crust from the surface, discharge line run out across the cell.

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