I own a power washing company and in the winter for 5 or 6 years I worked at a chick hatchery. I would power wash the incubators coops etc and disinfect. Few simple cheap tools and tricks you could add to your set up and make that job faster and easier for ya. Whats your disinfectant? I bet I could save y’all some money on that as well.
Cool. Never have enough knowledge when it comes to doing things. Weve been using synergize but have used others in the past. Usually whatever the local vet clinic has
iafarmer I know farms around here use sodium hypochlorite. Can get it at 12.5% for $3.50 to $1.50 a gallon. Then you can just downstream that through the soap injector that will dilute the chemical to 16:1 and still be plenty good for sanitizing . Your machines should have came with an injector or buy one for $20. It would go in line after the T fitting that joins the two units. Then just have a 5 gallon jug For the injector to draw out of. Put a black nozzle tip in and the drop in pressure will cause a Venturi and suck disinfectant soap into the line. When you want the soap off put the high pressure tip back in and soap will shut off as soon as it clears what little is left in the line. If none of that sounds good I would at least get some larger orifice size nozzles to be able to switch in when your almost done because they will lower the pressure and increase the volume of water so its easier to do a final rinse down without all the back splash. Look up 3/8” high pressure swivels made by Mosmatic they cost $40 and go right before your gun on the end of the hose, It keeps the line from wanting to pig tail on you and lets your wrist turn when your washing they last forever even using them daily for years.
If it was all up to me thats how id do it too but it gets pretty spendy. My landlord does alot of the washing and hes 72 years old. always says he doesnt mind if i have it all setup and run it a few hours.
Thank you, this is very informative! May I ask if this process has changed much (for small farms) in the last 20-30 years? Like, if you were running a hog parlor in the mid-1990s, would you be doing anything differently?
These barns were built in 1991, some of the first this size (1000 head) in this area. But most farms then wouldve done the same process between groups, unless they were raising them on straw or cornstalks, then its completely different. Thanks for watching
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I charge $100 and hour to clean those.
Honda 10gpm
I own a power washing company and in the winter for 5 or 6 years I worked at a chick hatchery. I would power wash the incubators coops etc and disinfect. Few simple cheap tools and tricks you could add to your set up and make that job faster and easier for ya. Whats your disinfectant? I bet I could save y’all some money on that as well.
Cool. Never have enough knowledge when it comes to doing things. Weve been using synergize but have used others in the past. Usually whatever the local vet clinic has
iafarmer I know farms around here use sodium hypochlorite. Can get it at 12.5% for $3.50 to $1.50 a gallon. Then you can just downstream that through the soap injector that will dilute the chemical to 16:1 and still be plenty good for sanitizing . Your machines should have came with an injector or buy one for $20. It would go in line after the T fitting that joins the two units. Then just have a 5 gallon jug For the injector to draw out of. Put a black nozzle tip in and the drop in pressure will cause a Venturi and suck disinfectant soap into the line. When you want the soap off put the high pressure tip back in and soap will shut off as soon as it clears what little is left in the line. If none of that sounds good I would at least get some larger orifice size nozzles to be able to switch in when your almost done because they will lower the pressure and increase the volume of water so its easier to do a final rinse down without all the back splash. Look up 3/8” high pressure swivels made by Mosmatic they cost $40 and go right before your gun on the end of the hose, It keeps the line from wanting to pig tail on you and lets your wrist turn when your washing they last forever even using them daily for years.
My buddy put up a barn year ago he washed it once and said that’s enough of that now he makes a phone call crew comes in washes it in a day
If it was all up to me thats how id do it too but it gets pretty spendy. My landlord does alot of the washing and hes 72 years old. always says he doesnt mind if i have it all setup and run it a few hours.
Thank you, this is very informative! May I ask if this process has changed much (for small farms) in the last 20-30 years? Like, if you were running a hog parlor in the mid-1990s, would you be doing anything differently?
These barns were built in 1991, some of the first this size (1000 head) in this area. But most farms then wouldve done the same process between groups, unless they were raising them on straw or cornstalks, then its completely different. Thanks for watching
@@iafarmer Thank you kindly!
Soak for an hour scrape the hard pack. Pressure wash within at most 15
how much would it be to do this job?
To hire someone with their own equipment it would cost about 500 to 600 dollars a barn
iafarmer that seems cheap i would think it be worth more, thank you
Is the barn pull plug?
No pull plugs, there is a scraper system under the slats and gravity flows out of the end of the barns into a lagoon at this site
Um. Maybe invest in a hire psi and a 220 volt 13 gpm washer