This combination’s job is to inject energy drink into pasture land. The Fendt tractor is coupled to a Joskin liquid manure tanker, with a Slootsmid pasture injector attached to it.
For environmental reasons, it’s not allowed to simply spray liquid manure on the land. Those days have long gone. Instead, the organic fertilizer must be injected into the soil or pasture land.
The Joskin tanker has a capacity of 11,500 liters; that’s equal to 11.5 m³ (15 yd³). Both the tank and the frame are fully galvanized. Joskin is a Belgian family business, founded in 1968.
A compact, single axle tanker like this is typically owned by a farmer. Usually, agricultural contractors have much bigger tankers, with multiple axles, towed by 200+ hp tractors. Or they drive something like this.
The red and yellow machine in the foreground is a Pöttinger rear mower. It seems to be brand new, just delivered at the dairy farm yard.
Speaking of the farm yard, as you can see it’s fully paved. Unpaved, messy and muddy yards, that’s another thing from days long gone.
Here’s a sweet YouTube video, a John Deere + Joskin Cobra at work in Belgium. Let it roar!
And now I’ll have a good pint of energy drink. I mean milk, of course. Cheers!
Thanks Johannes for another informed and explanatory piece on something we all see but don’t really know what it does.
For the diary farm, is the energy drink Red Bull? Just checking…..
I am here to attest to the fact that the entire neighborhood can be very grateful that this stuff has to be injected. I grew up in a time when you just sprayed it all over the hay field, and you could smell it for miles. The one laundry job my mother refused to perform was that of washing Dad’s coveralls after he would “pump out the pit.” On those days she would just leave out the proper amount of homemade soap on the Maytag, and Dad would also have to take a shower before dinner. He never complained.
Injection is probably more effective, too-a lot of nitrogen would have vented off into the atmosphere in the form of ammonia-I suspect this way it gets trapped underground.
Wonderful to hear a John Deere diesel at work, doing the job for which it was built.