{"id":4629,"date":"2009-01-01T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/export.maxmaziy.php.nixsolutions.com\/?p=4629"},"modified":"2009-01-01T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T01:01:01","slug":"manure-equipment-innovators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/manure-equipment-innovators\/","title":{"rendered":"Manure equipment innovators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Westaby manure application operation in Iowa has grown<br \/>\nalong with the hog industry in the state, using application<br \/>\nequipment from the main-line manufacturers and doing some<br \/>\ninnovating of its own with custom-designed injectors. The<br \/>\nequipment line-up at the Westaby operation includes Cat<br \/>\nChallenger tractors, triple-axle Mack trucks with flotation<br \/>\ntires, a GMC triple-axle truck with flotation tires, J-Star tanks<br \/>\nand custom built vacuum tanks. The equipment uses custom designed<br \/>\ninjector toolbars designed by Jesse Westaby.  Everything is measured in feet, and<br \/>\noperators know how far they have to<br \/>\ntravel to achieve a certain application<br \/>\nrate. All the rigs are equipped with<br \/>\nCalc-An-Acre measuring systems, to<br \/>\ndetermine application rates. The average size of a customer haul for<br \/>\nWestaby is now 750,000 gallons. Kevin<br \/>\nWestaby points out, however, that they<br \/>\nstill have good customers for whom<br \/>\nthey haul 100,000 gallons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Westaby manure application operation in Iowa has grown along with the hog industry in the state, using application equipment from the main-line manufacturers and doing some innovating of its own with custom-designed injectors. The equipment line-up at the Westaby operation includes Cat Challenger tractors, triple-axle Mack trucks with flotation tires, a GMC triple-axle truck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[8882,482,7403,286,25122,6904,24097,14804,7404,34,7405,4000,169,2025,15459,16262,1533,20912,20911,4874],"class_list":["post-4629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production","tag-al","tag-application","tag-custom","tag-dust","tag-eet","tag-fee","tag-flotation-tires-for-manure-truck","tag-hal","tag-hauling","tag-hog","tag-injectors","tag-iowa","tag-manure","tag-operation","tag-ped","tag-pl","tag-size","tag-some","tag-t","tag-tan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}