Liquid Fertilizer Tanker Question

Fertilizer liquid is has a high density as to why it is shipped in smaller tankers.

 

What kind of fertilizer will it be hauling.? There are several different kinds and a lot of different viscosities and weights.

 

LOL...If it's midwest corn I probably wouldn't know anything about what they're using. Now, if we're talking California rice or wheat or almonds I might know a little.
Pot too. The guy down the road and across the river from me is going to grow pot this year since it's all legal now. Should be interesting. He already asked me if I'd haul his aqua ammonia for him.

 

A lot of farmers buy an old food service trailer with side doors, then install poly tanks and pumps etc. Search for farm chemical dealers who have transport trailers for sale. I found one at Maudal's Trailer Sales, Wheaton MN.

 

You can haul fertilizer in just about any type of tanker you want. Most dedicated fertilizer trailers are center dump but I've seen guys haul it in almost anything. Our farm bought a couple insulated tanks that had been rolled to haul water and fertilizer.

 

something like this is what would be a good dedicated fert trailer

 

It's probably either 28% or 32% liquid nitrogen .. both are fairly dense.. I'am no tanker expert by any means but I have pulled our local CoOp's tanker a few times .. it is a 5000 gallon tank and could get to 80k easily ..

 

Liquid fertilizer? ,,,call it what you will, did you know, in Wisconsin, these are known as a "motorized manure spreaders" and no license or training of any kind is needed. Most don't go far, but it's a loophole many take advantage of. Buy an old large car, and a tank, take it to the field and let 'er go. When I worked on the farm, it was one of 2 jobs I didn't do, animals, and crap. Liquid fertilizer, or CRAP, is one of the farms biggest banes, yet you rarely hear of it, for good reason. If the public knew where that frosty glass of milk came from, I GUARANTEE,,they wouldn't drink it. Farms are literally inundated with the crap, they can't get rid of it fast enough. Small farms are being bought by these mega farms( thousands of cows) just to get rid of the manure. And like us, it never ends. There are guys in Wisconsin, old retired O/O's, mostly, that still have their large cars, and they all get together with their other farm buddies, and have massive hauling gigs, mostly late at night, and not unusual to see 25-30 trucks, trying to get rid of this crap. I'm not sure where the 5,000 limit comes from, I thought old gas cans are like 7000, anyway, some ball buster loads. At almost 9lbs/gallon, they are heavy loads, for sure. I'd be more concerned with the tractor. Unless it's a Mack, you'll snap a driveshaft, I've seen it.