Ramps to muck trailers?

[ester]

What are your solutions for ramps into muck trailers please? I’m used to a nice earth bank to go up. We have an option on a trailer but I’m concerned about ramps and mum’s sciatica as know I can struggle with them myself. (Currently we have an earth banked area for stables and make a separate area for field poo and it gets scraped up 3 times a year- with the trailer that is being sold hence speedy decision required).

We do have a good carpenter on hand too

 

[eggs]

We inherited our muck trailer ramp and it works very well except for when it is really icy. Basically it is made of breeze blocks, paving slabs and concrete. It is about 3'6" wide and is more than the length of the muck trailer. There is a gentle slope up which is concrete topped, then there is a flat section of about 5' which is topped with paving slabs and then there is another gentle slope up which leads to a wide flat section. The muck trailer is parked parallel to the ramp and the top flat section is level with the trailer so you just walk onto it to tip the wheelbarrow.

It is definitely worth having gentle slopes and the flat section in the middle to make pushing the barrows up easy.

 

[ester]

Yes yours sounds like a little what I had on DIY as I say earth but there were breeze blocks and sleepers involved. Mums ramp experience is a plank of wood for the field waste 😂.

 

[Polos Mum]

We had two long planks (for double wheeled barrow) longer than the trailer, with 2 T shaped 'legs' along the way so it didn't sag too much. We has a bar nailed onto the back of the trailer to 'hook' the ramp to so it wouldn't slip down.
We put chicken wire over it to make it less slippy.
I wasn't great and had we stayed in that house I would have dug a slop a bit so the trailer could go in it and make the ramp angle less steep.

 

[ester]

Yes, unfortunatley I think it is proabably too big to get to fit into our earth-banks spot, I'm going to get mum to go measure. Can't really go down as it will just fill with water.

 

[Otherwise]

At work we had a ramp with rubber matting on upside down, the longer bobbles gave pretty good grip in most weather. It got raked and then swept every day, especially if the wheelbarrows were overflowing. In an ideal world I'd have a set up like at Hartpury where the ramp goes to the top of the trailer side and gravity does the work rather than having to fork it up.

 

[Abby-Lou]

I had a ramp made for my trailer by local metal fabricator

 

[spacefaer]

I've got car trailer ramps (chequer plate finish) to go up into my IW tipping trailer. They have a hook to hitch onto the edge of the trailer.

 

[ester]

so it seems like the muck is going to have to go in sideways , particularly so as not to upset the neighbours, but it has a removable top half and a flap down bottom half. Realistically it's always going to be close enough that massive barrows can be avoided and it's definitely staying now so great to have everyone's options.

I have seen a metal one with a mesh bottom which does seem like a good idea to avoid clay collection albeit it rather pricey.

I think we will have a planning meeting when I go home in 10 days or so

It is bigger/higher sided than what I am used to!