Manure Box size

[Unhitched]

I need a bit of help, I saw a neat deal up in Idaho at the horse park a while ago and I am thinking of building myself one. The horse show grounds had basically a box, on one side was a ramp and the other side was skid steer quicktach. this way you could wheel barrow manure into then the show grounds would come dump it a couple of times per day. I would like to build some of these for my ranch, I just dont know how big to make them, I would love to hear some thoughts, I have a john deere 4066r that can life a bit more than 2500 lbs, what does that equate to in wet horse manure? any ideas on volume?

 

[sea2summit]

Manure is typically measured by the bushel for spreaders, figured there’d be data on the Google box but I don’t see it by the bushel. One site says a cubic yard of wet manure weighs 650# but that sounds light to me, but a cubic yard is a lot of manure and probably a good manageable size.

 

[p0diabl0]

I made something similar for my Kubota L2501, it only has about a 1K capacity though. It's made of some fence panels creatively welded into a basket clad with quarry rubber belting. It's about 58x40 inches at the base. It probably holds about

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On the back is something closer to your weight class - a 3pt dumping box. It's 3ft x 6ft x 20 in (~1 cubic yard) but has a door for the fourth side. My L2501 has no problem picking it up when full UNLESS it has rained a ton, then we need to mind how much we fill it up. I'm in SoCal so rain is less common here. My capacity should be around 1900 lbs.

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Long story short - you should probably aim for a little over a yard.

In terms of horses they put out about 50 lbs of manure per day but it can vary based on waste hay, bedding, etc.