“Occasionally the overflow stand pipe of manure slurry pits under the hog houses would clog and you’d have to get down into them. They were ~ 6 feet deep and the manure was usually 5 feet deep.”
“You would have to walk with the sh!t slurry neck high get pee’d and crapped on through the slats the entire way by the hogs above walking from one end of the building to the other (200 feet) to pull the pipe and remove the obstructed pipe.”
Wow. Sounds like a really poorly thought out system.
Well, first it was 40 years ago and confinement swine units were in their infancy.
Secondly, the systems worked surprising well for the most part other than needing to go “pit diving” once in awhile.