Abstract: A solid-liquid separator for separating a solid phase from a liquid phase in a solid-liquid mixture is provided. The solid-liquid separator includes a basket and filter assembly housed coaxially within a tank such that when the basket and filter assembly rotates the liquid phase moves through the filter of the basket and filter assembly into the tank and is discharged from the solid-liquid separator. The solid phase is retained on the filter of the basket and filter assembly and travels vertically up the filter of the basket and filter assembly where it is discharged from the solid-liquid separator.

Abstract: A solid-liquid separator for separating a solid phase from a liquid phase in a solid-liquid mixture is provided. The solid-liquid separator includes a basket and filter assembly housed coaxially within a tank such that when the basket and filter assembly rotates the liquid phase moves through the filter of the basket and filter assembly into the tank and is discharged from the solid-liquid separator. The solid phase is retained on the filter of the basket and filter assembly and travels vertically up the filter of the basket and filter assembly where it is discharged from the solid-liquid separator.

Abstract: A livestock barn is provided including a pit. A first portion of a pit floor slopes downward from a first side of the pit to a centerline of the pit and a second portion of the pit floor slopes downward from a second side of the pit to the centerline so that excrement on the first portion of the pit floor and excrement on the second portion of the pit floor is directed toward the centerline. The pit floor is sloped downward from a first end of the pit to a second end of the pit so that excrement on the centerline is directed from the first end to the second end.