Amphibious pumping vehicle

An amphibious manure lagoon agitation vehicle, comprising:

• a vehicle body having an underside, a left side, a right side, a front, a rear, and a longitudinal centerline extending from the front to the rear of the vehicle body;
• four hydraulically driven ground engaging wheels including a front left ground engaging wheel, a front right ground engaging wheel, a rear left ground engaging wheel, and a rear right ground engaging wheel;
• a manure pump configured to pump manure from a manure lagoon and generate a flow of manure that passes through a fluid conduit mounted to the vehicle body before the flow of manure is expelled back into the manure lagoon, the manure pump including a pump housing with at least two tangential fluid outlets and an impeller within the pump housing, the pump housing and the impeller are located along the underside of the vehicle body such that the impeller is configured to be immersed in the manure of the manure lagoon when the amphibious manure lagoon agitation vehicle is floating in the manure of the manure lagoon;
• at least one flexible conduit positioned between the fluid conduit and one or more of the tangential fluid outlets of the pump housing;
• a power source configured to provide power to each of the four hydraulically driven ground engaging wheels and the manure pump;
• and
• a remote control structure configured to control the four hydraulically driven ground engaging wheels and the flow of manure through the fluid conduit, wherein the speed and/or direction of the amphibious manure lagoon agitation vehicle is remotely controllable by an operator remote from the amphibious manure lagoon agitation vehicle when the amphibious manure lagoon agitation vehicle is ground engaging and when the amphibious manure lagoon agitation vehicle is floating in the manure of the manure lagoon.

An amphibious manure lagoon agitation vehicle, comprising:

• a vehicle body having a frame, a front, a rear, a middle, an underside, a right side, a left side, a longitudinal centerline extending from the front to the rear of the vehicle body, and a transverse centerline extending across the middle of the vehicle body from the right side to the left side;
• four ground engaging wheels including a front left ground engaging wheel, a front right ground engaging wheel, a rear left ground engaging wheel, and a rear right ground engaging wheel;
• a manure pump configured to pump manure from a manure lagoon and generate a flow of manure that passes through a fluid conduit before the flow of the manure is expelled back into the manure lagoon, the fluid conduit is mounted to the frame of the vehicle body and the manure pump includes a pump housing and an impeller positioned within the pump housing, the pump housing including a bottom fluid inlet and at least two tangential fluid outlets, the pump housing is located along the underside of the vehicle body such that the pump housing is immersed in the manure of the manure lagoon when the amphibious manure lagoon agitation vehicle is floating in the manure of the manure lagoon;
• at least two flexible conduits positioned between the fluid conduit and the tangential fluid outlets of the pump housing;
• an internal combustion engine configured to provide power to the four ground engaging wheels and the manure pump;
• and
• a remote control structure configured to control the four ground engaging wheels and the manure pump, wherein the speed and/or direction of the amphibious manure lagoon agitation vehicle is remotely controllable by an operator remote from the amphibious manure lagoon agitation vehicle when the amphibious manure lagoon agitation vehicle is ground engaging and when the amphibious manure lagoon agitation vehicle is floating.