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04/10/11, 10:41 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Central Oregon
Posts: 6,175
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Ya-Hoo! Free Poop
OK, I'll admit, it doesn't take much to make me happy.
I got a notice that manure at the limb dump was free for anyone who wanted to pick it up. OK, I'm getting the garden ready and the limb dump is only 4 miles away.
Drive over there and there is a mountain of horse manure that looks like it has been there for years. I filled a 4X8 trailer with 4 ft tall sides. So I got a "cord" of composted horse manure. It's composted nearly all the way to dirt and dark, dark, dark.
Load it, unload it, plus a few wheelbarrows of dirt into the new raised beds and my shoveling muscles have had it. Break time, until, maybe, next week.
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04/12/11, 10:08 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 239
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Nice score! I'm always on the lookout for free manure,grass clippings,sawdust or leaves myself. I'll bet those raised beds will really produce with all that good stuff mixed in there. 
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04/12/11, 10:22 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 139
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I'd like that score! Unfortunately, I'd have to move it in Rubbermaid tubs, five per trip, inside my car. I love my little car, but times like that I do wish I had something with an open bed!
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04/12/11, 10:31 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: mid coast maine
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lol i woulda took 3 trips atleast or asked if i can bring the dunp truck
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04/12/11, 11:23 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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Gotta love that free stuff! I was amazed at how many co-workers have manure they do not use. " . . spread it out back. . ", most say. Hopefully I can get the dry stuff from them; tarp the back of my truck. But I'm on a bunch of peoples' Lists now!
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04/12/11, 11:28 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central TN
Posts: 683
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I bought a load of Horse Manure a few months ago that was 1/2 way composted.
I spread it over my garden area back when I bought it.
Yesterday I tilled my garden and built my rows, holy cow I have never seen 1 earthworm in my garden I saw what seemed like 100's. After tilling the garden was wiggeling.
I can't wait to see the difference this year.
I wish I had a free source for it. I wouldn't stop getting it. I would spread it everywhere.
Good Find!
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04/12/11, 07:12 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Central Oregon
Posts: 6,175
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Two raised beds filled to the brim and ready for the asparagus that arrives in 3 weeks.
Each bed is 10 ft by 5 ft, and 2 feet tall. That's a lot of wheelbarrows of dirt and composted manure.
Instructions for the asparagus said to mix some 10-10-10 into the soil. That's a new one to me, but I did it. Layered dirt, manure, 10-10-10, Epsom salts, bone meal, and dolomite and then mixed it together and did another layer and mixed that. Kept going until the bed was full.
I hope that the asparagus roots will be good for 10 years or so in that bed, so wanted to get it nice and rich.
I'll do back and get a few more loads after it has stopped raining. Wet manure is heavy.
My son owns a huge dump truck, but I don't have a loader. I couldn't throw a rock over the side of that truck, let alone a shovel full of horse manure.
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04/12/11, 09:14 PM
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In the Garden or Garage
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 2,139
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We used to get free horse manure by the truckloads...loaded. Sure was nice. Get it while you can!
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04/12/11, 09:55 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: washington
Posts: 952
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man if you wanted manure all you have to do is come (sheep horse and chicken).
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04/13/11, 02:16 AM
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Banned
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: South Central Wisconsin
Posts: 14,801
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TooManyHobbies!
I'd like that score! Unfortunately, I'd have to move it in Rubbermaid tubs, five per trip, inside my car. I love my little car, but times like that I do wish I had something with an open bed!
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So? What's more important? Turning your nose at a smelly gunk or gaining a lot of good garden stuff a little at a time? Used to have a '76 Ford LTD with a trunk which could hold six 5-gallon pails and a shovel. Any time that I happened to be near a source of something good for my gardens, 30 gallons came home. Now I've got a Ranger pickup which will hold 18 5-gallon pails. Guess who brought home 90 gallons of horse manure two days ago?
Martin
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04/13/11, 09:01 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 34
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I find all my manure for free on craigslist. I have a truck to haul it but I have seen some adds that will haul it to your location for free and a few bucks for gas.
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04/13/11, 10:10 AM
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WV , hilltop dweller
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Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 3,559
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LOL!!! I am known as the person that won't turn down free goodies.."you'd take poop if it was free!!"" You betcha!! 
Good Score!! I am about to get my pitching muscles back in shape..we have a municipal compost yard a cpouple hundred yards from where I work...gonna be stopping in and filling the truck up on the way to work, off load the next morning and repeat...IF this dratted rain ever lets up!! 
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04/13/11, 11:36 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Michigan
Posts: 3,259
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lambs.are.cute
man if you wanted manure all you have to do is come (sheep horse and chicken).
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LOL! That's what I was thinking. You want manure, come on over! You can take your pick -- horse, pig, turkey, goose, chicken... I got a whole lotta sh... poop around here.
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