Extreme Composting

Jeez...why do some forums have the pics come out sideways....a little help here?

Now I have Poo envy.

I have to go into my photo album, hit edit, and flip my pics 360 degrees, ending up right where I started with it, and then post it......if I want it to load right side up. Only HT requires that extra effort.
I chalk it up to a sardonic sense of amusement on the part of Admin.

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Someone so needs to send Tim this tshirt!

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There's a t-shirt for this ?

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Quit holding your camera phone upright, instead of horizontal, when taking the pic. [added] Or is it a forum-specific issue?

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Thanks Rick.....

tomorrow I start hauling this home....got the final approval of the barn manager....she said if I could haul that container home I am welcomed to it...l!

Quick question-can I bury N in a manure pile like I will have or will there be too much N...and, will adding my oak leaves help bring it back to balance...?

Oak leaves will be your friends........LOTS of oak leaves.......

Always err on the side of carbon excess, if you must err.

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Where are you generally in the world? I can tell by the mud it is no where near me. But if you were, I could load and dump that roll off for you. You might just find a local HT friend if you told us the general locale.

Well, made some progresss today, trailer back home and piled..check out the hotness of that pile!

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My promotional efforts are starting to pay off. As I was working today a guy drove up with two 30 gal trashcans filled with the leavings of two butchered hogs. Just what I needed for my trash pile to heat up.

The question was asked abut compost piles heating enough to catch fire. Doubtful IMO because of the relatively small size, however, here is some background information:

Sawmills by their nature saw green logs. The green sawdust can catch fire, but not always. Locally, the procedure in the past was to take a portable sawmill into a wooded tract and was up the logs as they were dragged out. The sawdust pile was left there. For years I and others shoveled loads of sawdust from a couple of these piles. At one location in the forks of a road the sawmill was set up near some small to medium sized gullies which they filled with sawdust. The area was nicely smoothed over and the gullies filled up. The sawdust caught fire and unfortunately burned out the gullies, which are unfortunately still there. I don't know that the sawdust heated up and caught fire, but suspected it. Fires are fairly common at sawmills for other reasons.

Later large sawmills built "wigwams" which were large conical steel structures. Sawdust was dumped in at the top and burned. Openings at the bottom provided a draft. They caused serious local air pollution and laws stopped that. For a while a large local sawmill spread the sawdust on the ground, but soon they developed a market for the sawdust. Perhaps it was used in paper mills, later possibly in particle board. Some mills used sawdust to burn for fuel to kiln dry lumber, presumably after developing air pollution procedures.

BTW, mills now debark the logs and chip up the slabs, sending the chips to paper mills or make them into chipboard. They try to waste nothing.

COWS

I've a question that isn't exactly compost related, but I'm not sure who else to ask. We have our greywater run into a pit that is filled with sawdust. Every so often I clean it out and put in a compost pile. Right now I'm trying to get a pasture perked up and going good. Can I put this stuff, spread thinly, straight on the pasture or should it go through the composting first?

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Oak leaves are the only thing I have enough of.. besides rocks. I've been piling them up for a carbon stockpile until I have enough N sources to make use of them.

I could really use a coupla' dead cows right now. Or a semi load of manure.

I would compost it. The stuff would make great foundation for the pile.
I really like the process you've described, BTW.

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No sale barns or horse farms, close ?

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I was afraid that was the answer.

I just don't have enough, umm, stuff to go around.

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I would think that grey water-saturated sawdust would almost stand alone .........

Anything you could add would only be icing on an already likely delicious cake.

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Not anymore, The local sale barn closed down a few years ago. I did check with all the horse and cattle people I know of, But everything is healthy right now.

I was more referring to getting a load of manure rather than the dead critters......

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