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 12-31-2016, 23:29 Post: 26431
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  Composting with a tractor

If you have room, I think an open pile would be better. I compost the bedding from my sheep, llama, chickens and turkeys, plus a friends horse, plus grass clippings all summer and leaves in the fall. I wind up with a pile about 3 feet deep, 10 feet wide and 20 feet long by spring. A major advantage of the open pile is that I can stir it up with my three-point tiller. The pile cooks all winter as I add to the top. As soon as the ground dries out enough in the spring, I'll turn it over with the bucket and mix it up with the tiller about once a month. By late summer, I have several cubic yards of VERY nice compost. I rotate piles so I always have compost ready to use in the spring. Last year I had so much, I bought an old manure spreader and spread it on my pastures. I think a box will limit your ability to turn the pile, and you'll wind up tearing it up with the front end loader.






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 01-02-2017, 19:39 Post: 26606
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Sounds completely reasonable to me. In fact, I did it one year with some old mulch hay. I don't recall that the results were any better than my usual loose pile method, but it was neater in appearance, and kept the pile from expanding too much. A caution: Don't get the pile too deep. I'd say two bales high max. The reason is that the weight of the pile squeezes all the air out of the bottom. The bacteria that make a good crumbly pile are aerobic. If you squeeze out all the air, the anerobic bacteria go to work, and you get slime. BTDT.






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