This message is from: ewig...@mindspring.com Have any of you clever Fjord people run water pipes/tubes through your compost piles to heat water? I have a neighbor who does so for her house hot water, and it just occured to me when reading the Fjord list digest tonight that this would be a great way to heat water for the horses. My paddocks are all far away from electricity, and I don't have a barn, so there is water near the horses certainly, but it isn't always liquid! Any thoughts? I'd have to install a new water pipe in a location very close to the compost pile, and run enough water through the pile to heat enough water for a 5 gal. bucket for each horse (x10 or x12 horses), and reheat a couple of times a day to be really easy. Compost heated water is usually around 115ยบ amazingly enough, from what I've read/heard. What do you think? If you've done this, do you have any plans, or a description of what you did?
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