Grass clippings are high in nitrogen, by themselves in a big pile they turn
into a slimy mess. Mix them about 50/50 with brown leaves and they'll get hot
and compost super quick. Best if you can get a cubic yard of the mix, the
center will be very hot. Turn every couple days for best results.
I want to restate the volume of my finished compost, I think we got more like
18 cubic feet, I always screw up my cubic foot guesstimates and end up giving
square feet forgetting about the depth. I just took the loader and scooped it
out. Good trial run for the loader. Reminds me I gotta cut down the bucket, its
way too big and the geometry on the lift cylinder is poor...
-Curt
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Renewable Energy project in Utah
I was of the impression that a lot of grass clippings was a bad thing. I can
recall dumping grass clippings in piles in our woods when I was a kid, and them
pretty much remaining in the same state (not breaking down much) for a very
long time. That and the heat they generated would often be visible in the fall.
-D
> On Jun 16, 2017, at 12:13 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> Depends, a lot of people seem to love them but generally when you talk to
> those people their expectations are pretty low.They're more work, you need to
> monitor your moisture level and keep the nitrogen content right. Too much
> nitrogen bearing stuff (the greens) and you get a slimy nasty stink pit, not
> enough and it works really slow.
> The marketing is just marketing, you can get compost out in 90 days but its a
> lot of extra work. A pile on the edge of the yard is much more reasonable for
> most folks energy input-wise.
> -Curt
>
>
> From: Andrew Strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com>
> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> Cc: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com>; MG <trainpain2...@aol.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2017 12:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Renewable Energy project in Utah
>
> Anyone have any luck with those rotating drum backyard composters?
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 11:57 AM, MG via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> wrote:
>
> Have a friend who years ago got into that. He built a whole big production
> machine where you dump the food waste in one end which ground it up and mixed
> with cow sh*t then transported it up into a hopper which distributed it onto
> a series of belts with a slight downward slope. There were something like 7
> or eight belts one above the other one each side. The belts moved very slow
> it took something like 4-5 days to go from the top to the bottom. At the
> bottom what was left fell off and got separated into worms and worm castings.
> There was no uneaten waste left. The worms were sold for fishing and the rest
> for gardens. Once the whole thing was started it was self sustaining as most
> of the worms kept eating and traveling upward into the new food upslope. The
> few that didn't were fish food. The only problem he had was finding enough
> waste to put into the input end. After proofing it and showing that it worked
> he sold the patent for a good bundle. Also sold some to a collective in China
> and went over there to help them build it and get it going. They never paid
> him just told him to sue them which by the time it went through the courts
> over there they had claimed bankruptcy, closed the place down moved all the
> machinery to someplace else and started again under a new name. Told him that
> they could do that as
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