Dung Heaps? And how to get rid of?

[Lucyad]

As winter draws closer again, I realise I have filled all available inconspicous locations with big piles of poo....OH will not relish futher piles scattered around the garden, unfortunately, and where I have hidden it away (behind big shed) is not very accessible for anyone to remove with digger / trailer, I'm afraid.

I think I might need to move back to using a large open trailer, and then dumping it into the inaccessible 'cliff' in our field (field owner neighbour is Ok with this tactic), or paying some farmer to remove it.

What do you all do to avoid being swamped with poo piles? Do you use a trailer or something, and if so, where on earth do you get them cheaply? And how do you get poo out of trailer once full? Or do you just make a huge pile on the gound and pay to get it removed, and if so who by and at what cost?

Poo piles are from 1 horse, 1 pony, in at night only, 11 months of the year, on shavings bed. I plan on moving to wood pellets in a bid to reduce cost / piles, and have full EVA matting.

 

[cremedemonthe]

Contact local allotment holders if there are any that it,, they always want well rotted manure, on the agreement they have to come and get it, would save you the hassle of shifting it.I had a large (100 ft x 25 ft) allotment until recently and used to laugh at the others all paying for a local farmer to deliver a few loads and it wasn't even rotted properly.
I would just take my old jeep to one of my customers yards down the road and park it in the dung heap and fill it up, free of charge!
Oz

 

[Dry Rot]

If you deliver, I'd be delighted to take it! I'm just north of Inverness....

But, seriously, why not make a neat heap, leave it for a year or two for it to heat up and kill the bugs, then put it back on the land? It is great fertiliser and that's what I do here. I do have the kit to spread it, but all manure used to be hauled out with horse and cart years ago to be spread by hand. It can be done. Just dumping it is an awful waste. Artificial fertiliser is £300/tonne!

 

[doonrocket]

a year or two - oh dear I was hoping 6 months would be enough!

 

[Goldenstar]

If you deliver, I'd be delighted to take it! I'm just north of Inverness....

But, seriously, why not make a neat heap, leave it for a year or two for it to heat up and kill the bugs, then put it back on the land? It is great fertiliser and that's what I do here. I do have the kit to spread it, but all manure used to be hauled out with horse and cart years ago to be spread by hand. It can be done. Just dumping it is an awful waste. Artificial fertiliser is £300/tonne!

This is what I do, every spring I have the heap moved to the top of our land where there's a rough bit every third year it's spread on our winter grazing in the spring and we rest the field until the field the comes into use in mid September October when the weather changes the fields get topped when they need it.
One thing you might consider OP is ,in the village here there's a house with a little yard behind it they have two horses and have a low trailer with mess sides they muck out into plastic dustbins and then when the trailer is full of the dustbins they take it a local farm and dump it on the heap.
This might work for you his trailer takes I think eight dust bins .

 

[D66]

We use ours on the garden (veg and flowers) Make two heaps, one to construct and one to be 'working'. As Dry Rot says keep it neat, pile it high and square off the sides. Cover it with black plastic or spray weeds with round-up. I add Garotta to speed up the composting. After a year it's ready to use or any gardener will take it away. I save plastic feed bags for transporting it in cars - onlyhalf fill them though - they're heavy.