Gucci_b
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How do you get rid of your muck....does some one come to collect it! if so do they charge!... I live in Surrey so any telephone numbers welcome.
How do you get rid of your muck....
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kent
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Probably not much help, but after three years I hired a mini JCB and a mini dump truck for a day (£90), and spread the muck heap over the orchard. Alternatively use a trenching bucket on a mini JCB (£55 per day) to lift from muck heap and drop in small piles around field, then chain harrow. Alternatively drop/spade onto rose beds and garden boarders.
Mooch
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I have a muck bay.
My neds live out 24/7, so it's pure poo and no straw that goes in there.
The Estate will empty it in about 3 years time and spread it all over the gardens.
It was emptied this year, so I haven't started putting it into any form of shape yet. The bloody chickens keep spreading it out everywhere at the moment though!! Grrrr
So, once the rain stops it will be wellies on and shape forming time!
My neds live out 24/7, so it's pure poo and no straw that goes in there.
The Estate will empty it in about 3 years time and spread it all over the gardens.
It was emptied this year, so I haven't started putting it into any form of shape yet. The bloody chickens keep spreading it out everywhere at the moment though!! Grrrr
So, once the rain stops it will be wellies on and shape forming time!
Happytohack
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Am not in Surry - but local farmer takes our muck heap away for us - costs £80 twice a year.
PaintboxEDT
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we spread it over our one of our winter fields with our muck spreader
SpruceRI
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Leave it to rot, bag it up and sell it at the gate.
My young brother is doing the deed this year to earn some pocket money.
In previous years when I can't be bothered to bag it, I've called upon a local landscape gardener who's taken it away free of charge. He then sells it to his customers I believe.
My young brother is doing the deed this year to earn some pocket money.
In previous years when I can't be bothered to bag it, I've called upon a local landscape gardener who's taken it away free of charge. He then sells it to his customers I believe.
Santa_Claus
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depends what bedding you use! If straw leave it to rot down a bit (good few months plus!) and a local farmer should take it off your hands for free or next to nothing. If containing something like shavings which takes far longer to rot down you may not be so lucky. At our yard all bar 2 horses from about 30 stables are on straw. The muck heap is cleared once a fortnight thereabouts (more often in winter less in summer) and piled up in a huge pile in a number of YO's fields (which are used to grow various crops).
Once rotted down enough and of course the appropriate time to do so it is spread across the remainder of the field as fertiliser.
Once rotted down enough and of course the appropriate time to do so it is spread across the remainder of the field as fertiliser.
serena2005
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we are on a farm so the farmer usually takes it away to be used in alotments, in the summer we burn it
debradley
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Hi used to bag mine and put it out at weekends. Local people got used to the time I put it out; sometimes 30 sacks a week and asked them to return the sacks. Once they knew it was there it went within the hour, but I didn't try to sell was just happy to get it out of the way.