Is this the going rate? Muck heap removal.

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I've just been charged £175 for the removal of a year's muckheap. From 2.5 horses, living out so no bedding, only some waste hay.

Price seems a little high??

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I paid 100 for a 15 yr old heap to be removed but only had to be spread on field behind. I was charged 50 for a years worth from 2 horses
 
Ok that's quite a variation! I'd guesstimate mine at about 10 tonnes, give or take.

I just can't figure out how it took 5 container loads - those containers were huge, I expected the whole muck heap to fit in one, or two at the most.
 
TwoStroke said:
Ok that's quite a variation! I'd guesstimate mine at about 10 tonnes, give or take.

I just can't figure out how it took 5 container loads - those containers were huge, I expected the whole muck heap to fit in one, or two at the most.
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An existing pile will be a lot smaller as it will have sunk and compacted, as soon as you start loading it will expand considerably. Think bale of straw before and after cutting the strings.
 
At my work we paid £50 for a trailer full to be removed. £400 removed half the muck heap which had not been done ina year for a fairly big livery yard :).
 
I wasn't present at the time, just caught a glimpse of the trailers as I was leaving... They claim it was 5 containers, but I only really have their word. Not that I'm cynical or anything!
 
I just wish we could find someone to take away our 6 years worth! Any ideas on how to find someone in central Scotland who would do the job?
 
Merlin11 said:
I just wish we could find someone to take away our 6 years worth! Any ideas on how to find someone in central Scotland who would do the job?
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Try finding out about your local allotments or even better your local veggiebox company. They might well take away a big lot at once, maybe not all at once but much better than random gardeners and enough to make an impact.
 
...and I just paid £483 for 1,200kgs of fertiliser.

The day I pay someone to remove a muck heap around here, they can send for the men in white coats.

It is far too valuable and, after maturing, goes back on the land which is then cut for hay.
 
Sadly the land owner wouldn't let me spread the well rotted stuff on the land (which despite me saying about it before hand, he only mentioned AFTER I'd moved the horses onto grass livery elsewhere and paid for the month in advance).
 
Merlin11 said:
I just wish we could find someone to take away our 6 years worth! Any ideas on how to find someone in central Scotland who would do the job?
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Old muck - especially 6 years is worth it's weight in gold! Someone will pay you for it - pop a free add on preloved/ e bay etc and wait for people to fall over themselves to get at it.

Our next door farmer lent us a huge metal trailer to keep at our house so we can put the muck into it and then the following year an old tractor so we can empty it whenever we need to on his land. We build a big pile over the year and at ploughing time it gets ploughed in by him - saves him £££s in fertiliser.
 
I paid £650 for two year muck heap from 7 horses stabled in winter. It was only shifted and spread on the field out back.
 
I pay £190 three times a year for muck removal. 5 horses in a lot over wet winters on shavings. 3 horses in over summer. He comes in a huge lorry and is governed by the weight so if muck heap is very wet less goes. I have to say in the horse world it is the best money I spend.
 
Allotment holders like wellm rotted poo esp if no straw or bedding it rots down really well. Our neighbour takes all ours for his (large) garden, we cut and bale his hay from his front 'lawn' and take it away in return :D
 
I know a chappie who'll come 8 miles distance and take away a muck-heap for a bottle of firewater!!!

Dunno what he does with it, suspect he flogs it, but I couldn't give a toss TBH.

At the mo we're letting local gardeners/growers come and take what they want from it; when it gets to the size of Mount Vesuvius, we'll get it shifted.
 
It's hard to believe people shell out so much money to get rid of muck heaps - which are worth money!! I rarely have fewerthan 22 stables occupied - and up to 27 - all year around! Mainly straw pellets, but a few on shavings, and foaling mares on paper. My two main heaps I regularly empty to back-up heaps (for rotting down) and as soon as the weather is suitable, it all gets spread! I hve heavy clay soil which had virtually NO top soil when we moved here - so every bit of organic matter I can get on it is invaluable! Bagged fertiliser is hellishly expensive and nowhere near as good for improving soil fertility and drought resistance!
 
JG I think it rather depends on how much land you have. With 22 stables I suspect your acreage can sustain both muck spreading and grazing simultaneously? This thread just shows that there is a market for muck removal, and the prices quoted are broadly similar. Investment in machinery and diesel is not practical for all of us, so people choose and pay for the service they need in their circumstances.
I got quoted by a helpful and good value farmer friend today £50 per trailer load, and he makes virtually no profit on that.
Hay at £4 bale, shavings at an incredible price, shoeing at 65 - everything costs if you have to pay someone else for it.
 
I paid £240 for our 20 year old muck heap to be removed this week. Took 5 loads. He also shifted an old container. from one place to another. Sounds really sad but I was so excited to se it gone!
 
We get ours taken away for free and spread on the farmers fields. They live out, so it's just pure poo!! I thought it was illegal to burn it?!
 
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