Muck heap removal prices/restrictions

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How much would you expect to pay to get a muck heap removed and are farmers generally happy to take wood pellets?

I am in Somerset if anyone has any recommendations!
 
I’ve recently paid £300 to remove 3.5 years (two horses) of muck from several heaps, no bedding though.

That sounds really manky but how the land is set out we can do that.
 
Depends on the farmer, first guy charged £200 and left a big mess (hobby "farmer"), second guy charged £60 and was much more professional (proper farmer)
 
I think I paid £70 but it was organised through one of the neighbours and Im pretty sure she had me paying for half of her muck heap removal! Lesson learnt!! I was quoted £100 before which I thought was a lot?

Current muck heap is pure poo and two pallets by two pallets square and a pallet ish high but i think I've missed my opportunity to get it taken now due to the wet ground! :(
 
My neighbour takes mine and uses it so he doesn’t charge me. It would make more sense if we could use it ourselves but in our land management agreement, we are not allowed to😔
 
I have a 10 ft wide x 8 ft deep and up to 5 ft high taken twice a year by local farmer.
Its mostly field stuff in summer, but by end of winter it also has miscanthus bedding in too.
Went up last year to £70 a clearance - this also includes him dragging my mobile field shelter to a new position.

A local gardener came and took just over a third of it in early October, so instead of it going around clock change time, I'm going to soldier on through the winter till it gets too much to throw onto (or over a tractor-traile/muck spreader load)
 
In this instance I'm happy to have a partner who's a farmer! He leaves me a digger bucket which I fill then he dumps it into a huge trailer that every so often dissapears and comes back empty!
He was far happier when I used pellets as it was less work for him! I'm now keeping him busy with straw. ;)
 
All our much goes on a trailer, including pellet bedding, but no straw. Our YO takes the trailer when full, around twice a week & dumps it in a specified field where it rots down & the farmer spreads it once rotted down. This costs us nothing, just tractor diesel. :)
 
I pay the £130 and have the grab bucket for my yearly heap. Its far less trouble than getting the local allotment holders to come and get it,
who sometimes pick it over and leave a mess.
 
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