Muck heaps ???

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Darcydoo

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How does everyone get rid of their poo pile💩 ? Do you pay someone if so how much does it cost ?. We have large skip (maxi) and have been quoted £150 to tip it. Now are we being royaly done over or is this about right ?. Were in Lancashire . Thanks xx
 
A local farmer comes to collect mine about 3 times a year at £40 a time - he brings his tractor and digs it all out. Guess it depends how often you have the skip emptied I guess.
 
My neighbouring farmers takes mine to put on his fields, and in return we let him graze his sheep on our hill for a few mnths a year. We load into a large trailer and he picks it up with his tractor.

We are very lucky, but then so is he, as he gets some lovely free fertiliser!
 
£40 a load to have it removed. I didn't bother when I was on straw as have 2 huge heaps and they rotted down well. Now on shavings and mats so have it taken once in a blue moon but costs around £240 a time.
 
I bag it up and leave it at the field gate which is beside a footpath. Always goes, but I make sure it is well rotted. I often find a bag of veg hanging on the gate as a thankyou too. :)
 
Going rate for a muck lorry round here (North London) is £150 - and usually takes about 3 skip fulls. You get charged £150 whether the muck lorry is filled to the brim or not
 
Mine is put on the next door maize field - its up to me to organise collection and spreading but usually cost around £60 which is very reasonable, long may this arrangement last as i usually have two big muck spreader fulls at the end of winter.
 
chrisritch said:
I used to just burn our muckheaps. Fire is generally free lol
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This now illegal, a large stud down in Lambourn got done for doing that a few years ago, you used to be able to get a license to burn it but not sure that is even possible now depending on where you live. We have a massive muck truck with a grab that collects ours from work. They charge about £110 I think from memory, that would be at least 3 skip loads probably more.
 
I know the farmer next door to us charges £20 per trailer full and he leaves his trailer there until it is full and replaces it with an empty one.
 
We have our own tipping trailer and muck out directly in to it. We pay a ground maintenance company £15 to collect and tip it on to our own muck heap in one of our remote fields. About twice a year the contractor turns the muck heap to get it to rot down quicker for an additional charge. Locals collect the well rotted muck and use it for their gardens.
 
I'm charged £60 a time, usually twice a year if I stack muck heap properly (occasionally 3 times a year)
Local farmer clears the lot, takes around 90 mins from him setting out from farm 2 miles away & returning back to his yard.

Happy to pay, as he also delivers (and stacks in my store) my hay for same ££'s as others do just for selling bales, & he will turn out anytime if I am in a pickle needing tractor to move things, dig holes or mend fences etc. We did go to school together tho... :)
 
I posted an advert on FREECYCLE .... Horse Poo lots of it FREE .. Had 4 or 5 people come and collect it in their cars and vans for gardens etc... :)
 
I have a couple of muck heap areas on rotation. If I am neat, build it up, square it & trample it down each area lasts a year. When the muck heap in an area is 12 months old & well rotted I pop a sign up at our local allotments. I leave plenty of feed/plastic bags & the whole lot is usually gone within a week!
 
A member turned all hers into Eco-fire blocks!

They had it going on quite an industrial scale and it worked a treat and didnt smell either... I wish I could remember who it was.
 
Slightly Foxed said:
Until the Environment Agency gets you!
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Yep, please don't burn it and don't stick it within 10m of the nearest ditch. It is illegal. Our goes in bags by the gate and people take it every day. All our fresh unrotted goes there so I assume the takers rot it down themselves.
 
touchstone said:
I bag it up and leave it at the field gate which is beside a footpath. Always goes, but I make sure it is well rotted. I often find a bag of veg hanging on the gate as a thankyou too. :)
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We do this but put fresh muck out along with shavings as well, we also take some to the allotments they can't get enough of it
 
KatPT said:
don't stick it within 10m of the nearest ditch. It is illegal.
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Are you sure this is true? My planning permission clearly showed one of my muck heap areas definitely within 10m of a ditch on our boundary & the council didn't even comment on it. Given I had to specify exactly what surface my lorry turning area was going to be & what trees/hedging I was going to use in a hedge as a constraint put on me by the environment officer I would've thought they would've said something if I was breaking the law!
 
glamourpuss said:
Are you sure this is true? My planning permission clearly showed one of my muck heap areas definitely within 10m of a ditch on our boundary & the council didn't even comment on it. Given I had to specify exactly what surface my lorry turning area was going to be & what trees/hedging I was going to use in a hedge as a constraint put on me by the environment officer I would've thought they would've said something if I was breaking the law!
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Sometimes they make mistakes and miss things at the planning stage. I haven't got the regs in front if me but I think it's the nitrate pollution prevention regulations 2010, organic heaps (manure, compost etc) must not be stored within 10m of a watercourse because of the leaching potential for ammonia. It may be that the council didn't think of your ditch as a watercourse but the environment agency will. Most of the uk now falls into a nitrate vulnerable zone so the regs are pretty strict now. I ammonia test the ditch nearest to my muck heap to make sure there is no leaching into it as ours can flood, which is why we put most out in bags and don't use heap anymore.
 
we used to burn it too, just left it smouldering for days, minimal smkoe but gently burning away. That was shavings/field muck and it burnt fine.

obviously cant do it anymore, so pay £170 approx 4 times a year for farm contractor to take it away. 3months worth fills his trailer full to the brim so we try and time it exactly right to get it all taken away in 1 load.
 
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