muck pile design..?

[kate081]

OK- i need some suggestions for building a muck pile. I've got fence posts but what should I use to contain the muck? Anyone got a good solution? thanks

 

[zigzag]

Do you have planning permission?

 

[Haniki]

You could build walls using old railway sleepers.

 

[georgiegirl2]

if you have somewhere to dispose of it regularly you could try using a large type trailer - we used to have one at the old yard, we hac a few planks to go up with the wheel barrow and it got taken away and emptied. dont think this would need planning permission?

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

I think there are a load of rules now relating to the building of & location of muck heaps.....something to do with keeping the run off from poluting the water table?

If at all posible, as has been said by previous poster, have a large trailer with a ramp to it. Fill it with muck & have a farmer either take it or you take it & dump it on one of his fields. Our yard, 26 horses, make a load of muck, & ours is taken away, piled up & spread later in the year by the farmer.

This link may assist you:
http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/sccwebsite/sc...%20for%20Manure

 

[kate081]

thanks for that link - will make sure it's 10m from the ditch then just in case that counts as a watercourse. Don't think I need planning as will just be a fencing arrangement. Sleepers sound good - will investigate that. Not many farmers around here want horse manure - plenty of cow slurry & chicken muck! Will have to pay for it to be collected. Thanks for your help

 

[Perissa]

My Muck Heap

If you have straw then you build the banks with the straw and fill in the middle with shavings etc. I've made it with a ramp so that you constantly walk on it to tread it down. Its deceptive because it about 40ft long by 8ft wide.

 

[kate081]

Wow - what an ingenious muckpile! I like the idea of using straw as the walls. I use shavings for bedding so that would work. Can get straw quite cheaply - yay! Thanks

 

[gemma1992]

Have you tried local allotments??