We produce over 400k chickens a year.... thats a lot of shitThat's a helluva big compost shed...
Holes are dug someting like 36" dee . Then the post are set and concrete is poured to the top, they will be comming in next week to do the concrete, it will be an 8inch slabWhat is the foundation of that building? Is it posts driven into the ground or...?
What is the foundation of that building? Is it posts driven into the ground or...?
How long does it take for chicken manure to compost?
Right in the post, wrong in the title, good catchHow do you spell "Shed"?
Depends on a lot of different things but on the long side....less then 6 monthsHow long does it take for chicken manure to compost?
The scary thing is when you no longer smell it.I bet it smells like money inside there.
Why an 8" slab?Holes are dug someting like 36" dee . Then the post are set and concrete is poured to the top, they will be comming in next week to do the concrete, it will be an 8inch slab
What do you do with the nitrates?Depends on a lot of different things but on the long side....less then 6 months
I bet it smells like money inside there.
you might be right... if you can stand the smell of composting chicken manure, we can all sit around and shoot the $#i+....I think that there is going to be a indoor pistol range in there too.
You produce them?We produce over 400k chickens a year.... thats a lot of shit
The DAMN EPA thats why. They are the absolute largest pain in the ass at times.Why an 8" slab?
Are you hoping to sell that compost, or expand your operation to grow something?
Are you going to use some kind of auger system to turn that much mass?
#1: because I work 3 jobs, life keeps me moving.How can you have all these questions, yet no answers?
Why are there questions?
Why can't I hear my self?
WHY AM I YELLING?
Why are my shorts dirty?
No neighbors..... and from smaller chickens. We tried to plant eggs but the chicken plants never grew. Guess our soil wasnt rightYou produce them?
Out of what? Compost?
ps... your neighbors must love you.
If you plant the chicken eggs, then fertilize them with chicken shit, would that be considered some weird form of canabalism? Makes you go hmmmm.No neighbors..... and from smaller chickens. We tried to plant eggs but the chicken plants never grew. Guess our soil wasnt right
No neighbors..... and from smaller chickens. We tried to plant eggs but the chicken plants never grew. Guess our soil wasnt right
Regulations....Why can’t you sell it. Chicken poop gets spread all around my area every year.
The DAMN EPA thats why. They are the absolute largest pain in the ass at times.
Some BS rule That our EPA inspector pulled out. Since equipment will be operating on it we have to go 8 inches think and the equipment has to use a rubber track.
This is the same lady thay wanted us to move the project back another 15 feet, because we were to close to a well. This would have raised the cost substantially because we would have had to remove 5ft of top soil. We found out that all we had to do was raise the outlet of the well by 12 inches.Dang, only two times I've spec'd an 8" slab. One is for walkways that double as access for type 1 FIRE ENGINES and two for an area where an M1 ABRAMS TANK would be loaded onto a trailer. But I'm sure that skid steer and tractor is pretty heavy too..
We also dont run and incinerator so dead will be composting in this as well. 6 months may be a little long but we are new to organic growing, the farms has been operational for 3 generations, not counting my wife and I and then our children if they take it over. Lots of chicken growing experience just not with composting.I learned from this thread that EPA bureaucrats moonlight as structural engineers and it takes ~ 6 months for chicken manure to compost. Well, manure composting time makes sense, I am not sure about the EPA bureaucrat opinion.
I recently had to remove a section of 6" thick concrete floor at work and have it reinforced with 12" thick, 5K psi concrete with double layers of #5 rebar spaced 10" apart in both directions. This is for a "small" 1300 ton injection molding machine that weighs about 180K lbs. The last one we put in, 3200 ton, weighed about 660K lbs.Dang, only two times I've spec'd an 8" slab. One is for walkways that double as access for type 1 FIRE ENGINES and two for an area where an M1 ABRAMS TANK would be loaded onto a trailer. But I'm sure that skid steer and tractor is pretty heavy too..
From what I understand it's not about the weight, but about it not cracking and preventing water table contaminationI recently had to remove a section of 6" thick concrete floor at work and have it reinforced with 12" thick, 5K psi concrete with double layers of #5 rebar spaced 10" apart in both directions. This is for a "small" 1300 ton injection molding machine that weighs about 180K lbs. The last one we put in, 3200 ton, weighed about 660K lbs.
That 8" slab should be able to hold a lot of chicken $hit.
We have that and gravel going around the edge for a drip line. I know she is a vegan, she has told us so at least 15 times in out 4 meetings, and she it a very overkill and by the book type person where everything is black and white.A few layers of 6 mil poly beneath the slab would suffice.
Does she strike you as knowledgeable?