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We live on a medium sized chicken farm, and that comes with its own unique set of challenges.
We have went organic and have wanted to do a compost shed since we moved over a year ago, and my father in law longer then that. Concrete is comming next week.
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What is the foundation of that building? Is it posts driven into the ground or...?
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
 
How long does it take for chicken manure to compost?
 
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?
 
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Why an 8" slab?
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.

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?

The mass will be around the edges and we will use equipment to turn it.
We went organic about 2 years ago and we have to do it. We cant sell it and the land that we spread it on has to ahve the ground/water table tested every so offten.

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?
#1: because I work 3 jobs, life keeps me moving.
#2: because people want answers
#3: because you are using a but plug and ear plugs.
#4: because you can hear your self
#5: kegels for men? At your age dont trust a fart.
 
No neighbors..... and from smaller chickens. We tried to plant eggs but the chicken plants never grew. Guess our soil wasnt right
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.
 
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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.

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..o_Oo_Oo_Oo_Oo_O
 
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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.
 
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..o_Oo_Oo_Oo_Oo_O
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.
She also argued with us that there was a creek within 150 ft of the shed, and that we couldnt build there because of it. After a long argument I told here I was going to go mow the area that she stated there was a creek and that she could come and inspect it. Needless to say there wasnt a creek there, this was put first encounter with her and it's all been down hill from there.
 
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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.
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.
 
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..o_Oo_Oo_Oo_Oo_O
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.

That 8" slab should be able to hold a lot of chicken $hit.
 
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.

That 8" slab should be able to hold a lot of chicken $hit.
From what I understand it's not about the weight, but about it not cracking and preventing water table contamination
 
A few layers of 6 mil poly beneath the slab would suffice.

Does she strike you as knowledgeable?
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.
She must love her job, because she is very worried about the "impact of farming", her words. Never mind that in 2018 over 2,000,000 farms went under.
 
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