Storing manure

[Producer]

What do you reccomend to store manure in?  Thanks

[Producer]

[dtw]

Most of us build open sided boxes from pallets.
You can close up the open side with another moveable pallet.
The air needs to get to it, to rot properly (and the worms).

You can get them from garden centres and industrial sites.
ASK FIRST before you take them, as the better quality ones are re-used.

[Producer]

Thanks for the advice. Manure has been delivered to our site, dont really have time to start building this type of thing. Is there anything you can buy off the shelf?

Cheers

[PAULW]

How about the big square bags you get bulk sand and gravel in from the builders merchants

[manicscousers]

a big pile, covered in plastic..that's how we store it at the plot 'til we move it into bins..the plastic keeps the weeds away  ;D

[Thegoodlife]

As the farms do put it in a corner & forget about it ive made an open bay 3 sides full of poo dryish on top but you can cook a spud in the centre!! some folk put a poly sheet over theres black one mind as it warms it up when the sun is out and stops the rats & wasps finding a winter home ready for summer

[telboy]

Agree with dtw.
My own is 8' by 8' made from pallets covered with a builders sheet.
One pallet is roped to allow side access.

[Producer]

Most of us build open sided boxes from pallets.
You can close up the open side with another moveable pallet.
The air needs to get to it, to rot properly (and the worms).

You can get them from garden centres and industrial sites.
ASK FIRST before you take them, as the better quality ones are re-used.

Do you have any photos of one?

[Eristic]

[glosterwomble]

The 'muck bin' we built at the plot is made from old metal sheves tied at the corners with plastic cable ties and attached to metal posts at the corner that are just hammered into the ground, it took about 15 minutes to build. The muck gets thrown in and covered with the plastic sheet to stop rain leaching to much goodness out of it.

[dtw]

The pallet bin...


There's a spare pallet resting on the back which isn't part of the 'structure'.

[Froglegs]

I'm going to put a B&Q tarpaulin over mine when i get round to it.

[dtw]

That's a massive pile of poo.  :o

[cambourne7]

Boo Poo!!  ;D What a pile.

I have a double pallet bin which eats soil and as yet has not produced anything but surprising having checkted it today its 2 dry :(

I also have a bed made of posts and chicken wire which is about 4ft by 4ft an its filled about 5ft deep with leaves they have compacted a little so i think i need to fork the top over.

Behind my compost bin a old bought compost bin which i made holes in the bottom and its hammered into the ground with tent pegs this was filled with 6 carrier bags of fresh horse manure back in July and i am hoping to use it in march to mulch my rhubarb and add to my pumpkin bed it should be ok to use by then i think.  :P

[Froglegs]

That's a massive pile of poo.  :o

£20 from local farm ......bargin. ;D

[cornykev]

Is it an elephant farm Froglegs :o.  I just throw carpet on mine.  ;D ;D ;D

[kt.]

I just throw carpet on mine. 

Same here. Its tucked away in the corner of the plot behind the shed, On the fenceline... (after all, who is gonna break in when they have to will land in it first ;D ;D ;D)