Re: Leaf Shredder
Hi, Bob,
How do you get the cow manure to your place? Do you truck it, or is it
delivered? I'd love to have some..... but my husband won't let me drive to Waukon
to get it.
Phyllis
bob wrote:
> Gerry/Bob O'Neill wrote:
>
> > LOL..David, you can ship me all those leaves if you want! This time of
> > year, when other people gaze proudly at row after row of canned tomatoes,
> > canned beans, and so on, I am in the yard gazing proudly at my Hefty bags
> > full of ground leaves.
>
> Good morning Gerry
> I also did this for a couple of years, I would buy hefty bags by the
> box full and go around town bagging leaves. I would bring them home and
> put them in a bin I made out of 4' x 8' lattice. Then I would wait a
> couple of years for them to decompose. Next I found it was cheaper to
> buy large garbage cans and use them to bring the leaves home in. After
> it had decomposed there wasn't really that much left.
> I finally realized it was alot easier at least around here just to buy
> a load of cow manure that had been around a couple of years and spread
> it on everything. Now I buy about a half a dozen loads a year. Funny
> when I was a kid on the farm we would have gladly given it away but no
> one does now.
>
> --
> Bye
> Bob
> Bob Axmear 208 2nd St Ne Waukon,Ia 52172-1308
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