Re: unloading compost?
Margaret,
Just FYI, Fred Myers is here too. It's one of my favorite grocery/merchandise
stores, the gardening shops are very nice...but, there is not one close to the
vicinity I live in so I don't get to go to one as often as I would like. I'm not
sure how wide spread they are in the southwest, but we do have them here in Metro
Phoenix. From what I understand they owned by Fry's, which is owned by Kroegers,
and all their names are being changed to Fry's sometime in the new future.
Alan
Margaret Lauterbach wrote:
> This sounds crazy, but it's true. If the truck you're using is a pickup,
> you can get a device that covers the floor of the bed and has a hand crank
> that goes on the tailgate. You just crank, the floor cover rolls up,
> emptying its load over the tailgate, into whatever container you place
> there, and it empties out the truck. I bought one, couldn't figure out how
> to attach it to my pickup (had a camper shell on it), so returned it. I
> think the cost was about $120. See if car supply places have them. I
> bought mine at Fred Meyers, but that's a department store chain that only
> exists in the Pacific Northwest. The literature and fellows who had tested
> it said it would even unload cinder blocks like that, so it could take a
> heavy load. Margaret L
>
> At 02:47 PM 10/25/00 -0500, you wrote:
> > With all this talk about compost--what kinds, how much, when to add
> >it, etc.--I'm waiting to hear how other gardeners do the hard work of
> >unloading the stuff. We get a little "home compost" from the bottom of our
> >own pile of leaves and weeds, but we need more than that to topdress beds
> >and build new ones.
> > So we borrow a friend's truck and go to the municipal yard waste
> >recyling center. There we get buy pretty nicely rotted and screened leaf
> >mold with a good crumbly texture and/or mushroom compost (usually rotted
> >horse manure with sawdust). They load it in with big equipment.
> > Then we get home and that's when the problem begins. We're usually
> >not putting a whole truck full on a given bed and so we want to put some on
> >a bed and some in big empty garbage can-type containers for use in smaller
> >projects. We also don't want to just dump it in the driveway. But the back
> >breaking task of shoveling--from the truck into the wheelbarrow and then
> >shoveling from the wheelbarrow into the can (and later shoveling out of the
> >can back into the wheelbarrow to take it closer to the bed)--can be really
> >time-consuming, not to mention exhausting!
> > Does anybody have a solution? We've tried brainstorming about ramps
> >and pulleys and all sorts of things, but it all seems too complicated in the
> >end....
> >
> >P.S. Finally finished all the fall planting: 600+ bulbs in the north yard
> >and new trellises and plantings for wisterias and climbing hydrangea.
> >
> >Susan and David in Urbana, Illinois, zone 5b
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