Re: unloading compost?
At 01:19 PM 10/25/00 -0700, you wrote:
>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
Hi, Alan. I didn't know they were in the southwest. I did know Kroeger's
bought them out, but the Fry name is new to me. I do like the Fred Meyer
stores too. Margaret L
>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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