On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:05:40 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:17:28 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:

BTW, here's where I get my bags...for about 3,25 cents a bag including shipping. The bags are a
perfect size for two or three, if necessary, 'poops'.

http://tinyurl.com/muyh9r2

They come in sets of 100, attached to a piece of cardboard which can be hung on a hook or doorknob
for easy tear off. Of course, you've got to buy 2000 at a time, but for me that's only about two
year's worth as I end up giving the kids some as stocking stuffers.

I think I would need a drum liner for Ed. ;-)
I keep some of those regular poop bags I found in the river, on the
cart and the times I had to use them, I needed two.

Oh bull. I had a lab before this pointer. Well, it was female so probably pooped a bit less. These
bags are about 7" in diameter and 21" long. That'll hold a lot of poop and still leave room to tie a
knot.

On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:05:40 -0500, wrote:


I think I would need a drum liner for Ed. ;-)

Better than a large dumpster that has to be emptied weekly for my wife's
"pets".

On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:48:51 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:


On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:05:40 -0500, wrote:


I think I would need a drum liner for Ed. ;-)

Better than a large dumpster that has to be emptied weekly for my wife's
"pets".



Yeah, here we have to double bag it to throw in the trash can. I can easily get a dozen of the small
bags into one of the plastic Safeway bags.

What gets done with the horse manure after it's picked up?

On 2/5/2014 3:39 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:48:51 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:


On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:05:40 -0500, wrote:


I think I would need a drum liner for Ed. ;-)

Better than a large dumpster that has to be emptied weekly for my wife's
"pets".



Yeah, here we have to double bag it to throw in the trash can. I can easily get a dozen of the small
bags into one of the plastic Safeway bags.

What gets done with the horse manure after it's picked up?



I don't know and I don't care.

Waste Management, Inc. has recycling facilities everywhere. We don't
have to dedicate the dumpster to the horse crap and bedding exclusively.
We can dump regular, non-hazardous household trash in it as well. I've
thrown car parts, boat parts in it ... you name it and they take it. The
bulk is made up of the horse stuff though. Occasionally my wife asks me
to "compact" the dumpster using the front end bucket on the tractor, a
job I hate especially on windy days. I wear a mask.

On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 15:52:47 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 2/5/2014 3:39 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:48:51 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:


On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:05:40 -0500, wrote:


I think I would need a drum liner for Ed. ;-)

Better than a large dumpster that has to be emptied weekly for my wife's
"pets".



Yeah, here we have to double bag it to throw in the trash can. I can easily get a dozen of the small
bags into one of the plastic Safeway bags.

What gets done with the horse manure after it's picked up?



I don't know and I don't care.

Waste Management, Inc. has recycling facilities everywhere. We don't
have to dedicate the dumpster to the horse crap and bedding exclusively.
We can dump regular, non-hazardous household trash in it as well. I've
thrown car parts, boat parts in it ... you name it and they take it. The
bulk is made up of the horse stuff though. Occasionally my wife asks me
to "compact" the dumpster using the front end bucket on the tractor, a
job I hate especially on windy days. I wear a mask.



Well it must just be going to a landfill somewhere. Shame they don't compost and sell it. Some
outfit in Maryland was doing that with sewage sludge. Seems like horse and cow manure would be very
usable. I know my grandfather would have loved it!

On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:46:29 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 16:24:35 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:

Well it must just be going to a landfill somewhere. Shame they don't compost and sell it. Some
outfit in Maryland was doing that with sewage sludge. Seems like horse and cow manure would be very
usable. I know my grandfather would have loved it!

One of my best friends was in that family (the Bevards).
He is the machine gun guy I have talked about..

They had quite a deal going with that sludge. They drove those red 18
wheeler concrete mixer looking things to haul it.
Their primary business was aggregate and concrete. They would buy some
property in PG county where the "soil" was "bank run gravel". That is
basically concrete, right in the ground with clay replacing the
portland.
They dug it up, graded it out and ended up with the silt that was too
small to sell as sand or gravel. They spread that out, took a sheeps
foot roller and turned the sludge into it, then let it age out for a
while to get the smell out, turning it over a few more times. Then
they sold it to builders as top soil.
Sod would go nuts in it, a whole lot better that just in the bank run
gravel yard they had anyway.
The only downside was cherry tomatoes came up in the yard. It turns
out the seeds survive digestion and sewer treatment.

Here it's wild strawberries. Those little *******s must go through birds and get self fertilized.
They're a bitch to get rid of.

Poco Loco wrote:
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:46:29 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 16:24:35 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:

Well it must just be going to a landfill somewhere. Shame they don't
compost and sell it. Some
outfit in Maryland was doing that with sewage sludge. Seems like horse
and cow manure would be very
usable. I know my grandfather would have loved it!

One of my best friends was in that family (the Bevards).
He is the machine gun guy I have talked about..

They had quite a deal going with that sludge. They drove those red 18
wheeler concrete mixer looking things to haul it.
Their primary business was aggregate and concrete. They would buy some
property in PG county where the "soil" was "bank run gravel". That is
basically concrete, right in the ground with clay replacing the
portland.
They dug it up, graded it out and ended up with the silt that was too
small to sell as sand or gravel. They spread that out, took a sheeps
foot roller and turned the sludge into it, then let it age out for a
while to get the smell out, turning it over a few more times. Then
they sold it to builders as top soil.
Sod would go nuts in it, a whole lot better that just in the bank run
gravel yard they had anyway.
The only downside was cherry tomatoes came up in the yard. It turns
out the seeds survive digestion and sewer treatment.

Here it's wild strawberries. Those little *******s must go through birds
and get self fertilized.
They're a bitch to get rid of.

A few years ago, we ripped out all the decorative strawberries and planted
Vinca Minor. Damn strawberries came back and killed off the Vinca.

On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 7:46:29 PM UTC-6, wrote:


The only downside was cherry tomatoes came up in the yard. It turns

out the seeds survive digestion and sewer treatment.

After the plant came up, did they try tilling them under ?