I scrounged a pile of grass clippings yesterday from the council's mower man. He was really pleased about having somewhere local to dump them as he has to drive back to the park depot to drop them off otherwise. He said too that in this weather the grass clumps really badly and doesn't get picked up unless he can empty the beast of a machine quite often.
As a result my street has got lovely neat grassed areas and our allotment has a big pile of grass.
About 7-8 hours after it'd been dropped off I went out to move some to add a layer to my compost heap. I had gloves on and started moving it. Even with gloves on I could feel it warm underneath so I went in and got the digital IR thermometer thing I bought my OH several years ago. You just point it and get a reading.
My OH was intrigued as to what I'd come in for so followed me back out.
The pile was 30'C inside!
We checked the pile of bark we've had on the site for a couple of weeks and that too was about 29'C.
Will have to check the grass pile again to see whether it gets hotter - but was very impressed to actually be able to see it for myself and measure the temperature!
As a result my street has got lovely neat grassed areas and our allotment has a big pile of grass.
About 7-8 hours after it'd been dropped off I went out to move some to add a layer to my compost heap. I had gloves on and started moving it. Even with gloves on I could feel it warm underneath so I went in and got the digital IR thermometer thing I bought my OH several years ago. You just point it and get a reading.
My OH was intrigued as to what I'd come in for so followed me back out.
The pile was 30'C inside!
We checked the pile of bark we've had on the site for a couple of weeks and that too was about 29'C.
Will have to check the grass pile again to see whether it gets hotter - but was very impressed to actually be able to see it for myself and measure the temperature!
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