Talking C**p

[Samurailord]

Hi Guys

I have just had a load (and I do mean a load) of cow manure delivered to my plot, and now I need to barrow it off the pathway where it was dropped and to a holding point on the plot.

I have got between 8-10 tons of it in total.

I only managed 11 barrows last night before it started to go dark and I haven't even started to make an impression on the pile.

I am one of those people who likes to break tasks down into manageable goals, so I was just curious as to how many barrow-loads it is going to take for me to shift it all?

The weather is good here this morning, and my son is going to give a hand too so there won't be too many rest beaks in the shovelling.

Has anyone got experience with this and can give me an estimate?

Thanks

Andy

[veggiechicken]

Is this the puzzle for the day Andy?
Weigh the amount of manure you can move in a wheelbarrow and divide that into the weight of the heap.
Work out how long did it took you to move 11 barrows and divide your first answer by 11 and multiply by the time!
Does that make sense? I doubt it but while you're pondering your son can keep barrowing!
Enjoy your Carppy day!

[zazen999]

About 4 hours longer than it feels like it should.

Much easier to transport a bag of green manure seeds in your pocket and sow it, and skip away knowing it's doing a good job for your soil.

*Have you had it checked for Aminopyralid, before you spread it all over your plot?

[mothhawk]

You'll get about a hundredweight in a barrowload, so, 20 hundredweights per ton makes 20x10 barrowloads if you've got 10 tons. So you've still got 189 barrowloads to go!

edit; you might want to move your holding point a bit closer to the path!

[dominic10]

Is this so your son can charge you by the wheelbarrow load? Hope he's old enough for you to buy him a pint afterwards. You might be some time shovelling all this methinks.

[Samurailord]

*Have you had it checked for Aminopyralid, before you spread it all over your plot?

Yes Zaz, this is a regular supplier to the allotment and was recommended by our secretary.

you might want to move your holding point a bit closer to the path!

Way ahead of you Mothhawk - the holding point starts about 3 meters from the edge of the pile. It spreads back quite a way though.

Is this so your son can charge you by the wheelbarrow load? Hope he's old enough for you to buy him a pint afterwards. You might be some time shovelling all this methinks.

He is 23, and unemployed at the moment, and a bit down. Thought a weekend shovelling muck would do him the world of good

I just wanted to break it down a bit and have some goals to aim for, like 25% done by the end of the morning kind of thing.

I reckon we have got about 20 hours of work ahead of us

Andy

[zazen999]

Yes Zaz, this is a regular supplier to the allotment and was recommended by our secretary.

So was ours - local farmer - supplied the allotments for 40 years. One bad year and our plot decimated.

[bearded bloke]

Not to depress you tooooooooooooooo much but,I once built an extension that needed a raft (rather than strip-footings),we used 12 tons of concrete shifted in barrows from the kerb to the site (approx 20 yds) which took 3 blokes 10 hours (after stoppages) to move

[Feral007]

And I thought running around with a shovel and the ute picking up a bit to throw in the compost heap and the waterbarrel was bad. Glad I don't live close enough to offer to help!

[alldigging]

I think you've done loads .. Maybe 1/4 done.

[Samurailord]

I think you've done loads .. Maybe 1/4 done.

Yeah - we have shifted a further 35 barrow loads today, so 46 in all.

Just under 1/4 I reckon, perhaps 2 tons in about four hours.

Going to put in another three or four hours by myself tomorrow morning so that should take care of another ton or so, so only five to seven more to go

Andy

[Feral007]

Wow, makes me glad for manure tea! You only need a stocking full of the stuff for that. All the best with it SL, do you get blow flies over there? Over this way a horse only has to f@rt and the flies will sit on the ground behind it waiting.....

[Nicos]

We call them blue bottles Feral - yup but the worst of all are the horse flies. They give one heck of a nip and it's itchy and swollen for days!
Do you get them around your horses too?
Horse-fly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Good luck with your sh1t shoveling Andy- you got a good stock of Radox in???

[Feral007]

Yep definately a Radox night for you SL.

We have horse flies, bot flies, and March flies. All are very very nasty. Will happily bite you thru your jeans or joddies. Have the utmost sympathy with the horses - trouble is March flies start about Jan and go thru with the heat Not fair.

[Samurailord]

I'm actually a lot better than I expected to be this morning.

A few aches and pains, but I can move around fairly OK.

Going back down to the allotment to try and shift another 20 barrows or so today if I can.

Andy