Compost turner and fym spreader

Treemover

Member
Location
Offaly
We have a good amount of straw bedding fym, and my aim is to try make it into compost; buying a purpose built compost turner is out; but I think I might be able to make something??

I remember reading a profi where a farmer bought one brand of spreader due to even spread; and I’d like to discuss this here if possible to narrow down machines to demo
 

tr250

Member
Location
Northants
Just hire any rear discharge machine run it on tickover with bed fairly fast and tip into the top with loader from one windrow to another and keep moving forward slowly I would have thought the action of loading and the spreader teasing apart would be enough
 

AlanT

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
South West
We do a lot for an organic farm. Basically we muck the buildings out and leave on a concrete pad for a few weeks. Then use our Bunning HBD spreaders to compost it. We take the paddles off the spinning discs and then just open the back door. The horizontal beaters shread it out in a row the width of the spreader. Usually just compost it once then use the same spreaders to spread it in the fields at 12 meters. If it’s dry weather we compost it twice through the spreaders to speed up the rotting process.
 

Treemover

Member
Location
Offaly
My aim is to try get it out after 1st and second cut silage.

we currently put it into slurry but I want to move away from slurry as much as possible
 

Muddyroads

Member
NFFN Member
Location
Exeter, Devon
The Donkey Sanctuary near me used to compost a lot of their muck. Bearing in mind that they used to virtually clean them out as soon as one of them farted it was pretty strawy stuff. They used a standard rear discharge spreader with sides mounted behind the beaters, so as the material was fed through the machine it was windrowed behind it. Made some lovely stuff after a few passes.
If you want to get technical about it, you need to make sure that the centre of the row gets to a certain temperature. I think it was around 70 degrees but could be wrong. It certainly used to steam well. Needs to be kept sufficiently damp to prevent ignition.
 

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