Compost?

[honeyend]

Why not start here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuN_kbQ1oaA

Have you watched it? Its the most prissy, literally hand made way of doing it I have ever seen, it makes Monty Don look a beast. Watching it made my hands itch.
Four 'bins', one to store the material you need to chop, and the rest for turning. I think for most people doing a large amount an old fashioned muck heap thats turned as its stacked, unless you are doing it on an industrial scale, is perhaps the least labour intensive, would make useful amounts and could be turned and stacked with a tractor and loader.

 

[anzani]

Have you watched it? Its the most prissy, literally hand made way of doing it I have ever seen, it makes Monty Don look a beast. Watching it made my hands itch.
Four 'bins', one to store the material you need to chop, and the rest for turning. I think for most people doing a large amount an old fashioned muck heap thats turned as its stacked, unless you are doing it on an industrial scale, is perhaps the least labour intensive, would make useful amounts and could be turned and stacked with a tractor and loader.

Hence my lead "Why not START here"
A local-- to-- me outfit : who seem to have it sorted.
See here:

G K Benford & Co - Green Waste Composting, Biomass & Arable Farming

Beef, sheep and arable farmers & green waste composting & biomass located in north-east of Hampshire close to Alton, Basingstoke and Reading

downfarmodiham.co.uk

 

[Chae1]

have access to several hundred tons of what i hope could be compost.

A farm we contract farm is owned by a tree surgeon. He just dumps wood chips from jobs he's done. But he allows landscape gardeners to dump all there waste in same pile. This means there's a fair bit of green waste. Grass clippings, leaves from pruning etc.

Its never been turned but some of it would have been there for 7-8 years.

The farm hasn't had dung for years. Been continuous spring barley. So would really benefit from something.

Do you think it would be of any benefit to soil? Or should i just leave it alone!?

 

[Banana Bar]

have access to several hundred tons of what i hope could be compost.

A farm we contract farm is owned by a tree surgeon. He just dumps wood chips from jobs he's done. But he allows landscape gardening to dump all there waste in same pile. This means there's a fair bit of green waste. Grass clippings, leaves from pruning etc.

Its never been turned but some of it would have been there for 7-8 years.

The farm hasn't had dung for years. Been continuous spring barley. So would really benefit from something.

Do you think it would be of any benefit to soil? Or should i just leave it alone!?

It’s all carbon therefore I would imagine it will have some benefit. I would get it tested, more out of interest than necessity.

BB

 

[Kiwi Pete]

have access to several hundred tons of what i hope could be compost.

A farm we contract farm is owned by a tree surgeon. He just dumps wood chips from jobs he's done. But he allows landscape gardeners to dump all there waste in same pile. This means there's a fair bit of green waste. Grass clippings, leaves from pruning etc.

Its never been turned but some of it would have been there for 7-8 years.

The farm hasn't had dung for years. Been continuous spring barley. So would really benefit from something.

Do you think it would be of any benefit to soil? Or should i just leave it alone!?

Get into it - at least get it home.
You can always mix it up with other stuff, eg muck or yicky baleage, often a bit of extra green is all it takes to fire it up.
Hard to say without seeing it, but the ONLY reason I entertain having cattle indoors for more than a few days is to enable us to turn chip + silage into compost.
And get paid to import the stuff in, harvest silage etc. or it simply wouldn't happen
This year I'm having a winter off all that, but we've now about 1800 tonnes to go on with.

 

[EchoesFromThePast]

On Compost and Acre

NoSecret

 

[The Ruminant]

have access to several hundred tons of what i hope could be compost.

A farm we contract farm is owned by a tree surgeon. He just dumps wood chips from jobs he's done. But he allows landscape gardeners to dump all there waste in same pile. This means there's a fair bit of green waste. Grass clippings, leaves from pruning etc.

Its never been turned but some of it would have been there for 7-8 years.

The farm hasn't had dung for years. Been continuous spring barley. So would really benefit from something.

Do you think it would be of any benefit to soil? Or should i just leave it alone!?

Sounds like it could be perfect. If you weren’t so far away I’d come and “tidy it up” for you myself...