HundyMundy
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is it just spreading whin dust on your ground and somebody claiming carbon credit for the tons spread.
What is this, another snake oil🤨
- Thread starter HundyMundy
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is it just spreading whin dust on your ground and somebody claiming carbon credit for the tons spread.
I cannot see quite how this is even supposed to work, or even do...?
Maybe we are both simpletons.... better call Joe, and ask for an analysis!
- Location
- Scottish Borders
Load of crap as usual, take more energy to make, transport and apply it than it benefits. Much like Adblue, though in that case effects my mental health as it deprives me, as a 20 year old lad from straight-piping my 6 cylinder tractor
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
I do think spreading basalt instead of lime would be worth investigating.
It wouldn't use any more carbon than the process of making lime but it absorbs Co2 so potentially making it more carbon neutral.... Potentially
I think it contains phosphates as well so would reduce fert bill as well?
It wouldn't use any more carbon than the process of making lime but it absorbs Co2 so potentially making it more carbon neutral.... Potentially
I think it contains phosphates as well so would reduce fert bill as well?
Analysis needed...
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Indeed
Plus what's the availability of basalt if it's closer than the nearest lime quarry it would be a fuel saving too.
But I suspect you'd have to do it every year instead of 5 years...
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
They use white unicorn poo. Not allowed to use red.
Bogweevil
Member
Well basalt rock is known to fix carbon dioxide and improve soil but whether this product is good or bad who can say. I am intrigued that it is supplied and spread FOC - who pays?
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
As with most of these things I would think the waste producer.
@Eden.Agri.AD might know something about it.
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Does anyone know how much basalt Quarry dust cost?
I see that there is an email address in the ad. I'll email Joe and ask him and tag the thread to him.
Later: Have done so.
Later: Have done so.
About ÂŁ15/t a few years ago, when we bought 15t of whinstone dust to bind a 'type 2' farm road.
"Basalt" = whinstone = +/- granite.
Good luck getting that to dissolve in arable soils, and good luck keeping vanes on the spreader
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Was someone else on here selling quarry dust a while back. Remin Scotland. Never seems to have taken off though for some reason. I tried a 25kg bag on our lawn and made no difference.
Got enough stones on our farm already.
Got enough stones on our farm already.
deleted user 436632456
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I was having a very vivid dream one night where I needed to get an "End of waste status for a waste material" so I employed some scientists to create a product that nobody knew that they actually needed and then got an expert PR team to market the now said product.. Obvs it's FOC to the customer because it's way cheaper than going down the waste disposal channels and also removes some liability issues.
^^What I said must not to be construed as a statement of fact as it is complete hooey from my vivid imagination and (cough cough) you're definitely not talking to someone who has tried to do something similar with another waste product.
In the interests of all fairness "It is a wonderful product that I highly recommend".
*There was actually a quarry over here in NI that tried to market this wonder mineral product about 10 years ago that was basically quarry dust and the NIEA shut them down.
^^What I said must not to be construed as a statement of fact as it is complete hooey from my vivid imagination and (cough cough) you're definitely not talking to someone who has tried to do something similar with another waste product.
In the interests of all fairness "It is a wonderful product that I highly recommend".
*There was actually a quarry over here in NI that tried to market this wonder mineral product about 10 years ago that was basically quarry dust and the NIEA shut them down.
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
So probably ÂŁ20 nowAbout ÂŁ15/t a few years ago, when we bought 15t of whinstone dust to bind a 'type 2' farm road.
"Basalt" = whinstone = +/- granite.
Good luck getting that to dissolve in arable soils, and good luck keeping vanes on the spreader
Which is nearly half the price of lime but wouldn't last as long but also has additional mineral benefits.
I don't see what damage you could do by spreading quarry dust on your fields so maybe worth a shot? If you live in the central belt that is.
Well, I dropped the guy an email, and he has just come back to me, and has said he will come on the forum later, and answer questions once he is home.
Cannot say fairer than that IMO.
Cannot say fairer than that IMO.