Manure Crib

DJ54 · Sep 25, 2011

You've got the hard part done... As you can tell, the posts are pieces of telephone poles, and the sides are 2" pine Dad sawed out years ago, except the bottom piece. They are salvaged creosoted bridge 3 X 5's. Preservative on the pine, used motor oil, cut with diesel.

I put a 2% slope to the corner where the boards meet, so the "juice" would run to that corner. I also poured a weak mix around the back outside, to keep the groundhogs from digging under.

As luck would have it, there was a groundhog hole about 4' from the back corner, so I made a trough in the outside pour, directing the flow to that hole. My purification system/groudhog eliminator. Almost 4 years now, and still working fine..!! :thumbsup:

SLHawkins · Sep 25, 2011

DJ54 said:
You've got the hard part done... As you can tell, the posts are pieces of telephone poles, and the sides are 2" pine Dad sawed out years ago, except the bottom piece. They are salvaged creosoted bridge 3 X 5's. Preservative on the pine, used motor oil, cut with diesel.

I put a 2% slope to the corner where the boards meet, so the "juice" would run to that corner. I also poured a weak mix around the back outside, to keep the groundhogs from digging under.

As luck would have it, there was a groundhog hole about 4' from the back corner, so I made a trough in the outside pour, directing the flow to that hole. My purification system/groudhog eliminator. Almost 4 years now, and still working fine..!! :thumbsup:

:laughing: Thanks for the tips!:thumbsup:

Hawk

5030 · Sep 25, 2011

You have to be careful with containment as it pertains to runoff. The runoff will be laced with bacteria and if it gets into a stream or watersource you might be well on your way to one heck of a lawsuit. Local governments love do litigate runoff issues and the operator always looses...financially.

We just regularly do field application of manure. Much simpler than confined containment.

MikeD74T · Sep 26, 2011

horsin... If you have the space & a loader of some type consider composting and selling the compost. Make a deal with enough landscapers to drop their grass cuttings/leaves. Mix 50/50 with manure in windrows (can be as big as you want). Turn the entire pile over every couple of weeks or so. In a few weeks you'll have nice dark compost to spread or sell back to the landscapers. As for a storage area, search around for a concrete precasting company. They often have reject prestressed slabs for reasonable money & they deliver. MikeD74T

horsinaround · Oct 23, 2011

Well, I did it... 10X25 pit slab, four foot high walls, 3 inch holes in the bottom of the wall and a french drain around the perimiter, sloped to back and a sidewalk to the barn.

Partially backfilled before the rains hit, but at least we can get manure into it.

Hopefully this will be a "forever" solution.

I know, pictures please... that will have to come later.