What's the Science behind digging a hole?

[k0ua]

Live ones? YIKES!

I remember using my New Holland's FEL many years ago to bury maybe 100 pounds of meat when our freezer failed while we were away from the house on a trip for several days. Talk about a mess on the garage floor. I was glad to have the FEL to do the job, and the old freezer went out on the driveway. Believe it or not a guy hauled it off for free.

 

[MossRoad]

Wonder how that would work out for larger ones?

Several Indiana State Hwy garages have compost pits for roadkill. By pit, I mean its a three sided square made up of those stackable concrete median dividers. They're supposed to toss in the carcasses and cover them with sawdust, I believe, and the animal is supposed to rot and not stink. So how did I find out about those structures being compost pits? I started wondering why there were almost always half a dozen vultures sitting on those concrete structures at almost every State Hwy garage I've ever seen... Smorgasbord!!! :laughing:

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

Several Indiana State Hwy garages have compost pits for roadkill. By pit, I mean its a three sided square made up of those stackable concrete median dividers. They're supposed to toss in the carcasses and cover them with sawdust, I believe, and the animal is supposed to rot and not stink. So how did I find out about those structures being compost pits? I started wondering why there were almost always half a dozen vultures sitting on those concrete structures at almost every State Hwy garage I've ever seen... Smorgasbord!!! :laughing:

I'm sure they add lime as well to speed the process up I would guess

 

[MossRoad]

I remember using my New Holland's FEL many years ago to bury maybe 100 pounds of meat when our freezer failed while we were away from the house on a trip for several days. Talk about a mess on the garage floor. I was glad to have the FEL to do the job, and the old freezer went out on the driveway. Believe it or not a guy hauled it off for free.

OOoo.... we have friends that bought a brand new high efficiency chest freezer and put it in their garage. It got really hot that summer, the motor sensed it, and it shut itself down. They lost a side of beef and it stunk to high heaven and leaked, too. They live next to a horse farm owned by relatives, so they used the FEL on the relative's tractor to take it out and dump it in the back field. I asked if they buried it. They said nope. They don't like the people that live in the subdivision on that end of the field....

 

[MossRoad]

I'm sure they add lime as well to speed the process up I would guess

I don't know. From what I've read, in commercial operations, they don't add lime as it adds to the cost. Some day, when I'm retired and bored, I'll drive up to the garage and ask them... I'm sure they'd get a kick out of a nosy old man asking about vultures. :laughing:

 

[cat fever]

A "real friend" is someone who will come out and help you dispose of a body with no questions asked. He preferably owns a TLB.

Ya know;

2 people can keep a secret as long as one of them is dead.

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

Ya know;

2 people can keep a secret as long as one of them is dead.

It's amazing how much the dead talk something about night of the living dead

 

[Ken]

Wonder how that would work out for larger ones?

Had lightening kill 3 yearling Holstein calves so with FEL carried them to gully out of sight from road and as carried them had coyotes running beside tractor anticipating a meal.
buried under bale of hay covered with dirt. 2 days later nothing but bones remained.

Now remember sometimes while hunting come across clothing . pair of pants or shirt. articles of hunting gear.
maybe it works this way also.
ken

 

[txndncowboy]

I reported a dead cow shot to the Sheriff once years ago. He told me if I catch them shooting another to shoot them and drag them to my bone yard. He was dead serious. Everyone knows the coyotes and vultures will take care of them in short order.

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

I reported a dead cow shot to the Sheriff once years ago. He told me if I catch them shooting another to shoot them and drag them to my bone yard. He was dead serious. Everyone knows the coyotes and vultures will take care of them in short order.

**** right, guys that shoot animals for from the road or for no reason should be shot. Most don't even try to retrieve them, it's wasteful.

I don't support it but I have heard of people filling there freezer out of season, but at least they harvest the animal to use not kill it and leave it lay.

That being said I have been thinking of finding a good way to cook raccoon and possum lol, only animals I haven't eaten yet but have taken for trying to eat my chickens. Not long ago a coon was going Freddy Krueger on the pumpkins I feed to my cows, it was tearing up 6-10 a night so had to put a end to that.