Posted on 07/29/2016 11:47:45 AM PDT by PROCON
It was so hot here today...
***How hot was it?***
It was so hot, I saw a bird pulling a worm out of the ground with a potholder!
OK I didn’t read the article, but the comments were fun. I’ve done quite a few compost piles, with plenty manure mixed in, goat, cow, chicken. Never had any catch on fire, but probably because I turned the compost pile pretty regular. And I had a serious compost pile, 30 feet long and 4 feet high, about 8 feet across. All afternoon to turn it.
Someone mentioned the smell...actually, manure dry enough to burn would smell like incense. That’s what incense is made from, well dried camel manure. For incense some sort of scent is added, for the “punks” used to light firecrackers, same thing with no added scent.
If you’ve ever used mosquito coils, those spiral coils you light and let them burn, those are made from the same thing, dried manure. It works as a mosquito repellent with no added chemicals, mosquitoes hate the smell of burning manure. If you go camping, you can stop and grab a few dried cow patties if you pass a cow pasture, throw one in the fire and you have mosquito repellent. I think (but not sure) to make the incense and mosquito coils they add a binder. If you grab some at a cow pasture to take camping, make sure you get well dried ones...for more than one reason...
Sixty-one posts debunking this, and yet all that Democrats will remember is the title of the AP article.
LOL mulch and manure can spontaneously combust from being densely packed up. That is not purely a condition of air temperature.
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