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To: MHGinTN; little jeremiah

Ashes work if you run out of lime.


147 posted on 07/15/2011 3:36:58 PM PDT by Ellendra (God feeds the birds of the air, but he doesn't throw it in their nests.)
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To: Ellendra

I much prefer composting toilets as ashes and lime in pit outhouses keep the smell down, but don’t help compost the excrement. Sawdust from non-kiln dried lumber, chipper shredded stuff, leaf mould, dirt, etc all work well. The crap composts within a few months or less and the entire sysmtem is normally without any odor at all. All you need are a number of five gallon buckets and the composting materials, and a place to dump the buckets to compost completely. When we did it we had about 8 buckets and they partially composted in them before being dumped. It was quite non-offensive, relatively speaking, and much less offensive that a regular pit outhouse.

Link to Humanure online:

http://weblife.org/humanure/

Instructions:

http://humanurehandbook.com/instructions.html


160 posted on 07/15/2011 4:19:37 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Ellendra

Particularly coal ashes, which my grandfather used in his outhouse. Even when he had indoor plumbing in the corncrib/vacation house, he continued to use his outhouse. He heated with coal in a huge fireplace, so there was an abundance of coal ashe for the johnny house.


166 posted on 07/15/2011 4:48:13 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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