[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***I’ve heard of those hog cesspools out west and can just imagine being downwind of them badboys....Wheeeew!!!! ***

Years ago, when I burned wood, I had permission to cut on a farmer’s woodlot.

I had cut a lot of wood and was going to come back in a few days to load it. Meanwhile, he had dumped tons of hog fertilizer (manure)on the area. The smell was so bad I had to wait several weeks till the smell faded, and the wood I did take home required me to air out my old SCOUT for a week.

Now I choke when a truck of chicken manure goes by, and we then have to keep on the AC till the smell fades in a few days.

Do you know that hog and chicken manure can stink up to five miles away from where they dumped it?

[RedMonqey]

Do you know that hog and chicken manure can stink up to five miles away from where they dumped it?

Yeah, (at least with hog manure)When the wind shifted and came from the south we'd get a whiff of Charlie D's pig lot. Still I'd rather have chicken than hog.

Maybe cuz I've only smelled it from cleaning out the t brooder house where me and my older brother raised fifty 4H chickens, 25 roosters and 25 pullets.(maybe not large enough sample vs. hog piles) Little brother and sister got the idea it was fun but didn't tell them everything about tending to them...HeeeHee

Cleaning out the soiled straw they crapped over on a hot, humid summer day was no day at the beach but I'd rather that any day compared to hog crap.

Aaaaah, memories.....

[RedMonqey]

The smell was so bad I had to wait several weeks till the smell faded,

There's nothing like seasoned (oak)wood burning in the wood stove.

Mind you it doesn't reek of hogsh^t.

The Mrs. would not approve.....

And make sure you get all the poison ivy off it.(it lingers in the smoke)