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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> >Some people are real fast to clean out the shavings. That takes a
> while to break down.

My good fortune is to be dealing with a very frugal barn owner.  The wood 
chips and shavings are decidedly ripe when they are shoveled out.  What I get 
is 
around 50% - 60% apples and the rest really reeking chips.  Removing the 
first 
shovelful makes the amonia send you reeling.  


 >Owner would like it cleaned up > completely as I go. I made sure that I did 
> a really nice job off taking off the pile, so where I took from is 
> completely clean. Told
> the owner I want to be his regular manure guy.
> 
> 

At the other barn the owner would come down when he'd see me and offer to use 
his front end loader to fill up the truck.  I'd get some good, some new, some 
waterlogged manure ... and a bit of his real estate in the form of blue clay 
which I already have plenty of.

So I began to beg off saying I did not want to interrupt his work, he's a 
typical Appalachian man who would ruin himself to help you out.  I took one 
of 
those big Formex muck tubs and a shovel and I filled the tub and emptied it 
into 
the truck.  On a good day I'd have the S10 overflowing in about half an hour 
but I'd have the primo of the primo stuff.  The well rotted stuff isn't all 
that heavy.

James