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Loading Compost onto Trailer

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WHERE TO GET GREAT GARDEN COMPOST.........COULD BE RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER! SEE WHAT I FOUND!

What happens here

After weighing in, the host drives to the designated compost area within the landfill. Here, a large front-end loader operated by landfill staff is used to efficiently scoop and deposit a substantial quantity of the organic compost into the dump trailer. The host observes the loading process, commenting on the rich, dark appearance of the compost.

Tools and materials

  • Compost (Organic)
  • Truck with Dump Trailer

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have row after row after row of compost in this big machine that is sitting over here you really can't see it it's kind of right here it goes through and turns the compost probably once a month once every two months depending on the time of year it rotates that compost which is what it needs to get the bacteria going again basically compost is just bacteria breaking down organic matter and turning it into gold for your garden so I want to take you out and show you this guy's pretty cool all right we're going to go ahead and pull back through the scale here see how much we weight actually twenty thousand pounds so guys we got four point five eight tons on this load and 5.08 tons on the last load so ten tons of compost picked up today and the total cost was about one hundred and ninety three dollars that'll be enough compost for us for quite some time basically what I'm trying to do is spot file some compost so when I need it I have it so what I've done in the past when our family garden starts getting weeds in it I throw this compost on it the compost is hot enough that when it hits the weeds it kills the weeds and I don't spread it right up on to my tomato plants or any of that stuff so the tomato plants survive and the weeds go away pretty good thing we get home we'll dump the compost and I'll show you what a good handful of it looks like awesome awesome black gold so we just got back to the house and I'm going to show you how the dump trailer works pretty cool it's got a little cabinet right here and inside the cabinet is a controller and just as up and down and basically I just hit the UP button and up she goes let's just say this guy's I'm tired of my chicken crowing it won't shut up I've got two roosters that just won't shut up

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