[Bioconversion] Rock'n roll for Grass balls

[Jeff Davis]

Dear Roger and List,

This summer I was reading about a compost reactor project and they did not
like mixing the compost with a highlift so they tried renting a cement
mixing truck to mix their compost. Sounds like a good idea! But when they
tried it, the out come was all the compost agglomerated into 6 inch balls.


Jeff




Roger wrote:
> I was re-reading Thoreaus' Walden on the weekend. You always learn
> something
> with each re-read. I was amazed to see there are actually photos of grass
> balls naturally formed in the shallows of sand beaches of Walden Pond in
> the
> book. He didn't speculate how they were formed but mentioned it was a
> seasonal phenomena.  Some were perfectly round and up to 4" in diameter.
> Seems your idea is a time proven one.
>
> Roger Samson


-- 
Jeff Davis

Some where 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA