[Bioconversion] Rock'n roll for Grass balls

[Geoff Thomas]

Hi Jeff, I assume your post is to further the discussion on ball formation, but just an aside, if
you will indulge me, my father used to grow mushrooms, (4 tons per week) and mushroom growers use
enormous amounts of compost, which they mix with special machinery, - your cement truck fellows
should have asked a mushroom grower. The compost mixer takes lots of small chunks out of the heap
and throws them on a spinning cylinder covered with big spikes, which throws the by then tiny
bits over a large area, - different principle altogether.
Geoff.

> 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
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>
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> 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
>
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