[Bioconversion] Rock'n roll for Grass balls

[Jeff Davis]

Hi Geoff,

"A spinning cylinder covered with big spikes." I wonder what we could use that 
for!!!


Thanks


Jeff


On Tuesday 07 November 2006 12:51 am, Geoff Thomas wrote:
> 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
> >
> > 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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Jeff Davis
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