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Post by kooch on Aug 22, 2020 9:10:53 GMT -6
You ever try DEF on that one pile? Menards has jugs of it on sale pretty cheap. What is DEF? I’ll let the weird guy explain it.
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Post by kooch on Aug 22, 2020 9:28:14 GMT -6
Ok. I’ll go.
Diesel Exhaust Fluid. It’s basically liquid urea. The experiment is to pour five gallons on half of one of my long slash piles and see what happens. Theory is it’ll break down that half of the pile quicker than nature alone.
Just a goofy idea to try and see what happens.
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Post by Foggy on Aug 22, 2020 9:39:03 GMT -6
Kooch, How did you pick up the slash and debris left behind by the forestry machine? Lotsa hand work in that? Good looking plot!
I wish I could hire about three 14 year old boys to pick stuff up.
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Post by kooch on Aug 22, 2020 9:51:04 GMT -6
He scraped it some with a skidder and bucket. That got the biggest stuff into about a dozen piles along the edge.
The rest I just started planting into. Stuff grows. I still broadcast about 2x the recommended seeding rate though.
I drag a chain harrow once or twice a season and kick the piles of stuff it collects into the woods. Every year it’s been more dirt, less mulch on the surface.
Edit- Every time I walk the plot I pick up sticks and chuck them.
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Post by kooch on Aug 22, 2020 9:55:44 GMT -6
The piles he created are hard to burn, they are so dense with mulched stuff and dirt.
I’ve tried once and went through 15 gallons of diesel. Failed. I was missing the oxygen part of the fire triangle.
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Post by Sandbur on Aug 22, 2020 10:01:11 GMT -6
Ok. I’ll go. Diesel Exhaust Fluid. It’s basically liquid urea. The experiment is to pour five gallons on half of one of my long slash piles and see what happens. Theory is it’ll break down that half of the pile quicker than nature alone. Just a goofy idea to try and see what happens. I wonder if the weird guy tried his sawdust bucket first?
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Post by wklman on Aug 22, 2020 10:02:57 GMT -6
Kooch, How did you pick up the slash and debris left behind by the forestry machine? Lotsa hand work in that? Good looking plot! I wish I could hire about three 14 year old boys to pick stuff up. Think amish. I hire my neighbors kids to haul wood out of the woods I cut up and do odd jobs for me.
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Post by Foggy on Aug 22, 2020 10:28:57 GMT -6
Ok. I’ll go. Diesel Exhaust Fluid. It’s basically liquid urea. The experiment is to pour five gallons on half of one of my long slash piles and see what happens. Theory is it’ll break down that half of the pile quicker than nature alone. Just a goofy idea to try and see what happens. 5 Gallons @$10 / gallon is kinda a spendy experiment. Yep.....one the goofy guy will try. . Grin.
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Post by terrifictom on Aug 22, 2020 10:32:25 GMT -6
Ok. I’ll go. Diesel Exhaust Fluid. It’s basically liquid urea. The experiment is to pour five gallons on half of one of my long slash piles and see what happens. Theory is it’ll break down that half of the pile quicker than nature alone. Just a goofy idea to try and see what happens. 5 Gallons @$10 / gallon is kinda a spendy experiment. Yep.....one the goofy guy will try. . Grin. Would be much cheaper to just go to co-op and buy liquid urea, wouldn't it.
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Post by kooch on Aug 22, 2020 10:52:10 GMT -6
Not that much.
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Post by kooch on Aug 22, 2020 11:13:08 GMT -6
I just did the math. You’re right. $4.98
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Post by biglakebass on Aug 22, 2020 11:48:39 GMT -6
Couldnt u burn the piles down some?
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Post by Foggy on Aug 22, 2020 12:19:07 GMT -6
Couldnt u burn the piles down some? I had a big fire after logging at Christmas the following year. It smoldered for a week and I likely burned about 1/2 the debris in the pile. Just never really took off.....as there is so much dirt and green stump wood mixed in with the wood debris. I was hoping for better.....but I may try again this year if we are around here at Christmas.....and the conditions are right.
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Post by batman on Aug 22, 2020 12:25:35 GMT -6
When the muncher left my place and went to Foggys I suggested he buy an extra set of carbides to attack the debris harder.
I left all my slash. Planted through and drove over it. Never was a details guy.
I would think the urea would just float away into the air.
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Post by kooch on Aug 22, 2020 13:30:03 GMT -6
Probably right. It’ll evaporate. It was just two guys talking and wondering out loud.
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