Compost Coliseum

Gardening time is upon us. Us northerners that is. I offer you The Compost Coliseum.

It is, as you Americans say, the invention of me. It has the desirous features of motility and breathability and setting of the historical precedent.

You will like your own. When it is full you unstack it, move it to one side and turn the pile into it. It takes about ten minutes to restack the blocks.

Earthworms? can you count to a Brazilian?:D

I've been thinking about finding a new compost heap design... I've got goat poo now, hooray!

footfootfoot wrote:

snip~ When it is full you unstack it, move it to one side and turn the pile into it. It takes about ten minutes to restack the blocks.

Earthworms? can you count to a Brazilian?:D

Yeah sure.:right:
You unstack it, move it to one side, start to turn the pile into it, find the "Brazilian" worms, and by the time you get home from fishing you're too tired to mess with compost.

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

Yeah sure.:right:
You unstack it, move it to one side, start to turn the pile into it, find the "Brazilian" worms, and by the time you get home from fishing you're too tired to mess with compost.

tired=drunk and sunburned?

Yeah.....enough to think the perch was 7.5 lbs. :rolleyes:

But on the upside, after cleaning the fish, the remains would make a nice addition to the pile.

I have a box around one of my pine trees that i use to hold grass clippings, old pumpkins, leaves, etc. been there for 3 years now, never emptied it. it's made out of sections of picket fence that i removed when i moved in. i guess it's feeding the tree? probably a few snakes living in there too. I've found molted skins near it.

I like your design, foot3. trailerpark engineering at its finest.

lumberjim wrote:

I have a box around one of my pine trees that i use to hold grass clippings, old pumpkins, leaves, etc. been there for 3 years now, never emptied it. it's made out of sections of picket fence that i removed when i moved in. i guess it's feeding the tree? probably a few snakes living in there too. I've found molted skins near it.

I like your design, foot3. trailerpark engineering at its finest.

Yeah, we got the whole Joad thing going on. right now I've got scaffolding up 18 feet on one side of the house. We've been a continuous construction site here since Oct. 2000. People have been pretty cool about it. I think they are hoping I'll be done some day and not an analog of the Orr character in catch 22.

DAMN Foot !!!
Mondo-consrtucto !!!!!

two sundays ago this is what happened. siding gone. last sunday, tore out internal wall. (see detail) the house was built with 3x4 walls, balloon framed. plaster and lath on the inside, an inch or so space, vertical lath and plaster, and other inch or so space and clapboard siding with no sheathing.

The pink fiberglass is previous home owners debacle.

Vertical lathe and plaster in the center (inside to outside) of the stud space? :eek:

balloon framing?

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

Vertical lathe and plaster in the center (inside to outside) of the stud space? :eek:

You got it. insulation 1850's style.
Now torn out, horizontal lath pic to follow. I'll pad out the studs with full size 2x4s and then resheathe with osb, then blow in 8" of cellulose. Then reside w/ b grade cedar. (tight sound knots. can you hear 'em?)

griff wrote:

balloon framing?

yep. and scary as hell. I'll see if I can get some details of the interesting ideas they had about building back then. As we say around here: "They don't build 'em like they used to, and it's a good thing too."

Balloon framing made it faster & easier when 20 ft 2x?s were readily available.:cool:

Oh, and rooms were small with lots of interior load bearing walls.

Are you gonna add some kind of fire break since you're all opened up there? I'm just asking, I don't know if people do that.

Griff wrote:

Are you gonna add some kind of fire break since you're all opened up there? I'm just asking, I don't know if people do that.

The cavities will be filled with blown in cellulose which is mixed w/ boric acid. No air can travel, so no chimney effect, also Boric acid is a fire retardent if my third grade science teacher was not lying.

Today I spent padding the studs out an additional 4". the orignal studs were mostly 3x4, some 2x4. some 2 3/4 x 4 etc. The new wall will be 8" (my wife will finally get her wish ;) albeit corrupted) I better be frigging roasting this winter. From no insulation to 8" and new insulated windows.

The garden is pretty much drifting aimlessly...

Also I am doing all this when I am not at work. I am a tuckered out dude. It is a struggle not to fall asleep when the inchling wants to play trucks. This week he has watched more videos (sesame street, elmo) than in his entire life to date.

That is only about five or six, but still.

Maybe I'll go to bed now.

The weather has been kind of nasty this past couple weeks, too. I don't envy you one bit. :headshake

Dang. I am impressed.
What part of the world are ye?
Do you have a "before" shot of the property?