Compost Coliseum

footfootfoot · 05-12-2006, 06:59 PM

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?

Griff · 05-12-2006, 07:29 PM

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

xoxoxoBruce · 05-12-2006, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

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?

Yeah sure.

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.

footfootfoot · 05-12-2006, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Yeah sure.

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?

xoxoxoBruce · 05-13-2006, 11:49 AM

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

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

lumberjim · 05-13-2006, 04:21 PM

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.

footfootfoot · 05-13-2006, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

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.

zippyt · 05-13-2006, 08:13 PM

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

footfootfoot · 05-22-2006, 09:47 PM

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.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-22-2006, 10:24 PM

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

Griff · 05-23-2006, 07:03 AM

balloon framing?

BigV · 05-23-2006, 09:33 AM

Moderately instructive.

footfootfoot · 05-23-2006, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

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

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?)

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Originally Posted by griff

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."

xoxoxoBruce · 05-23-2006, 08:35 PM

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

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

Griff · 05-25-2006, 06:52 AM

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.

05-12-2006, 06:59 PM	#1
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	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? Attached Images __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

05-12-2006, 07:29 PM	#2
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	I've been thinking about finding a new compost heap design... I've got goat poo now, hooray! __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

05-13-2006, 11:49 AM	#5
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Yeah.....enough to think the perch was 7.5 lbs. But on the upside, after cleaning the fish, the remains would make a nice addition to the pile. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

05-13-2006, 04:21 PM	#6
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	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. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

05-13-2006, 08:13 PM	#8
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	DAMN Foot !!! Mondo-consrtucto !!!!! __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

05-22-2006, 09:47 PM	#9
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	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. Attached Images __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

05-22-2006, 10:24 PM	#10
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Vertical lathe and plaster in the center (inside to outside) of the stud space? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

05-23-2006, 07:03 AM	#11
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	balloon framing? __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

05-23-2006, 09:33 AM	#12
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Moderately instructive. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

05-23-2006, 08:35 PM	#14
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Balloon framing made it faster & easier when 20 ft 2x?s were readily available. Oh, and rooms were small with lots of interior load bearing walls. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

05-25-2006, 06:52 AM	#15
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	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. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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