A client called a few months back to get on my list but said not to worry about doing any field work until he had the corn harvested that covered about 90 percent of his property. He called two days ago to report the corn was out and he could meet me on site today to show me what he needed. Yesterday several semi-truck loads of chicken litter (bedding plus excrement and dust and dirt) arrived from Arkansas. The piles were loaded into spreader wagons this morning and spread evenly across the land. I met him on site at 2:00 today. Whoooooooowheeeeeeeeee!
I still can't breathe through my nose. I would be asleep right now but no air means no sleep.
Edit: That area just got hit by 60 mph winds, torrential rain and quarter-sized hail. Perhaps that will greatly reduce the problem by the time I get back on it.
It's raining lightly here. Maybe I should go stand out in it for a few minutes to see if my sinuses will open up.
Could have been worse! Could have been a disgruntled client doing this!
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Holy Cow, post: 337009, member: 50 wrote: Perhaps that will greatly reduce the problem by the time I get back on it
Much more staying power for the effluent from feathered friends.
Steve
FANTASTIC!!!
I gave brief consideration to doing something like that on Halloween one year while in high school (and a minor). Main Street at 40 mph seemed like it might possibly work without getting caught in the act. The local night watchman wasn't too much of a CSI type of investigator. The most difficult part, assuming I didn't get caught, would be not claiming credit.
The rain will probably just make it that much more fragrant
I've heard of it raining cats and dogs, but never chicken sh**
A farm near my hometown had one of the fields covered with the leftover mash from a distillery. I don't have any idea how well it worked as fertilizer but I can ASSURE you that the aroma attracted everyone who was not a teetotaler.
Andy
Many local chicken farmers spread the contents from their houses across fields that are planted with wheat or other grain that grows tall fast to cover the sight of the disaster and has probably 100 black flies per cubic feet, my estimate from a very big mistake of getting out of the vehicle.
:'(
One of my lesser appealing clients use to be the local waste water treatment plant. It was their procedure to get rid of their sewage sludge by a wet injection application to farm land. I believe the EPA (or some other regulating agency) had a maximum amount of sludge that could be applied to a given area. It was our duty to measure the acreage of each application to ensure compliance with the allowable amount of sludge placed there.
On a hot summer day a 10,000 gallon trailer load of human poop sludge (even though it has been properly "treated") smells like holy hell. Back them up on the asphalt road twenty trucks deep and you might think you're going to expire. The word "organic" just isn't descriptive enough. The words "makes you puke" fits a little better.
Chicken-crap could only be worse...............
As surveyors; we get to enjoy all kinds of exotic odors...
The top of the list has to be leachate; anyone who has worked at a landfill, knows what I am talking about.
paden cash, post: 337069, member: 20 wrote: Chicken-crap could only be worse...............
Actually, human poop is worse. Our county banned the use 40yrs ago....:poop:
Ever been hit in the back of the head by a flying dead chicken?
Heading out there tomorrow afternoon. Should be about 85 with just enough breeze to stir the nasties. We'll see if my sensibilities survive unscathed.
Put vicks in your nose to plug it up. That's what crime scene folks do according to the cop show I watched last night.
