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Hensler North Dakota

This is in the line of dumb quetions? How much does a cubic yard of cow manure weigh?

1/24/2004 2:49:29 PM

Montoursville, PA

No not dumb at all. It has to do with water content. One: right out of the cow is the worst. Two: Piled up and half dry is less. Third: Soaked full of rain after drying somewhat is in between.

A cubic yard of it piles my five by nine foot trailer very full. That takes me at sixty seven years of age two days to off load and move into my patch by hand.

Guessing now: about a half ton or a little more on the trailer and five tons by the time I get it moved into the patch. :)

1/24/2004 3:01:08 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Depends on moisture content. But the chart I have says 60 lbs per cubic foot. So 1620 Pounds per Yard.

1/24/2004 3:05:17 PM

Montoursville, PA

That's the trouble with charts and people who never handled any that write those books. Pratical estimating on the actual condition with unknown exact percentage of moisture is a good as any. Don't 'ya think half a ton or a little more cutting some slack would be just about right on?

I will guarentee anyone my last soaking wet cupic yard estimated on the trailer topped a ton and squatted my one ton gross trailer for sure.

1/24/2004 3:40:13 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Uh huh! The last load we got here this past fall was supposedly 6 yards by counting buckets. But driving the truck it felt closer to 12,000 lbs! Judging by the grown of the dump cylinder, we weren't too far off that mark either. Though the truck is legally registered at 16,000 lbs, we were still pleased to make it back here without finding any portable state police scales.

Were it not for a great friend with a serious truck, all our fall rain would have stopped my patch improvements dead in their tracks.

1/24/2004 3:57:17 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Groan. Not grown...Jeez!

1/24/2004 3:58:04 PM

Montoursville, PA

Around here they love to stop and fine you for not covering the load with a tarp. Most of the police would not know an overloaded load of manure on truck or trailer...but just let one piece of nitrogen charged straw fly off and your goose is cooked. They will actually stand there and watch you pick it up. I love my public servents. NOT!

1/24/2004 4:30:28 PM

Hensler North Dakota

Thanks for the info.

1/24/2004 5:12:54 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Same here Dwaine. But it was tarped. Over weight. But tarped.

1/24/2004 6:16:46 PM

Indiana

I know frozen horse manure weighs a bunch! it broke my trailer yesterday it sat the fenders on top of the tires. I smoked the tires the rest of the three mile trip home. the cops would have loved me.
Steve

1/24/2004 9:06:23 PM

Paradise Mountain, New York

I was just checking a web site for farmers about manure. They say, Dairy average raw manure weighs 67 pounds per cubic foot. Which would be 1,674 lbs. But i would have to agree with Doc on what's in the manure. Straw, woodshavings, lots of liquid, hay etc...My oldest brother has a dairy farm. I know that when you clean the calf pens out, that sh** is pretty heavy stuff.

1/24/2004 11:02:27 PM

Omaha, NE (N41-15-42 )

My experience has been that composted cow manure weighs about 1600lbs/cu. yard. I get 15 cubic yard loads that usually weigh about 12 ton.

1/25/2004 1:26:44 AM