Square horse manure
This is the maximum amount of
buckets we can fit in a truck or trailer.
I was thinking the other day
on the possibility of using square buckets to take advantage of that
space in between.
Square buckets can cost as
much as 3 times or more what a round one goes for, and they'd have to
be mail ordered, which would add even more to the price tag. The
increase in loading capacity might be worth it to some, but I would
want to see how well they stacked on to each other when empty before
taking such a plunge.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Have your friends and family save the square laundry soap buckets for you.
I also get the 4 or 5 gallon buckets for free at the bakerys around town.
Jim --- Good tip! We need to start storing all of our buckets in the barn, actually, now that Mark has it pretty well organized. It can't hurt....
Tom --- We actually have four of those big wheeled garbage cans leftover from our school worm bin project. But I'm not sure we could manhandle them onto the golf cart if full of manure. It definitely would drastically increase our manure hauling capacity, though. I'll have to ponder that....
You could also check out your local grocery store, doughnut shop/bakery, restaurant... Anywhere they use bulk amounts of ingredients usually has food-grade pails for free (or next to nothing: )
I distrust "UV resistant" plastics - like, what EXACTLY does that mean, anyway??? 'Way better to store pails out of the sun regardless.
These substances are added to plastics to absorb UV radiation before it breaks a chain in the plastic molecule or to absorb the free radicals that form after a chain is broken.
Active stabilizers are e.g. benzophenone and benzotriazole compounds or hindered amines. These are generally used in concentrations in the order of 0.1%. I could find no adverse health effects for the typical concentrations used.
Inorganic pigments like titanium dioxide and zinc oxide also reflect, scatter and absorb UV light. Titanium dioxide is harmless under normal conditions as long as the particles are not too small (it is also used in sunscreen and as a food colorant) and the most used pigment worldwide.