tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post123342160201963275..comments2024-03-28T04:50:14.406+00:00Comments on TPQ: Bring Back the MiddenAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-49064534734694818472014-07-07T13:56:25.209+01:002014-07-07T13:56:25.209+01:00Maybe cow-clap isn't potent enough like chicke...Maybe cow-clap isn't potent enough like chicken-shit to make it a viable option. Who knows. But another person was hospitalised I see from a slurry pit. They need to punch holes in the walls I think.larry hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09837849309156970989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-86362370697138127502014-07-07T08:15:26.720+01:002014-07-07T08:15:26.720+01:00Euro,
It's the customers who mess up the toile...Euro,<br />It's the customers who mess up the toilets. Not the staff. The staff toilets are clean. <br /><br />Larry,<br />The reason why no one has converted cow clap into re-newable energy is it's not cost effective at the moment. frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-90942710658883060192014-07-06T21:55:08.724+01:002014-07-06T21:55:08.724+01:00frankie - sorry I was not clear about the bar toil...frankie - sorry I was not clear about the bar toilet business. I meant to say a separate staff only toilet.<br /> <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-90440942082460842162014-07-06T19:06:58.845+01:002014-07-06T19:06:58.845+01:00I've seen programmes on tv about chicken shit ...I've seen programmes on tv about chicken shit being used for heating purposes among other things. Just wondering could there not be some industrial scale procedure for positive usage of cattle waste? Farmers are penny wise but not always in a positive manner. I worked in a Farm By-products factory before making bone meal where we skinned dead cattle brought in from the fields. It was a larry hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09837849309156970989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-79325125389938096682014-07-06T09:45:57.651+01:002014-07-06T09:45:57.651+01:00Euro,
Maybe this (part of) should be up to larry ...Euro,<br /><br />Maybe this (part of) should be up to larry to flesh out..but (there is nearly always a but), Larry said the cow clap should be drained into containers (like slurry pits???).<br /><br /><i>the smelly toilet problem is avoided by a staff only toilet,</i><br /><br /> Where do the customers piss & shit? On the floor of the bar or café down the road. They are ones who make the frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-30366197486317415192014-07-05T21:31:34.264+01:002014-07-05T21:31:34.264+01:00frankie - see larry already has another idea witho...frankie - see larry already has another idea without reverting back to middens!<br />about bar workers - the smelly toilet problem is avoided by a staff only toilet, the back breaking working of hauling crates of bottles and kegs of beer from storeroom to bar area can be avoided by use of appropriate trolleys and ramps if there are steps in the way. Bar workers should be talking to their trades Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-90064500653410461302014-07-05T18:59:10.268+01:002014-07-05T18:59:10.268+01:00Should probably be drained into containers for met...Should probably be drained into containers for methane and pumped into dung spreaders as required for the fields.larry hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09837849309156970989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-24038502480065483582014-07-05T12:51:36.640+01:002014-07-05T12:51:36.640+01:00Euro,
No one likes doing back breaking smelly wor...Euro,<br /><br />No one likes doing back breaking smelly work day in day out. But someone has to do it. Take bar work. It's back breaking and ball breaking. And the toilets are more often than not very smelly after people shitting & pissing in the wrong places. <br /><br />Construction workers..They have one of the hardest jobs around and build in all sorts of conditions. <br /><br /><br frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-42487150918437232812014-07-04T23:37:58.903+01:002014-07-04T23:37:58.903+01:00Frankie - most people don't like doing backbre...Frankie - most people don't like doing backbreaking smelly work day in, day out. Why condemn them to it when we (the govt) could get some scientists or engineers to apply their trained minds to the job of improving safety? <br />Just off the top of my head - couldn't some sort of alarm system be fitted - loud noise, flashing lights - automatic locks so the door in doesn't open - to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-84555701442944064442014-07-04T20:39:04.787+01:002014-07-04T20:39:04.787+01:00Euro,
We don't have the experience that JC ha...Euro,<br /><br />We don't have the experience that JC has. And until a solution is found his idea seems like a goer..<br /><br /><i>‘mucking out the byre’ was a daily ritual. The ‘cow clap’, as the manure was affectionately known, was shovelled into a wheel barrow and taken to an open site in the fresh air – called the ‘midden’ – where it was dumped. There were no enclosed slurry tanks or frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-19569912494975472822014-07-04T19:23:54.253+01:002014-07-04T19:23:54.253+01:00Frankie - I haven't the technological/farming/...Frankie - I haven't the technological/farming/scientific background to propose a solution to slurry deaths. <br />I presume slurry pits were created as a solution to midden-related problems, whatever they were.<br />But the slurry pit itself is beset with dangers. <br />Rather than reverting back to the same old, same old, people with the know-how should be working towards developing a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-10352312438660530502014-07-04T12:40:48.981+01:002014-07-04T12:40:48.981+01:00euro,
What's your suggestion to prevent more ...euro,<br /><br />What's your suggestion to prevent more people dying in slurry pits?<br /><br />Whats wrong with going back to basics? Surely if something isn't broke, why fix it?<br /><br />frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-85902654461517302072014-07-03T19:12:11.603+01:002014-07-03T19:12:11.603+01:00Definitely a need for ventilation in those slurry ...Definitely a need for ventilation in those slurry tank buildings. Insane going into those things. larry hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09837849309156970989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-20494250526577055862014-07-03T16:59:17.692+01:002014-07-03T16:59:17.692+01:00I've never heard of 'the midden' and i...I've never heard of 'the midden' and if bringing it back saves one life then it's money well spent.<br /><br />What price is three score and ten..10k per year, 20k-50k?<br /><br />frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.com