{"id":2763,"date":"2016-09-12T23:05:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T22:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.129\/wordpress\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2018-01-04T20:01:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:01:20","slug":"first-turn-at-74c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/first-turn-at-74c\/","title":{"rendered":"First compost heap turn at 74C"},"content":{"rendered":"

This graph shows the temperature against time\/date of a new heap that included a slurry of pelleted chicken manure, as explained in this earlier post<\/a>. There is a gap in the data near the top of the graph – Richard had an upper limit of 70C on the data logger which he swiftly raised as a result!! You may notice that the rapid rise of temperature to danger point happened at approximately 5.30 am on a Sunday morning. Yes, this meant that Joanne woke Richard at this time to tell him, “the heap is going anerobic!!!” (very worrying and could cause a fire!) so we rushed up to the farm to turn it…!<\/p>\n

\"overheating<\/a>
overheating compost heap, turned in the morning at about 6am<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"heap<\/a>
heap contents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Heap had gone down about a third (it wasn’t loaded to the top before, down to about the first set of holes probably)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Close<\/a>
Close up of outside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Showing<\/a>
Showing inner core. It really was hot!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"detail<\/a>
detail of photo above.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Turning<\/a>
Turning the heap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This graph shows the temperature against time\/date of a new heap that included a slurry of pelleted chicken manure, as explained in this earlier post. There is a gap in the data near the top of the graph – Richard had an upper limit of 70C on the data logger which he swiftly raised as … Continue reading “First compost heap turn at 74C”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[338,275],"tags":[337],"class_list":["post-2763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compost","category-greenmantle","tag-337"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5aOO7-Iz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3250,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions\/3250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}