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Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie
Horse manure from the local stable is the best I can do.
I was actually looking at dump trucks today on craigslist. I can spend $2,000 and buy one that looks like it's from the old tv show Sanford & Son. I think a $2,000 dump truck would run for about an hour before breaking down. But one less than 20 years old costs about $35,000.
A hand-operated roller bed for a standard pickup seems like a good idea. It's a conveyor belt that you crank to slowly dump the load. I saw a used one for $100.
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Even handier would be an old manure spreader that is chain driven. I had one from about 1940 when I used to raise a lot of show horses. I would muck out stalls straight into the spreader and than drive it over the fields that we grew hay on to spread. I got what amounts to a small pickup load every other day.
My parents had a turkey farm nearby when I was a kid. They spread turkey manure by the truck full in the garden in early spring and never used anything else for fertilizer.