WHAT BACKDRAFT ?
Posted on 02/23/2005 9:52:22 PM PST by kingattax
MILFORD, Neb. - It took nearly four months, but to the relief of neighbors miles around, a burning manure pile has been extinguished.
David Dickinson, owner and manager of Midwest Feeding Co., said Wednesday that several weeks of pulling the 2,000-ton pile apart proved effective by late last week.
"We got far enough through it, that it quit," Dickinson said.
Dickinson's feedlot, about 20 miles west of Lincoln, takes in as many as 12,000 cows at a time from farmers and ranchers and fattens them for market.
Byproducts from the massive operation resulted in a dung pile measuring 100 feet long, 30 feet high and 50 feet wide. Heat from the decomposing manure deep inside the pile is believed to have eventually ignited the manure.
The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality told Dickinson that his smoldering dung pile violated clean-air laws and it worked with him as tried to extinguish it.
Huge feedlots have become commonplace, and dung fires have occurred around the country.
Dickinson said his pile may have been ignited in part because of grass clippings his feedlot had been accepting from the city of Milford. The clippings could be more combustible and he plans to stop accepting them, Dickinson said.
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Information from: Lincoln Journal Star
Is this about the end of the Democrat Party in Nebraska?
WHAT BACKDRAFT ?
lol...true
Did Senator Hagel set himself a blaze again?
>> Burning Manure Pile in Nebraska <<
What - Mikey Moore is in Nebraska???
In Nebraska this is breaking news.
What a lofty load of bullsqueeze.
Wasn't there a song called, "The Night the Dung Went Out in Nebraska"?
its on the Gomer "Pyle's" Greatest Hits CD
Of course! Let me get out my living room copy now.
yeah,...I can imagine Jim Nabors belting that one, BTW,its exploding manhole cover season here in NYC,one went off last week,6 floors below my kid's window
its exploding manhole cover season here in NYC,one went off last week,6 floors below my kid's window
What's the airspeed of an exploding manhole cover?
And what makes 'em explode? Steam?
actually,they can go 20ft or so,a car was parked over the one below us,...a few years ago,a cabbie was injured when one blew as he was driving near us,it landed on his hood
But is steam release responsible?
maybe with the access covers for ConEd steam sytem,...but these[most common]are when salt erodes wire insullation,sparks and burns,and with this one below us,burned for almost an hour as FDNY & ConEd tried to turn off small gas fed fire plus elec,...it was a zoo,...then they had noisey fans running 24/7 to vent underground FOR A WEEK!! no kidding
Coming soon to a theater near you: Punk rock band's new movie, directed by Michael Moore
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