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that's my horse
JoJoCo wrote:
Mr. Obvious wrote:Is ten pounds a large shit for a trail horse? Did you weigh them? What is the standard deviation?
PoTD
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Ten pounds wet or dry? I think the OP meant wet, but I have a hard time believing that a wet horse pile could even weight 10 pounds. We are talking about a lot of poop in 10 pounds! Regardless, the most honest measurement would use a kiln to remove the water content and then weigh the remaining dried organic material.
This will answer some of your questions.http://extension.psu.edu/animals/equine/horse-facilities/documents/horse-manure-characteristics-literature-and-database-review
weigher wrote:
JoJoCo wrote:PoTD
Mr Obvious is about to become my favorite letsrun member
Ten pounds wet or dry? I think the OP meant wet, but I have a hard time believing that a wet horse pile could even weight 10 pounds. We are talking about a lot of poop in 10 pounds! Regardless, the most honest measurement would use a kiln to remove the water content and then weigh the remaining dried organic material.
"But this wasn’t just a British crisis: New York had a population of 100,000 horses producing around 2.5m pounds of manure a day.
This problem came to a head when in 1894, The Times newspaper predicted... “In 50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure.â€
This became known as the ‘Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894’.
The terrible situation was debated in 1898 at the world’s first international urban planning conference in New York, but no solution could be found. It seemed urban civilisation was doomed."
Yes they do although they were going to outlaw horses but not sure if the backlash changed that decision. There are many places that require horse diapers.
Former Boulder Dude wrote:
Horse of Roy wrote:Is this a Trigger for you?
This is merely the result of a high fiber diet. It is not disease ridden nor does it attract vermin.
1. I hope you are joking.
2. Manure carries millions of bacteria, parasites, and viruses.
3. Manure is used as a LURE to attract vermin by exterminators.
Thanks for playing.
None of them are any more harmful than what you get from your own species in a public bathroom.
Why would exterminators want to attract something? Isn't it already where they want to exterminate it?
You make no sense.
A manure pile for horses just sits there composting. You don't see any other type of waste just sitting out like that do you?
You don't know sh*t about horsesh*t.
I'm so keen-o on Beef-A-Reeno...what a delicious cuisine-o...fit for King and Queen-O.
That's me. It's not a horse. I eat a lot of fiber. And I'm vegetarian, so it's okay to leave it on the trail.
Get over it.
Route 36 Runner wrote:
Curious to know whose horses are taking 10lb shit piles right smack in the middle of the South Boulder Creek Trail in Boulder, CO? Whose job is it to clean them up?
I agree with you. There is a multi use trail near where I live that is used by runners, walkers, cyclist and families with kids. Every now and then a horse comes by and ruins it. I feel bad for the parent with little kids trying to avoid.
If you have a horse use a more rural isolated trail.
This made me think about the approach to a great mountain here in the Northwest. The horse poop really ruins the ambiance.
It could be the ranch owners and their horse(s) who allow the city through a conservation easement to use use the land and build the trail. Be careful what you ask for and they will happily keep their poop and remove you the runner.
And we can remove them from the BLM land too. Quid pro quo.
Sorrrrrrrrry, Willlllburrrrrrr...
pnwhking wrote:
This made me think about the approach to a great mountain here in the Northwest. The horse poop really ruins the ambiance.
This made me think of a certain great mountain here in the Himalayas. The human feces and dead bodies left there really ruins the ambiance.
Wyomingite wrote:
Howdy from your Wyoming neighbor,
I am wondering who is going to clean up the shit that is the Front Range of Colorado?
You wanted your P.F. Changs and your Centerra Shopping Centers but don't want to deal with the problems of an overpopulated area?
You reap what you sow, you greenies.
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So true, so true! PTOD!
I did a cross country road trip this summer, and the worst road traffic that I encountered over my entire journey was in the Colorado Front Range. Just way to many people in an area that has not been adequately prepared for that kind of population. Such a mess.
I overheard a strange conversation between two hikers the other day who encountered a10lb shit on the trail... "Looks like horse shit." (Bends down for a closer look). "Smells like horse shit." (Picks up a sample). "Tastes like horse shit... Good thing we didn't step in it!"
Former Boulder Dude wrote:
"The West" as you romanticize no longer exists. It's really just small-town, rural America. We have iron horses that guzzle fossil fuels and we buy our goods at Walmart instead of the general store. Most people in those towns still think it's ok to shoot others for stealing, so, I guess you have that going for you.
Hmm. Leaving horseshit aside briefly (Mr. Obvious pretty much said all that had to be said on that), I think the west I've been living in for decades does exist. No one gets too excited about horse crap on a trail, except for recent transplants from places like LA (or Boulder, apparently). A lot of us attempt to limit their use of 'iron horses' (talk down much? I have a PhD) to keep the old carbon footprint down. Not a whole lot of shooting anyone for stealing, or for anything else really, in the town where I live.
To get back to the central issue, no way that thing weighed 10 lbs dry. Wet, sure, no problem.
That was not a horse. That was Jason Rexing. He never stopped his watch and still finished a 10K tempo run in under 28:00 in trainers.
BigTex wrote:
That was not a horse. That was Jason Rexing. He never stopped his watch and still finished a 10K tempo run in under 28:00 in trainers.
+1 legend has it he did it at BolderBoulder 10k too and the frank shorter statue fell over when he passed by
Horse of Roy wrote:
Is this a Trigger for you?
This is merely the result of a high fiber diet. It is not disease ridden nor does it attract vermin.
It probably was Trigger.