Excellent stuff! Some really useful practical information in there and I’m glad I’ve seen this before starting on chopping up my totes. Also love how you’ve got your kids involved. Thank you very much for sharing. A big help for those of us on a microbiological journey👍👌😎
How are you keeping the totes from freezing in winter? You are heating the barn/storage area? Red wiggler worm death starts at aboùt 40F. If the JS freezes, you get worm death & they go hydrophobic. Complete shut down. How are you solving this?
I used to farm with my father in south central Wisconsin. Back in the 80's after reading "Malabar Farm", we tried to go organic. Had NO help what so ever from the gurus at University of Wisconsin Madison. In fact, we were kind of seen as "fringe" folks. Fast forward to today and the UW Madison agronomy department is pushing rotational grazing, rotational crops and cover crops. Hm, imagine that; everything we were postulating about back then, now has the governmental stamp of approval! My suggestion (gently given) is to straighten up your totes and create a "university style presence". Label everything with the different methods. Make it real "scientific" looking. Create a single spot in a building for all of the totes so that everything appears organized. Some day you will have a "farm tour" of people that are learning this method. You want to make their education as easy as possible. I realize that you have an enormous amount of knowledge regarding this topic. And you are very passionate about healthy soil. Now, you need to formulate an easy way to help folks to assimilate and understand the nuances of this topic.
I built a 2 level IBC bioreactor and wrapped the cages with poultry wire to contain materials and stop rodent issues. The unit is mounted on a pallet sitting on 4" blocks. I placed Tivek plastic on the ground under the blocks to block invasive root mat that I have here. The bottom of the cage is the top id of the IBC with the 8" center cap removed and the opening covered with landscape fabric. This is for drainage into a tub that drains to the outside of the cage. I plan to use this drain off in my gardens. I plan to create a separate compost bin to create hot compost for a 4 week period and then place that into the Johnson Su keeping it full for an ongoing basis while harvesting from the bottom of the bin. Any suggestions you might have before I begin loading the Johnson Su would be appreciated
You can reuse water from tote again and again , just put a small tank to drain to collect water and then use a small pumps to a make shift drip irrigation system on top off tote
Kyles is an interesting take, especially when using material that is a bit hydrophobic and hard to wet - no real issue leaving it a longer period (a week say for hay/woodchip) at the start to ensure fully saturated, will be briefly anaerobic but no long-term impact. Could even add in some organic surfactants to help with the wetting.
Thanks great video. You may have already answered this but what is the benefit to using pipes for airflow VS turning a windrow with a front end loader every so often? Does disturbing the compost have a negative effect other than sudden heat loss? It seems easier to turn with a grapple fork but I'm pretty ignorant of the process. Thanks
Thanks for all the effort. I was wondering how an IBC with access panels on all for sides at the bottom would work as a continuous bioreactor by periodically adding materials to the top and removing finished material from the bottom.
just clarifying: On the tote bioreactor the reason you put the little metal underneath the bladder is to raise it up to be able to allow drainage in the holes you've made in the bladder?
Yeah I should have taken more time to explain it but the video was already getting 15 min long. I left out to much. Kyle just watched it and texted me. He also commented that I didn’t mention on his method you need to put something underneath the lid at the bottom for air flow
@@youngredangus6041 right on thanks for the quick reply and no worries about the length of the video. That third method just seemed so much easier. But it really shouldn't matter how much leg work you need to do for fungal dominant soil. Love the channel love seeing restorative practices coming back to Kansas.
for my part, I can say that we also make similar compost cubes, and separately we make cubes with straw mixed with bull or horse manure, inside this mixture we lay plastic pipes 25-30 mm in diameter in a spiral and water is supplied through them into the reactor, which heats up to 70-80 degrees and is fed into the premises, or heats the greenhouse.
Awesome I’m doing a RUclips video on Johnson Su’s being used around the world. Would you like to be in involved? If you can send me a 2 secon video of you bioreactor or a picture Please send a horizontal picture. Email to youngredangus@gmail.com
@@youngredangus6041 I will not only be grateful to you for your anticipated involvement in the process of promoting bioreactors, but I will also be happy to show you my solution. however, I am currently rebuilding a greenhouse and I want to buy a bioreactor energy recovery process, produce compost, and provide not only free water heating through these processes, but also provide enough CO2 for the plants inside the greenhouse. so as soon as everything is ready, I will be happy to host you and see everything with my own eyes. thank you for your interest. we are doing a good deed for everyone.
is there any slowly decomposing fabric you can use instead of the weed barrier matt shown here ? I´ve used it and it is no good. It breaks down so you have parts snowing on your compost. Or you have lots of single threads coming from where you cut the fabric preparing to fit your ibc or rebar mesh. I´ve seen decomposing planting pots so if there is a fabric similar to it that would be good.
@Dampflanze I use heavy cardboard when lining my upright grow rings/ovals made from wire fencing. It can last about three years (when I can find it & double line the rings) before it disintegrates. The rings are always exposed & usually have some perennials planted in. It wouldn't be a longer term solution v. using landscape fabric to line IBCs for YRA as he has multiple totes running.
@Dampflanze Yeah bike boxes! They are likely very sturdy too. I'm big on the culinary perennial herbs like lovage, thyme & oregano...etc. There are so many you can choose from. Some can take quite a bit of abuse too. If they get out of control, I divide or cut back.
Virginia, it really fluctuates with rain and temperature. It’s always 90% humidity in the summer. It’s been warm, we are still having 60deg day temps pulling ticks off the dog and had a mosquito in the house this morning lol. I assume they should not freeze during the winter or do they generate heat
@ryanradz A JS Bioreactor is a big stand-up worm bin. Worms are the engine of the fungal decomp process. Worm death begins at about 40F. Don't let them freeze for certain. Ideally they should be kept at 80% moisture. In most US climates they need to be under cover.
@@youngredangus6041 On the unit that you showed that retained the plastic ... were there any holes in that? I missed it if they were there. Is there any difference in quality of the final product between the units?
I don’t understand why bathing all the material before adding it to the reactor is necessary. Why can’t we just add the material and make it wet as we fill it?
I saw a recent video where the guy used a propane torch to cut the geotextile material so it didn't unravel, of course you need a small focused flame, not a weed burner or rosebud tip
@@youngredangus6041 this is all new to me and I find it fascinating. I use that same fabric in my garden that’s how I know you can use a torch on it. I have also been sharing a couple of you videos to a few Canadian farmers I watch regularly. I don’t know if they know about the bioreactor or not, but if they don’t I hope they watch. Our government wants farmers to cut their nitrogen back 30%. So this method you have would do that and more. I hope they spread the word too.
There in the bottoms but not on the sides. I think air still penetrates all the way down with out holes. Let me ask Kyle to respond to this and see what his experience is. This is my first year trying this.
@@youngredangus6041 Stellenbosch, South Africa. Got one going based on the cage and weedmat design but it is drying out quite fast around the edges even though I am spraying water regularly. For that reason I like the idea of Kyles design. I've got a lot of stable bedding (guessing 40% wood shavings, 40% straw and 20% manure) that I fill the bioreactors so the temperature might get high but I'll monitor that. Thanks for the videos, they are very informative.
@@danielroux1600 Can you email me pictures of the one you have? I’m doing a video and I mentioning how JOHNSON sues are being used around the world it be nice if I had a picture of yours so I could mention you in South Africa If you’re open to it email me at youngredangus@gmail.com
lay down a couple of conduits or 2x4s on your strip of weed barrier then use a propane torch to both cut and melt the ends of the fabric and then you shouldn't need to tape the weed barrier.
English is not my native language, in connection with this I did not understand why you divide the container lattice into two parts? could you explain to me. Thanks.
I don’t know what you mean by lattice? Do you mean: Why did I divide the bioreactor into 3 section? What time does this happen in the video? Let me know what time it takes place like at min 5:45 and I’ll go watch it. And maybe that will help
How long is too long for gnats to be hanging around? I made my first bioreactor 1 month ago. Have had gnats the last 10 days. Doesn’t smell as if it is going anaerobic though 🤷♂️
How was your bioreactor constructed? Is it like mine or is it David Johnson original shape? If you can dig some of it out and smell it down in there that might be helpful 620-376-8593 if you want to talk about it Remember even if it went bad chances are with the worms and time it will fix itself it just might not be fungi dominate
@@youngredangus6041 I made mine out of a chemical shuttle cage but air vent pipe only ended up being about 8 inches apart from each other. I think David says 10 inches. So I think it would have enough air. I am giving it one gallon of water every day though. Maybe that is too much 🤷♂️
@@youngredangus6041 just grass bales that went through the hay grinder. Dumped into the feeder wagon to mix with water. Unloaded into payloader bucket to make sure moisture was adequate. Then pitch forked it into bioreactor. Pulled pipes after 24 hours. Temp got up to 147 for 4 days now today finally hit 80…but it’s also been hotter then hell out too haha
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Did you try draping the weed fabric from top rail of IBC tote to bottom with some vertcal over lap along the "seams?" I don't recall. Also consider using a hand held torch gun to cut the weed fabfric edges which will also seal them to prevent fraying. There also a price tag attacher gun to help you join lengths of weed fabric rather than use tape or poke holes to insert zip ties. Using the shorter length plastic attacher might work the best. Less slack.
@@youngredangus6041 A top to bottom "drape" from the top rail of the IBC might be far less fussy. Little to no taping in place. You can do the entire container at once rather than in 2 or 3 sections. Stuff lies pretty flat if you roll it our a couple of days in advance to relax the roll curve.
@@youngredangus6041 sorry i am not Arabic, my native language is urdu. I asked that what is the true volume of air (oxygen) we require for an aerobic composting system ?
@@mianmaqboolhussain7094 I’m not sure. We have 8 inches of space between any one point to make sure oxygen can flow through the pile. Where is your farm?
Might be asking a lot but if you really passionate about this it'd be worth it is to have a video on actually making one from scratch cuz I don't know what kind of plastics in it or if it's plastic at all I heard what you said about wrapping that part that you cut out but I don't know what kind of plastic is in it I don't know what that bottom is that you just showed I mean where do you get that plastic from does it come with the tote is it part of it you know without actually seeing it being done well you just going to have a lot of people that either just say well I don't know how to do it and they won't do it or are going to be making a lot of mistakes and just give up and if you want something like this to actually grow as thorough as I see that you're trying to be without an actual making it video from you doing it step by step cuz I'd love to see it step by step and I do it but I'm still watching videos trying to figure out how you're doing it and I still don't know a lot of things like the plastic like water that bottom come from you know drilling holes okay what's a good pattern of the holes that you've seen that has worked out I mean it's a lot of things this is most of them are little things that you would I guess in your mind think that people automatically know but they don't or at least I don't and I'd start it tomorrow if I knew everything I needed to know
I reccomend looking Jadam and Natural korean farming to help you more about creating more nutritional inputs. Creatively cook up more microbial life to maximize your soil capabality.
@@youngredangus6041 Sorry, I don't mean it for being superior. But just another means to use your other various waste. To be a potential organic input that can assist in regenerative agriculture. Another phosporus heavy microbial feed for example like fermented fruit juice
@@senryuuhoutaro3353 Oh thanks. A lot of people have told me about it but I was going to hold off. I have about 7 other things I’m working on this year. Hopefully I’ll get to it
Thinking that building a Johnson composter like I use reclaimed pallets-linened with garden cloth. 4 pallets to create the unit and a pallet as a base covered with cardboard. If I put the airvent pipes in it should work as a Johnson composter.?????
Hey Grant I really appreciate the feedback. When you say sound balancing do you mean the transition from my intro to the rest of the video or something else? I appreciate the feedback and want to get better.
@@youngredangus6041 hey man yes that’s exactly what I mean i just stumbled on your video today. And I am blown away. But yes, the intro music then into he video had me aggressively turning the volume down. And then when you started speaking I couldn’t hear you. And I like the song.
The question is why to make a double bottom? That it was not the same to drill with a custom drill the same holes on the plastic anchor, why not? Anyway, you would have to drill the base. The reason is not convincing or practical, I think you should rather limit the water you should incorporate depending on the density of your organic matter.
@@youngredangus6041 about two batches a year for like 8 years... I also ran a static aerated pile operation for a couple years... so, started with mesh rings lined with shadecloth... much wider and larger 'internal' volume, the dry edges were an acceptable waste volume... used pipes to start with, but for speed, ended up driving holes with a crowbar at about day three. can add/close holes as needed! tried a version with two stacked IBC cages.. looking to do my best replication of the original Jo-Su pattern... great results, but too high to fill! so now I'm copying you! hoping to get my reactors indoors soon. I reckon that'll help a ton!
Pro tip. The edges won't fray if you kiss them with the tip of a torch. They'll fuse together when they melt.
Excellent stuff! Some really useful practical information in there and I’m glad I’ve seen this before starting on chopping up my totes. Also love how you’ve got your kids involved. Thank you very much for sharing. A big help for those of us on a microbiological journey👍👌😎
Charles thank you so much for the encouragement! Sorry for my late response. Are you into farming or gardening?
How are you keeping the totes from freezing in winter? You are heating the barn/storage area?
Red wiggler worm death starts at aboùt 40F. If the JS freezes, you get worm death & they go hydrophobic. Complete shut down.
How are you solving this?
Thanks so much for this. I have been dreaming of building a reactor for two years and now I have my inspiration.
I used to farm with my father in south central Wisconsin. Back in the 80's after reading "Malabar Farm", we tried to go organic. Had NO help what so ever from the gurus at University of Wisconsin Madison. In fact, we were kind of seen as "fringe" folks. Fast forward to today and the UW Madison agronomy department is pushing rotational grazing, rotational crops and cover crops. Hm, imagine that; everything we were postulating about back then, now has the governmental stamp of approval!
My suggestion (gently given) is to straighten up your totes and create a "university style presence". Label everything with the different methods. Make it real "scientific" looking. Create a single spot in a building for all of the totes so that everything appears organized. Some day you will have a "farm tour" of people that are learning this method. You want to make their education as easy as possible.
I realize that you have an enormous amount of knowledge regarding this topic. And you are very passionate about healthy soil. Now, you need to formulate an easy way to help folks to assimilate and understand the nuances of this topic.
Drill some 1/4 inch holes in the side of the totes. Then it won’t have aneroid conditions and you can’t get it over wet.
How are you evaluating the final product to determine quality? Smell test? Microscope? Or other testing methods?
I’ll probably go to John Nicewonger’s (neighbors) and look at some of it and some I’ll send off to Biomakers.
Interesting stuff! The horse and cow manure here in east Texas is from sprayed pastures and hay so should I avoid using it in a reactor? Thanks!!
I would avoid that
Straight leaves would work well
Working on a similar version with a "twist". How hot does you BR's get? How long are they taking to become black gold?
120 to 160 on temp
1 year
I built a 2 level IBC bioreactor and wrapped the cages with poultry wire to contain materials and stop rodent issues. The unit is mounted on a pallet sitting on 4" blocks. I placed Tivek plastic on the ground under the blocks to block invasive root mat that I have here. The bottom of the cage is the top id of the IBC with the 8" center cap removed and the opening covered with landscape fabric. This is for drainage into a tub that drains to the outside of the cage. I plan to use this drain off in my gardens. I plan to create a separate compost bin to create hot compost for a 4 week period and then place that into the Johnson Su keeping it full for an ongoing basis while harvesting from the bottom of the bin. Any suggestions you might have before I begin loading the Johnson Su would be appreciated
You can reuse water from tote again and again , just put a small tank to drain to collect water and then use a small pumps to a make shift drip irrigation system on top off tote
Would the water eventually become stale?
@@jimlewis1992 no water is being cycled all the time
Looking forward to the results. I haven't seen any demo on the result from the Su Johnson method
Kyles is an interesting take, especially when using material that is a bit hydrophobic and hard to wet - no real issue leaving it a longer period (a week say for hay/woodchip) at the start to ensure fully saturated, will be briefly anaerobic but no long-term impact. Could even add in some organic surfactants to help with the wetting.
Will you please design an extractor for small scale homesteads. Such as 5 to 20 acres.
Could you cut the fabric with a hot knife to keep it from drafting ?
I did that and I hated how it turned up
Why don't you use jute sacks?
They will keep the form, until the compost is ready.
And you can mix it at the end of the cycle
I'm going to try and use a bulk tote bag, but I really love your stacked method
Keep the videos coming. Much appreciated 😊
Thanks for the encouragement!
One’s coming this Sunday
Did Johnson Su even use that matte on the bottom? Thought they just used a wood pallet not sure
Thanks great video. You may have already answered this but what is the benefit to using pipes for airflow VS turning a windrow with a front end loader every so often? Does disturbing the compost have a negative effect other than sudden heat loss? It seems easier to turn with a grapple fork but I'm pretty ignorant of the process. Thanks
This process of composting makes the most fungal dominant compost.
@@youngredangus6041 Super thanks for the reply
Thanks for all the effort. I was wondering how an IBC with access panels on all for sides at the bottom would work as a continuous bioreactor by periodically adding materials to the top and removing finished material from the bottom.
I think you would want it to go through the hearing process.
Is it easy to get hold of those tote shells on their own? I live in Italy
Oh I’m not sure about that. But I bet you can find some that will work for making the bioreactor
just clarifying: On the tote bioreactor the reason you put the little metal underneath the bladder is to raise it up to be able to allow drainage in the holes you've made in the bladder?
Yeah
I should have taken more time to explain it but the video was already getting 15 min long. I left out to much. Kyle just watched it and texted me. He also commented that I didn’t mention on his method you need to put something underneath the lid at the bottom for air flow
@@youngredangus6041 right on thanks for the quick reply and no worries about the length of the video. That third method just seemed so much easier. But it really shouldn't matter how much leg work you need to do for fungal dominant soil. Love the channel love seeing restorative practices coming back to Kansas.
Been using stainless steal flyscreen instead of weed mat works well.
youngredangus@gmail.com
for my part, I can say that we also make similar compost cubes, and separately we make cubes with straw mixed with bull or horse manure, inside this mixture we lay plastic pipes 25-30 mm in diameter in a spiral and water is supplied through them into the reactor, which heats up to 70-80 degrees and is fed into the premises, or heats the greenhouse.
Awesome
Where are you from?
@@youngredangus6041 from central asia
Awesome
I’m doing a RUclips video on Johnson Su’s being used around the world. Would you like to be in involved?
If you can send me a 2 secon video of you bioreactor or a picture
Please send a horizontal picture.
Email to
youngredangus@gmail.com
@@youngredangus6041 I will not only be grateful to you for your anticipated involvement in the process of promoting bioreactors, but I will also be happy to show you my solution. however, I am currently rebuilding a greenhouse and I want to buy a bioreactor energy recovery process, produce compost, and provide not only free water heating through these processes, but also provide enough CO2 for the plants inside the greenhouse. so as soon as everything is ready, I will be happy to host you and see everything with my own eyes. thank you for your interest. we are doing a good deed for everyone.
Resurrecting IBC totes for a new and better purpose. Love it.
Pardon me if this question has already been asked, but have you looked at Diego Footer's re-design of the Johnson Su? Any thoughts on it if you have?
Can you do this with paper and cardboard as well added in
is there any slowly decomposing fabric you can use instead of the weed barrier matt shown here ? I´ve used it and it is no good. It breaks down so you have parts snowing on your compost. Or you have lots of single threads coming from where you cut the fabric preparing to fit your ibc or rebar mesh. I´ve seen decomposing planting pots so if there is a fabric similar to it that would be good.
I've often wondered if heavy, large brown cardboard used in shipping appliances/garage doors with drilled holes would make a better reactor liner?
There is a fine line keeping the cardboard moist and preventing from decomposing I would guess.
Keeping the outside moist is tricky
@Dampflanze I use heavy cardboard when lining my upright grow rings/ovals made from wire fencing. It can last about three years (when I can find it & double line the rings) before it disintegrates. The rings are always exposed & usually have some perennials planted in.
It wouldn't be a longer term solution v. using landscape fabric to line IBCs for YRA as he has multiple totes running.
@@flatsville9343 I will give it a try with cardboard from bike boxes. I like the idea with perennials. Which ones do you use ?
@Dampflanze
Yeah bike boxes! They are likely very sturdy too.
I'm big on the culinary perennial herbs like lovage, thyme & oregano...etc. There are so many you can choose from.
Some can take quite a bit of abuse too. If they get out of control, I divide or cut back.
would a screen material allow for efficient air flow ?
Like wire mesh instead of weed barrier matt
Is there any other reason to using black weed fabric? I was thinking about using perforated/expanded steel
That should work fine. Are you in a dry area?
Virginia, it really fluctuates with rain and temperature. It’s always 90% humidity in the summer. It’s been warm, we are still having 60deg day temps pulling ticks off the dog and had a mosquito in the house this morning lol. I assume they should not freeze during the winter or do they generate heat
@ryanradz A JS Bioreactor is a big stand-up worm bin. Worms are the engine of the fungal decomp process. Worm death begins at about 40F. Don't let them freeze for certain. Ideally they should be kept at 80% moisture. In most US climates they need to be under cover.
Would it be wise to keep the plastic tote liners in place and drill a passel of tiny little holes in them to facilitate the air movement?
The more air you can get the better
@@youngredangus6041 On the unit that you showed that retained the plastic ... were there any holes in that? I missed it if they were there. Is there any difference in quality of the final product between the units?
@@kenovercast3335
It all looks the same
I drill holes in the bottoms of the plastic one.
I have turkey brood manure that is 25:1 C:N ratio. Could I put that in a bioreactor?
I don’t understand why bathing all the material before adding it to the reactor is necessary. Why can’t we just add the material and make it wet as we fill it?
I’ve done both ways. I take them through the bath because that’s what Dr Johnson teaches.
If I understand Dr. Johnson's intent, you run it through the bathing process to thoroughly wet the material as well as wash off and remove dirt...
We are 6 months in to a reactor and have some ciliates in the analysis. How can we correct this and what did we do wrong?
Love the different designs
Thanks
I saw a recent video where the guy used a propane torch to cut the geotextile material so it didn't unravel, of course you need a small focused flame, not a weed burner or rosebud tip
Nice update. Are you keeping records on your applications and crop results?
Yes I am
If you cut it with a soldering iron no fray
You can use a torch to melt the frayed edges, much quicker
Thanks for the feedback I’ll try that next time.
Have you built some bioreactors already
@@youngredangus6041 this is all new to me and I find it fascinating. I use that same fabric in my garden that’s how I know you can use a torch on it.
I have also been sharing a couple of you videos to a few Canadian farmers I watch regularly. I don’t know if they know about the bioreactor or not, but if they don’t I hope they watch. Our government wants farmers to cut their nitrogen back 30%. So this method you have would do that and more.
I hope they spread the word too.
This is great thanks 👍
I’m excited about it
Are there holes drilled in the sides of the bladder for the last two bioreactors?
There in the bottoms but not on the sides. I think air still penetrates all the way down with out holes. Let me ask Kyle to respond to this and see what his experience is. This is my first year trying this.
@@youngredangus6041 Thanks. I am guessing that there is enough air from the bottom as you said to keep it aerobic.
@@danielroux1600
Where are you from and have you started building a Johnson Su yet?
@@youngredangus6041 Stellenbosch, South Africa. Got one going based on the cage and weedmat design but it is drying out quite fast around the edges even though I am spraying water regularly. For that reason I like the idea of Kyles design. I've got a lot of stable bedding (guessing 40% wood shavings, 40% straw and 20% manure) that I fill the bioreactors so the temperature might get high but I'll monitor that. Thanks for the videos, they are very informative.
@@danielroux1600 Can you email me pictures of the one you have? I’m doing a video and I mentioning how JOHNSON sues are being used around the world it be nice if I had a picture of yours so I could mention you in South Africa
If you’re open to it email me at youngredangus@gmail.com
lay down a couple of conduits or 2x4s on your strip of weed barrier then use a propane torch to both cut and melt the ends of the fabric and then you shouldn't need to tape the weed barrier.
English is not my native language, in connection with this I did not understand why you divide the container lattice into two parts? could you explain to me. Thanks.
I don’t know what you mean by lattice? Do you mean:
Why did I divide the bioreactor into 3 section?
What time does this happen in the video?
Let me know what time it takes place like at min 5:45 and I’ll go watch it. And maybe that will help
Why not just melt the cut edges?
How long is too long for gnats to be hanging around? I made my first bioreactor 1 month ago. Have had gnats the last 10 days. Doesn’t smell as if it is going anaerobic though 🤷♂️
How was your bioreactor constructed? Is it like mine or is it David Johnson original shape? If you can dig some of it out and smell it down in there that might be helpful
620-376-8593 if you want to talk about it
Remember even if it went bad chances are with the worms and time it will fix itself it just might not be fungi dominate
@@youngredangus6041 I made mine out of a chemical shuttle cage but air vent pipe only ended up being about 8 inches apart from each other. I think David says 10 inches. So I think it would have enough air. I am giving it one gallon of water every day though. Maybe that is too much 🤷♂️
@@juniorpfanstiel9072
What were your ingredients
@@youngredangus6041 just grass bales that went through the hay grinder. Dumped into the feeder wagon to mix with water. Unloaded into payloader bucket to make sure moisture was adequate. Then pitch forked it into bioreactor. Pulled pipes after 24 hours. Temp got up to 147 for 4 days now today finally hit 80…but it’s also been hotter then hell out too haha
what is the chance you lost lots of micro nutrient activity by draining the water and not using it on a crop field?
On the one that was Kyle Schnell’s method?
Us a hot knife to cut the cloth
Where can these IBC be purchased from?
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Also try finding people in your area that farm
They may have extras that they would give you
I was talking to someone they think you can get them from the dump
Did you try draping the weed fabric from top rail of IBC tote to bottom with some vertcal over lap along the "seams?"
I don't recall.
Also consider using a hand held torch gun to cut the weed fabfric edges which will also seal them to prevent fraying.
There also a price tag attacher gun to help you join lengths of weed fabric rather than use tape or poke holes to insert zip ties. Using the shorter length plastic attacher might work the best. Less slack.
When I do the weed barrier matt I’ve only lined it vertically. I’ve never gone top to bottom
@@youngredangus6041 A top to bottom "drape" from the top rail of the IBC might be far less fussy. Little to no taping in place. You can do the entire container at once rather than in 2 or 3 sections. Stuff lies pretty flat if you roll it our a couple of days in advance to relax the roll curve.
@@flatsville1
I do it this way so it is easy to harvest the compost at the end.
Hi Just want to ask is this method good than biogas slurry and vermi compost
I feel like it is the best method to get fungi dominant compost
hi may asked for air required for 100% aerobic system ? please enlight
I am so sorry. I don’t understand. Try asking in Arabic writing and I’ll put it through google translate
@@youngredangus6041 sorry i am not Arabic, my native language is urdu.
I asked that what is the true volume of air (oxygen) we require for an aerobic composting system ?
@@mianmaqboolhussain7094
I’m not sure. We have 8 inches of space between any one point to make sure oxygen can flow through the pile.
Where is your farm?
The tote method has enough air flow?
Great question so far it looks like they’re gonna work great. I’ll try to make sure I do an update video on that in 2023
Sounds good! Love your videos on these bioreactors! Been thinking of trying to make ‘em. From central ks.
@@kaiunruh9498
Awesome
If you are ever on the west side of the state come visit.
Are you into gardening or farming?
For sure! It would be for farming. Which of those methods on this video would you recommend me trying ?
@@kaiunruh9498
Both. What materials do you have access to for filling the bio reactor?
Might be asking a lot but if you really passionate about this it'd be worth it is to have a video on actually making one from scratch cuz I don't know what kind of plastics in it or if it's plastic at all I heard what you said about wrapping that part that you cut out but I don't know what kind of plastic is in it I don't know what that bottom is that you just showed I mean where do you get that plastic from does it come with the tote is it part of it you know without actually seeing it being done well you just going to have a lot of people that either just say well I don't know how to do it and they won't do it or are going to be making a lot of mistakes and just give up and if you want something like this to actually grow as thorough as I see that you're trying to be without an actual making it video from you doing it step by step cuz I'd love to see it step by step and I do it but I'm still watching videos trying to figure out how you're doing it and I still don't know a lot of things like the plastic like water that bottom come from you know drilling holes okay what's a good pattern of the holes that you've seen that has worked out I mean it's a lot of things this is most of them are little things that you would I guess in your mind think that people automatically know but they don't or at least I don't and I'd start it tomorrow if I knew everything I needed to know
put a 2x4 uner the end of kyle's design?
I’ve been having the boys fill them
Changes In Filling a Johnson Su Bioreactor: Make it easy enough for your kids to fill!
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This is how we did it this year
If I could give you advice on how to improve what your doing, it's keep doing what your doing! Because this old fart is learning. Cheers!
I reccomend looking Jadam and Natural korean farming to help you more about creating more nutritional inputs. Creatively cook up more microbial life to maximize your soil capabality.
Have you seen my Johnson Su videos? My Johnson Su has 365 species of bacteria and 305 of fungi
Is Jadam better than that?
Sorry about that I thought this was a different video. That’s why I asked if you seen my J/Su videos
So how is it better?
@@youngredangus6041 Sorry, I don't mean it for being superior. But just another means to use your other various waste. To be a potential organic input that can assist in regenerative agriculture. Another phosporus heavy microbial feed for example like fermented fruit juice
@@senryuuhoutaro3353
Oh thanks. A lot of people have told me about it but I was going to hold off. I have about 7 other things I’m working on this year. Hopefully I’ll get to it
GOOD VIDEO-.WHY DON'T YOU JUST LINE THE WHOLE TOTE WITHOUT CUTTING IT INTO SECTIONS???
Easier access to compost as it breaks down
Thinking that building a Johnson composter like I use reclaimed pallets-linened with garden cloth. 4 pallets to create the unit and a pallet as a base covered with cardboard. If I put the airvent pipes in it should work as a Johnson composter.?????
@@garyscharlat2871
Yes their are a lot of ways to do it.
Email me pictures let me know how it goes
@@youngredangus6041 Will do
Here are some variations on the Johnson-Su bioreactor:
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Thanks for sharing
Your videos are amazing but your sound balancing really hard to deal with thank you
Hey Grant I really appreciate the feedback. When you say sound balancing do you mean the transition from my intro to the rest of the video or something else? I appreciate the feedback and want to get better.
@@youngredangus6041 hey man yes that’s exactly what I mean i just stumbled on your video today. And I am blown away. But yes, the intro music then into he video had me aggressively turning the volume down. And then when you started speaking I couldn’t hear you. And I like the song.
@@andrewgrant3373
My friend preforms that I’ll call him and get the information for you. I think you can get it on Spotify
Was this the first video that you found?
No I watched the one where you detailed the inaccessible nitrogen in your soil and your solution to achieve excellent corn
Seems like a lot of effort to break down some poop. I get it if you have the stuff on hand but wow...
If all the things I do this has the biggest ROI with the least amount of work.
@@youngredangus6041 cool. So, I guess you have the stuff on hand. That's great.
The question is why to make a double bottom? That it was not the same to drill with a custom drill the same holes on the plastic anchor, why not?
Anyway, you would have to drill the base. The reason is not convincing or practical, I think you should rather limit the water you should incorporate depending on the density of your organic matter.
I’m sorry I don’t understand your question
blowtorch those frayed edges! melt it a little and it wont fray again!
faster than taping!
That’s great Feedback! Thanks Wade. Where are you from and how long have you been making JS compost?
@@youngredangus6041 about two batches a year for like 8 years...
I also ran a static aerated pile operation for a couple years... so, started with mesh rings lined with shadecloth... much wider and larger 'internal' volume, the dry edges were an acceptable waste volume... used pipes to start with, but for speed, ended up driving holes with a crowbar at about day three. can add/close holes as needed!
tried a version with two stacked IBC cages.. looking to do my best replication of the original Jo-Su pattern... great results, but too high to fill!
so now I'm copying you! hoping to get my reactors indoors soon. I reckon that'll help a ton!
@@youngredangus6041 oh, in South Australia... looking to build enough fungal mass in pastures again to be able to over summer perennial grasses..
@@wadeneumann4959
Awesome do you farm or garden?
@@wadeneumann4959
Awesome how many hectors of land and how many animals? I hope that is not rude to ask. In some area it is so I mean no offense
You need to create a better video. Too many gaps in instructions.
Thanks man! This winter!