My wife just came home and said she’d heard a woman on the show ask about what damage might happen from compost that had been stored in the trunk of her car for two months. The most likely impact would be a little surface rust on any unprotected metal from the moisture in the compost. The trunk ru…

Also finished compost doesn’t generate heat, so there’s no safety issue. You can buy compost in hardware stores.

Ok, for the record compost is not dirt, however given they way it is made it may contain significant quaitities of dirt. Compost is largely organic matter in an advanced state of decay. Yummy! Dirt, or more appropriately “soil”, means mineral soil. For the non-math/science kids in the room that i…

Um, yeah, filed under “S” for “Sez you”. A lot of the grass in my front yard is rooted in previous generations of grass in addition to all the rocky stuff. Plus squirrel carcasses, etc. N.B. none of this will ever be converted into petroleum by migrating thousands of feet down into the Earth. If…

Not to worry, she’s getting a new one. The next question…how much will it affect trade in ?

It won’t. Both this car and the next one are free.

My sources tell that compost weighs between 38 and 70 pounds per cubic foot. The Mustang has a 13 cu ft trunk so at the low end (40 lb per cu ft) theres between 520 and 900 pounds of weight sitting above and behind the rear wheels. The 2011 Mustang is rated for a maximum load of 700 pounds, the aver…

“The 2011 Mustang is rated for a maximum load of 700 pounds” So a Mustang can’t carry four average sized men? That assertion makes me call bogus on your entire post.

Have you ever tried to fit 4 “average sized men” in that car? Can’t be done. Well, it can, but only if they’re willing to be intimate. :slight_smile:

weird. With regards to the weight of compost in trunk. I work part time for a friend who owns a nursery delivering mulch, compost and gravel by the truck load. I’m by no means an expert but can only say that it can be heavy if stored outside, though not as heavy as gravel. But if one compact tracto…

Compost can be a lot lighter than 38 lbs/cu ft. It depends on the moisture content. If it was outside in dry weather for awhile, it can get very light, but one rain will make it very heavy. Once it has settled, it won’t move around. I would get it out of there though, its only good in the garden…

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My mother used to throw a bale of hay into the back of her mustang convertible. I came home from college and she was clipping the grass growing in her back seat. Compost contains seeds, not all seeds are killed by composting!

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