JoeSpareBedroom wrote:

Actually, mycelium gives a mound of chips enough consistency that you
can pick it up with a regular pitchfork.


Maybe, but in some places, that will be a very rare occurrence.

No. Mycelium will be there in a matter of one month even in a pile left
in full sun. Certainly in place like New York. Look, I have dispatched
a dozen multi ton piles, all with a pitch fork. Once you get down to
the junk at the bottom, all the unconnected pieces, you need a snow
shovel, but the first foot to two feet depth will be solid enough to
pick up, and yet crumbly enough that you can break it by raking with
the same pitchfork.