Trying to simply replace a 4 inch fuel line...
June 25 2009
Limited eggs, no more lettuce, garlic, and Zephyr squash.
I will be at Charlotte and Jenifer will be at Matthews.
We are also at the Tailgate Market every Tuesday along with other local growers, local food purveyors, and artists and craftspeople.
Hoeing Okra
Erin and Joe showed up Wednesday. The first thing we did was stick three different types of of hoes in the vise and use the electric hand-held grinder to to sharpen them.
In the ideal world, we would of sat in home-made wooden chairs sharpening our hoes with hand files while drinking fair trade coffee and green tea listening to "Sugar Magnolia"
No time for that, I put the grinder to the metal and let the sparks fly.
First job was hand-hoeing sweet potatoes. I had cultivated them with the tractor on Friday but they needed some hand hoeing.
Then we moved to the okra that the pigweed had grown higher than to hoe and hand weed. I had cultivated the okra the Friday before just guessing where the rows were.
After 2 years of drought, we are having to learn all again that weeds grow much faster than crops and deal with them accordingly.
Limited Tractor Acess
I use my dad's 55 hp tractor for tillage work but he uses it for hay work and to run augers into his bins.
He told me I could use the tractor for a few days because he was going to be harvesting wheat and carrying directly to the buying station.
But the buying station for wheat is filling up and there is a 3-5 hour wait to unload, grain trucks backed up past the railroad tracks.
I show up at my Dad's looking to borrow the portable hammermill to grind some chicken feed. He already had it hooked up to his 4430 John Deere tractor to move the last 60 bushels of oats from last year to this year's bin of oats.
He let me go ahead and grind my chicken feed but then I got to help clean out a bin of oats and move augers around.
Frankly, I love that kind of work. Cleaning out a grain bin is soothing. Moving grain augers around hooked to the front end loader of a tractor is a complex skill, and could kill you, but the slower you go, the better it works out.
Tractor time
I got the tractor for a few hours, tilling like crazy and go to check on Erin and Joe. They have been hoeing and pulling weeds and I had put on the bale spear to carry large round bales of straw so they could mulch the okra.
They inform me that they feel like chain-gang convicts... So we break for Lunch.
Dean Mullis
Laughing Owl Farm
www.laughingowlfarm.com
Limited eggs, no more lettuce, garlic, and Zephyr squash.
I will be at Charlotte and Jenifer will be at Matthews.
We are also at the Tailgate Market every Tuesday along with other local growers, local food purveyors, and artists and craftspeople.
Hoeing Okra
Erin and Joe showed up Wednesday. The first thing we did was stick three different types of of hoes in the vise and use the electric hand-held grinder to to sharpen them.
In the ideal world, we would of sat in home-made wooden chairs sharpening our hoes with hand files while drinking fair trade coffee and green tea listening to "Sugar Magnolia"
No time for that, I put the grinder to the metal and let the sparks fly.
First job was hand-hoeing sweet potatoes. I had cultivated them with the tractor on Friday but they needed some hand hoeing.
Then we moved to the okra that the pigweed had grown higher than to hoe and hand weed. I had cultivated the okra the Friday before just guessing where the rows were.
After 2 years of drought, we are having to learn all again that weeds grow much faster than crops and deal with them accordingly.
Limited Tractor Acess
I use my dad's 55 hp tractor for tillage work but he uses it for hay work and to run augers into his bins.
He told me I could use the tractor for a few days because he was going to be harvesting wheat and carrying directly to the buying station.
But the buying station for wheat is filling up and there is a 3-5 hour wait to unload, grain trucks backed up past the railroad tracks.
I show up at my Dad's looking to borrow the portable hammermill to grind some chicken feed. He already had it hooked up to his 4430 John Deere tractor to move the last 60 bushels of oats from last year to this year's bin of oats.
He let me go ahead and grind my chicken feed but then I got to help clean out a bin of oats and move augers around.
Frankly, I love that kind of work. Cleaning out a grain bin is soothing. Moving grain augers around hooked to the front end loader of a tractor is a complex skill, and could kill you, but the slower you go, the better it works out.
Tractor time
I got the tractor for a few hours, tilling like crazy and go to check on Erin and Joe. They have been hoeing and pulling weeds and I had put on the bale spear to carry large round bales of straw so they could mulch the okra.
They inform me that they feel like chain-gang convicts... So we break for Lunch.
Dean Mullis
Laughing Owl Farm
www.laughingowlfarm.com
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