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Originally Posted by duncanw
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Originally Posted by olbod
Andrew, thats very interesting information, thanks.
I was already thinking about crops that could have a duel purpose
such as baling for stockfeed.
It would be a shame to waste the leftovers, unless it could be used as a fuel to fire a boiler, if that is required in the ethenol process ?
I mentioned bartering. This could be done with a nearby farmer that has the harvesting equiptment already. We use his gear and he gets my
fuel. Big annual savings for both of us ?
All things must be considered.
I have had very little to do with cropping, apart from lucerne for stockfeed, and veggies etc.
My only experience has been in trucks taking it to the silo's.
When we buy our new property, we will be able to grow more than just a few cows. I like cows, they taste good.
Tired of mustering and helping out on Mates properties, its time to move back to the bush and mend me own fences.
Cheers.
The leftovers burn real well.
After canola is harvested the stubble/trash has to be raked and burnt as its too thick to put a seeder thru for the next crop,so you certainly can use it to burn in a boiler.Get them to leave the straw spreaders off on the header and you could bale the header trail.
Makes excellent garden mulch too.
Andrew
Thanks Andrew.
It seems to me that this sort of thing has a lot of offshoot applications and benefits, especially if the old harvesting machinery is also running
on homemade bio. Should be more of it.
When we were kids down on the farm, we had only a fuel stove. Some years after the war we got running water connected, still no leccy.
Granpa bought a new gal bath and a chip heater. He used to cut wood
for the stove but kept the bark for the chip heater. Nothing was wasted,
not even offal. Granma had a copper in a cut out 44 in the backyard for
clothes washing.
If a farmer grew his own and baled some of these left overs for heating
purposes he is saving money. After all, he is already burning the stuff
anyway. Solar hot water is available but dont you also need batteries
and stuff and have to maintain it ?
Read this morning in a Janes newsletter, that the USAF is setting up a
coal to liquid plant at one of their bases.
They dont want to totally rely on imported fossil oil for jet fuel.
Good idea if the Co2 immisions can be controled in the process.
The EU is mandating, smaller Co2 immision engines, both petrol and diesel
be introduced. This is limiting the size to about 1.5ltr petrol and 2ltr
diesel. This size diesol donk will only power small to mid size 4x4's.
The yanks are following suit but still with slightly higher Co2 immision
targets at the moment.
The writing is on the wall tho.
Not only a future oil shortage but a more immediate concern about
environmental damage.
Our big bro ( read Turd ) will soon be taxing cars and rego but also
rationing is already being touted.
I want to be as independant as possibe. Its not that hard if you put your back into it.
If we have a farm near a one pub two dog town, nobody will notice that
my old disco is probably unregistered and running on homemade plonk !
Be better still if the mailman can deliver me groceries and goods, because
then I wouldn't need to go off the property more than once or twice
a year.
Cheers.
PS: I think I read somewhere that all of the cars in the 2007 Indy 500,
were running on ethanol ?
For some of the young Blokes that dont know, a chip heater is just like
an eco-billy with the water flowing thru it like a nomal leccy or gas hot water system, bout the same size also. Burn anything you want in it.
Easy to make if you can weld stainless ( for longer life ). Mounted above the bath it can gravity feed from a tank. Costs nothing to run if you have some leftovers !
Cheers.