{"id":652,"date":"2011-02-19T17:27:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T21:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/?p=652"},"modified":"2011-02-19T18:45:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T22:45:41","slug":"logging-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Logging Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Back for Another Log<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hooking Up to a Log<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We have enjoyed having another\u00a0 Logging Workshop today. Ken has been demonstrating how to safely skid logs from the woodlot to a snowy field. Gwen and Buttons two of our Suffolk Punch draft horses are behaving very well.\u00a0 We will cut up and split many of the logs for firewood later in the spring for next winter.\u00a0 Some of the better logs we will\u00a0 saw into lumber to be used for various projects around the farm.<\/p>\n

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Sunflower Oil for Winter Fuel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ken has also been experimenting this winter with sunflower oil to run diesel motors. He has added a bit of gasoline to the sunflower oil (see jar on the right).\u00a0 It keeps the sunflower oil from jelling up at cold temperatures (see far 0n left) and makes it so it will burn directly in a diesel motor without having to be first heated up or\u00a0 made into bio-diesel.\u00a0 Making bio-diesel is a complicated business and has some byproducts that are difficult\u00a0 to dispose of easily. Using our draft horses makes sense for many jobs around the farm, however we still use the tractor for front end loader work and to run a Power Take Off for our baler and bush hog. \u00a0 Ken is trying to figure out if he could grow an oil producing crop that would provide enough fuel to run the tractor\u00a0 and perhaps a diesel generator for some electrical needs.<\/p>\n

I walked down the farm today with a potential apprentice and was happy to see that the irrigation pond is almost full to over flowing.\u00a0 Our CSA garden fields are becoming visible as the snow melts and I can feel my blood starting to stir as I anticipate the spring and the coming season.\u00a0 We will soon be starting our early transplants. Most of our seeds have arrived and I am feeling rested up and ready to go again.\u00a0 I enjoy having an occupation that is so closely linked to the natural word, where the work slows down during the dark time of the year and picks up again as the days lengthen out and my energy returns. We still have some spaces in our CSA for the 2011 season. We have a steady trickle of applications coming in and in March, when people are ready to think about spring again, I will contact all our past CSA members to remind them that it is time to save their spot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have enjoyed having another\u00a0 Logging Workshop today. Ken has been demonstrating how to safely skid logs from the woodlot to a snowy field. Gwen and Buttons two of our Suffolk Punch draft horses are behaving very well.\u00a0 We will cut up and split many of the logs for firewood later in the spring for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62,73,1],"tags":[56,58,57,59,71,69,66,60,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orchardhillfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}