anthoma

Every year approx 4 weeks before end of Buddhist Lent (this year 19 october) they start playing with firecrackers here in our village south in Ubon. For 4 weeks now i hear firecrackers from early morning to late nigth.Hundreds of them every day. Some og them are very powerfull. The children have school holliday so they have time to play with this all day. Last night was the last day of buddhist lent and it was like living in a warzone. Its driving me crazy. Last year was bad but this year it was much worse and probably next year even more worse.

I asked a friend living in Petchabun and he say there was no firecrackers there.

Is this a Isaan custom or is it only our village that have this stupid tradition.

Anybody know if any bank in Ubon has a coin counting machine. Ive been saving alot of coins for some time and would like to change them. Lokal bank count them manually and thats a huge job when you bring them a big bag with coins.

Not true.

even though a good forum they are incorrect.

One of the legal sites has a copy of the act in English. Search for Por Ror Bor.

If you do not have it you can be fined 10000baht and also liable for injuries..

I think the confusion it that techically since that date the insururane is recorded on youjr tax disk by the traqnsport department. Although police still ask for it you technically do not have to carry your insurance papers if you have a tax disk. It will still cost you though.

No Por Ror Bor no tax disk.

I believe your rigth, but here is another link to a web page of an insurance brooker that stated the same.http://isaaninsurance.com/insurance/car-insurance/

http://www.orientexpat.com/thailand/faq/motor-insurance According to this web page it is not longer required to have CPTL (Compulsory Goverment Insurance) if you have 1 class insurance on your car. The lokal transport office say that we have to have CPTL insurance even if we have 1 class insurance.

Anybody know?

Went to Phibun immigration today to get 1 year visa extension on my visa based on married to thai. I brought all the documents requiered according to last years visit including some photos of me and my wife sitting outside our house. But no. They wanted pictures of us INSIDE the house. Well instead of driving 100 km back to our house we phoned our daugther and she emailed som pictures of us inside the house. Got them printed out and went to immigration office again. But no. The pictures whas not sharp enough and they showed to little furniture inside the house. So we had no other choice after spending almost all day in Phibun than to return back to our home, take new pictures and return back tomorrow.

Thank you for the replies. I guess i feel a little less worried. Just have to se what happend when i go to immigration office in the beginning of april.

Has anybody any experience with Phibun Immigration office regarding extension of stay based on married to thai? Reason i ask is that i now have visa based on retirement but now when i got married i like to reply for extension based on married to thai (400 000 baht vs 800 000 baht). No i read somewere that the immigration office has to come to your home to interwiev your neigbours to check if you realy live together with your wife. Thats not a problem, but what i am afraid the neigbours will tell them is that i work alot on the farm. They call me workaholic here because they se meg go to the farm offen. I dont work much, but sometimes i help a little bitt at the farm and now i worried that this can get me into trouble. Anybody experience if Phibon immigration make you a home visit?

IssanAussie, could you please give an estimate about your mashine's cost to buy such?

Also if you can give some avarage number on the productivity, ie. how long is to cut 1 rai for example.

We have a smaller rice field ( 7 rai) so, maybe harvester isnt much an option, as the field is small, but finding labourers not always easy neither.

I already bought this brush cutter, a Honda 4 stroke and payd approx 7500 baht for it. You can get cheap chinese machines for about 3500-4000 baht but my experience is that they have very bad quality.

Since i already have the machine the investment will only be the attachement to put on top of the blade to collect the rice.

Last year we had 20 rai with rice. Hired 25 people to cut, bundle and carry to the tractor. 20 people cut (150 baht each pr day) and 5 people bundle and carry (200 baht each). I think the people we had was very slow. They used 2 days and that meens that each worker cut about half rai pr day. We only got about 150 kg pr rai last year because of drought and deseese (spelling?) so the harvestingcost inkl. separating the rice was more than 30%.

Another thing is that its getting more and more difficult to get people to work.

Thank you for interesting reply IsaanAussie. I will try to get this wire framed guide and give it a go. Our harvestingcosts are way to high compare to what we get from the rice so i have to try everything that can reduce the costs.

Anybody tried to cut rice like this? Will it work?

No, the problem would be solved if you told us what shop you are talking about.

I dont know the exactli adresse but coming from Warin driving Chayanggoon road the shop is on the right side approx 500 meter after Tungsimuang park. Passing Ubon Plaza and then next to Ubon Plaza there is a hotel we dont remember the name on, but they have a bar called Piano. The shop is exactly opposit this hotel.

The shop looks very small from outside, but have a big stock of motorcycleparts inside.

Sorry for my bad English and spelling but hope this gives you a clue on were this shop is.

Got the tubes in a shop in Ubon today. Been there before and they said thei were sold out.Tried the same shop again today and they had got them back in stock so the problem is solved.

Are you refering to Tubes??? If can not find local, call Dr Bike in Bangkok they will send on bus, for small fee.

Yes, tubes was the word i could not remember. I will try to call Dr. Bike if i can not find any when i go to Ubon tomorrow. Thank you.

What kind of bike are we talking about?

Its a 250 cc Platinum. Size of the tires is 130/90-15. Its actually the rubber inside the tire (dont know the english name for it) that im looking fore.

Anybody know were to buy tires for big motorbikes in Ubon?

We asked in alot of motorcycleshops but they only have for the small motorbikes.

Thanks for the replies.

I used to order som smoked ham, sausages and bacon from a company in Phuket, but unfortunantly they have now canselled their services. I live south i Ubon and i think a daytrip to buriram will be too far, but Prasat in Surin is about 200 km from here so that would not be so bad. Maybe worth at trie and stock up my freezer from this company in Surin.

Anybody have any experience with products from this company in Prasat, Surin?

http://www.staffordsfoodsthailand.com/specials.php

Two days ago som people from goverment came to our street and vaccinated all the dogs against rabies. We live in a small village in Isaan. So they are trying to do something about it.

Hi anthoma, thought you might want to check out the long tail pipe and Honda engine that i've mention above

in regards to transporting water to your paddies plots...

here's the link...

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?s=...t&p=3237478

Thank you for the link RedBullHorn. Very interesting about these long tail pipes. We have them here in our village. Can rent them for 150 bath pr day. Here they come with a pulley and they connect them to the twowheel tractors with a rubberband.

No i,ve been pumping water with my tractor into a about 1 Rai paddy for one months. The rice is growing fine. It takes about 3-4 hours to flood the paddy. What im thinking about is since i have a tractor with 24 hp that it would be possible to connect both my pump connected to the tractor, and a long tail pipe and run them from the pto on the tractor. The pulley i have on the pto i can connect two rubbebands. The pump on the tractor is connectet over the pto, and if i then put the long tail pipe under the tractor, it maybee should be possible to run both pumps and get about 150 000 liter pr hour. That would flood the paddy in 1 hour. Before i buy one of these long tail pipes i will rent one and try it out.

I will now make a 80 meter canal from were i put the pump and to the paddy so it will be easy for me to transport the water. Now im using a firehose but if i also like to use the long tail pipe i have to buy one more firehose and they was a bit expencive.

I was also looking at the 14 hp Kubota but choosed to go up one step to the 24 hp. The price we got on the 14 hp was 195 000 bath including 5 disk plough and the knife in front. For the 24 hp with 5 disk plough and knife we payed 354 000 (cash). The 14 hp is 2WD and belt driven but the 24hp is 4WD and not belt driven. We will do alot of ploughing and then i think we will need the ekstra power and the 4WD.

Head means how far the pump will lift the water - in this case 30 M from the discharge point. This is in a perfect world, you will never see this much. Lift means how far from the suction inlet it will raise the water - same rule applies. Both these figures will never be realized in real life. Use as few bends as possible, and if you must make them gentle bends not abrupt changes of direction.

Thank you for the answer. I dont need to lift the water but i need to transport it straigt from the pump to the closest paddie and thats about 60 meter. I was thinking about using a firehose and that should then not be a problem since i dont have to pump uphill.

Thanks for all the help.

Just one more question. What does max head 30 m means? Is it if you connect a firehose ore pvc-pipes to the pump they should not be more than 30 meter, ore does it meen that you cant pump more than 30 meter up?

Thats exactly what we are doing now. My GF found a guy at a local workshop that is a "spesialist" on this she said. He knows exactly what to do according to here. He's building everything into a frame that we then connect to the tractor. The only thing i'm worried about is the size of the weel connected to the shaft that goes into the pto. I told my GF to explain to him about the 960 rpm on the pto against the 4000 rpm on the pump. The looks on the guy when my GF explained this to him did not make me confedent, but maybe he was bothered by beeing explained thing that he already know. Well we have to see what we get.

Yes - agreed: a 3point hitch mounted frame is your best option - but are you sure about that pump speed - 4000rpm(??), and I hope you are not running a pump that requires x hp from a tractor engine that produces x hp(?). Thats okay if you are running in direct drive (i.e. no gears or pulleys), but it won't work if you are having to increase the pto shaft speed through pulleys to bring it up to the pump rpm speed - the torque required is not going to be avaliable from the tractors engine to turn the pump efficiently.

Remember - if you multiply your pto shaft speed 4 x, you are going to have significant impact on the torque required e.g. if the pump requires x amount of hp to turn at 4000rpm (and I'd check that speed again to make sure), and the tractor engine speed has to be multiplied 4 x's through a 1:4 ratio primary/secondary pulley arrangement, you'd better check a number of things:

1) engine torque output i.e. you are almost certainly going to have to run the tractor not at max engine hp rpm, but at max engine torque rpm - which is usualy around 25% less than max hp rpm on small/medium sized tractors.

2) your tractor hp output is going to have to be around double the hp requirement of the pump.

3) you are going to almost certainly have to use 2, and better still 3 belts - and ensure the belt profile is the correct profile for the pulley groove profile - else you are going to suffer from slip (10% slip will equal 10% more fuel consumed - in simple terms), excessive heat build up and quick belt breakdown also results when the belt/pulley profiles don't match.

Belt & pulley arrangements can be very efficient drive transfer and multiplication set-ups, but if not set up PROPERLY they become very in-efficient.

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- PTO shaft power is normally around 10% - 15% less than the tractor engine rated output power.

- if you have a 540 rpm option on the pto - use this speed (much better torque output characteristics) and set the primary/secondary pulley ratio for 1:8

- check the pump rpm/volume/pressure graph - there may be some benefit to running this pump at one or other end of the graph to get the best efficiency.

- chance of a picture of the pump and some info regards its rpm/flow/pressure outputs (graph)?

- you are worried about the size of the pulley? - the pulley on the pto side, whatever size it is, should have a circumference of around 4 times longer than the circumference of the pulley on the pump side (for a 1 turn to 4 turn ratio) - take a piece of string and wrap it around the wheel/pulley groove, and use this to compare the 2 - will give you a fairly accurate indication of the relationship between the 2.

I been to the workshop again and checked the pump he is using. Its the same pump that they use in these Honda gasolinpumps.

There are two spesifications on the pump. One for pumping capasity 900 l/m and one for 1100 l/m.

For 900 l/m it says rpm 3600, hp 5 and max head 30m.

For 1100 l/m it says rpm 4000, hp 6 and max head 38m.

On the rpm-meter on the tractor there is a red mark on 2500 rpm and under its written in red: pto 540 so now i know how much speed i have to have on the tractor to get 540 rpm on the pto. The tractor has 24 hp.

His not started to make anything yet because he had to order a shaft from Ubon city so i dont know excactly what his plan is but i just have to hope that he knows what his doing.

Thats exactly what we are doing now. My GF found a guy at a local workshop that is a "spesialist" on this she said. He knows exactly what to do according to here. He's building everything into a frame that we then connect to the tractor. The only thing i'm worried about is the size of the weel connected to the shaft that goes into the pto. I told my GF to explain to him about the 960 rpm on the pto against the 4000 rpm on the pump. The looks on the guy when my GF explained this to him did not make me confedent, but maybe he was bothered by beeing explained thing that he already know. Well we have to see what we get.

Thanks for the replies and the link. I red Maizenfarmers post about the pump connected to a PTO and it was very interessting reading. Also a good tips from Gary A that i had to see that the pump was driving in the same direction as the PTO. That was not in my mind so here i could loose som money.

I guess the gearboxs he is talking about here is the same as if i connectt the pump to the pto with rubberbelt and that i adjust the size on the wheel on the pto so i get the rigth rpm on the pump?

Today i went to Ubon city to look for pump. We went both to Kubota and to Yanmar, but knowbody there had a clue about this. So we went to a big shop selling all kinds of pumps but also here they could not help us anything.

One kind of pump i looked at is the same kind of pump they use in these Honda gasolinpumps. But these had a wheel so you can connect to a engine with a rubberbelt.

The rpm on all these pumps were 3600 - 4000 and the capasity on the largest was 1000 l/m.

There was also a different kind of pump a little bit bigger and more solid and heavy and they had a rpm about 1500-2000. The biggest one of them with 4 inch connections did not have the spesifications on so i'm not sure but smaller pumps of that kind (not same brand) said 50m3 pr hour and rpm 1600.

Both these kind of pumps (the largest ones) kost between 3-4 000 bath.

If i buy the first kind of pump i need to get the RPM up to 4000. If i use the pto on 960 that will say that i have to connect a wheel to the pto that is 4 times larger than the wheel on the pump. Is that right?

Maybe stupid question but how do you see if at wheel si 4 times larger. Do yo go for the diameter ore the cm/ inch around the wheel?

And finaly a last question. On the pumps they said: Max head 30-40m. What does that meen?