Foreverford

Where do you get the frames for the hives here in Thailand? If you can get your drum and or hives eventually on an island of sorts with a litlle moat of water around it then it will keep the ants away. as you just saw, the bees will swarm and be gone to a new location at times. I think you ought to leave that barrel alone and let them establish themselves and create a strong colony. You could get a regu;lar hive and place it right next to the barrel and they may migrate to it. If in a year or two if they are doing well then try to move them into a different abode if you wish. Honey bees in the US have been decimated by mites and are, I think, well below 50% of historical norms (Ag Fruit meltdown with no pollinator?). I'd recommend buying some of your local honey and count your good luck that your, and the neighbors fruit trees and all flowering plants are being well tended by the great little beasts. ol Dag

Hello FEF, will be going back to the show tue? wed?, will ask.

rice555 ps, more rain all last night!

Hey Buddy let that wet stuff fall and I hope the sun shines on your trip there mid week. We haven't got the rain yet as the rest of the country is awash but still have a bunch in reserve in the klong and lake on one of the farms. You almost got me again with that first photo but when enlarged it sure looks like the derndest manure spreader I've ever seen. The tires look way too narrow and it appears to dump pretty fast so might need to be moving rather rapidly. I'm still curious what that other monster orange thing grinder looking Transformer machine is used for from your other photos before. Choke Deee and let it rain on me. Fools with a Feelin' on Fords Forever ....or was Taj always sayin' "Blues with a feelin' "

You will also find this under green manures that is pinned at the top of this sub-forum but this is a fantastic site that I think all farmers should be happy to have as a source. Many thanks to Khonwan.

Hi Wigantojapan. Courtesy of Google, website in Thai & English: http://www.ldd.go.th/

Rgds

Khonwan

Forever Finding Fantastic Foundations to the Future with Fords

There is also the same topic that I started on the regular Forum that has some great info also. FF

I don't know about your area or about current availability, but in Chiang Mai I got free jack-bean seeds from the 'Land Development Office' (about 10k north of the SuperHwy on the Mae Rim (107) hwy, on the west (Doi Pui) side between the hospital and the (121) ring road).

At that time they had black beans, sesbania and others too. We didn't need a 'tabien baan', only my wife's ID, filled out a form with address and amount of rai. They calculated coverage rates and based the allotment on that; we pulled around back with the pickup and they loaded us up with the appropriate number of sacks of seed. I was only seeding about 4 rai, so I don't know what their upper limit is.

The land development office also does free soil analysis. The only problem is that it takes 45 days (sent to Lampang) and is a very basic NPK report with no interpretation or recommendations. I get better, more complete, 2 week soil analysis reports from Mae Jo University soil science department for 500 baht. And they have a soil science professor available to interpret and make recommendations for amendments if needed.

But you don't need a soil analysis to 'green manure'. don

Hello d treelove

is it possible you can give me the name of the land developmet office in Thai please thank you

Hi Wigantojapan. Courtesy of Google, website in Thai & English: http://www.ldd.go.th/

Rgds

Khonwan

Hey Sweet Man what a fantastic site!!! Thanks so ever much. I'm going to repost this website so it doesn't fall through the cracks what a great source. I am getting pretty slow as I completely missed What Wigantojapan was looking for. i just basically opened it up but am reaqlly looking forward to getting into it. Again thanks much. Found at the Ford Forever

Hi ForeverFord,

I'm in Khon Kaen and also have several different types of bananas (sorry I don't know the names) including a dwarf variety only about 1m high (but normal sized fruit), a tall variety about 5 metres high, a commercial chiquita type about 3 - 4 metres high, the common nam wah variety, and so on. And they all give fruit without much care. I do trim off the older leaves with the leaf spot disease to reduce infection of the newer leaves. I also chop out some of the suckers sometimes to thin the numbers of stalks (it's best to have only three stalks (of different ages) per plant at a time - a grandmother, mother and daughter - to avoid overcrowding and to maintain a steady succession of bunches.

The nam wah types (the short stubby/chubby bananas, commonly seen everywhere in Thailand) are generally tough plants and the fruit can be eaten fresh or cooked.

I wonder if you have some sort of soil problem - perhaps nematodes (eelworms)? Or a hard layer not far below the surface (plough pan)?

JB.

Yo Two Wheel Vine Jumper. Just reread your post and now definitely understand your great help and advice. We definitely had way too many suckers as most of the trees were very old established groups and the new ones were abundant in their pushing of new suckers. Mother, daughter and grandmother description was completely missed by me but now is perfectly clear and a great way to describe good and proper cultivation methods for these tropical wonders. I think we're cool on all the rest of the growing aspects (lots of EM chicken manure, compost and water and now trying nano-calcium) as the super-stock from Kaesetsart had about three tons of mass in way less than a year only problems with the monsters was that we let about 8-10 suckers get to 10 feet when there should have been only one of those and and another one or two coming out of that sucker. Hot dog that has ggot to be it and you are now my hero forever so simple but so ignorant. Wow victims of the trees to tough to fruit. They are very very vigorous growers and if i had done it right right now we could be looking at having probably over a dozen flowing with fruit. The one with fruit now has well over a hundred bananas hanging and maturing how glorious to see dozens any who it'll be that way within a year i hope now. If so I'll bring you over a few of the suckers and let you give them A TRY. Finding the Facts with Fords Forever

Three in a row and a bonus point!

Hey there you Swinger with the Oldest. I'm thinking what in the hell is this guy yapping about? Maybe a bit of being real old and losing it? I couldn't come up with a good clever repartee to your post but today i was going to try. Well Boom Baby Boom I had to crack up and start chuckling as I reviewed the entire topic and noticed that I had done a three-peat with my posting. Maybe I better get a mirror out if i want to look for the crazy man. FFFF (A Four in a row)

Hello FEF, that reel mower was for a golf coarse, you know, like a gang of push mower.

Toro, ring any bells? They had/have one sitting in the yard close to that chipper pic.

Now to be OT, here some of the chippers I saw friday. They had PTO, gas , electric and

LPG.

They also had other toys, some wider than a ford.

rice555 in a wet Muang.

Hey there Mr Hom Mali. I thought there was a remote chance you may have been talking about golf course equipment and a gang mower as I have seen way too many of those type of mowers. basically useless unless you have a turfgrass situation and lots of it (think golf course). Those last three photos are interesting as one looks like Howard has a display of their rotovators, I've got a 2.3 meter buffalo that is very heavy duty. If you go back I'd appreciate if you have a chance to see what they are asking for that conical 3-point, PTO broadcast seeder/fertilizer that they have on that tractor and a contact # if possible. Also what in the heck is that big monster orange grinder up looking morphidite machine. I got a hold of Dr Treelove and amazingly he lives about a couple miles away from my mom here. It's an amazingly small world sometime. so we are going to get together and tell some lies. I hope all that wet finally gets to us in Lavia as everywhere has got their fair share of that liquid wonder but it seems to want to just pass us by. gonna make a call now to see. choke dee or as Issan Aussie said to me recently, artichoke dee FF

Checked the Further Tour and four tickets are nearly a grand US if you get gen ad it is a little less than half that, ridiculous. I thought Lesh had already paid for his new liver and Weir being a Atherton boy don't need the money I would think. Not quite like the Be-Ins and free concerts at El Camino Park in Palo Alto in the old days. "no I will not share your laughter Ship of Fools"

Anytime the free market is manipulated by govt it just doesn't seen to work. Wow, real brain child, this guy. Mo Betta. Almost anything the government gets involved in doesn't work. Too tough to want to farm and sell your product and feel as if you are a criminal. Did I hear right that rice has been controlled at 195 for 5 kilos as max price for packaged rice? I was checking Hom Mali the other day and it was up to 220-230 a 5 kilo bag. Must be regular rice that's controlled and must exclude organic, fortunately it's been a long time since we have bought rice. Someone just wrote that sexed rhode island red chicks are going from 30-50 baht. I thought I saw a whole chicken cooked and being sold in Tesco (I was spying on the competition) the other day for 95 baht. I paid nearly 250 for one at the butcher shop that was ready to Roast and nearly 2 1/2 kilos with an amazing white colored dark meat. It has made probably at least 12-15 meals and more than that in frozen chicken burrrito meals in the freezer (got to justify paying seven US bucks for a chicken!). Somewhere near four hours of cooking to get that bird to take in all the spices and the wife is really getting into making home made corn tortillas. I guess the next step is to start grinding our own corn maza mix.

Food prices are going to go off the charts. Vietnam is back to 23% inflation this year and with the new policies starting to be implemented it appears that Thailand is heading towards the double digits just as India and China are doing. Oil and gas is highly subsidized here and there are still controls on food, the inevitability of that melt down when the market finally takes on corrections at the govt's inability to maintain that draconian oversight will find food prices going up considerably in the future.

Will farmers see these increased prices and more money. generally yes but it will always seem to be the malignant saprophytic midddle men that always make out when this happens. As always profits will be measured by whether things are good or bad and by that I mean whether the weather is good or bad. We need strong rain bad right now as this La Nina year has been predictably unpredictably bad (and dat ain't no mis-type there) and caused costs to increase nearly 500% to get the rice crop in on some plots. So this year more money is going to guarantee more profits. Such it is as we are going into a time that will be quite volatile as the people, I believe, have voted in huge vested interest with policies that won't benefit the people that need the most benefit from govt over-site, assistance and regulation. Let it rain. Figuring Figures on a Ford Forever.

Seems like it isnt chipping away at all. It is a REAL existence you are planning. People that used to do, are now doing again, or doing properly, planning and making money.

What can I say,

Logic in the USA.

So on your tour, grab a bag or two of positive motivation, a mess of bags brim full of resolve and a few of perserverence, and a few ton of nueurons, and the two of us will hand fertilise the wood chips that people use for brains here on your return.

It can work only after pigs can fly. Moo Bin Dai my friend.

You got it good buddy. Why didn't i think of it before, brains, hell there is a huge market for that in LOS. I am working on filling my bags. Just found a fellow selling and giving away over a hundred fruit trees on craigslist so hopefully he'll call me first and i can grab my b-i-l's trailer and fill it up with them and haul them to my nephews place out near where Ken Kesey had his house and Acid Tests in La Honda. 17 Pomegranitesw, apricots, almonds, apples, 48 avocadoes and bunches of other cool ones. Timing timing timing. got to be mo betta. Flying over the Cuckoos Nest in a Ford Forever

Just keep "chipping away" in the USA, forever on a ford

Gonna grab mom and go over the mountains thru the redwood forests to see the Pacific ocean crash into the artichoke fields and grab a few bagfulls then maybe visit Dr Treelove's favorite custom fertilizer mixer Romeo's of Half Moon Bay and grab a few bags for friends then stop by a couple of very much older farmers than you or me that are able to keep the great uncle's farm together by growing chemical free produce and selling it at a roadside stand along with some from their neighbors and a little bit from the commercial market. Then out to the docks to see what the fishers of men have on their boats, pretty meagre pickins on what is legally left to catch. got to get my licensce maybe as the salmon have returned up the rivers again.

Nothing more miserable in existence than having to chuck in branches of very old dead Monterey pines into the jaws of an ear splitting monster chipper like Rice555 has a photo. Heck earplugs and headphones in the late 60's yeah sure buddy. Hey what you say?? Flinging pines with Fords Forever

Hey doggeroo this da_m site is dumping my responses so I make this short and sweet as the lost one wasa bit detailed. Basically I don't see using that side shute on your new chipper and pushing the stock in like the guy in the photo. If there is a knot in the wood or it is too dry and it bucks it hits him in the head or neck not good by me. I don't ever think that you should feed the material in and have it chipping unless the stock is very very small. In this example i think you would be safer making the piece he has into two or three pieces and dropping them into the top and standing back and let them self feed to the chipping blades. Just start with very small size pieces and you'll get the feel but if at all possible try not to have to physically feed anything of any kind of size into the blades once it has ahold of your piece material. It'll make sweet cream out of your avo branches. Fixing Fords Forever

PS dumped this one also for some reason but I backed it up this time and hopefully it will go thru

www.snhit.com in Nontaburi.

TongueThaied , this is from the website posted above.

Please watch the video I downloaded from their site. The chipper/shredder in the video is about what I had in mind.

How does it compare to the one you found ?

As shown , it comes with an 2hp electric motor , not interesting for me.

I called them, the electric motor can be substituted with a 5hp gasoline engine. Price as shown B 30000.00 without the electric motor B 25.000.00 , gasoline engine on you.

Post your comments !

Hey there doggeroo good on you getting the chipper I'm envious. Note the position of the guy if the branch bucks it waps him in the ear or throat. This is an issue when the material is too large or too dry. Small dry stuff shouldn't be an issue but as I saw guys physically pushing branches into this chipper or another similar i would never recommend having your hands or body on branches that are starting to be pulled into the grinder. Start with nice small stuff and you will learn your machine and its capabilities. anyone who operates these will know when he has put in something too big and won't usually do it again. I am not very experienced with small machines but i think you would want to use the same thoughts and some of the precautions. For example the fellow in the picture appears like he is feeding the branch into the machine and holding it. If in fact that was the only way to use this machine for that size stock and moisture content then I would recommend cutting your pieces a bit smaller so that if when feeding them into the and they buck and kick sideways they would not be long enough to hit you in the head or neck.

I know I'm being a bit over the top with this but there are inherent dangers in operating this type of machine and if it is used for very light brush, branches and such it is a great tool and asset for mulch and composting. The larger and drier pieces are the things to be careful with and i just think safety safety safety especially with this tool as i know the Thais definitely take this issue and designs not too seriously here. Lots of missing fingers and eyes in the farming sector of LOS. I'll say one thing doggerbuddy it'll turn your avo branches into cream when they are fresh. Choke Dee Fixin' Fords Forever

Thank you

Hey Dogger Guy in the Street. I know this is an older post but.... eeeeeh god but I freaked and couldn't look at your videos. The second one i pulled up had the guy feeding the top loader and I said no this ain't right and sure as heck the second piece of wood he put in bucked and chucked and he laugh as he rasssled it back down in. They appear deadly. Caution caution Dr Spock to all or whatever don't go blind using these machines. Note the wood is all uniform in size in the video and is very fresh and has good moisture content. Some poor unfortunate soul could put a slightly curved piece of similar sized wood that was much drier (like the miserable eucalypytus around here) and it could have a very heavy knot in it and it would be thrown sideways and take his eye out in a flash. Very very very dangerous and like I said I refused to watch more than 20 seconds of the one minute second video that i pulled up just for the fear factor. The first with that guy shoving from the top looks very dangerous also. Maybe that is why all you see in the US of any size is the type that you load the pieces horizontally to the ground such that you can stand outside (generally to the left if you are right handed) the area of the feed shute and introduce the pieces somewhat side arm so that your head and torso are completely protected from any pieces that buck and are whipped sideways.

Please if anyone is confused about what I'm trying to explain please respond with any questions because these can be very dangerous machines when you start using the types that handle 2 inch diameter and larger ESPECIALLY when the material gets dry in certain types of wood. The very small types like Fredge has gotten are a bit forgiving as long as you introduce lite chopped brush and very small diameter branches. Note they say it is for "twigs" and in essence that is what it is good for. Please remember never put something in that is too large or dry. that is the reason that I stated that you should always be using or purchasing a machine that is going to be able to handle a larger capacity than what you are introducing as it will be the safest.

Hey Doc Treelove you with us on this still? How much, approximately, is that track layer you had posted. I'll try to give you a call in a little while hopefully. FF

PS the last post I deleted the word meter in the line that stated the capacity of that big chipper as it could handle one meter diameter and larger cypress trees no problem

Thai Visa, in their wisdom, would not let me post a flash video, download here : http://www.snhit.com.../MA106-VDO.html

In the end I broke down and bought the BCS Chipper, I did not have a chance to assemble it yet. I will post some pictures and a report in a couple of weeks. Factory picture attached.

Best regards.

Hello FEF, you could look around and get a used one.

They even have a tractor with 7'/8'(?) wide gang reel mower there.

Was this the Caddie that gave you a lift?

If you drive down the golden road to where these guys are playing

back east, go north 3-400 miles, you'll run into Taj.

For a quick fix, get the "new" KFAT on the dial or net. See the play

list a few days back. KFAT use to have Fat Fry's at Keystone.

Thats KPIG, 107 oink 5, we can send out a rescue ship from Freedom

if you need it, it's on standby.

rice555 Praise the Lard

Well sooooooouuuuueeeeee that's Sue E to you non pig farmers and listeners of 107.5 KPIG radio out of Freedom with best Mexican food dis side of Watsonbill brudah. Yo bro that's old stomping ground for me. I had almost 20 acres of semi-bottom land tucked away in a little valley above the big valley there just outside Pajaro in Monterey County. I remember quite clearly (not too often in regards to anything anymore) one morning about 1972 or 3 I was in a little railroad train station that had been dragged up thru Portola Valley on skids by my Grandpa about 30-40 years earlier and i had moved in to occupy (rent was 50 bucks a month and I had to make it liveable and be compatible with bee hive that occupied it also) it and called all 500 square feet home with a pot bellied stove and three hundred acres that stretched from Portola Road to the corner of Old La Honda Road and Skyline Boulevard (my grandpa and grandma's first real job was building that road).

At the time I owned a non-solid-state, tube powered Philco radio AM/FM tuner (monoral (mono)) that I ran thru another tube powered Multiplexer to bust it up into Stereo. Definitely not "state of the art" but the best fidelity i could afford at the time. There has never been a better machine for picking up signals and lo and behold i have a good buddy roll in and i say hey man you have got to check this new radio station I dialed in it is too too bad. So there we sit listening to commercial free, 100% in your face, full on, who knows what, from where but right in the midddle of an explosion of on the scene music. These guys are putting out Memphis blues, Lady Day, bluegrass,classic old school country, rock-a billy and dern near anything in between. You could say it truly reflected the roots of SF Bay Area Rock and Roll. the Dead, Janis and Big Brother et al, Creedence, Quicksilver, The Airplane. New Riders, Santana, Neil Young, Taj and even Mick Fleetwood in LA pulling together Menlo Park locals Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks to rock the scene....... KFAT definitely laid out their roots. there are some fine memories there, though I do forget, were they out of Cannery Row on the Monterey Bay in like Pacific Grove? Salinas? yoooo Gilroy!! Right? (definitely no fun to look this stufff up on a computer much better to just remember the smell of the kelp and the wind blowing off the Monterey Bay down in the pilings of the "Row") I think it was the PIG that started out of Pacific Grove, That was a very special day way back then hearing that station sometimes fade in and play some real roots music. May have been the first time I ever heard Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys singing their own songs. It was just about the time Waylon Jennings came and played with the Dead in Golden Gate Park and Willie rolled into Berkeley a couple years later singing about a "Red Headed Stranger". The Fat ushered out the era of the SF rock scene and seamlessly gravitated to crossover country music with Bob Marley flying his flag high as the mindless sheep moved on to outlandish bell bottom lobotomized disco.

Hey I see by one of your too cool attachments that the local boys Bobby and Phil are touring around with while I'm here I'm sure my Thai wife would enjoy the scene as it will probably be as crazy as the night markets in the LOS if I can convince my mom to go maybe we'll check them out. Hopefully they'll play Shoreline that would be easy but Stanford Amphitheater would be magic.

Now that 7'6'' gang mower you're talking about is it a "flail" mower. sort of like having a big drum and a lot of rods off it to do some whumpin' on anything and everything. Thai made? 7' 6" definitely covers both wheels of the Ford. this is the type of mower that changed the huge commercial rice growers in California as they were forbidden to use their longstanding practice of burning off the rice fields by stricter pollution control in the last few decades so they have gone to flailing the stubble and then flooding their fields, It is definitely much more expensive in all ways but and a big but is that they went from one of the biggest and most hated polluters in California to the "Enviromentalists" poster child. No more air pollution a bunch of water on the ground wicking its way back into a depleted water table and then most of all a bazillion acres of open riparian wildlife habitat in one of the world's greatest migratory bird flyways.

What the heck Ricer one last "radio" memory. It was in the days of Wolfman Jack broadcasting at midnight out of Tijuana in the mid 60's and on KEWB Channel 91. AM as no FM in those days until the first in America KSAN commercial free out of San Francisco years later but that morning I remember hearing this banging and booming and hootin and hollerin' and it is the Dead singing "The Golden Road To Unlimited Devotion" blasting out of the radio as I laid lazily in bed and it had to be summer or the weekend because no radio in the morning on school days back then. Ag Fairs and county Fairs Forever Fords

PS check the price on the flail mower if you can but really I think a rotary is much more usefull but a really a different machine as the flail will pulverize the stubble and amke it more readily able to decompose which should save you a bit of N depending on your ag practices and timing.

Another thing to think about is when you do the survey mark the area well and do it on the day of the survey , at one of the corner markers our neighbor decided he wanted some more land and pulled up moved the marker stake overnight ,I argued with my wife it had been moved so her father had a land office staff come back and he measured again and sure enough it was about 3 meters into our land .

We had workers cement a big concrete post next to each marker and a barb wire fence along his property .

That is the reason if you can't handle the expense of hauling all the fixing for cement and posts and wire etc, or you hve many monuments due to irregular shape, just pound in a 1/2" iron pipe 2' long, as I said before, just inside your marker and then place two more, all, say one foot equidistant to each other to form a triangle. Pound them almost all the way into the ground and then take photographs from about a few meters aWAY from a couple of angles and then pound the stakes below ground level about 1/2 to 1 foot deep. when they move your boundary markers like they will always do. Or move the entire 30 meter cement and wire fence like they did to my F-i-l on a remote piece of property all you have to do get is a cheap metal detector and your photos and then grab your kind neighbor somewhere about one foot north of the intersection of his kneecaps and pick him up and hang him from a tree branch by his belt loops and give him a good perspective to look at your photos. Forever fooling with Fools with your Ford

www.snhit.com in Nontaburi.

TongueThaied , this is from the website posted above.

Please watch the video I downloaded from their site. The chipper/shredder in the video is about what I had in mind.

How does it compare to the one you found ?

As shown , it comes with an 2hp electric motor , not interesting for me.

I called them, the electric motor can be substituted with a 5hp gasoline engine. Price as shown B 30000.00 without the electric motor B 25.000.00 , gasoline engine on you.

Post your comments !

Thank you

Hey Dogger Guy in the Street. I know this is an older post but.... eeeeeh god but I freaked and couldn't look at your videos. The second one i pulled up had the guy feeding the top loader and I said no this ain't right and sure as heck the second piece of wood he put in bucked and chucked and he laugh as he rasssled it back down in. They appear deadly. Caution caution Dr Spock to all or whatever don't go blind using these machines. Note the wood is all uniform in size in the video and is very fresh and has good moisture content. Some poor unfortunate soul could put a slightly curved piece of similar sized wood that was much drier (like the miserable eucalypytus around here) and it could have a very heavy knot in it and it would be thrown sideways and take his eye out in a flash. Very very very dangerous and like I said I refused to watch more than 20 seconds of the one minute second video that i pulled up just for the fear factor. The first with that guy shoving from the top looks very dangerous also. Maybe that is why all you see in the US of any size is the type that you load the pieces horizontally to the ground such that you can stand outside (generally to the left if you are right handed) the area of the feed shute and introduce the pieces somewhat side arm so that your head and torso are completely protected from any pieces that buck and are whipped sideways.

Please if anyone is confused about what I'm trying to explain please respond with any questions because these can be very dangerous machines when you start using the types that handle 2 inch diameter and larger ESPECIALLY when the material gets dry in certain types of wood. The very small types like Fredge has gotten are a bit forgiving as long as you introduce lite chopped brush and very small diameter branches. Note they say it is for "twigs" and in essence that is what it is good for. Please remember never put something in that is too large or dry. that is the reason that I stated that you should always be using or purchasing a machine that is going to be able to handle a larger capacity than what you are introducing as it will be the safest.

Hey Doc Treelove you with us on this still? How much, approximately, is that track layer you had posted. I'll try to give you a call in a little while hopefully. FF

PS the last post I deleted the word meter in the line that stated the capacity of that big chipper as it could handle one meter diameter and larger cypress trees no problem

Thai Visa, in their wisdom, would not let me post a flash video, download here : http://www.snhit.com.../MA106-VDO.html

In Phitsanulok and Phichit, I went the feedstore route and everybody told me where to get them and I ran all over until I was dizzy; never found a thing. Typical Thailand wild goose chase, with no goose at the end.

Here is a website for a place in Thailand that will ship you fertile Rhode Island Red or New Hampshire eggs. You can cross RIR and NH to get sexlinks, which are good layers and you can identify gender at birth. You can either incubate these eggs or tuck them under one of your setting hens. Any broody hen will accept an orphan egg. It is in Thai, but you can get some translation help.

http://www.bestchum.com/SoldPageI.html

cjustice this is the people that i emailed you about just a few minutes ago.

Well TT thanks for this link. I got in touch with them and it is I believe 250 baht delivered to your door for one dozen. That is 20 baht an egg which is very expensive by my book but very well may be a lot to do with shipping costs so if you are close to them maybe by buying a quantity will make it practical. The incubation process really is quite involved and obviously there is no sexing of an egg so it could be a very poor investment if you factor poor hatch and bad luck with the sexes. that said if someone wanted to invest just 250 baht and try to hatch a dozen it would be an interesting project.

Kikoman had some good luck and i hope i do when i aggressively start hopefully my final search to acquire a hundred or so chicks. I have leads for some but like it has been said more than once it can become a real wild goose chase and i don't know of many folks too good at catching even tame gooses. Burriram supposedly has a feed shop that sells RIR on Mondays (sometimes). choke Dee all Firm Feeling Feathered layers with Fords Forever

Nice try but you need to perfect your graphic skills further. That is a picture of two bananas, one stuck in the skin of another.

Hey noticed what he said and looks like you cut the peal off the top section so you could see the banana. makes my mouth water and hope i can get a plant to grow someday. Enjoy Antonio FFFFFFords Forever

Rice, all the other chippers I've seen were very poor quality,

Im interested in the CLP one because it looks very professional.

Interesting to see a 3 point hitch one tho.

I doubt that this unit would be big enough for PTO powering... the Honda GX160 is but 5.5 hp and it powers the cutterhead just fine.

A few minor issues with location of grease fittings that I've passed on to CLP... at least they have installed grease fittings.

I installed 12" wheels to replace the original 8" and it goes across the rougher ground much easier now. A 2x4 chunk of wood elevates the engine end to help level things out when I'm working it. Simple and effective until I build up something more permanent.

Still have all my fingers...

Hey guys i just wrote a 500 word thing on chippersw and managed to delete it all in a touch of a button. Oh well at least i won't bore you now with the story of my favorite one that we got that was permantly mounted on the bed of a big Kenworth. Just say that being able to feed one diameter and larger cypress trees almost whole through it created plenty of good mulch and solved many problems very well and fairly fast.

Hey old Fredge with the 45 your chipper appears to be able to handle very light branches up to about 1 1/2 inch in diameter by the photos shown (usually they always show the biggest stuff a machine can handle on the advertising, I would). Just in case you and anyone else hasn't operated one of these and they don't have the two grinding type wheel feeds to them (compared to the "duck and chuck" types of the the early 70's models) you need to be careful. Depending on diameter size, length, moisture content and species will deterrmine how fast your chipper will "suck" the piece you are intro ducing into the mouth of the feed. DRY WOOD is the thing you want to be careful with especially when you own a machine that will take larger diameter stock as it can whip it sideways in a heart beat and any mental lapses can be dangerous as in operating any tool. The slow grinder wheel type feeds have basically eliminated it in the commercial size machines.

Hey Nickles full of Rice you can't give better advice as the Kaesetsart Ag Fair sure got the juices flowing with their rice polishing machines and shredders sitting side by sizde and working away for all to see. Sure would love to have one of both some day. Sure would love to have some of the rain that everybody has been getting as we are still over 6 weeks without getting and really good downpour yet. I'll talk to you about what you see when we get together definitely bummed I'm going to miss it but really is a great way to shop for your farm equipment. Everything that i saw at Kae was mighty fine looking machinery but as in many tools and this more than anything bigger is always better and I'll end up getting something i can mount on the Ford and use the PTO. Anyone got a used one for sale? " Some get Scattered" Taj from the Like Never before" album

I don't know about your area or about current availability, but in Chiang Mai I got free jack-bean seeds from the 'Land Development Office' (about 10k north of the SuperHwy on the Mae Rim (107) hwy, on the west (Doi Pui) side between the hospital and the (121) ring road).

At that time they had black beans, sesbania and others too. We didn't need a 'tabien baan', only my wife's ID, filled out a form with address and amount of rai. They calculated coverage rates and based the allotment on that; we pulled around back with the pickup and they loaded us up with the appropriate number of sacks of seed. I was only seeding about 4 rai, so I don't know what their upper limit is.

The land development office also does free soil analysis. The only problem is that it takes 45 days (sent to Lampang) and is a very basic NPK report with no interpretation or recommendations. I get better, more complete, 2 week soil analysis reports from Mae Jo University soil science department for 500 baht. And they have a soil science professor available to interpret and make recommendations for amendments if needed.

But you don't need a soil analysis to 'green manure'. don

Hello d treelove

is it possible you can give me the name of the land developmet office in Thai please thank you

Hey there guy from Japan wiganto. It's your first post so try it again and re-ernter the i9nfo or question or reason that you wish to be involved in a discussion of green manures and cover crops as your post doesn't ahve any type showing what your interest is. Very dissimilar to mine which shows that i anm the worst typer in the worls and say screw spellcheck. Choke Dee and hope to hear more from you. Sun Hemp Forever on a Ford

actualy those big bananas i found were less tasty ; here we have huge bananas with very little taste whereas in thailand the bananas were small and flavourful; yes, talking strictly about the real bananas... no quai jokes

bina

Thank you Bina,

This one is actually tasty but a little harder to bite into than the normal fruit.

Also sweetish, we let it lie for a week before trying it out and it did not go black either.

Hey 72 Anton what it is? a meal in a peel got to be mo' betta. If you stumble across any plants in your journeys *I'd love to try to grow them as usually fruit of that size is common for frying yet the photo looks in color and shape of a great eating banana as you say. It would be fun to get more info if can. Forever Feeling like a banana on a Ford

Did a bid of a short cut survey last year, Government was doing charnote surreys along a new proposed highway. 30,000 Baht to do a 50 Rai block well away from the highway. Haven't got the charnote, but the paper work is in. Told it could be up to 10 years, but at least it has the pegs and no dispute about where it starts or ends. Jim

Well Bam Baby. Finally. I thought this forum had gone silent. thanks all for the info. this is what Thai Visa is all about. This is what I was hoping for. I told the wife and father in law when we bought this Chanoted property to go to each cement survey marker and hammer three triangulated 2 foot long pieces of 1/2 inch pipe into the ground and take pictures of it from different angles then pound them down until the y are about 6 or so inches under ground. Well as you all know they only went to the 4 corners? (it has about 15 different corners as it is a slightly irregular rectangle in shape) and put in only one pipe and took the pictures of the corners less than a meter away from the cement monument. All nearly useless and sure as you are born the neighbors started digging them up and moving them around to their benefit. One brain surgeon actually dug one up and then put it back in the ground about 2 feet above the original grade on a new levee i just built and then started complaining about me messing up "his" land. I asked him to help me by standing where I was going to dozer off a piece of earth. I asked him to stand still close his eyes and plug up his ears and i would show him where his land was and even put him right back on it if he wanted. Soooooo with the buffales about in the off season and my perimeter levee approaching two meters it is time to establish a true and correct boundary and plant a fence and also start the planting of the hundreds of coconuts and other fruits trees that will be going on the levee. FF

Typical of you FEFto plan the day so carefully, travel all the way to the farm, erect the fence, then into BKK and out to the airport, all on the way to the US. What a man!

Boom Baby in Taipei and on my way. Like Country Joe McDonald with his Fish sang. "I went flying high all the way" Full of Campari and Cognac with a bit of champagne to settle it all. Gotta love Chi9na Airlines they were sweet and upgraded me to Business again. " i was stuck on LA freeway with rain water in my boots. thumb done froze can't feel my toes and feelin' a little destitute.." as old Joe used to sing it. He and Taj gave us a bunch of free gigs in Palo alto in the old days. got to love em all. don't fence me in Flying ona Ford Forever

Did a bid of a short cut survey last year, Government was doing charnote surreys along a new proposed highway. 30,000 Baht to do a 50 Rai block well away from the highway. Haven't got the charnote, but the paper work is in. Told it could be up to 10 years, but at least it has the pegs and no dispute about where it starts or ends. Jim

Well Bam Baby. Finally. I thought this forum had gone silent. thanks all for the info. this is what Thai Visa is all about. This is what I was hoping for. I told the wife and father in law when we bought this Chanoted property to go to each cement survey marker and hammer three triangulated 2 foot long pieces of 1/2 inch pipe into the ground and take pictures of it from different angles then pound them down until the y are about 6 or so inches under ground. Well as you all know they only went to the 4 corners? (it has about 15 different corners as it is a slightly irregular rectangle in shape) and put in only one pipe and took the pictures of the corners less than a meter away from the cement monument. All nearly useless and sure as you are born the neighbors started digging them up and moving them around to their benefit. One brain surgeon actually dug one up and then put it back in the ground about 2 feet above the original grade on a new levee i just built and then started complaining about me messing up "his" land. I asked him to help me by standing where I was going to dozer off a piece of earth. I asked him to stand still close his eyes and plug up his ears and i would show him where his land was and even put him right back on it if he wanted. Soooooo with the buffales about in the off season and my perimeter levee approaching two meters it is time to establish a true and correct boundary and plant a fence and also start the planting of the hundreds of coconuts and other fruits trees that will be going on the levee. FF

Hello FEF, Have a nice trip and say Hi to Dr. Don for me.

Yes, it was the Keystone, I knew the old Purity Food Store more for the Whole Foods store in the early 70's.(forgot the name)

I'm from the Mission in SF, but grew up in Santa Clara County, close to the now Valley Med Center.

About 12 years ago, I went to CG and bought a soil testing kit to bring with me when I moved here. In a few more days, that will be 11 years in Korat.

Safe Trip rice555

I'm off to the Bay Area today but let's try to get together when I get back and spin a few tales. I know we know a bunch of the same folks. Steve bartkowski and I played a bit of football and baseball together and and .... Fords Forever

While it is yet to be scientifically proven that organic foods are more nutritious than non organic foods, it goes without a doubt that eating organic foods exposes one to far less chemical residues (most notably pesticides, hormones and antibiotics) than eating conventional foods.

To assert that the genetics of an organism is the only factor that will determine the end product of food production is plain silly. The clearest example of this is fine wines. Vineyards all over the world use vine stock that is genetically identical, yet many can taste the difference between a wine grown in optimal conditions and one grown in less than optimal conditions.

You got it. The one thing that has been scientifically proven (by me the mad scientist) is that organically grown foods definitely do taste better. If you can chem and poison the plants and soil and water to acheive equal nutritional values of your crops you will never be able to beat the taste of food that has been grown on sustainable (ever increasing tilth) organic soils of 5, 10, 100 and even 1000's of years of practice. Over 50 years of research into that one and still can't keep myself from eating more. Sure right about the grapes we also had an interesting thread on avocados here that said that the fruit is one in which it will change its characteristics to its new climate. A bit different than grapes being planted in areas that aren't as conducive to growing climatically and therefore aren't as viable and optimum in flavor to others grown in more favorable conditions. Choke Dee FF