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The beet is crushed and shredded and dried, then Lannie re-hydrates it with some alfalfa pellets stirred in for her favorite milk cow each morning. Very nutritious stuff.
Interesting, never heard that term in the past. I'm not crazy about beets, but their damn good for you (and animals).
Most people I know don't like beets, but I grew up on canned beet slices and eventually decided they were OK. I doubt I'd want to eat the grain version we feed the cow.......
Imagine shredding a potato on your grater, then letting it dry out... hash browns that are not cooked. Do the same thing with a beet and save the dry shreds for later use.
Got it.
We buy them for the cow in a 40# bag.
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Prolly inexpensive, I assume?....perhaps not..... beets are not exactly cheap in the organic form.
Tomorrow afternoon / evening / night depending on who is doing the guessing, with the worst all day Saturday. I hope to hell we don't lose our power or we might freeze to death (all electric heat now).
I hear that about the power.....pity you couldn't find anyone selling even a couple cord at an affordable price....but I think you mentioned there isn't a lot of trees in your general area? Would be nice to have some just for backup.
$13.65 for a 40# bag. That lasts about a month for one cow.
That is cheap....socked with healthy goodies too.
I have about a cord of last year's wood in the garage (for emergency use), but without a fan, you only heat one corner of the living room, so we have to sleep on the couch.
Yes, forgot about a fan....oh well, can only hope it doesn't shit the bed.
You didn't lose power for any length of time last winter did you?
I think last winter was about a day. We have, in the past, been out for almost a week. Some of the ranchers 20 miles down the road were out for three months, but they all have industrial type generators.
I have a 7500W generator, but we don't have it connected to the system because that will cost about $1500 and every time I think I have enough saved to do that, something else comes up and the money gets diverted. Sigh...Damn, just looked at the cost of a lil 40 amp generator, about a grand....
Couldn't you use extension cords, if worse come to worse?
That would require the generator to sit outside in the blizzard and only a few things would get connected via extension cord. What I need is a cutout switch to break the incoming power line and use my generator for the input to the whole house. I will have the generator in the shop with the exhaust vented outside and it doesn't get buried by snow.
Note that we have 6 refrigerator/freezers, etc., etc. that all need to work or we lose a lot of money in food, water heaters for the animals' troughs or they have nothing to drink, etc.
I have no idea what a cutout switch costs....is the 1500 including installation?...or just the cost of the switch?
Looks light Flagstaff will get a foot or two of white shit.
Switch plus installation, with a 240VAC plug to go into my generator (then my circuit breaker boxes divide that into 120VAC as needed). I have to dig the trench from the power pole to the shop.
Me too, on both those points. I'm about to fall outta this chair anyway. Yak more tomorrow (if we have power).Well I'm hitting the rack, hope they are wrong in both states regarding the shitty weather.....
And don't forget the water. Can't plug an extension cord into the well pump. Plus, Dale, even if we could use an extension cord to inside the house, one of the doors would have to be open to let the cord(s) in. You can't have a door open during a blizzard. Even if the wind didn't take the whole door off the hinges, the wind can find any little gap - we've had three feet of snow inside the closed hay room in the barn because of a little 1/16th inch gap along the side of the sliding door, and under the bottom. It's unbelievable.
I see the Blizzard Warning is showing winds at 26 mph, hell....that's a decent day......
Generally 26-30 mph is just another day on the prairie .....................
The blizzard must be associated with another (typical) Siberian Vortex...
Generally 26-30 mph is just another day on the prairie .....................
The blizzard must be associated with another (typical) Siberian Vortex...
Actually, in looking at the map, this appears to be backwash around the Low pressure center that dragged that storm through Nebraska the other day. It seems to be coming here from the northeast (circulation around Lows is counter-clockwise, so this is coming back at us around the northern side of the Low). According to the map, the nastiest part of this will be east of us by at least 50 miles (and more), so we likely will get only the edge of it (6-8 inches instead of 12-24).The blizzard must be associated with another (typical) Siberian Vortex...
Today started out here with thick freezing fog, then freezing drizzle, then freezing rain (about 7 PM - the concrete outside the doors is slick as snot) and now we have light snow (maybe 1/2" on the ground with ice under it). Our high temperature was only 29 and it is still about 25 out there (which is why all the precipitation mentioned above has the word "freezing" with it -- it was below freezing all day). Wind here was about 10-15 mph most of the day, but it is picking up a bit now (maybe 25) and has switched from easterly to northeast.
I expect the rest of this weekend to be rather shitty, but not the bad blizzard they forecast a few days ago. Seems everyone east of us will be getting that (at least I hope it doesn't back up too much and dump on us).
If not for the freezing rain, it may not have been to bad.
Well, that started after we were done with all the outside stuff, so even though it was cold out there, it really wasn't all that bad.
They must not fit tight enough if the wind over-shadowed the beeps. Does the detector have a meter you can watch instead of just relying on the beeps?
It has a meter, but I kinda got accustomed to the noise rather than the meter.
My hearing has always been a tad bad ever since M-16s going off next to my ears, so I never used headphones with mine, but I got very used to watching the needle on the meter showing me how strong the signal was.
This one has various iron and mineral graphs on the screen, and the sounds coincide with the minerals, gold has a low grunting sound with a number between 40-50....the more iron the higher the sound and numbers.
Thinking about buying a MineLab 4500. But they still haven't really reduced the weight in the better detectors, the XP weights less than 2 lbs, and the meter can be held in your hand like a phone, or slipped onto the front handle while your searching.
I keep forgetting that modern electronics has displays that show graphs and scales and all that stuff. Mine was a simply analog meter with a needle that moved left to right and it was up to you to figure out what that meant. Yes, I am a dinosaur...
Kinda what I thought until I was told differently. All I remember is the ones with needles.
I wonder how long it will be until they come out with one that includes GPS and gives you instructions like: "Park here, walk ten paces south, one east, dig six inches, then go to the bank."
I hear you, I'm sure this one will be outdated within a year.
$8,000 !!!???!!! For that price, it better tell me where the gold is and provide me with a chauffeur to take me there and back.