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.What is beet pulp?....the leaves, or the skins?
Interesting, never heard that term in the past. I'm not crazy about beets, but their damn good for you (and animals).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.
Got it.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.
Prolly inexpensive, I assume?....perhaps not..... beets are not exactly cheap in the organic form.We buy them for the cow in a 50# bag.
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).When is the (supposed) blizzard supposed to hit...tomorrow?
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.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).
$13.65 for a 40# bag. That lasts about a month for one cow.Prolly inexpensive, I assume?
That is cheap....socked with healthy goodies too.$13.65 for a 40# bag. That lasts about a month for one cow.
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.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.
Yes, forgot about a fan....oh well, can only hope it doesn't shit the bed.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.
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.You didn't lose power for any length of time last winter did you?
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?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...
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.Couldn't you use extension cords, if worse come to worse?
I have no idea what a cutout switch costs....is the 1500 including installation?...or just the cost of the switch?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.
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.I have no idea what a cutout switch costs....is the 1500 including installation?...or just the cost of the switch?
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.....
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.
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...
If not for the freezing rain, it may not have been to bad.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).
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).
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.If not for the freezing rain, it may not have been to 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?Tried prospecting this afternoon, but couldn't hear the headphones due to high winds
It has a meter, but I kinda got accustomed to the noise rather than the meter.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?
Kinda what I thought until I was told differently. All I remember is the ones with needles.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...
I hear you, I'm sure this one will be outdated within a year.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."