Tomorrow will be a major hay making day for the donkeys and me.
If it works out I intend to make a running record of the day on video. Not non-stop, but catching each part.
I've moved the harness process so it's efficient and doesn't waste a bunch of steps. Waste motion is wasted energy and time. I already wanted to run a video of that. So.
When they pull a two wheeled cart it has no resistance to them going sideways. It's easier and less scary for a youngster than a four wheel wagon.
The DUV (Donkey Utility Vehicle) is 4 wheels, but it's undercut. They can get almost 90° to it.
I'll be putting the hay sides on the work cart. I think I'll video that too.
The 4 wheel hay wagon I'm building was made to be pulled with an ATV. So its tongue only goes about 30° or so off straight.
Gasoline machinery wastes a huge amount of space compared to donks, but -
I can't buy an undercut hay wagon, and at my age I really don't have time to make one either. This is a lot easier.
But I need to modify entrance and egress to the barnyard for the ungainly thing.
So, for now - the cart.
Suppertime.
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To any of you who saw me break down with heat exhaustion at the end of this vid, you'd be pleased to know that even one partial cartload of hay has fed the donks for three days now.
I've got probably a day's worth left in the cart.
Regular readers know that after I broke down and quit, it came up a gullywasher and wet all my hay.
I've been turning it for two days now, and I'll be able to start picking it up again tomorrow.
White people invented the modern world we live in.
It is a fucking disaster.
This statement is *not* a claim of white superiority.
They - we - invented climate change. We invented mass extinction. We have invented mass shootings.
Now the crazy thing is, lots of people, particularly people other than white, bitch about white people and white privilege and white supremacists and white racism, but nobody wants to quit the white system.
3. All the peoples of the developed world live like a bunch of babies, focused totally on themselves, their desires, their gratification, their convenience. We know exactly what we do to cause climate change, everyone alive knows we can live without that stuff, and we don't even
To a significant degree I've dropped out of the climate conversation.
As far as I have personally seen, while there is wide agreement on specific problems, there is no interest in reducing emissions now, today, this year.
I have repeatedly asked for specifics. None offered.
2. All I want to know is, how much energy is the general plan going to consume in the building and installing, and where will that energy come from?
Ben is concerned about rising emissions.
We are not currently generating the energy necessary to build and install "the plan."
3. Renewables can't make cement out of limestone.
Renewables can't make solar panels out of sand.
Renewables can't transport wind turbines.
How much energy went into building this machine?
How much to run it?
One. Blade.
I got completely winded and too dizzy to work out doing hay. This is scary. If I can't make hay I'm done.
I'm in resting. I couldn't even unhitch the girls, they're in the barnyard with full cart.
Old age and climate change.
It might just be heat sickness. 89°, full sun, physical labor.
Still sucks.
I'm feeling better now. Inside, in the shade, A/C on, ceiling fan blowing on me, on my 2nd 17oz bottle of chilled water.
Scared the shit out of me, and - that's all I got. Skin, and bullshit.
Aside from saying the goal words - renewable energy, in particular - I wish someone would address the real numbers of how renewable energy construction and installation results in "net zero". Ever. How they result a livable climate.
It doesn't. They can't. There is no end game.
I am not exaggerating. There is no route down the only road anyone will discuss which ends where we must go to survive. Ask John Kerry.
A: We have only invented half of what we need.
B: We haven't made any of it. What we've made is already installed and IT DIDN'T REDUCE EMISSION
We have been fiddle-farting around installing renewables for 20+ years and it hasn't even changed the increasing emissions slope.
The only things that have ever dented that slope are the pandemic, and the George W. Bush economic collapse.
Look at it.
I took the chihuahuas out to potty last night, and there in the back yard were three donkeys.
This is not ideal.
So I went and got Abe's halter and lead rope. He's always good as gold, stands and waits for me to halter him.
When I led him back to the barn the girls placidly followed.
I stopped at the feed room and got a pocketful of goodies.
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I gave Abe a goodie, then led him on through the barn to the stall, and gave him another one.
Missy came through the door and said, "Where's mine?" So I gave it to her.
I heard clunking around in the barn - Clara was exploring.
So I took Abe's lead rope, looped it around her neck