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| gafarmwoman |
Posted - Feb 27 2008 : 07:05:50 AM
With prices rising on everything and everywhere including our property tax(it doubled last year) my husband and I are trying to find ways to make ends meet. This comes into the picture. 
I have this photo on my site with Do you know what this is? We built it last weekend and plan on using it starting friday.
This is a way we plan on making enough extra money to pay our property tax from nature off our property. Second clue is posted today. I figured some of you wise farmgirls could figure this one out. Good luck!
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| electricdunce |
Posted - Feb 29 2008 : 09:11:13 AM
Well, i must admit I was truly mystified by your creation. I thought it might be a mini catapult that you could move around, but that didn't seem like much of a moneymaker. One summer my husband and I planted a really big garden and we made the mistake of planting zucchini. We had lots of little ones and then a day or two later they were the size of huge cudgels. We were thinking maybe we should build a catapult and fling them across the road to the neighbor's cows. That was the year we had a bumper tomato crop as well. I had put wax paper hats on my plants so they wouldn't freeze ( we sometimes get freezing weather in June) and I didn't realize you were supposed to take them off, so they sat on there for a couple of weeks. When i finally thought it was safe to take them off, my tomato plants lookied like they'd been taking steroids. We got so many tomatoes that year we were hiding bags of them in friends' cars when they came to visit. I canned a lot of them and then put all the green ones wrapped in newspaper in the back hall to ripen. I thought we'd done all of them, but in March I spotted a box of tomatoes in with the canning equipment in the back hall. I figured they'd be a real mess but when I opened the newspaper there was just black dust in each one, I guess I mummified them...well I better close my mouth and get to work, I hope the sun is shining on al of you today too, karin |
| gafarmwoman |
Posted - Feb 29 2008 : 06:52:57 AM
Thanks Rhonda,Sherri, and everyone.
Alee, I hope you don't mind I gave you credit for being the first correct guess, on my site with a link to your site. I suppose I should have mailed you a bale of pinestraw for first prize. lol...
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| mikesgirl |
Posted - Feb 28 2008 : 12:33:48 PM
Yes - I love it when people have a need and they find a way to meet that need using what they already have!!
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| abbasgurl |
Posted - Feb 28 2008 : 11:06:59 AM
Very interesting...I didn't know pine needles were used for that. I'll bet it looks pretty too. How ingenious!
Looking forward to pictures.
Rhonda
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| gafarmwoman |
Posted - Feb 28 2008 : 10:53:56 AM
Yes, it is the pine needles that fall off. The pinestraw isn't recommended for a lot of fruits and vegetables but landscapers use pinestraw around shrubs and flowers. You see it around azaleas alot. Since we have long and usually very hot summers here mulch of any sort is in demand. If you have good clean(which means not leaves and sticks in the straw) you can get a good price for a bale. I hope tomorrow to have pictures of how the baler will work and the finished pinestraw bale. Thanks everyone.
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| mikesgirl |
Posted - Feb 28 2008 : 08:32:39 AM
So by pine straw, do you mean all the pine needles that fall off the pine trees? Excuse my ignorance, but we don't have pine trees in western WA. And if that is what it is - what do people use pine straw for? I'm really interested because we have 20 acres of pine trees in Montana and I didn't know there was any use for the needles. Someone told me not to put any on my garden because they were too acidic. Is that wrong? Thanks for the info!
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Feb 28 2008 : 07:38:54 AM
Yay!!! Good Job, Alee!!! I probably wouldn't have guessed Pine straw. Not something we have in the Bluegrass, but sounds like a great idea! I was told, though, by an heirloom apple farmer NOT to use pine mulch around apple trees...too acidic. I sure hope that it helps you with your costs--anything to make some extra!
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| palmettogirl |
Posted - Feb 28 2008 : 06:51:50 AM
what a fabulous idea! we live in south carolina on 7 acres surrounded by pine trees and even on this smaller piece of land we feel like we get burried in the stuff! good going and i hope you make lots of extra cash!! |
| Alee |
Posted - Feb 27 2008 : 5:19:50 PM
I looked through your blog and saw the pile of pinestraw that you used for your raised gardens. Once it was established that you were bailing something and not something that is a grass based straw, I guessed that was it! :D
Alee
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| gafarmwoman |
Posted - Feb 27 2008 : 5:07:08 PM
Yes! Alee! It is going to bale pinestraw. I don't know about other parts of the country but in the south we use lots of pinestraw for mulch. We planted about 20 acres of pinetrees when we moved here almost 15 years ago. They now have enough pinestraw under them to rake and bale. Hopefully we can bale enough to sell and help make a good dent in the property tax for next year.
Thanks everyone for taking time to guess. And Alee, how did you know?
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| Alee |
Posted - Feb 27 2008 : 4:45:40 PM
A bale of pinestraw?
Alee
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| Firemama |
Posted - Feb 27 2008 : 4:34:58 PM
Tobacco? Flower Press?
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| gafarmwoman |
Posted - Feb 27 2008 : 4:20:43 PM
Sorry Joy, it is not cotton either but you all have had some great guesses.
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| downbranchroad |
Posted - Feb 27 2008 : 3:53:15 PM
Cotton?
Appalachian Girl
Jem
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| downbranchroad |
Posted - Feb 27 2008 : 3:52:15 PM
Sugar Cane?
Appalachian Girl
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| gafarmwoman |
Posted - Feb 27 2008 : 3:45:00 PM
Oh Jonni, so close. Not alfalfa,wheat,barley, or corn stalk. Oh, I almost want to give it out. But I have one more clue to post tomorrow and no one has guessed it on my site yet either.
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Feb 27 2008 : 1:50:31 PM
Alfalfa? Wheat?...let's see...there's barley straw, corn stalk compression bales....
Duh, you said "not wheat".  In my excitement of being half right, I didn't comprehend what I was reading!!!!
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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| gafarmwoman |
Posted - Feb 27 2008 : 1:44:25 PM
Jonni, it will make a bale but not hay and not the straw from grass or wheat. Another kind of straw?
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Feb 27 2008 : 12:11:21 PM
A straw or hay press to make a bale?
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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| catscharm74 |
Posted - Feb 27 2008 : 11:55:21 AM
My Mom has an old book press that looks very similiar to this..hmmm?? Got me stumped...
But if it is a money press, I will gladly volunteer to test out the product.... ; )
Cheers,
Heather
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| ChicChick |
Posted - Feb 27 2008 : 11:45:26 AM
Is it a press for apples-to make cider or hard cider?
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| Alee |
Posted - Feb 27 2008 : 11:43:07 AM
Ooo! I know! It's a money press! To press more pennies out of the dollar! LOL
Alee
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| gafarmwoman |
Posted - Feb 27 2008 : 11:16:55 AM
No girls. Not a manure,compost or poop press. Good guesses though. Keep trying!
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| Alee |
Posted - Feb 27 2008 : 10:51:33 AM
LOL That's what I was thinking! I was thinking a press for manure or compost or something.
Alee
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| catscharm74 |
Posted - Feb 27 2008 : 10:31:41 AM
Rhonda- I was thinking of a "poop" press myself...I saw on one show that they press manure with sand and water to make bricks...hmmm??
Cheers,
Heather
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