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That sounds great!

Flooding the wicking bed saturates the soil and drives out and unwanted critters such as ants that may have gotten in the bed, if you flood it long enough in the spring just after the last frost it helps inhibit the growth of weeds and similar for the autumn. Flooding it turns it into a similar ecosystem to that of a shallow pond so you don't have to put a cover on it that can blow off. Also if you add bio char to the soil this will fully saturate the bio char with water.

My copy of the user manual does not say but I use regular universal hydraulic fluid from Tractor Supply.

my brother in law is blind, so this device suits him. he has the job of making kindling as his da is 82 and we live 2 hrs away.

I still do, but this is great for kids, older people or anyone whom does not have the hand eye coordination to use one safely.

I will give that a try

How did the alcohol work for ya

Haven't used it yet, the fire has not been out long enough to need to reheat the chimney. I will post a video once I have a chance to try it!

Great can't wait to see it.

They have both 24/7, at certain times throughout the day, they just get talkative.

It's a carbon sink used in soil basically like a fertalizer or soil prep

Thanks you

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Glad to hear it!

No major issues so far. There are some that pop up with the wrapping system if using string that I will put a video up about when I do the full yearly maintenance. I have not used the netting yet but may try that next year. The one key thing I have found is have a slightly bigger (more HP) tractor than needed. I currently am pulling it with a 65 HP tractor and it works well. I absolutely love it. It is saving me so much time from doing the small square bales by hand.

The bio char is for the garden but it is first used in the chicken and duck coop to add grit to their intake which is needed for chickens which have a gizzard. Also the bio char absorbs the ammonia smell in the coop when mixed with the sawdust. At the barn it is mixed in with the compost and manure. After letting it charge and decompose for a year it is mixed in with the garden and produces a very rich dark compost. Also is excellent for wicking beds due to its water retention, a pound of dry bio char can hold up to 8 pounds of water. How is it a waste?

@@Circle_J_FarmI didn't realize you had the chicks, if you were only doing it for the garden it would be, though original capture of the heat used to "cook" the char would be good. Wonder if this would turn well with a sand battery? Sand battery water heater? What's your climate like? Maybe you could tie in coop warming with a scheduled burn time? Sorry, it is very interesting, I have become jaded from the very wasteful shorts I see. The point is to use and capture as much as efficiently as possible, not just make bio char for it's own sake

I understand completely. With a little bit of semi flexible pipe a coil of copper pipe could easily go around the top barrel and provide heat to any number of systems, a sand battery, an off grid house hot water, a hot tub, if designed in to it it this could be put inside a green house for extending the seasons as well. I am not sure what the final encompassing build will look like. I need to get the system working as well as it can be then i can get heat measures and a time lapse of how hot for how long and then implement it as best as possible. I am defiantly open to suggestions and ideas.

@@Circle_J_Farm man, I so want to sit here and jam on this stuff with you. So many things I want to talk about. Copper would be good, I did see a video, by nighthawk I believe, where he captured the wood gases for future use.

Nice! I will have to look into those! Got any pictures?

What causes accidents?

@@Circle_J_Farm the way you screw is kind of wrong and there are a lot of people who watch those videos and try to replicate them The ideal would be to teach something more careful brother

How is the way I screw wrong? Between the pilot hole drilled and the length of the screw you will not put it into your finger.

Good idea a video on how to sharpen a pencil in the field... I have a few ways to do it. I will try to post soon.

@@Circle_J_Farm yeah

It needed a little persuasion with Ugga Dugga on max setting.

The saw works very well, there is some slop in the shaft. I tend to put some side pressure on the handle when making a cut to reduce the slop, not enough to alter the cut but enough to stop it from shaking.

By break in the rain i mean a long enough window to properly cut dry and bale. After the rain that we have gotten i waited for a day of sun before mowing and then the usual 3 days of drying. Normally we are finishing haying right now but this is the first hay we have gotten in all year. Also with this style mower it picks up the hay if it is laying down for a proper even cut, so the little bit that is down gets picked up all the same.

It really is!

It really is!

A wicking bed is a tub where the bottom half is material such as stone or gravel that is flooded with water then a barrier such as road fabric which the water can flow through but material like dirt and gravel cannot. Then the top layer is of dirt to plant in. This provides you with a reservoir of water for the bed and you do not have to water every day. Here is my video of how to make one : ua-cam.com/video/byr5vByslg4/v-deo.html

@@Circle_J_Farm thanks

The best wicking material I found is scoria aka lava rock. Ik some ppl prefer sand but for me sand is so heavy and the scoria is just as good as sand in wicking up water to the soil. Much cleaner and lighter too although not everyone has access to it