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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

Here's an example of a Permacultural approach to a common problem.  
Let's say you want to partly heat your home with wood. First, you buy  
a very efficient wood stove. Next, you need to locate and design your  
wood storage. You decide to cover it to keep the wood dry, and to  
include an overhang to keep you dry and comfortable when you go to  
get the wood. Next, you decide that the wood must be convenient to  
the door closest to the woodstove, to save you time and effort. And  
you decide that it must be at least 15 feet from the house, to  
minimize the chance of your house becoming colonized by carpenter  
ants or termites brought in on the wood. Now that you have located  
the woodshed, you notice the opportunities you will have created. The  
woodshed roof can be built almost flat, a railing built around it,  
and a ladder up to it for a children's play platform. Railed off on  
one end, you can locate a honeybee hive, with the bees' flight  
pattern conveniently out of your, and the children's way. The  
woodshed roof can have a gutter, to direct rainwater to a small pond  
or swale that you dig nearby. This will collect the rainwater and  
allow it to percolate into the ground. Now you have a wet spot. You  
can take advantage of that by planting a pair of kiwis on a mound  
next to it - they need the summer soil moisture - and training their  
long, lovely twining branches onto the railing of the play platform -  
very convenient for harvest.

http://www.thefarm.org/permaculture/index.html
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We've always worked our hay on a co-op basis.  We had the fields and we 
maintained them (seeding when necessary, etc.) and then had someone else cut 
and bale and bring it to the barn for half the hay.  Of course, with 4 boys 
and all their friends, tossing hay around is done in short order <g>

Son #3 came up for a long weekend because he was sure we weren't getting 
everything done that needs to be done, so he'll be here until Tuesday to do 
the really heavy work that he thinks we shouldn't be doing <g>  He didn't 
bring friends this time but he usually does.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gloria Morris" <gloriamorris59 AT gmail.com>


> Yeah, conveyors work great if you have a crew of at least two people to 
> put
> the hay in the barn, one to put the hay bale on the conveyor at the 
> bottom,
> and one to remove the bale at the top and stack it in the loft. A larger
> crew of 3 or more is preferable, as it takes longer to retrieve the bale
> from the conveyor and stack it than it does to grab a bale from the wagon
> and put it on the conveyor. I like having things set up so I can do it 
> solo,
> as my son is grown and I am solo.
>
> Of course, if you hire someone to deliver the hay and pay the upcharge for
> putting it up in a loft, there's no problem. Most hay farmers I know 
> charge
> more to put the hay up in a loft versus stacking it on the barn floor due 
> to
> greater labor costs on their end. I know some hay farmers who WILL NOT
> deliver to a loft, as they have trouble getting sufficient labor to do it. 
> I
> expect, if I live long enough, that a fixed income might put a damper on
> paying anyone ANY extra for extra labor. Stacking hay on the ground works
> for me, but obviously, not for everyone's situation!