I have no idea the size of the market, but at prices like this you wouldn’t have to make many sales for it to be worthwhile.
I will assume this is a composted , finished product, but if you have a source of chicken or cattle manure, and straw or smaller wood chips, I think it’s worthwhile.
Time to gasify more of your hay harvesting gear. (Thinking of a larger spark-ignition tractor that could supplement the JD Diesel tractor…) I know you sometimes need more horsepower than the IH utility tractor. Still have to feed people!
Thank you for the chunk pics Wayne. It’s been a while. I’ve been longing for them. What’s that strange green color on the ground?
I over-did it some last summer. Even if I’ve been DOWing daily I still have half the winter-chunk-storage left. Been able to focus on firewood and sawlogs so far. I’m glad I still have the chunking fun to look forward to
The issue isn’t size of the tractor. I hay with an AC D17 it is 65 hp and perfect for haying. Round balers might need a little more power but a D19 was 100 hp and gas. The issue would be who wants a hot gasifer in a hay field? Not me it scares me to have anything that could spark in the hay fields.
My plan is a PTO generator that I could power off a wood gasification tractor and eventually an electric tractor I can hay with as it would be safer in the fields. Ofcourse money has me limited at the moment to mostly planing.
The D series had the advantage of live power. A friend of mine has always used the IH M or 350. They are nice machines.
As to the walk behind I wouldn’t be able to get my 7000 bales a year alone without the accumulator and grapple…
A few nights of 10 below made the ground hard enough to haul some sawlogs down the mountain.
Time-consuming manual loading, but about half of them are down by the road now.
Sliding down the hills with another couple small loads as my Sunday pleasure. Gave me time to think. About my own statement from yesterday for example: “time-consuming”. I thought to myself - is this worth wasting my time on? I came to the conclusion that time will be consumed wether I haul logs or not.
Jan, that’s one reason I like light equipment. The little Fergie hardly leaves tracks at all. Should there be any, I try to alter them a little (grena på spöran )
I hear you Wayne, but I noticed the virus has reached St. CLair County Wednesday. And all 6 cases are sitting right on top of you according to the map I saw. Maybe they are next door at the prison, not sure. But I’d suggest you keep the gate locked and chunk some more wood.