Out for a side road tour today, just north of Victoria BC. This one has seen some better days.View attachment 208699
Hey, look who’s checking in from the Pacific NorthWest! Nice photo.
Out for a side road tour today, just north of Victoria BC. This one has seen some better days.View attachment 208699
You sure that's not a Bonneville streamliner hiding in there?
Drunk cows? I never knew....Chopped and stored while green/wet and ferments in storage. Cowz LOVE that stuff!
Why do you think Elsie is smiling?Drunk cows? I never knew....
'TT'
Spring is coming along gradually here in Central New York, providing about 10 days in the 60's so far. I've gotten all of the road bikes out, and all are running superbly, having had each in the winter workroom these past 5 months for an intensive maintenance. Added a digital tachometer to the '76 and '75 (they all have them, now) and deleted the sidestand relays on the '83 and '82, cutting off all of the unnecessary/interfering sections of the stands themselves. The'75 needed the starter gear clip re-pinched, so the starter is no longer grinding.
Yesterday it was the '82 Heritage Special's turn to take a spin in the neighborhood as a shakedown for my regular Catskill Mountain trips, this being the dedicated bike for those excursions. All is good.
This is a classic Central New York small owner farm which is meticulously maintained. It still has its operational grain silos, whereas most of the farms have converted to using 8 foot fans which blow the grain into huge white plastic "worms" which now adorn the landscape.
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Technically, what's in the silo and/or bags is "sileage" not grain. Usually either chopped corn or chopped hay. Chopped and stored while green/wet and ferments in storage. Cowz LOVE that stuff!
On my planet, "grain" is stuff like wheat, oats, rye or corn harvested after it's dried down and the seed separated from the rest of the plant via a combine harvester.
Drunk cows? I never knew....
'TT'
Silage made from grass doesn't ferment or cause drunk cows. It cooks and goes a sort of golden green colour if the stack has been sealed properly. Winter feed and it is so warm it can be hot to touch when cutting into the stack. In the winter and the cows just love it because it is warm food on those cold rainy, or any winters day.
Used to put in 17 acres every year for our milking cows. Had a hole cut into a bank and filled it up with grass and it has to be grass that hasn't gone to seed or it will loose it's nutritional value. it is an art building the stack and stopping water from getting into it and making the stack rot.
Remember years ago a silage pit was found in England that was 25 years old, the silage was still good and nutritional.
Now don't let the cattle get into the corn or wheat.............that will ferment in their stomach and make them drunk and kill them if they eat enough.
Just down the road (41A) is a hamlet called New Hope, where the New Hope Gristmill complex resides.
The complex includes the mill building, two vernacular dwellings, a 1910s gambrel roofed storage barn, a 1935 saw mill, two concrete faced dams, and a 1-acre mill pond. On the National Registry of Historic Places, it is certainly worth visiting.
I had no idea, Ken!Well as it turns out there is also a Hamlet in southeastern NY by that same name: