Oh, I guess I should document here that the bamboo goat fence fell over yesterday. Not entirely, you understand, but it was leaning at 45* angle when I spotted it... We have had some ferocious winds lately and the african tulip posts that have been carpenter bee condo's for this past couple of years finally snapped at the ground level, so basically it was the horizontal bamboo poles wired onto the kiawe posts at the corners that were holding the whole thing up...
The new chook pen is going to be smaller than the goat yard was, so that section of fence was going to be redundant now anyway... I started pulling it down and I guess I will use it to start charcoal fires or something.
Oh, yeah, yesterday I had my most succesful attempt at charring the woodshavings yet. I still stopped the process too early. I guess it was smoking for about 5 hours when I turned it off, and probably 60% of the material was nicely charred. 20% was just sort of blackened, but not actually charred, and the remainder was still whole. A portion at the bottom was probably ash actually. I guess next time I will try to leave it for like, 7 or 8 hours and hopefully I will have something I can use as a soil amendment.