Planted the G. maxima that I had air layered from the one Greg gave me last year, along the driveway where the Guadua's are... Its hard to describe exactly where it is... I'll take a picture tomorrow if I remember. Put peanut cuttings all around it. It was drizzly on and off all day, so in spite of the pretty ferocious winds I think it was a good day for it.
Other than that I made new peanut cuttings and planted up old ones... Did some pruning of the gliricidia's that were getting hammered by the winds, and took the top out of one that was looking like it was going to heave over in the wind.
Oh, something I could have discussed on the phone was the idea to convert the truck to run on vegetable oil. It would take a few hundred dollars to get set up, and a certain amount of time and energy to collect and filter the oil. But then we would greatly reduce our monthly fuel costs. We probably put $100 or more a month into that thing, so it would probably be well worth it... I am quite confident that I can make it work, and fairly confident that it can be done in such a way as to not seriously compromise the lifespan of the vehicle. At least, there are people who have done it that have gotten many 10's of 1000's of miles without fuel system related problems.
I don't know that I want to experiment on my own investment though... Is that unreasonable? I know it shows that I don't necessarily have the courage of my convictions. Anyway, say I spend $150 a month on fuel. At that rate, if you buy the truck from me for $6000, over three years you will save that amount, and perhaps have a lot of the property sheet mulched in the process...
Heck, I've been thinking about paying Earl Calasa to deliver us some loads of green waste in his big dump trunk. I haven't checked his price for that, but it is probably a lot more efficient than me hauling loads. (I would still bring back cardboard, compost, cinders, etc)
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
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