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anzohaze

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greasemonkeymann said:
native earthworms yes, not the bought europeon fishing ones, those need to be cold, and they HATE heat.
the natives will be good for that.
next time it is going to rain, but a big ass tarp out and they'll go under it for cover.
Or cardboard works too.
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Sounds like a plan man thanks for all brother man...
Yall still slow at work?
 
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greasemonkeymann

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anzohaze said:
Yes it's been dead since memorial day for me we open at 8 and it's now 3:18 and we have done 1 oil change...
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damn... that's brutal...
man I hate doing oil changes... I haven't done any of those in yrs, the last time I was paid to change oil in a car was over a decade ago... that's why I went the diagnostic route... wrenching on cars you just can't do for much longer than a decade before it rips up your joints, back, ears, etc..
 
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anzohaze

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greasemonkeymann said:
damn... that's brutal...
man I hate doing oil changes... I haven't done any of those in yrs, the last time I was paid to change oil in a car was over a decade ago... that's why I went the diagnostic route... wrenching on cars you just can't do for much longer than a decade before it rips up your joints, back, ears, etc..
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Yea I no I usually don't do oil changes either I do more diagnostics and heavy repair. We have a oil change guy but it was my mom's suburban. Yeah my hands are bad news some days. When we get older 70's I will.prob be crippled
 
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greasemonkeymann

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anzohaze said:
Yea I no I usually don't do oil changes either I do more diagnostics and heavy repair. We have a oil change guy but it was my mom's suburban. Yeah my hands are bad news some days. When we get older 70's I will.prob be crippled
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shit i'm 38 and I feel all the years of wrestling, football, judo, basketball, baseball, falling out of trees...
those are getting me more than wrenching... but I got out early, had back surgery in 2007
 
DonTesla

DonTesla

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greasemonkeymann said:
honestly I can't say for sure, some nutrients are a lil more acidic than others (maybe neem meal?) and maybe those you should avoid in large amounts, but honestly I really don't think that would be an issue unless you have a TON of peat in your mix.
If you have biochar, crab meal, oyster flour, and maybe even oyster shells (probably don't do anything at all but I like them for aeration)
couple those with leaves, grass, and worms eating it all up and converting much to humus and such, I really can't imagine it all being anything but great for your plants. I'd say your ph will be at a happy level.
I think the biggest concern would be having ample aeration and oxygen for that aeration.
Make sure you tumble the mix every two weeks or so, or if thats not possible, then having a LOT of holes provided is crucial.
OH, and don't water the mix, unless it gets bone dry, you can sprinkle it, but don't "water" it like you would a plant.
all you want to do is keep the soil/compost slightly moist or "humid". NOT wet.
I know, it's splitting hairs... but look at it this way, if your soil goes gross and anaerobic, it'll be a whore to fix, if it gets too dry?
bid fuckin deal, water it with a AACT.
SO, safe to say, lightly "moisten" the mix, not water it.
You feel me right?
OH and the tree log chunks are damn great, I wouldn't worry about "charging" them, if they'll be in a rich compost they won't sequester anything from your plants by the time you use it, in fact quite the contrary.
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How did you activate your bio char before adding it, brada?
I keep kicking my can over and really need to get it involved in the magic..
Thanks inadvance dawg!
 
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anzohaze

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greasemonkeymann said:
shit i'm 38 and I feel all the years of wrestling, football, judo, basketball, baseball, falling out of trees...
those are getting me more than wrenching... but I got out early, had back surgery in 2007
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Yea I'm 29 and my body hurts I was a little rough as a kid. But oh well deal with it and move on
DonTesla said:
How did you activate your bio char before adding it, brada?
I keep kicking my can over and really need to get it involved in the magic..
Thanks inadvance dawg!
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I used alfalfa added water and let it sit in a bucket for a week
 
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Wetdog

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greasemonkeymann said:
shit i'm 38 and I feel all the years of wrestling, football, judo, basketball, baseball, falling out of trees...
those are getting me more than wrenching... but I got out early, had back surgery in 2007
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:o:arrow: LOL!!! I'm 67 and guess what? It gets worse! Of course with me it was mostly the RA and Cancer and finding a good pain management Dr is essential. Just going for enough pain relief to manage is key. Trying to eliminate pain will turn you into a stone cold addict, like Oxy's for breakfast stone cold. I hurt, constantly, but not bad enough to where I can't function. The Dr's are willing enough, but I went through that shit before and see no need to repeat it.

Enough to knock the pain level down is fine. For me anyway.

But, boy, would some China White be nice every now and then.;)

Wet
 
MustangStudFarm

MustangStudFarm

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anzohaze said:
Yea I no I usually don't do oil changes either I do more diagnostics and heavy repair. We have a oil change guy but it was my mom's suburban. Yeah my hands are bad news some days. When we get older 70's I will.prob be crippled
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I think that I am a decent "shade tree" mechanic, I atleast went to school and passed the ASE... Being disabled with the VA they dont want me to work? It is dissappointing, because there has to be something I could do. I really wanted to work in a shop for a while...
Anyways, my last mustang project is a '88GT. I rebuilt the engine/trans, and it fired right up, then it would smoke and die! Turned out that the fuse box had a wire that burned 5 others...
You guys were talking about cars, and I felt left out lol. Talking about diagnostics... It hurts my feelings to have to haul my car to a more experienced mech..

I still make $50,000yr doing nothing!
 
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MustangStudFarm

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Wetdog said:
:o:arrow: LOL!!! I'm 67 and guess what? It gets worse! Of course with me it was mostly the RA and Cancer and finding a good pain management Dr is essential. Just going for enough pain relief to manage is key. Trying to eliminate pain will turn you into a stone cold addict, like Oxy's for breakfast stone cold. I hurt, constantly, but not bad enough to where I can't function. The Dr's are willing enough, but I went through that shit before and see no need to repeat it.

Enough to knock the pain level down is fine. For me anyway.

But, boy, would some China White be nice every now and then.;)

Wet
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I have a degenerative disk in my back, L1. They told me that I could expect something like RA later in life! Only 34
 
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MustangStudFarm

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anzohaze

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MustangStudFarm said:
Looking at electric winches. Any of you familiar with Smittybuilt? I have a 16ft tandem axle trailer and it is time to invest!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JXS3BXI/ref=s9_psimh_gw_p263_d0_i2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=desktop-1&pf_rd_r=1WMGSC1D55AY3P4G1ZGC&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2079475242&pf_rd_i=desktop
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I no a few people that run those on trailers and a few trucks. Of course the most common is warn winches but if you mounted that to a trailer Yessir you will pull anythung onto the trailer esp if a snatch block is used to double the weight
 
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greasemonkeymann

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DonTesla said:
How did you activate your bio char before adding it, brada?
I keep kicking my can over and really need to get it involved in the magic..
Thanks inadvance dawg!
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I used a dandelion and comfrey fermented tea, sounds more complicated than it was.
I threw a BUNCH of dandelions and about the size of a thing of lettuce-worth of comfrey, into a five gallon bucket, added 3.5 gallons of water, and let it chill for about a week, it stank a lil at first, but after about two weeks it didn't anymore.
When it did stink, for a small experiment I added three tablespoons of BSM, and bubbled for a day, after about a couple hrs the smell was totally gone, and it smelled like a AACT.
Not sure what my goal was really... I suppose I was just curious how much aerobic bacteria can "clean" up a stinky ferment tea.
Anyways, long answer to your question...
of that ferment I added 2 large mason size jars (probably a total of 32oz?) of it to another 5 gallon bucket, in that bucket I had the biochar, and then I sprayed water in there to really agitate it up and help soak the charcoal.
Let that soak for like 4 hrs and I was done.
A old school hippy-farmer friend of mine swears by urine. He just pees in a bucket, adds charcoal, and fills the bucket with water.
His results don't lie, I just had the dandelion/comfrey ferment already... Not to mention the prospect of mixing in my pee-soaked biochar to the soil sounded less than inviting...
 
DonTesla

DonTesla

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greasemonkeymann said:
I used a dandelion and comfrey fermented tea, sounds more complicated than it was.
I threw a BUNCH of dandelions and about the size of a thing of lettuce-worth of comfrey, into a five gallon bucket, added 3.5 gallons of water, and let it chill for about a week, it stank a lil at first, but after about two weeks it didn't anymore.
When it did stink, for a small experiment I added three tablespoons of BSM, and bubbled for a day, after about a couple hrs the smell was totally gone, and it smelled like a AACT.
Not sure what my goal was really... I suppose I was just curious how much aerobic bacteria can "clean" up a stinky ferment tea.
Anyways, long answer to your question...
of that ferment I added 2 large mason size jars (probably a total of 32oz?) of it to another 5 gallon bucket, in that bucket I had the biochar, and then I sprayed water in there to really agitate it up and help soak the charcoal.
Let that soak for like 4 hrs and I was done.
A old school hippy-farmer friend of mine swears by urine. He just pees in a bucket, adds charcoal, and fills the bucket with water.
His results don't lie, I just had the dandelion/comfrey ferment already... Not to mention the prospect of mixing in my pee-soaked biochar to the soil sounded less than inviting...
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Awesome man.
Appreciate the inside scoop
 
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