LDRS Report - Day 3

Is there a difference...?

Need you ask?

Plenty ... and it is all good stuff! It may be providence:

In the year of the first civilian astronaut, a founding member of Tripoli (an organization founded to further civilian exploration of space) becomes President.

He has GREAT taste in rocket kits:

Guys,

For grassy hay products you have one day when the hay will bale optimally, with all the tender leaves in tact. Too early and you get

1500 pounds of mold, too late and you get 1500 pounds of stems that have to be ground to feed well.

Now, with that said, you do have control of is when you cut the hay. Unless there were shower and the like the week before that would have delayed things for him, he could have planned better.

Chuck Mies

Jerry Irvine wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com:

What I find interesting is my email on this. VERY polarized. The typical suspects on each side have either a litany of evil or a litany of good.

That's why I asked. rmr at least has loose cannons (you cannot deny that) and sometimes can offer random insights (and total morons too).

Once the hay has been trampled flat by the rocketeers, spectactors, and vehicular traffic, it's useless. I can't imagine the farmer willingly throwing away $10-$15K worth of hay. (I don't know what market prices for hay are this year, but it looked like reasonable field hay to me, so assume $20.00-$30.00/bale).

Taking hay is notoriously weather dependant. It's always a bit of a nail-biter around here until the hay is in the barn. For example, once cut, it can tolerate being rained on during the first day of drying, but if it dries, and then gets rained on, it's ruined. Also, the nutrient content starts to fall off rapidly once the seed heads appear. You'll often see farmers around here with large hay fields do staggered cuts during iffy weather. They'll cut as much as they think they can dry and bale within a good weather window.

-Marcus Part-time farmer

Farmer and hybrid maker?

Impressive.

Jerry

Looks like this is the same old altopia troll (or its spiritual sibling).

-dave w

The members of TRA know he lives up to his name. :)

Since you're not a member, you don't need to know anything.

Bob K. wrote:

Why change a broken one when you can start fresh?

:)

As you know it's a big field. This was also donr at NY Power in the past. It wasn't close to where the people & rockets were. It was no big deal.

Here we go - the crook & the crank. Where's the Crybaby?

Farmer, hybrid maker, father, husband, crypto and security advisor, radio astronomer

Keeps a man busy...

Neither. The fees, except the insurance surcharge, go to the host prefecture. Tripoli does get a payment for use of the LDRS name, but I think it is fixed, not a sliding scale fee.

Brian Elfert

The farmer didn't hurt anything being out in the field other than he could have been seriously hurt had a rocket hit him.

Brian Elfert

So you know all the details of all the expendatures & costs involved? I have a hard time believing that.