I wrote my name in the grass.
Childish I know.
I have gone from needing to precision measure parts to learn what soil suits what vegetation. Learn about lime for soil, fertilizers and natural pesticides.
What I do now, farming in the middle of nowhere is a far cry from what I was doing in the UK.
The sitting in traffic for 1 hour each way, after driving 100's of miles too. Then 8 hour shift, compared to relax and grow food.
I know which I prefer, and that is now.
It would take me 1 hour on the way home, 1 hour to get 2 miles in the centre of Birmingham. That was every day.
Now I get up when I want, sleep when I want. Do what I want and when I want to do it.
It seems a lifetime ago now, and it is since them days in cold dark car factories scouring documents to make sure a car would work, would be fit for purpose, now I lift soil with my hands to see if it is alkaline or sandy, and decide what to plant and where.
I had enough, had my fill of chemicals at car factories so only use natural products now. The pesticide of choice for me is nettles soaked in water for a week. It smells very pungent, but insects do not like it so it works very well and costs nothing but effort.
You can have a look at some parts of our farm here.
I make a lot of these now, classic bikes. That is number 494 of 500 made by Yamaha, got two of the 500 now.
Keeps me busy, makes a few quid here and there (money).
At the moment I am building/restoring a Yamaha rd 350lc from 1980 something. Kenny Roberts yellow.
If you like bikes and rebuilds I will do a series of the build on here.
Have a superb sunny day, getting a bit chilly here in the AM, but nice in the PM.
Reminds me of myself a few years ago - from nuclear physics to agriculture! lol. It's all just science - tried to get the locals away from their monoculture and fertilisers - no chance, coz they are so wise. But I knew people with agri degrees and they confirmed my dual system would work, plus organics rot very quickly here so could have had fertile soil in 2 years. Anyway, may do it again - looking for land atm.
Where are you based bud? I would love to read about your your system, maybe it would aid mine.
I have noticed the rot with so called organics, or are they GMO?
We harvest only the best seeds now, a lot are "tainted" by big tech, so 7 years in on trying to stay away from buying seeds from shops.
Tropics have very different climate - Thailand is hot and humid then hot, humid and wet. as u know.
Yeah, many hybrid seeds now, so that the plants grow like machines.
Really depends if growing food or industrial plants - often for paper and biofuels.
Yes Thailand was hot, then wet in the rainy season. Songkran was fun. I did learn to speak Thai, interesting experience indeed, @lucylin still lives over there.
Say sawadee kap to him :-)
Really? Where is @lucylin ? lol
All my farang "friends" have bought into the new fake - or have left.
Ask him, he is in the countryside, maybe oudhanthani, unsure, he does know Pattaya well.
Farang, not heard that for 7 years now. I am always a foreigner as I left my country of birth.
hah, I have 3 nationalities and everywhere tried to make me feel like a foreigner - now I really am one!
Don't give a shit - be an individual... and human, if possible.
The Polish have been good to me. They know I am from abroad, but have always treated me as a human, the Thais took the piss with always wanting more money, fake smiles, fake as they come.
I'm up near udon thani
Wonderful. Nice bikes and farm. Great YouTube Channel too. Let’s get you to 1,000 Subcribers and help you monetize.
Cheers my friend, not made videos for a while, will do though.
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Odd that as I never turned them off.
It is in your settings some where. I made the mistake and turned mine off by mistake.
I shall check later today, thank you.
Lovely land you got there. Mine is tiny compared but cute and wild.
It is yours though, and that is what matters tgal
Maybe we need to create a tag for those of us blurt farmers.
I would agree to that for sure.
I used #farm on a post today.
We shall use that more then.
Damn , just today i connected some overpowered sound system to my laptop ,...
To get some music programming going ,... but that KTM vid almost blew it ,.. ;-)
2 stroke , yeah man , it hit's every rotation , so double the sound of a 4 stroke .
And where you go for original restorations ,.. we up here change any machine to our liking ,.. witch is not always the most save thing to do ,..
450cc 2t Puma snow-scooter ,... with front wheels .
We still ride true mansions of glory on suicide machines .
Even do Wendy went to study and didn't believe she had to run . ;-)
Sell me an engine from one, I shall show you a rocket bike.
Sorry about the speakers bro, but had to do it.
No problem ,... i must learn to lower the volume when i stop the music ;-)
The music is crap, the bike sings
lol bro. at least I made you smile.
Tempting ,.. ;-) ,.. there is also a 750cc 2t snow-scooter standing around here .
All those machines , for there is more , where collected and bought cheap in the last two month's by a fellow mechanic that lives here to . Has something to do with having a pro welder in town now .
This guy thinks it is blasphemy to sell or even trow away a engine ,.. any engine , like we have a Renault combo 1.6 16v with a burned out ECU ,.. keep the engine , let's make it in to a 2 stroke or something he said . I guess having space to drive around makes one wanna create some fun vehicles . ;-)
"I guess having space to drive around makes one wanna create some fun vehicles . ;-)" Indeed, want to make a direct injection 500c 2t with passive hho or browns gas too.