Skip to main content

Bloody monday

 It's always something, today it was a lorry in the new farm yard that decided that a wall which we installed to protect electrical and other mechanical services was not really in a place of his liking.  Our master electrician was called (he was not far, as he was inspecting the work of his crew in our house).  We shut down electricity to the new warehouse for nearly two hours, while the electrician began inspecting and fixing the damage.  We have three-phase 480-volt service to the new warehouses.   While the master electrician started taking everything apart, one of his apprentices was sent on a parts scavenger hunt.  From initial break to fully repaired took three hours, during which we could not open a single freezer or refrigerator because of health and safety rules on maximum temperature.  A lot of waiting around.  By noon, not only was the electrical service repaired, the gas line inspected and both re-certified, but the protection wall had been rebuilt with additional reinforcement.  

It was the driver's third solo driving day.  He was so focused on backing up in the loading bay that he lost focus on the front of his truck.  The total cost of the accident was £ 12,512.62  which is a lot, but 95% of that was material.  The cost of wire shields, connection boxes and connectors for 480V is astronomical.  The truck company and I agreed on a 60/40 split of the insurance deductibles, the wall should have been re-enforced, and his driver needed more training.

In other news, our second team of pigs was moved from the training pen to a second forested area.  We have 38 small forests on the farm, the two teams of pigs have their work cut out for the next few years.  We now have almost 60 pigs/piglets on the farm.  Our ecologist inspected the first forest under "pig management" and said that in about four weeks, we could move the pigs out and start the undergrowth cleaning process (mostly removing rubbish and clearing old collapsed buildings).  Two British universities' anthropology and archeology departments have asked to inspect the cleared forest giving their students a real site to explore.  Our land is specifically mentioned in the 1086 Little Domesday Book (an audit of the lands of England so that the new King could asses taxes).  Yes, 1086 refers to the date of publication... So the students may get lucky and find a 1,000-year-old rubbish dump, that would tell them a lot about the daily lives of Saxon farmers, or maybe where the old farmers dumped their 1950 and '60s rubbish.  Only time will tell.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

what people get wrong about tariffs

 The issue is simple. What percentage of the economy is dependent on tariff goods? The truth, is that the US economy is far more closed than people understand. People genuinely believe that all manufacturing has ceased to exist in the United States all given to China on the altar of woke policy the truth can be further from That statement. Only about 15% of US GDP is related to foreign trade. Of that amount, slightly more than half is from Canada in Mexico. And half of that is energy. What that means, is that about 7% of US GDP is tariff dependent. The proof in the pudding, is how little money tariff generates. People think that 30 or 50 billion is a lot it’s not in an economy that has $3 trillion. The impact on the US economy will be less visible but not absent. Inflation hasn’t occurred yet first because tests have hardly started to bite, but more importantly it’s such a small percent of the economy. Now certain things are critical. The rare earth metals from China were critical....
Post a Comment
Read more

The end of Tesla?

 it takes a special kind of idiot, to think that he can antagonize his entire customer base, and think that it will not impact his business. When Elon Musk went to work for Donald Trump, and created the doge department, he antagonized every liberal, and these people represent 90% of his client base.That’s not a brilliant move. Now Elon Musk is worth hundreds of billions of dollar, so he shouldn’t care a great deal, however, he needs to care because of several other issues. The cyber truck has been a disaster, most have had to be recalled because of defective glue, it’s not a truck, it’s not a car, it’s noisy, relatively uncomfortable, but great as a development platform. What Tesla has learned in making car manufacturing more seamless is truly amazing. The problem was that Elon Musk was so pissed with the Democrats, and with Joe Biden, in particular because of some slight, which were just plain stupid too. By the way, that he decided to support with hundreds of millions of dollar, ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Demographics

 I am preparing a kind of family tree for our children so that they know where they came from.  In my family I am the only survivor, although my brother and sister died recently they were both in their seventies (a story I told already).    It was a fun process, but it provided more than that.  First, I married relatively young I was 26 when I married and nearly 30 when our first child was born.   I was looking at my ancestors.  On my mother's side, she had 6 siblings, Four died before the age of 30, two in war, and two from illnesses.  Only she and a single sister survived.   The two boys had a child each but they died in WWII, and the other sister died as an infant.   what is interesting is that every one of my mother's siblings had children in their early 20s.   I know that my mom was hardly 20 when my brother was born.    What is remarkable is that among our friends, we are the only ones to have fou...
Post a Comment
Read more