Farming is full of Fun, thrill and ideas

One day Subbu was talking to me over phone from an open field. There was rains. He was standing near my farm and me in a metropolitan city apartment, safe secure and comfortable in my balcony. During middle of conversation he called for emergency and cut the phone abruptly.  In a local slang he later explained that there was thunder and lightning at that time. What if In case the lightning will strike the cell phone ! ? " Safety is important no sir..."  There in villages they have a strong opinion that cell phones that are active in conversation will attract lightning.  There are lightning strike cases sometimes hitting cow boys in the open because they were the tallest structures at that place. But i am not sure if static electricity will love cell phones because they transmit more waves during a conversation.



Field level innovation to mount anemometer



I offered to buy a bicycle to my farmer Kandan. No No No he refused. Reason ? he cannot ride a bicycle. I cannot convince him at this age. But what if i force him ?They guaranteed that he will walk the bicycle even if i purchase him one. I will do that anyway.

Mouting the anemometer itself was a great fun. I left it to them right from receiving parcel, unpacking, installation, trouble shooting and working it.  All of that they did themselves.  When they opened  the package, they would not have understood what the hell is this.  (i did not tell them).  It took many weeks for them to make it work. Subbu was dashing back and forth with anemometer on his bike to Villiyoor a nearby town to make a rod that you see in the picture supporting the meter box.

While i was breaking my head how to take meter readings in case we mount it on a tall pole..  I was imagining a solution whereby one pole will pivot over another pole at half its height like a scissors. whenever we need reading we need to hoist down the 2nd pole using rope and hoist up (like a check post).  But guys on the field came with this solution as it the picture. It works anyway. That only matters. Subbu says it is cool and comfortable at the top.

Farm output - a single ridge guard.

And while the commercial farming is months away, our entire output of the farm in produce is not a ton of vegetables. After tilling grinding, bulldozing, ploughing and tending.....  Not in kilograms. it is one single lonely ridge guard. Search in the picture below.  That too planted for fun !  We can make ridge guard chutny .

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