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Saturday, October 6, 2018

Wartime Farm '42

Wartime Farm '41

1941
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=1m19s

Fuel shortage - foraging for wood
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=2m10s
WAEC - War Ags - 2,700 lost farms, 10,000 lost bits of farm
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=3m40s
https://www.kuleuven.be/icag/files/Brian_Short.pdf
bird scarer
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=37m54s
Lister engine and Alfa-Laval milking machine
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=20m50s
Flax
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=6m10s
1K => 60K acres
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=47m7s
British Percherons - by '45 O.5 million working horses, 1 million tractors
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=51m56s
Silage
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=12m37s
Raising rabbits - officially encouraged
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=30m17s
3-4 months to butcher
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=36m18s
rabbits nesting - War Ag inspector
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=55m3s
Government Films - Spring Offensive MoI '40 - War Ag shoot out
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=17m1s
Soap shortage & soapwort
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=26m16s
Washing machine
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=33m11s
Calving, milking machine, vet, cottage-cheese from off-milk - Barbarossa & diverted shipping
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=41m43s
cottage cheese
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=49m19s

Tractors
https://youtu.be/pnkSPB-9BmQ?t=8m38s
"In 1938 the 12/20 model was redesigned and the model coding was changed so that the new model became the Marshall Model "M" tractor. During the war tractor production was reduced greatly due to Marshall's factory capacity being engaged on war work. However, after the war, in 1945, Marshall's of Gainsborough introduced the improved tractor they had developed as the "Field-Marshall"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_Marshall

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtakTnKQQMCx0RPTVRn-XIp6kdtol7shK

Wartime Farm '40

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Wartime Farm '39

Colehill - site of Auxiliary training | Banjay > .
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=40m13s
https://plus.google.com/collection/YLINaB
Special Duties Section - 3.5K - women
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=43m12s
Auxiliers
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=47m27s

http://www.coleshillhouse.com/specialdutiesbranch/special-duties-branch-overview.php
http://www.coleshillhouse.com/specialdutiesbranch/index.php
Known under the names Special Duties Branch (On most official war records), Special Duties Organisation (On some WW2 documents) and Special Duties Section or SDS (a post war phrase).

Bananas & Bacon
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=52m27s

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtakTnKQQMCx0RPTVRn-XIp6kdtol7shK

By the 1930s, wind generators for electricity were common on farms, mostly in the United States where distribution systems had not yet been installed. In this period, high-tensile steel was cheap, and the generators were placed atop prefabricated open steel lattice towers.

A forerunner of modern horizontal-axis wind generators was in service at Yalta, USSR in 1931. This was a 100 kW generator on a 30-meter (98 ft) tower, connected to the local 6.3 kV distribution system. It was reported to have an annual capacity factor of 32 percent, not much different from current wind machines.

In the autumn of 1941, the first megawatt-class wind turbine was synchronized to a utility grid in Vermont. The Smith-Putnam wind turbine only ran for 1,100 hours before suffering a critical failure. The unit was not repaired, because of shortage of materials during the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine

A windpump is a type of windmill which is used for pumping water. Windpumps were used to pump water since at least the 9th century in what is now Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. Windmills were later used extensively in Europe, particularly in the Netherlands and the East Anglia area of Great Britain, from the late Middle Ages onwards, to drain land for agricultural or building purposes.

Multi-bladed wind pumps can be found worldwide and are manufactured in the United States, Argentina, China, New Zealand, and South Africa. A 16 ft (4.8 m) diameter wind pump can lift up to 1600 US gallons (about 6.4 metric tons) of water per hour to an elevation of 100 ft with a 15 to 20 mph wind (24–32 km/h). However they take a strong wind to start so they turn over the crank of the piston pump. Wind pumps require little maintenance—usually only a change of gear box oil annually. An estimated 60,000 wind pumps are still in use in the United States. They are particularly attractive for use at remote sites where electric power is not available and maintenance is difficult to provide.

A common multi-bladed windpump usefully pumps with about 4%–8% of the annual windpower passing through the area it sweeps] This lower conversion is due to poor load matching between wind rotors and fixed-stroke piston pumps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windpump

A solar-powered pump is a pump running on electricity generated by photovoltaic panels or the radiated thermal energy available from collected sunlight as opposed to grid electricity or diesel run water pumps. The operation of solar powered pumps is more economical mainly due to the lower operation and maintenance costs and has less environmental impact than pumps powered by an internal combustion engine (ICE). Solar pumps are useful where grid electricity is unavailable and alternative sources (in particular wind) do not provide sufficient energy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar-powered_pump

Solar-powered pump - Wikipedia

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