[Gasification] [Digestion] Cattails

Benjamin Domingo Bof benjaminbof at yahoo.com.ar
Fri Dec 21 06:53:20 CST 2007


Richard ; very good video . For me this is the way cheapest vegetals to use as energy. Scirpus Californicus named "totora" in our regions could be other source of cellulosic material. Here more info:
  http://www.peruecologico.com.pe/flo_totora_2.htm

Richard Haard <richrd at nas.com> escribió:
  Hmmm

The link did not seem to come through

try again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybhz-TBrjZs


On Dec 20, 2007, at 9:44 PM, Richard Haard wrote:

> Hi Harmon
>
> Here is a Youtube link to view our use of the lifter-shaker for bare
> root harvest an alternate tool to harvest cat-tails , a plant we now
> cultivate and harvest at our native plant nursery.
>
> Rich
> On Dec 20, 2007, at 6:50 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>
>>
>>> Even if there were, it would be
>>> difficult to adapt them to modern, mechanised, farming techniques.
>>
>> Actually it is quite simple. You grow them in paddys, as you do
>> rice.
>> The water level is managed, and when harvesting, you drain the paddy,
>> run first one tractor (with tracks or the huge mud tires) with a 
>> mower
>> or harvester that cuts off the stalks 3' above the ground, then a
>> second
>> tractor following that cuts the stalks at ground level.
>> Dr. Pratt's group also experimented with harvesting the roots with
>> modified potato diggers which seemed to work well.
>
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