Farm Tech Archives - Robert Plamondon's Rural Life https://www.plamondon.com/wp/category/farm-equipment-and-shop-tools/ Including Practical Poultry Tips Sat, 29 Oct 2016 16:06:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 90460172 Replace Dead Cooling Units with Air Conditioners https://www.plamondon.com/wp/replace-dead-cooling-units-air-conditioners/ https://www.plamondon.com/wp/replace-dead-cooling-units-air-conditioners/#comments Sat, 29 Oct 2016 16:06:40 +0000 http://www.plamondon.com/wp/?p=1675 I have an old Hussmann refrigerator with two sliding glass doors, that was originally used as a refrigerated produce case in a grocery store (I use it to store eggs from my free-range egg farm). This was a nice unit in its day—it’s built like a battleship—but its refrigeration unit is shot, and was an … Continue reading "Replace Dead Cooling Units with Air Conditioners"

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]]> https://www.plamondon.com/wp/replace-dead-cooling-units-air-conditioners/feed/ 3 1675 Living With a Low-Yield Well https://www.plamondon.com/wp/low-yield-well/ https://www.plamondon.com/wp/low-yield-well/#comments Sun, 26 Jun 2016 00:08:23 +0000 http://www.plamondon.com/wp/?p=1175 Slow, low-yield water wells are no joke, as I learned when I nearly ran out of water one summer. Yikes! Running out of water is seriously Not Fun. How did we fix our problem? More importantly, how can you fix your problem? Can you need a new well? Maybe not! With the right setup, you can have … Continue reading "Living With a Low-Yield Well"

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]]> https://www.plamondon.com/wp/low-yield-well/feed/ 30 1175 More on the Blog and Newsletter Migration https://www.plamondon.com/wp/blog-newsletter-migration/ https://www.plamondon.com/wp/blog-newsletter-migration/#respond Thu, 07 Aug 2014 02:32:03 +0000 http://plamondon.com/wp/?p=959 Migrating the Blog Converting my blog from its old format (b2evolution) into WordPress was not something I cared to do by hand, so I paid http://www.cms2cms.com/ to do it for me. The automatic conversion failed, but they stepped in and got it to work manually. I like the way the results came out. The whole thing set … Continue reading "More on the Blog and Newsletter Migration"

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]]> https://www.plamondon.com/wp/blog-newsletter-migration/feed/ 0 959 Same Blog, New Look https://www.plamondon.com/wp/blog-new-look/ https://www.plamondon.com/wp/blog-new-look/#respond Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:04:53 +0000 http://plamondon.com/wp/?p=953 I’ve jumped on the WordPress bandwagon after having my blog running on the b2evolution platform since around 2007 or so. WordPress has so many free, user-supported features, while b2evolution seems stagnant. The next step is to revive my poultry newsletter, which is running on software so obsolete that it pretty much doesn’t work anymore. Soon…

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]]> https://www.plamondon.com/wp/blog-new-look/feed/ 0 953 Online and Offline Predators https://www.plamondon.com/wp/online-and-offline-predators/ https://www.plamondon.com/wp/online-and-offline-predators/#respond Sat, 26 Oct 2013 17:14:59 +0000 I logged into the blog the other day and was informed by the blog software that I had a quarter of a million comments awaiting moderation! Of course, none of these comments seemed to have anything to do with my blog. I was just being victimized by one of the botnets, whose zombie army of … Continue reading "Online and Offline Predators"

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