[AT] Photos from work

[bradloomis at charter.net]

Yup, wind machines. After bud break in the spring they run if it gets below 39°. There is a new lemon orchard to the north, i.e. just a few hundred yards to the right of the cilantro field. New wind machines in that. Had been a hay field before that. They are all propane in this locale. At the last winery I was, 30 miles north and subject to much colder lows, they used Rainbirds on top of the trellis for frost protection. I suspect those may eventually be replaced by wind what with the scarcity of water. 700 acres of sprinklers is a lot of water. 

Brad

 

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Brad,

   Those silver towers look like the fans they used around citrus orchards here (in your second picture). I think they used them to move the air around and keep it from freezing during the growing season... is that the same type of thing?  I recall some of them here being powered by gas engines and some by electric motors. 

 

Interesting pictures. Thanks for sharing.

 

Ken in AZ

 

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 7:29 PM <bradloomis at charter.net <mailto:bradloomis at charter.net> > wrote:

Taken at the same spot at the same time, picking cilantro to the west, trimming vines to the south. Tractor reference, two pulling wagons for the cilantro. Not antiques however. 

 

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