Gita-nagari's Ox-Power Unit - 1987

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Someone get it together on disk , so it can be e-mailed as attachments and

Gary prabhu will put it on the ISCOWP WEB site.

 

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"Noma T. Petroff" <npetroff (AT) bowdoin (DOT) edu>

"New Talavan" <talavan (AT) fnbop (DOT) com>; "Cow (Protection and related issues)"

<Cow (AT) pamho (DOT) net>

Thursday, March 29, 2001 9:43 AM

Gita-nagari's Ox-Power Unit - 1987

 

 

> New Talavan wrote:

>

> > -

> > Syamasundara (das) (Bhaktivedanta Manor - UK)

<Syamasundara (AT) pamho (DOT) net>

> > mark chatburn <markjon11 >; New Talavan

<talavan (AT) fnbop (DOT) com>;

> > Cow (Protection and related issues) <Cow (AT) pamho (DOT) net>

> > Tuesday, March 27, 2001 3:34 PM

> > Protection Farms - modeling a better system than the slaughter

of

> > billions of animals.

> >

> > Comment:

> > Do you have plans that you could send of an ox-powered grain mill or

contact

> > with someone that does?

> >

> > Taraka Prabhu does someone in Gita Nagari still have the plans for the

> > ox-powered sawmill?

>

> Rohita Prabhu, under Paramananda's supervision in 1987, I put together a

25

> page booklet on Gita-nagari's ox-powered saw mill, complete with 20 pen

and ink

> drawings by Sarva-Siddhi Ratha. I still have a few copies.

>

> Most unfortunately, that was all back in typewriter days -- so I can't

download

> it to this conference. Maybe that could be a project for me -- to re-type

it

> to

> disk, and to scan the drawings. Come to think of it -- maybe I could get

my

> son Ashto to do it for a "community service" project which he needs to

complete

> before he can graduate from high school.

>

> Possibly we could post it on the ISCOWP website in the Resource section.

Chaya

> and Balabhadra Prabhus -- do you think that would be a possibility?

>

> Another note on this whole topic is that in the early 1990's, Lagudi and

Acarya

> (?) prabhus put together their own version for Australia's New Govardhan

Farm.

> I believe they had it set up for irrigation. In the historical American

> versions of an ox-power or horse-power sweep unit, one person stands in

the

> center and prompts the draft animals with a stick or lash, since they are

all

> trained by voice command. This was the plan used at Gita-nagari, since

they

> were

> modeling their unit after an Amish horse power unit in Kentucky.

> Unfortunately

> for the Australian version, Lagudi's animals were not trained with voice

> command, they just had nose rings. Therefore, in addition to pulling the

> sweep,

> the oxen also had to pull a little cart with the ox driver in it, so he

could

> guide them by pulling the reins to their noses. In the photos, it looked

> somewhat awkward.

>

> I heard that people thought that Gita-nagari's gearing system could have

been

> improved -- but at least if we could put the plans on the ISCOWP website,

> animal

> traction technicians could begin to suggest improvements. Probably we

could

> get

> a lot of feedback from the members of Christian Schlekert's Animal

Traction

> Network.

>

> your servant,

>

> Hare Krsna dasi

>

>

> >

> >

> > Does anyone have plans for a gear system that could operate a water

well?

> >

> > One devotee here tells me that in rural Brazil they have ox-powered

baler

> > and hayforks for the big round bales of hay (15,000 pound).

>

> --

> Noma Petroff

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