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anyone watching the lime kiln on bbc2?
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Tom
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I caught some of it but had ti leave it to get the hirses in. Just looking at the thermometer out here; its -2 already !!
FamilyWiggs
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Yes - very interesting. In one of my fields I have a limekiln very similar to that one - right next to some limestone quarry workings.
I'll try and post a pic at the weekend. Would be wonderful to try and fire my own limestone! Somehow I doubt it will ever get to the top of my list though. :roll:
I'll try and post a pic at the weekend. Would be wonderful to try and fire my own limestone! Somehow I doubt it will ever get to the top of my list though. :roll:
Schoolmarm
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goddamit!! I have missed everything I wanted to watch tonight.
Flyfisher
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Was that the Edwardian farm programme? I missed the kiln but caught a bit where they were spreadling quicklime on the field, but it looked far too lumpy to have done a lot of good to the soil and would have resulted in very patchy crops I'd have thought, even after ploughing in the lumps. Surely it would have been pummelled into more of a powder before applying to the soil?
Interesting bit about the risk of the cart going up in flames when it started to rain though. :lol:
Interesting bit about the risk of the cart going up in flames when it started to rain though. :lol:
It doesn't take much googling to find this quote:
"It was common practice for farmers to take lump lime straight from the kiln to the fields. This had its dangers because if it started to slake, it could set fire to carts or panniers. The lime would be dispersed in small heaps over a field, often covered with earth and left to slake naturally, in due course falling into a powder, which could then be spread on the soil."
"It was common practice for farmers to take lump lime straight from the kiln to the fields. This had its dangers because if it started to slake, it could set fire to carts or panniers. The lime would be dispersed in small heaps over a field, often covered with earth and left to slake naturally, in due course falling into a powder, which could then be spread on the soil."
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Ah, all is explained. Thanks for that. I remember helping to spread lime on a friend's Welsh farm in the 70s, but I reckon it must have been hydrated lime. It was certainly very powdery.