Well, got the first really good load on the Mundo today. 4 sacks of chicken feed and one bag of dog food. 205 pounds and the Mundo was awesome. Changing the perception of what a bicycle can do indeed! Love the wideloaders. Here's a pic of the chickens checking out their feed delivery. The bike is very stable- even on the grass- on the Rolling Jackass stand.
All of this craziness started a year or two ago when I was listening to a radio program where they were interviewing a CEO of a national organic dairy producer. The host asked the gentleman about it being better to buy local- the 100 mile diet and so on. The CEO's reply was that their transportation network was very efficient and that the most inefficient link in the chain was the end consumer driving to the supermarket to buy a tub of yoghurt. I gave that some thought- and now take to the bike much more. We are fortunate to have a farm feed distributor a few miles away- they bring in truckloads of feed- and I pick it up there on my bike. (Previously the Ute, and now the Mundo)
I still believe in local, but also now see that the big dairy CEO knew what he was talking about. Check out this post from Joe George's Urban Simplicity blog- the amount of fuel burned by Pickups, SUV's, and sedans is over the top.
http://citysimplicity.blogspot.com/2010/06/im-gonna-be-honest-here.html
Ohh, the feed is "whole earth", but not organic.(yet) The hen scratch is non-gmo. They have lots of room to roam in green grass and eat bugs and worms, great eggs, stop by and pick up a dozen.
Impressive haul. I have been thinking a lot about keeping hens recently (when I have a place with a garden), I can see the appeal. I think the most impressive haul I have done on the Yuba (other than people) was the bike house move a few months back.
ReplyDeleteHave you decided what you are going to do with the twenty yet?
If you are serious at all about the garden hens would be wonderful- 3 or 4 should do to give you eggs and fertilizer, along with bug and weed control! We turn our flock into the garden in the fall and they do cleanup!
ReplyDeleteThe 20 is hanging in the rafters, unless we have a visitor that needs a bike, or an english bike day in Victoria. Today was the British Car picnic, whynot bikes? Actually, Victoria is a great bike city. Lots of Raleighs in the old days- and we have a couple of Pashley dealers. J.