{"id":599,"date":"2013-01-20T19:19:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T11:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2013-01-20T19:24:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T11:24:53","slug":"chaffing-1930s-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/20\/chaffing-1930s-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaffing 1930s Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-19-13.55.02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-600\" alt=\"2013-01-19 13.55.02\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-19-13.55.02-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-19-13.55.02-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-19-13.55.02.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Our neighbours have restored a 1930s Chaff Cutter and added a new electric motor. \u00a0They have kindly let us use it to cut oaten and lucerne bales into chaff for the horses. Instead of paying $28 per bag, it works out less than half price with a lucerne bale costing $16 and producing 1.5 bags. \u00a0This has had a huge impact on the finances and with our own oaten hay, our feed bill this year will be less than half of what it was last year. \u00a0It takes a couple of hours to do the 4 oaten and 2 lucerne bales which produces enough chaff to last the 3 horses for 4 weeks. \u00a0 The Leeuwin Chaff Cutter was built by Perth based Malloch Bros who manufactured fencing and agricultural and mining machinery from the 1920&#8217;s. \u00a0It is featured on an advertising overprint on a 1931\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.auspostalhistory.com\/articles\/142.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Australia post envelope<\/a> and is mentioned in an article in the \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/ndp\/del\/article\/58967259\" target=\"_blank\">local Sunday Times newspaper in 1939.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our neighbours have restored a 1930s Chaff Cutter and added a new electric motor. \u00a0They have kindly let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farm","category-horses"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-19-13.55.02.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}