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(00:10):
Two twu ib a Madison in themorning and ask the experts on a damp
mourning here and the Madison area.Joined by the one and only Kevin Ham
of hams Arborcare. Kevin is amaster arborist with hams Arborcare. The website
hams Arborcare dot com. That's ha m ms Arborcare dot com. Also
(00:31):
online Game of Trees dot com.We'll talk about some great stuff on both
sites as well. Final thing tomention is, if you are on the
internet, which who isn't these days? YouTube channel check them out Game of
Trees, hams Arborcare Subscribe watch thosevideos. Always very informative, always fun
stuff. Speaking of informative and fun, of course, we do have Kevin
(00:52):
Ham of hams Arborcare. Kevin,how you doing this morning? I'm doing
great, Sean. It's uh,you know, we've got a great ball
line up here. It is looking, it is looking at that weather.
November does this. And I knowobviously for farmers they want the they want
the rain in the spring, butI think anytime we can get it,
we'll take it. For trees.I've got to guess having having the rain
(01:12):
this late in the season is probablygood for them or or or what's kind
of absolutely, Yeah, we wanta little moisture going into the freeze,
so you know, and and theharvest is is well underway, so they
probably didn't want the dampness today.But sure, you know, this fall
(01:37):
moisture is really good. Sutton upthe winter freeze. You like to have
a nice ground freeze because your rootsand different things can dry out during the
winter. So is it almost likethe candy coating on an M and M
where you just want to protect thatmilk chocolate in the middle. Is that
kind of what we're talking about here, Kevin, Yeah, Yeah, a
little bit hard. Cody talking thismorning with Kevin Ham of Hams Barburcare at
(02:00):
the website Hamsarborcare dot com. That'sh A. M. M Asarborcare dot
com. Eight sixty six five ninesix five three nine six. Is a
telephone number, that's eight sixty sixfive nine six five three nine six.
Kevin, We've been talking biochar fora number of just an amazing amount of
uses for biochar and I know oneof the things that you've been working out
(02:21):
at Hams Barborcare is with the withthe new location and the and the buildings
going up, you are adding moreplaces to do biochar and putting together a
whole system to really get as muchbiochar as possible because it's such a popular
thing, isn't it. Yeah,And you know there's always a process in
(02:42):
getting you know, it's it's reallyan emerging field and there's not too many
people. I mean, you can'tjust go on, I want to buy
a biochar kiln. You can't.You can't google that and find that.
I mean there are a couple ofmanufacturers. I mean we bought we bought
a small, small one that we'reutilizing right now. But it's kind of
(03:05):
a small batch process and you knowwe need we need something bigger. Well,
they've got, you know, onethat you can set up. It's
kind of set up for farmers wherethey it's almost like about the size of
a gas furnace and it kind ofruns quietly like that. It's got an
auto feed. You got to havea hopper for chips and it'll produce kind
(03:30):
of biout our little bit at atime. And that process is they kind
of light these wood chips on fireand then they extinguish them when they are
down to pure charcoal. It's ait's a different way of doing the paralysis.
We put it into an oxygen starvecontainer and heat it until everything off
(03:53):
gases and then you know, you'vegot to know how long that is.
And so we're building a kiln thatwe can thermostatically control and have an auger
fed chip feed so we can useour chips and to to create the heat,
(04:14):
and then our chips will be inan inside container that is oxygen starved
and then that will you know,become the charcoal, the activated charcoal inside,
and then that activated charcoal is whichthen we sift that we're in the
process of. I just bought themetal yesterday to create a screen. We
just wanted a small bat screen thatwe can do what we're doing right now
(04:38):
with and and get an activated charcoalproduct up on Game of Trees. And
that'll be about a you know,a gallon sized bag that would make about
one point five cubic feet the twocubic feet of composts to be added to
(05:00):
another compost and you can you canmake up your own tincture of what you
want in your gardens. So someof these master gardeners understand this process that
I'm talking about, and I'll say, oh, I want my special you
know, bone meal and different thingsthat I'm going to put into this activated
charcoal and charge it, because that'swhat activated charcoal is is it's naked carbon,
(05:27):
and naked carbon wants to pull thingsto itself. It's activated, it's
positively charged, and the negatively chargedthings are going to charge. Actually it's
negatively charged, and the positive chargeions are going to attach to it.
And so you can attach the onesyou want. If you want iron in
there, or if you want youknow, manganese in there, you want
(05:49):
your your particular element that you wantto enhance, you can put that in
there and charge it with that sowhen you put it down, it ready,
and then that's available to the plantsand as space is freed up than
those nutrients that are naturally in theaired, you know, pre nitrogen and
(06:09):
different things that are coming down arepositively charged and they'll they'll attach, and
you create a holding capacity in yoursoil that's greater than it was before.
That is very very cool stuff.And of course that'll be available at legacy
on gameoftrees dot com. That's Gameof Trees dot com. I've got Legacy
trees on my mind as well,Kevin. As we talked about that,
(06:31):
the weather we have today, I'mguessing the guys probably are are a little
bit excited to do a little bitof training on a day like today and
do more with the Legacy trees.Yeah, Legacy is providing some training,
pruning training, and we got threeguys going up there. We've got another
crew that's doubt. It's not prohibitiveweather for us, not ideal, but
(06:57):
not prohibitive, and so we'll havea crew. I'll doing work and we'll
have kind of a crew up gettingtrained, is up towards Blacker or Falls
and they'll be getting some quality trainingfrom ron Ziemer and Gang. Are they
going to bring it back from somecheese from the cheese house? What is
that the it's the maybe maybe sometimesyou know, the guys think about each
(07:24):
other. You know, they'll ofcourse I don't eat donuts. You can
always have you can always have alittle cheese, you know, there's always
I'll think exactly before we wrap up, Kevin. One of that. As
we talked with Kevin Ham of hamsArborcare this morning eight six six five nine
six five three nine six one ofthe things I know you have. Uh,
(07:46):
you've got a lot of equipment atHam's Arborcare, a lot of very
specialized, very unique equipment. Andsometimes some of that stuff, you know,
equipment is equipment sometimes is being usedit needs to be repaired. It's
always interesting to me. One howyou how you're able to get this stuff
repaired. But also what's what shockedme. Sometimes it takes quite a bit
(08:07):
of time to get to get someof the some of that specialized equipment back
on, back online and up andrunning. And you just had one of
your trucks just finally got back sixmonths. You were saying to get that
back and get that repaired. Yeah, well and it wasn't a repair like
we've lost the whole motor on thattruck. Oh you know it was it
(08:28):
was a truck we'd loved for along time. Yeah, okay, time.
And so I've got you know,some contexts and cross industries, and
they found a truck before it wentto market, but then there was a
recall on the new truck that thatperson was trying to buy, so they
(08:52):
had to keep using their truck untiltheir new truck became available after the recall
and so there was that weight,and then you know, we got the
chassis, the truck and chassis.But then there's the building process and so
then you've got supply chain things andyou know, logistics of building a truck,
(09:13):
which there's quite a bit that goesinto that. And we finally,
you know, got that new truckback and it's in the in the fleet
now. So it's uh, we'vegot to paint up the box. Now,
you know, you get a youget a new We put the we
put the hook lift on there fromthe other truck. And so now that
(09:33):
box that was more beat up thanhe remembering. Now that's not a shiny
truck. So we've got to putthat in the shop over the weekend here
and get her blathered up with someRustolian eye glass blacker, make her look
all shiny and new to match therest of the truck. I used to
(09:54):
I used to work with a guywho part of his radio show. When
he get callers, he'd always askhim how many cylanders and they would have
to go through an inventory of theirof their shop and count the number of
cylinders on their vehicle. I'm guessingyours is in the hundreds. Hey,
baby, We'll have to save thatfor another day. A lot of great
stuff going on at hams Arborcare.Starting our conversation off talking about biochart.
(10:18):
It's going to be available again ata gameoftrees dot com gameoftrees dot com.
Also, while you're there, thewildly popular biochart soap that's available, as
well as other great equipment and somereally cool schweg again, all available up
at gameoftrees dot com. Learn moreabout Hamsarborcare on their website Hamsarborcare dot com.
That's h A m ms Arborcare dotcom and the telephone number eight six
(10:39):
six five nine six five three ninesix. It's a great day to get
in contact folks at Hamsarborcare and haveyour trees checked out if you've got a
question or you just want to havethem checked out to make sure they're growing
and developing properly. Again, Kevin, the team love to talk the number
eight six six five nine six fivethree nine six. Kevin, you enjoy
this beautiful day and we'll talk realsoon. Thank you. Sean. Take
Care news comes your way next righthere on thirteen ten. Wuiba
Two twu ib a Madison in themorning and ask the experts on a damp
mourning here and the Madison area.Joined by the one and only Kevin Ham
of hams Arborcare. Kevin is amaster arborist with hams Arborcare. The website
hams Arborcare dot com. That's ha m ms Arborcare dot com. Also
(00:31):
online Game of Trees dot com.We'll talk about some great stuff on both
sites as well. Final thing tomention is, if you are on the
internet, which who isn't these days? YouTube channel check them out Game of
Trees, hams Arborcare Subscribe watch thosevideos. Always very informative, always fun
stuff. Speaking of informative and fun, of course, we do have Kevin
(00:52):
Ham of hams Arborcare. Kevin,how you doing this morning? I'm doing
great, Sean. It's uh,you know, we've got a great ball
line up here. It is looking, it is looking at that weather.
November does this. And I knowobviously for farmers they want the they want
the rain in the spring, butI think anytime we can get it,
we'll take it. For trees.I've got to guess having having the rain
(01:12):
this late in the season is probablygood for them or or or what's kind
of absolutely, Yeah, we wanta little moisture going into the freeze,
so you know, and and theharvest is is well underway, so they
probably didn't want the dampness today.But sure, you know, this fall
(01:37):
moisture is really good. Sutton upthe winter freeze. You like to have
a nice ground freeze because your rootsand different things can dry out during the
winter. So is it almost likethe candy coating on an M and M
where you just want to protect thatmilk chocolate in the middle. Is that
kind of what we're talking about here, Kevin, Yeah, Yeah, a
little bit hard. Cody talking thismorning with Kevin Ham of Hams Barburcare at
(02:00):
the website Hamsarborcare dot com. That'sh A. M. M Asarborcare dot
com. Eight sixty six five ninesix five three nine six. Is a
telephone number, that's eight sixty sixfive nine six five three nine six.
Kevin, We've been talking biochar fora number of just an amazing amount of
uses for biochar and I know oneof the things that you've been working out
(02:21):
at Hams Barborcare is with the withthe new location and the and the buildings
going up, you are adding moreplaces to do biochar and putting together a
whole system to really get as muchbiochar as possible because it's such a popular
thing, isn't it. Yeah,And you know there's always a process in
(02:42):
getting you know, it's it's reallyan emerging field and there's not too many
people. I mean, you can'tjust go on, I want to buy
a biochar kiln. You can't.You can't google that and find that.
I mean there are a couple ofmanufacturers. I mean we bought we bought
a small, small one that we'reutilizing right now. But it's kind of
(03:05):
a small batch process and you knowwe need we need something bigger. Well,
they've got, you know, onethat you can set up. It's
kind of set up for farmers wherethey it's almost like about the size of
a gas furnace and it kind ofruns quietly like that. It's got an
auto feed. You got to havea hopper for chips and it'll produce kind
(03:30):
of biout our little bit at atime. And that process is they kind
of light these wood chips on fireand then they extinguish them when they are
down to pure charcoal. It's ait's a different way of doing the paralysis.
We put it into an oxygen starvecontainer and heat it until everything off
(03:53):
gases and then you know, you'vegot to know how long that is.
And so we're building a kiln thatwe can thermostatically control and have an auger
fed chip feed so we can useour chips and to to create the heat,
(04:14):
and then our chips will be inan inside container that is oxygen starved
and then that will you know,become the charcoal, the activated charcoal inside,
and then that activated charcoal is whichthen we sift that we're in the
process of. I just bought themetal yesterday to create a screen. We
just wanted a small bat screen thatwe can do what we're doing right now
(04:38):
with and and get an activated charcoalproduct up on Game of Trees. And
that'll be about a you know,a gallon sized bag that would make about
one point five cubic feet the twocubic feet of composts to be added to
(05:00):
another compost and you can you canmake up your own tincture of what you
want in your gardens. So someof these master gardeners understand this process that
I'm talking about, and I'll say, oh, I want my special you
know, bone meal and different thingsthat I'm going to put into this activated
charcoal and charge it, because that'swhat activated charcoal is is it's naked carbon,
(05:27):
and naked carbon wants to pull thingsto itself. It's activated, it's
positively charged, and the negatively chargedthings are going to charge. Actually it's
negatively charged, and the positive chargeions are going to attach to it.
And so you can attach the onesyou want. If you want iron in
there, or if you want youknow, manganese in there, you want
(05:49):
your your particular element that you wantto enhance, you can put that in
there and charge it with that sowhen you put it down, it ready,
and then that's available to the plantsand as space is freed up than
those nutrients that are naturally in theaired, you know, pre nitrogen and
(06:09):
different things that are coming down arepositively charged and they'll they'll attach, and
you create a holding capacity in yoursoil that's greater than it was before.
That is very very cool stuff.And of course that'll be available at legacy
on gameoftrees dot com. That's Gameof Trees dot com. I've got Legacy
trees on my mind as well,Kevin. As we talked about that,
(06:31):
the weather we have today, I'mguessing the guys probably are are a little
bit excited to do a little bitof training on a day like today and
do more with the Legacy trees.Yeah, Legacy is providing some training,
pruning training, and we got threeguys going up there. We've got another
crew that's doubt. It's not prohibitiveweather for us, not ideal, but
(06:57):
not prohibitive, and so we'll havea crew. I'll doing work and we'll
have kind of a crew up gettingtrained, is up towards Blacker or Falls
and they'll be getting some quality trainingfrom ron Ziemer and Gang. Are they
going to bring it back from somecheese from the cheese house? What is
that the it's the maybe maybe sometimesyou know, the guys think about each
(07:24):
other. You know, they'll ofcourse I don't eat donuts. You can
always have you can always have alittle cheese, you know, there's always
I'll think exactly before we wrap up, Kevin. One of that. As
we talked with Kevin Ham of hamsArborcare this morning eight six six five nine
six five three nine six one ofthe things I know you have. Uh,
(07:46):
you've got a lot of equipment atHam's Arborcare, a lot of very
specialized, very unique equipment. Andsometimes some of that stuff, you know,
equipment is equipment sometimes is being usedit needs to be repaired. It's
always interesting to me. One howyou how you're able to get this stuff
repaired. But also what's what shockedme. Sometimes it takes quite a bit
(08:07):
of time to get to get someof the some of that specialized equipment back
on, back online and up andrunning. And you just had one of
your trucks just finally got back sixmonths. You were saying to get that
back and get that repaired. Yeah, well and it wasn't a repair like
we've lost the whole motor on thattruck. Oh you know it was it
(08:28):
was a truck we'd loved for along time. Yeah, okay, time.
And so I've got you know,some contexts and cross industries, and
they found a truck before it wentto market, but then there was a
recall on the new truck that thatperson was trying to buy, so they
(08:52):
had to keep using their truck untiltheir new truck became available after the recall
and so there was that weight,and then you know, we got the
chassis, the truck and chassis.But then there's the building process and so
then you've got supply chain things andyou know, logistics of building a truck,
(09:13):
which there's quite a bit that goesinto that. And we finally,
you know, got that new truckback and it's in the in the fleet
now. So it's uh, we'vegot to paint up the box. Now,
you know, you get a youget a new We put the we
put the hook lift on there fromthe other truck. And so now that
(09:33):
box that was more beat up thanhe remembering. Now that's not a shiny
truck. So we've got to putthat in the shop over the weekend here
and get her blathered up with someRustolian eye glass blacker, make her look
all shiny and new to match therest of the truck. I used to
(09:54):
I used to work with a guywho part of his radio show. When
he get callers, he'd always askhim how many cylanders and they would have
to go through an inventory of theirof their shop and count the number of
cylinders on their vehicle. I'm guessingyours is in the hundreds. Hey,
baby, We'll have to save thatfor another day. A lot of great
stuff going on at hams Arborcare.Starting our conversation off talking about biochart.
(10:18):
It's going to be available again ata gameoftrees dot com gameoftrees dot com.
Also, while you're there, thewildly popular biochart soap that's available, as
well as other great equipment and somereally cool schweg again, all available up
at gameoftrees dot com. Learn moreabout Hamsarborcare on their website Hamsarborcare dot com.
That's h A m ms Arborcare dotcom and the telephone number eight six
(10:39):
six five nine six five three ninesix. It's a great day to get
in contact folks at Hamsarborcare and haveyour trees checked out if you've got a
question or you just want to havethem checked out to make sure they're growing
and developing properly. Again, Kevin, the team love to talk the number
eight six six five nine six fivethree nine six. Kevin, you enjoy
this beautiful day and we'll talk realsoon. Thank you. Sean. Take
Care news comes your way next righthere on thirteen ten. Wuiba
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