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TCLynx Bought the Farm

Here are is a picture of a proposed site for the Tower system.

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Permalink Reply by Rob Torcellini on April 10, 2012 at 6:59pm

Where are you going to put the loofah processing facility??? ;-)

Permalink Reply by Sahib Punjabi on April 10, 2012 at 7:12pm

So jealous :-)

God bless

Permalink Reply by TCLynx on April 10, 2012 at 7:22pm

I've actually sold probably as many dry/whole lufa as I have the processed ones so the lufa processing will probably never be as extensive as it was last summer. I just need to find a good place to dry and store whole lufa where they won't mold or get eaten by rodents.

Permalink Reply by Ed Hall on April 11, 2012 at 1:49am

Good Day TC,

You should sell your Louffa Sponges to the US Goverment. We use @ 100 spounges each quarter in the ship's Aux Boiler Plant, times that buy 14 ships minimum, and you can sell a whole bunch of sponges.

We just changed out a set and have ordered 100 more. And please remove the seeds, otherwise we will need to do it.

Ed in SASEBO, JAPAN

Permalink Reply by TCLynx on April 11, 2012 at 5:57am

I'm not sure I can afford to see the lufa for as cheap as I'm sure the government would want to buy them, I wash them by hand ya know.

Permalink Reply by marty lininger on May 12, 2012 at 8:52am

Ed,

what do you use the lufa for in the system? i was MM in USN and never heard of that

marty

Ed Hall said:

Good Day TC,

You should sell your Louffa Sponges to the US Goverment. We use @ 100 spounges each quarter in the ship's Aux Boiler Plant, times that buy 14 ships minimum, and you can sell a whole bunch of sponges.

We just changed out a set and have ordered 100 more. And please remove the seeds, otherwise we will need to do it.

Ed in SASEBO, JAPAN

Permalink Reply by TCLynx on May 13, 2012 at 5:45am

Lufa are not so much for use in the system but I have used them for cleaning things. So if you must know what I've found Lufa to be good for in a system, it would be using up a huge amount of nutrients during our overly hot summer when some things just don't grow at all. The lufa loves the hot summer as long as it gets plenty of moisture. Beware single Lufa vine can fill a 100 gallon stock tank bed completely with roots.

I do know that worms and BSF larva love eating lufa fruit and the sponges make pretty good worm bedding.

I'm still testing out other uses for the Lufa other than eating the little fruit and using the fiber from inside the mature fruit for cleaning and bathing sponges.

Permalink Reply by Ed Hall on June 24, 2012 at 12:34am

Good Day Marty,

Sorry about the delay, been at sea and working the ship.

As far as the Loofa Spounges, we use them to filter mircoscopic oil and dirt particles in our two 'Low Pressure Donkey Boilers'. It is supprising how much trash that we pick up in a closed loop system, mostly from the engine sump heaters and the lube oil and fuel oil purifiers.

marty lininger said:

Ed,

what do you use the lufa for in the system? i was MM in USN and never heard of that

marty

Ed Hall said:

Good Day TC,

You should sell your Louffa Sponges to the US Goverment. We use @ 100 spounges each quarter in the ship's Aux Boiler Plant, times that buy 14 ships minimum, and you can sell a whole bunch of sponges.

We just changed out a set and have ordered 100 more. And please remove the seeds, otherwise we will need to do it.

Ed in SASEBO, JAPAN