Riceman Road Tour

[ricemannv]

An old house on the Riceman Road Tour in Kiangan, Ifugao, Philippines.




Ride safe.  Have fun.
Riceman

[GregW]

Glad you're back.      Love your foto's as usual.   

[ricemannv]

Glad you're back.      Love your foto's as usual.   

Thanks Greg.  Nice to see you still around also.

Riceman

[ricemannv]

Young men and women cooling off in the river near the road to Kayapa, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.  Maybe a romance or two blossoming there....



Ride safe.  Have fun.
Riceman

[ricemannv]

I just had to stop my bike and admire the changing light of the fading day....  This shot was taken at the end of a long day of motorcycle riding, alongside the highway.  I was within a short distance of my house.  While riding my bike around the Philippines I am constantly assaulted by the beauty of God's creation. 

The temperature was cooling off rapidly and the smell of freshly plowed rice fields was heavy in the air.  The sensation of riding through this area on my bike was almost sureal.





Ride safe.  Have fun.
Riceman

[RUFUS]

Love the pics... Keep riding.

[tom.inbigdtexas]

Thanks, Riceman.

Tom in Big D

[ricemannv]

Awhile ago I posted some picks of agricultural waste or "Chafe" being burned alongside the highway.  That was the straw left over from threshing rice from the stalk in the field.  This photo illustrates a different kind of "Chafe".  This building is a rice storage and milling operation.  After the threshing in the field, the rice is stored in 50 kilo sacks called cavans.  It is usually sold to places like this where the rice is then solar dried on the highway or another suitable area.  Then it is milled to the finished product.  The large pile of chafe at the back of this building is the waste generated in the milling process.  This is the outer husks of the rice kernal.  From what I can tell there is limited use for this byproduct.  It is usually just used for land fill.  It has some use as potting material for ornamental plants, but that is in limited quanties.  As you can see operations like this one generate large quanties of this chafe.[/color]




Ride safe.  Have fun.
Riceman

[fred]

I have built a clay brick wood burning pizza oven and palay burns really well..
Some friends of mine have a large rice mill and have purpose built ovens and cooking stoves that only burn palay..
Also last year we had a truck load delivered to add to our garden compost and borders..It seems to retain water quite well..(not sure why they dont just plough it all back in to their rice fields??
As for other ideas??? Bean bag cushions?? Insulation of some kind??
Great pictures BTW..