{"id":2939,"date":"2021-08-31T10:45:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T22:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2021-08-31T10:45:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T22:00:45","slug":"frost-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?p=2939","title":{"rendered":"Frost fighting!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">At 3am this morning we cranked up \u201cLittle Toot\u201d, our loyal frost fighting tractor, as the temperatures dropped to -1.5 and we ran \u201cLittle Toot\u201c until 8:20am <span class=\"pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tb7\/2\/16\/1f69c.png\" alt=\"?\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><span class=\"pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tb7\/2\/16\/1f69c.png\" alt=\"?\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span> Fortunately it was a very light frost <span class=\"pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tee\/2\/16\/1f601.png\" alt=\"?\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Both Sam and I were up from 10pm last night &#8211; he is in charge of frost fighting at another Orchard in Roxburgh East, so my job is to continually check all the cold spots in the Orchard <span class=\"pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t1e\/2\/16\/1f60a.png\" alt=\"?\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><span class=\"pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t9b\/2\/16\/1f44d.png\" alt=\"?\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">So from 3am it was all go <span class=\"pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tee\/2\/16\/1f601.png\" alt=\"?\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><span class=\"pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tee\/2\/16\/1f601.png\" alt=\"?\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><span class=\"pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tb7\/2\/16\/1f69c.png\" alt=\"?\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><span class=\"pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tb7\/2\/16\/1f69c.png\" alt=\"?\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><span class=\"pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tb7\/2\/16\/1f69c.png\" alt=\"?\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">My job from then on is to keep an eye on the place until we shut down &#8211; two of my cats kept me company all night whilst I was patrolling <span class=\"pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tf3\/2\/16\/1f408.png\" alt=\"?\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><span class=\"pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tf3\/2\/16\/1f408.png\" alt=\"?\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span> <span class=\"pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t1e\/2\/16\/1f60a.png\" alt=\"?\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Here\u2019s some photos of the blossoms cocooned in the ice <span class=\"pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t8f\/2\/16\/1f338.png\" alt=\"?\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><span class=\"pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t8f\/2\/16\/1f338.png\" alt=\"?\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><span class=\"pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t8e\/2\/16\/1f9ca.png\" alt=\"?\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><span class=\"pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t8e\/2\/16\/1f9ca.png\" alt=\"?\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><span class=\"pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 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Fortunately it was a very light frost Both Sam and I were up from 10pm last night &#8211; he is in charge of frost fighting at another Orchard 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