Golden Hills. Excessive Noise.

Jeff Marr has had an opportunity to defend the use of frost fans on his Golden Hills Estates vineyard in Nelson and has put forward an extremely compelling and thought provoking argument.
As reported in the Nelson Mail and featured here, Jeff has once again raise the bar on making sure that the community he so proudly calls his own is cared for and nurtured. 
Quotes attributed to his golden tongue include...
"My neighbors hate my machines. I've no doubt about that at all, and it's inevitable"
"I use helicopters as well, and those neighbours hate them more. They're a lot noisier, and fly right over their house."
"We don't do this to annoy people – it's a necessity."
"If people choose to live here, they have to put up with it."
"If you don't like living in the country, f... off into town"
Ahh... Jeff.
Poster child for the responsible grape grower. How fondly I remember you from 2008.
Although, technically those rat-bag people who complain about the noise aren't Jeff's neighbors. He doesn't actually live on the property (who'd want to with those fans going). He lives about 4km away from that particular block. Closer to the other block that is over by the landfill.
I notice you're still running the old style Defenders (x3) on one block. How are they performing? Noisy? Must be quieter than the two Orchard Rites on the other place. 

Painless Frost Protection

Just thought it would be a good opportunity to update the blog with information on the progress of the Raytheon sponsored microwave frost protection system Tempwave.
It would appear that they have been running trials in an Ontario vineyard over the Northern Winter.
Follow the links for updated information and new pictures.
http://www.raytheon.com/newsroom/technology/rtn09_tmpwv/index.html
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2010/06/25/raytheon-turns-swords-into-plowshares/
http://www.winesandvines.com/template.cfm?section=news&content=73695