diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b78638fd..4fb9e34f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -682,6 +682,9 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "bacalhau"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
+ "arrow 49.0.0",
+ "arrow-json 49.0.0",
+ "arrow_msg",
  "handlebars",
  "reqwest",
  "section",
diff --git a/pipe/section/section_impls/bacalhau/Cargo.toml b/pipe/section/section_impls/bacalhau/Cargo.toml
index 6b850667..7a831fb8 100644
--- a/pipe/section/section_impls/bacalhau/Cargo.toml
+++ b/pipe/section/section_impls/bacalhau/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ edition = "2021"
 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
 
 [dependencies]
+arrow = { version = "49", features = ["prettyprint"] }
+arrow-json = "49"
+arrow_msg = { path = "../../../arrow_msg" }
 section = { version = "0.2", path = "../../../section/" }
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1"
@@ -16,5 +19,6 @@ tokio-util = "0.7.10"
 handlebars = "4.4"
 serde_yaml = "0.9"
 
+
 [dev-dependencies]
 stub = { path = "../../section_impls/stub/" }
diff --git a/pipe/section/section_impls/bacalhau/src/destination.rs b/pipe/section/section_impls/bacalhau/src/destination.rs
index d2c463eb..14e769de 100644
--- a/pipe/section/section_impls/bacalhau/src/destination.rs
+++ b/pipe/section/section_impls/bacalhau/src/destination.rs
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
-use crate::jobstore::JobStore;
-use crate::{api::submit, BacalhauPayload};
-
-use section::message::ValueView;
+use arrow_msg::df_to_recordbatch;
 use section::{
     command_channel::{Command, SectionChannel},
-    futures::{self, FutureExt, Sink, SinkExt, Stream, StreamExt},
+    futures::{self, FutureExt, Sink, Stream, StreamExt},
     message::Chunk,
     pretty_print::pretty_print,
     section::Section,
     SectionError, SectionMessage,
 };
+
 use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::future::Future;
 use std::pin::{pin, Pin};
 
-use std::future::Future;
+use crate::api::submit;
+use crate::jobstore::JobStore;
 
 type StdError = Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync + 'static>;
 
@@ -76,24 +76,17 @@ impl Bacalhau {
                                     Some(_ch) => continue,
                                 };
 
-
-                                let columns = frame.columns();
-
-
                                 section_channel.log(format!("got dataframe chunk from {}:\n{}", msg.origin(), pretty_print(&*frame))).await?;
 
-                                let mut c = columns.into_iter().nth(0).unwrap();
-                                match c.nth(0).unwrap() {
-                                    ValueView::Str(s) => {
-                                        section_channel.log(format!("got string: {}", s)).await?;
-                                    }
-                                    _ => continue,
-                                }
 
+                                let batch = df_to_recordbatch(frame).unwrap();
+                                let json_rows = arrow_json::writer::record_batches_to_json_rows(&[&batch]).unwrap();
+                                let first = json_rows.first().unwrap();
+                                let args: HashMap<String, String> = first.iter().map(|(k, v)| {
+                                    (k.clone(), v.as_str().unwrap().to_string())
+                                }).collect();
 
-                                //ValueView::Str(child.as_string::<i32>().value(value_offset)),
-                                let args: HashMap<String, String> = HashMap::new();
-                                //args.insert("target".into(), "".into());
+                                section_channel.log(format!("Arguments: {:?}", &args)).await?;
                                 self.submit_job(&args).await?;
 
                                 msg.ack().await;
diff --git a/pipe/section/section_impls/bacalhau/src/lib.rs b/pipe/section/section_impls/bacalhau/src/lib.rs
index f8aa98a3..7c32ffbc 100644
--- a/pipe/section/section_impls/bacalhau/src/lib.rs
+++ b/pipe/section/section_impls/bacalhau/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,69 +1,5 @@
-use std::sync::Arc;
-
-use section::message::{Ack, Chunk, Column, DataFrame, DataType, Message, ValueView};
 pub mod api;
 pub mod destination;
 pub mod jobstore;
 
 type StdError = Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync + 'static>;
-
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
-pub struct BacalhauPayload {
-    pub filepath: String,
-}
-
-impl BacalhauPayload {
-    fn new(filepath: String) -> Self {
-        Self { filepath }
-    }
-}
-
-impl DataFrame for BacalhauPayload {
-    fn columns(&self) -> Vec<section::message::Column<'_>> {
-        vec![Column::new(
-            "filepath",
-            DataType::Str,
-            Box::new(std::iter::once(ValueView::from(&self.filepath))),
-        )]
-    }
-}
-
-pub struct BacalhauMessage {
-    origin: Arc<str>,
-    payload: Option<Box<dyn DataFrame>>,
-    ack: Option<Ack>,
-}
-
-impl BacalhauMessage {
-    fn new(origin: Arc<str>, payload: impl DataFrame, ack: Option<Ack>) -> Self {
-        Self {
-            origin,
-            payload: Some(Box::new(payload)),
-            ack,
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl std::fmt::Debug for BacalhauMessage {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
-        f.debug_struct("BacalhauMessage")
-            .field("origin", &self.origin)
-            .field("payload", &self.payload)
-            .finish()
-    }
-}
-
-impl Message for BacalhauMessage {
-    fn origin(&self) -> &str {
-        self.origin.as_ref()
-    }
-
-    fn next(&mut self) -> section::message::Next<'_> {
-        let v = self.payload.take().map(Chunk::DataFrame);
-        Box::pin(async move { Ok(v) })
-    }
-
-    fn ack(&mut self) -> Ack {
-        self.ack.take().unwrap_or(Box::pin(async {}))
-    }
-}