Maybe you are showing the tree with new season leaves??
You are ahead of us here.
We must make do with Dutch early spring flowers:
Our native trees are just now beginning to leaf-out.
Some like the wild cherry in the back ground finishing up blooming:
No-rain, sunny sky’s for the next 4-5 days! Hurrah!
Regards
Steve unruh
Got to 63F here yesterday and the crocuses flowered but no tulips or daffodils. No tree buds. Supposed to get some snow tonight but it surely smelled like spring yesterday. Would have been great If only I didn’t have to spend half the day doing the taxes.
A pair of the up in the forest Hills wild horses came down to visit again today:
I want them no closer than the far background forest road gate.
He keeps pushing to our fence corner for the new succulent spring grasses.
We neighbors joke that come-what-may one of those eight could feed us all for six months.
Just need the generator electricity twice a day for ~4 hours for the foods freezers. My loaner inverter-generator units.
“Save the deer . . . eat a horse.”
Steve unruh
I love the photo. This time of spring is my favorite time of the year. The sun is getting stronger and the trees are just starting to leaf out. Too bad it lasts for such a short time!
This popped up on my Youtube feed. I thought it would be interesting to see where JO and the boys go for tools, maybe.
Well, it kind of depends what you want of course but I’d say nine out of ten times I end up at www.biltema.se/en-se/
Sometimes at www.jula.se or www.clasohlson.se
Most tools at those spots are most likely made of chinesium.
Würth is often a bit too pricey for me but good stuff and personally I don’t fancy Swedol at all for some reason.
Other than that it’s a-ma-zon or such web based china import sites, hard to avoid that these days.
I can only tell here with tools I can hands-on buy; but I have found if it says “Taiwan” it will be a good useable, durable tool.
And Taiwan has dropped all from USA import tariffs. So I expect to see them expand out more to fill any incoming to the US slack in the categories that they do make.
S.U.
The same as Johan, but never Clas Ohlson.
I get some at Swedol though, mostly because i get the discount from work there.
And yeah, Förch (normteknik) i get some from, they deliver at work, and i know the sales guy pretty good.
It’s hard find some things in Chile (back in 2010 there weren’t even any battery tools!). It’s so easy for me to buy through Aliexpress that I get most stuff from China. So when my Makita Philips bit got worn out, I bought a pack of ten from China. All ten lasted a fraction of the time that the single Makita bit did. It’s hit or miss with China despite the fact they build most everything nowadays.
Today we remember the day when our Lord Jesus showed us with His Resurrection that we are created for eternity! Thank You Jesus for giving me this opportunity!
Blessed Easter to all.
Here is a list of UsA manufacturers for socket sets. Many have been in business for decades.
Christ has risen . . .
The Lord is risen indeed!
I have a 50 year old SK ratchet wrench that still works better than any other wrench I’ve gotten over the years.
There are some really creative people here, so I thought I would throw this out and get some feedback. I have a lot of sloped land and at 70 it is getting a bit difficult to wheelbarrow all my firewood around. So I was looking to build a powered wheelbarrow something like this:
I’m thinking of using a couple of narrowed car rear axles coupled together. For turning I figure I could brake one side or the other. It should act like a skid steer without one track actually reversing. Any thoughts?
I think @SteveUnruh has something along those lines, with tracks, but I can’t seem to find it by searching. Maybe he’ll know where to find it.
just a quick search turned up multiple hits using the in hub electric motors for electric bikes for wheelbarrows. You can actually scooter electric motors with chain drives that would allow you to gear it down since I high suspect you can’t walk 20mph, you wouldn’t be gearing up like normal mods.
This is 500w one for 100 bucks including the controller. So you would need a battery pack which is 50-100 bucks and like a 6:1 gear to slow it down quite a bit. Then of course you would need a linear actuator to get the power dump. I would think you could make the wheel barrow itself larger with a 500w motor as well. They are normally rated for like scooter for around 200lbs, and you are gearing it down a lot.
It might actually have regenerative braking built into the controller. Since you are going uphill, you might have to work out some maths.
Wood as you can see is bulky, so you need volume of carry. With the weight able to be centered; shifted back. Moving rocks; moving dirt soil is different. I wanted to be able to do all three.
My last picture shows the 3 speed forwards - one speed reversed transmission.
Yes. You friction brake the one sided output to turn.
Tracked type; or wheeled . . . watch a lot of videos of these being worked.
Regards
Steve Unruh
Thanks for the responses. I had looked for some tracked transporters here in Chile, but they are rare. The only consumer grade one was tiny and almost $2000.
China has some interesting models and I had my eye on this one until I found out how much it was to ship and the logistics hoop I would have to jump through.
That’s when I got the idea to make one. After all how hard can it be after making a gasifier? 
I did look into the electric drives but I don’t think they are going to handle hills well. It’s a lot of energy to raise a weight a couple hundred of feet.
Since my last post, I’ve looked into another option - the Struck mini-dozer concept from from the 1960’s. It complicates some things, but simplifies others in the build. I can dispose with a Chinese transmission and torque converter.
The design is ingenious and fairly simple.
The belt drives provide neutral, forward and reverse directions. But instead of a track drive, I will start with wheels for simplicity. If I need the extra traction, I can always add tracks.
The -tracks- for those crawlers are super expensive.
Your diagram why I suggested electric motors, you can gear them down and it simplifies it and it might be cheaper at this point.
I am not saying you can’t do it or wouldn’t want to. I just try to avoid starting another toy.
