Hello MaretL.
Search up foto’s, history, and specification of the French car Citroen DS. Yeah, yeah. Maybe too complex hydro-mechanically, under the skin.
But a neighboring family I grew up with in the 60’s, and 70’s had an electronics Engineer working father (Techtronix Corporation) who moved the family out past the expected city nuclear blast zone for a safer rural life who loved this series of cars.
Amazing to see the car with the one bolt fastener rear fenders and doors removed. Hood and rear trunk easily then removed too.
Citroens later Mehari off-road capable vehicle was thermal plastic body panels over a tubed steel frame work.
Real: were in-production vehicles; validating your concept.
Regards
Steve Unruh
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At 10:40 shows the single six sided hex head bolt that fixes the rear fenders. Removal shown at 12:42.
As I recall (poorly) the door hinges are a drop-on pin-mount types. Remove one locking bolt and then they just lift off and away.
Other owners videos out there showing some of these features better.
S.U.
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I have never actually seen one of these cars in person but what a good way to build. Cars and trucks now are ridiculous. As has been bemoaned often, the engineering can have no possible point other than to make them impossible for the average guy or even some what talented mechanic to work on. A fifteen year old could dismantle and reassemble a VW bug. I know this is a fact because me and some friends did just that. It even ran afterward. A vehicle I always admired was the VW Thing. I think I could pretty much duplicate one of these with just the tools I own. I’m also thinking about The British Morgan’s with their wooden substructures body panels covered with hand formed sheets of aluminum. I could do that and I’m not all that crafty. Wouldn’t come out looking like a 70 thousand dollar Morgan but it would be good enough. I tried to find a video I once saw of the building of Morgan’s but no luck. Must has been included in maybe a Jay Leno video.
Another video referring to the dangers of our reliance on too much tech.
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They were junk and broke down a lot. I knew two people with them, they both said they were junk. They both spent more time fixing it then driving them. I think one ended up being converted to a gm or ford frame, and powertrain.
You can still buy a Morgan, they are still in business. They use Ford drivetrains. If I was going to do that much work, I would probably do an Auburn. Life is short. They are only asking 20k for this morgan which has had lots of mods and repairs to it, but much easier to start with it, then to diy the whole thing.
https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/listing/1954-morgan-plus-4-howell-nj-2871046
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This came up on my youtube suggestions. It’s Eddie Ramos. Didn’t get many views.
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Personally, I always admired the Lotus Super 7. That would be a fun build.
I got turned off to French engineering back in the early '80s when I helped a friend do a brake job on his Renault Gordini. Maybe other manufacturers had a different approach to engineering, but that Renault required a factory tool to do a simple brake pad replacement.
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Good rainy-day morning to all.
Two weeks ago Weyerhaeuser began logging off a ridge-line of their timber forest property across the drainage of Studebaker Creek:
You will have to expand out this upstair bathroom picture to see the working track-hoe logs sorter/truck loader.
All of the equipment’s and trucks used are modern clean exhausts “quiet” diesel engines. In the past you could see working logging diesels by their exhaust smokes. Hear them by thier loaded working deep engine growling.
This modern operation what can be echoed heard is the clanking of the grappler arms and bucket metal joints.
The big specialized Harvester-Buncher machine for these sized of 35-50 year regrowth trees uses a large rotary cut-off blade. It cutting singing is the most loudest distinct noise made.
Very, very little chainsawing done. Only on the landing loading deck to ends cut even up logs. Cut out butt ends defects.
The sounds across this valley to us actually sound remote, artificial, like a laided-over movies sound track.
The village scene in Saving Private Ryan when they are nerves stress waiting to spring their surprise attack. Listening to the approaching Nazi tanks.
Ha! Ha! These real-life experiences, you just have to be there.
S.U.
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We will get more green if they rain stops. At least it is sunny there. 
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Our first experience of sowing wheat!
The first and second photos are our winter wheat sown according to the method of Ivan Ovsinsky: a strip of 30cm (6 lines) of wheat, 30cm row spacing free of crops. Since 2013, no one has brought any chemicals to this site. The seeds were taken from farmers, but not pickled before sowing. On this site and before us, the neighbors had been mowing grass for hay for several years. Fertilizers are goat manure. The second photo on the left shows a piece of wheat crops, heavily overgrown with oatmeal (wild oats) at the beginning of the strip - the result of our artificial experimental autumn watering of crops. In the rest of the array, each wheat bush consists of an average of 11 stalks.
The third and fourth photos show winter wheat sown by a farmer 50 meters from our plot in the same garden, but according to all modern rules, for many years in a row: pickled seeds, ammonium nitrate, herbicide against weeds, a 15 cm row spacing standard for seeders. At the edge of the crops, the bush contains from 5 to 7 stems. In the middle of the crops, by eye, it is noticeably less.
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Looks healthy Marat. Hard to know what the think about American and Canadian wheat. Supposedly not sprayed with glyphosate unless pre-emergent or post sprayed as a desiccant which is even worse, but who knows who is lying. Many reports to the contrary. I don’t trust anyone in big Ag or the government. Their pants are all on fire. A few years ago it was reported here that all Ukrainian wheat was purposely contaminated. Again who knows.
On the home front, we have been cold and damp for going on a week now. Went from 80’sF one day to 45F the next and has hovered right around there since. Hard to get motivated. We have had to go back to running the wood heater at least part of the day. Can’t remember doing that this late in May but maybe being old makes you want to keep the bones warmer. Will stay well below normal into June so I’m not rushing to put any frost sensitive plants into the ground. I did get all the compost I made last year relocated to the garden. Probably a half a cubic yard. Doesn’t seem like much considering the work it take to make it. I’m going to up my game this year.
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It looks really good.
The extra shoots that come up are called ‘tillers’ in wheat, and you have a LOT of tillers. average is like 3-5.
Wheat is usually planted 7.5"-15" (19-38cm) (sometimes as low as 5") The narrower 7.5" rows yield more. but also require more seed. A lot of it depends on the equipment you have to plant it.
Here are the definitions for the growth stages.
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/agf-126
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We use 2 books, according to which we want to grow crops without diseases and without the use of chemicals.
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Ivan Ovsinsky “New system of husbandry” https://www.loplosh.ru/article/articles-about-agriculture/new-system-of-farming.html
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Edward Faulkner, “Plowman’s Folly” Plowman's Folly: Faulkner, Edward H.: 9780806111698: Amazon.com: Books
A little later we will supplement them with the methods expressed in the books of the series “Ringing Cedars of Russia” by Vladimir Megre. This will allow us to grow crops capable of preventing diseases or treating existing diseases of the flesh.
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Fusarium Germanium is probably the biggest threat. It causes a few things like root rot and Fusarium head blight (in wheat). I just found this This paper says yeast can prevent it from developing. I guess make a lot of vodka and dump the used mash on the field.
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Sean Omalley, I read some groups on modern agricultural technologies. They present a huge mountain of knowledge that is supposedly needed by a person who grows food.
This can be compared to radio electronics: when in order to create something electronic, you need to know and understand a lot. Starting with Ohm’s Law. But all this knowledge of electronics is completely unnecessary for a person who uses this electronics in his daily life. After all, when I type on the keyboard or make a phone call, I don’t need to imagine or repeat the entire path of electrical signals and program codes that occur during my actions.
It’s the same with seeds and soil.: The creator has already laid down all the necessary laws by which food will grow. All that remains for me is to understand the “user’s guide” so as not to violate these laws of growth, increased fertility and protection from damage. Edward Faulkner told a very fantastic idea: plants growing in healthy soil do not need protection from pests. The pests themselves can be considered as field orderlies and vegetable gardens that destroy cultivated plants unsuitable for human nutrition.
Ivan Ovsinsky told how to cultivate the land so that all the necessary microbiota develops in it without any scientists and chemistry in the soil. This saves a person from unnecessary reference books on chemical fertilizers and the same chemical plant protection products.
Anastasia Megre said that you can saturate some seeds with information about yourself (just by holding them in your mouth for a few minutes), plant them on your site and get plants capable of treating humans. Moreover, plants also exchange information among themselves, so it is not necessary to lick all the seed material. 
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Marat,I would have liked to see this video, does it still exist somewhere?
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Very, very, very well said Marat.
Some of the most unsuccessful use wood-for-energy guys I have come to know are those who insist on trying to learn, " . . . every indy-bitty detail down to the molecular level!"
Ha! I’ve in frustration at times asked these guys, “How did you ever have children??”
Sadly. In most cases they did not. Or if a woman partner became pregnant they never assumed a father’s responsibilities. The mess and chaos of the blessing of children as a distraction to their intellectual pursuits heights. Them brainiac driven to pursue down to the bottom level, ‘True Understandings’. Living lives answering the Why’s of the universe.
Your videos show the evidence that you are a good father.
Best Regards
Steve Unruh
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If you have more then enough property to grow the food you need, and you are going to do hand labor. It is a different then modern agriculture where you are trying to create a surplus as their income.
I can sum up your whole system, as What is good for the worms is good for the soil. No book needed. There are only about 5 points you need to know about a worms.
The trick like anything else is finding a way to scale it. It is easy to do a one off garden plot, it is harder to make the system work with 3 people and 2000 hectares. I have literally watched 3 people till and plant 500 hectares in a single day. It is probably the most impressive thing I have seen in modern agriculture in the last 10 years.
Now, even though that is possible, many people aren’t going to do it because they are afraid to change and adopt the newer technology. Or they are stuck in their mindset, of this worked good enough, I won’t change. Farmers are typically pretty conservative.
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