I’ve just mostly been messing around with radio stuff. I keep looking at my GMC and trying to get off my butt and finish the WK for that.
I still haven’t gotten that Dakota from Idaho either and that’s eating me alive.
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I completely forgot, Mom and I built a chicken coop. A majority of this is made out of dunnage from my workplace, the rough cut 2x4" Korean pine. We built this last summer and we are working on a second smaller coop and run to isolate some chickens that get picked on.
We have 11 hens and 1 bantam rooster. Averaging 9 eggs a day. I keep trying to upload some photos that I just took and compressed but they’re not playing nice with my phone. I’ll try to upload them later.
Cody,
Also, good to hear from you. I’ve been wondering what you’ve been up to. Nothing new here, just trying to maintain what I’ve got. Sheep’s wool filter seems to be working okay.
Here’s the chicken coop and run, and some of the chickens. Both of the chicken photos has the bantam rooster, “Little Man”
Mom got a large variety of chickens. Including a Polish and a Sultan that have the fluffy heads.
Here is what a bunch of brush and a sugar water from a few maple trees can create. It is darker i think because i heated and cooled it to many times. It gets really hot with the brush but you gotta keep feeding it.
Chicken wire was designed to keep chicken in. Not predators out. It was invented in like 1840s and used cloth weaving machinery which is prior to easy to manufacture welded wire. It was a replacement for wooden fences. It is also a lot more flexible and lighter to make it easier to move. It looks like it is about 3x as much for hardware cloth which is probably mostly material cost.
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Marat_Lysenko
(Marat (East of Ukraine, 70 km from Donetsk))
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Output shaft of reduction gear has splined joint and locking ring. And a gearbox with an star for a chain was sold. On this star we welded two old discs from a moto scythe. And already on them - knives and additional reinforcements from the strip.
Basket for centrifugal clutch is installed on input shaft of reduction gear. We carefully, without removing it from the gearbox, welded the crossbar and welded the same crossbar from the side of the electric motor. 4 sectors of rubber are dampers and lie in the clutch basket.
A photo of the jumper basket is on our 1:30 gearbox for the rig. There is only one motor, but two applications at once! It is not every day that we drill a water well for ourselves. And we don’t need a cultivator every day either.
Thanks for the great book @Chris and @Wayne , it was interesting to read and gave me some great tips, it’s nice that you analyzed the gas too, so I can compare it with our Swedish units, but I didn’t understand everything, I’m not very good at English.
Been kinda quiet lately. Busier than usual. Things tend to happen at the same time.
Apart from resquing timber after the storm and firewood prepping, I’ve been acting taxi driver back and forth to hospitals.
Last summer my father had a heart attack and got a few stents. Since then he’s been eating blood thinning medicine. A few weeks back he started to loose his ability to move around. A brain scan showed a leaky vessel in his left side of the brain and a lump of coagulated blood. Back home after brain surgery he’s up and about so-so. 2 inch steps, but getting slightly better each day.
Back home day before yesterday from Stockholm - our capital. I haven’t visited for at least 15 years. Son in law had surgery on his foot and I was appointed to go go give him a ride back home - a 300 mile roundtrip. I drove from memory until close to my destination. Trying to locate the hospital I turned on the gps and everything went south from there. Spent a full extra hour in crazy traffic and a lot more lanes than I’m used to.
Yesterday was inspection day - wife’s car, the trailer and my pickup woodburner. The woodburner was dismissed because of a rusted through beam holding the hitch. I spent all day today practicing unmentionable language while drilling out busted rusty bolts and such. Fortunately Johan and I are working all Easter and I will try to find some some suitable material at work to fabricate new parts for the hitch mount.
Ya’ll probably have your own challanges in life. I just took the oppertunity to check in when I felt like it.
Y’all know I despise the consumerism that runs rampant, Iv been taking a harder stance against day by day and that means embracing new skills. I would guess some of you are familiar with such repairs but I have never been, I have taken apart electric motors before and done superficial repairs like freeing brushes that were stuck greasing things up cleaning and what not but today I’m building spring holder brushes for a Perkins 6.354 diesel starter that just isn’t available in the USA. A lost art I’m finding is spring building but with no other option to make this machine run I gotta figure it out, any tips or tricks appreciated, wish me luck
Hi Marcus, when i make springs like that, i usually use one of them “handy torches” like a storm-proof lighter, for gently heating before bending, let them cool slowly, in older times they let them cool embedded in bone meal (still in use today by some gunsmiths)
Make some more than you need, test them, compare, use the ones that feels best.
Check out for broken/missing insulators on spring holders, if a shortcut happens through a spring, it could be real messy.
Next time you need to build such I would LOVE a instructual how to video, I had very little to go on and had to start with pre coiled springs, apparently spring stock is incredibly difficult to find in my area
Ha! Spring is certainly an “Interesting time” JanA.
I’ve had to squeeze in mowing the small house yards twice now for grasses growths.
Another Pacific Ocean delivered two days of an Atmospheric River now has the front yard all squish-squish puddled up again. That did deliver much needed snows in the mountains above us.
Here’s a test of a persons State of Being: Never walk out in the forest in a windstorm.
An Urban; a Modern could never understand this. Dangerous! Don’t fight against the tide. Wait for the ebb-slack.
Energy sucking and dangerous. Don’t fight the muds time.
Futile and energy sucking. Wait for either drying time. Or freezing down; hardening-up times.
I say this from now two solid months of having to force driving for twice back and forth to the airport; calendar set doctors appointments; and long distance children transporting in terrible, dangerous, vehicles stirred up road spray at 70 mph/ 115kph. Modern, busy-busy, feeling oblivious safe, they do not slow down at all!
The calendar setters, living inside Urban’s; oblivious, in their controlled made-safe for them environments!
I figure most here, as outside living folks, do understand these wisdoms. Gotta love the DOW for this.
Steve Unruh
I think you missed one like something about falling into rabbit holes… (as I veered off into an old one in the last 24 hours… )
EDIT: This rabbit hole did make it back to woodgas related…
Essentially they are taking tars and zapping them in a high voltage arc to break them down. Apparently acetylene and hydrogen are formed along with NOx as it was lab conditions and they used nitrogen gas as a carrier.
While I think of it, as a life hack, vacuum cleaner flex tube for like attachments usually has spring steel wire in it. It isn’t too hard to get out, and it can be free/obtanium. It can end up as a messy rats nest of wire. You would have to go through some maths or an online calculator to figure out how many turns for the correct tension.
And we don’t need a cultivator every day either.
