Very nice! How long are those boards Jan?
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Average length 4.6 meters (15 feet)
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That is a nice stack! Those will look good stained red. 
Do you stain them once before you put them up to get both sides, then go back over it once after it is done, or do you just wait until they are up to stain it? I am assuming you are using the traditional homemade iron oxide stain, so cost isnât as much of a factor.
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They are for the outer roof; I was planning to replace the old one.
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Iâm not asking you to change. I just ran into these, because a friend was shingling his barn, and he said something that made me go look for solar shingles. I ran into these and I think they look sweet.
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Nice weather around here, leafs start falling.
Lotâs of stuff to fix, as always, but i need to work with some fun stuff also.
I made this cookie cutter from a strip of stainless sheet, the mustache is a symbol for yearly fund raiser for research in prostate cancer, wife âorderedâ it for her work.
I started work on a very early motorcycle engine im going to bring back to life, good opportunity to practice aluminum welding.
Got this type-plate sign from a friend, hard to see, but it says: Hesselman type 450, a wartime woodgasifier, he had found it, and wondered if it was worth saving, ofcourse
hopefully he got it, and then it ends up in my place.
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This afternoon, I kicked up a cloud of dust⊠You might remember this 190 cm wide rotary tiller; I used to power it with the âoldâ gasifier, and back then, the drive system was pushed to its limits. Well, this time the load was âlighter,â clearly demonstrating the difference between the old and new gasifiers. The soil here is incredibly dry and hard, making cultivation very demanding; my brother Lojze, who lent me the tiller, has a 47 hp Zetor and says he has very little power in reserve when running this implement.
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That is impressive Tone, a rototiller is hard work for any tractor 
If i put one after my little Fergie, i think the tractor would start spinning instead, when i put the pto in gear.. 
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Goran, donât underestimate your Fergie; these tractors keep surprising youâsimple, small, and agile, yet with a âbig heartâ ⊠a robust transmission and engine ⊠especially when I think about all the loads it handles âŠ
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Are these standard snow chains any good?
My current chains are such a hassle to get right, so I wanted something else.
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maybe make some new rims and wheels.. The Amish only use steel wheels. It looks like they have vastly improved them over the years..
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We have been putting chains like that on my Neighbors tractor for years Jan. Still a tough job to get them tight enough that they arenât getting any slop while driving. Two people make it a lot easier to get them right.
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tone, remember your fergie is a modyfied diesel and görans is a petrol from the ÂŽ 50 âŠi think it has also no differential blockage, when i am right?
here is a fergie like this offered for 1400 eurosâŠtemptative, but has no reduction and the first gear makes more than 5 kilometers/hour, seems fast for me, our fiat with more than 3 and something kilometers/ hour is fastâŠ
what do you coltivate on the field, tone?
we have finished the seed with the new seeder, and generally it works well, thoug the motorcultivator have had difficult with sliding on the crumbly ground, but it must be done on chargasâŠthe pasquali wasnt ready yet, but next yearâŠ
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Do you know if theyâre gripping, or just slipping on the snow and ice?
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Hi Giorgio, I plan to sow wheat in my field; my brother Lojze says the best time is at the end of this monthâotherwise, it might grow too tall before winter sets in. Iâm also preparing another field that hasnât been cultivated for years; a friend used to mow it and graze his cows there. The soil is very hard and clayey, but rain is forecast for the coming daysâŠ
My Fergie has a low-range gear and a differential lock. Well, the engagement mechanism on this model isnât the best designâthe cam that pushes the lock into place doesnât have enough travel, so it doesnât work very well. Iâve been meaning to modify it for a while, but I need the tractor for work almost every day⊠but as I said, rainy days are coming, so Iâll have time for it then.
A while back, I brought in another Fergieâan original British model, though it lacks an engine (and doesnât have a diff lock, either). I plan to install a VW 1.9 SDI engine in it; naturally, Iâll remove the diesel pump and install a 4-cylinder ignition system, and Iâll machine down the pistons to achieve a 13:1 compression ratio (an interesting project for the years ahead)âŠ
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Hi giorgio, my little fergie, Ted20, gasoline/kerosene, is, just as you say, somewhat fast on lowest gear, and there is no reduction gearbox, just 4 gears forward and 1 reverse.
Also hydraulics and pto is affected by the clutch, something that could be troublessome when âprecision workâ
Iâve tried it with a 1,8meters sickle mower, and that was not nice, felt very fast, as some revving is needed to âget it goingâ.
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Jan, I build these all the time. They work well. I will take a picture of the tool you should look for if you donât already have it.
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Our shared road is up and down some fair hills Jan so Iâd have to say they are biting in. His tractor will not climb a hill without them when the snow gets to where the tires no longer dig into the dirt. If you decide to go with them Iâll tell you how we get them tight.
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Does that have anything to do with letting air out before chains and then airing them up?
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The problem I have with my studded chains is that they tend to shift out of position after a while; last winter, I tried securing them to the rim at five points using steel wire, and that got me through the season.
Since I have a front loader on the little Massey Ferguson, I have to carry a counterweight on the rear lift armsâotherwise, I canât make it up the hill to the cabin, even with the studded chains.
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