Happy Birthday Kristijan .
May you have many more 
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Well here is a picture saying much.
Late September I took a foot slipped fall-dive off of the back of the Penske truck. Dislocated my two left hand middle fingers. I was 70 then. It has taken 8 weeks now that Iâm 71 to heal enough to be able to close that fist. Cody/Kristijan; once you are really old-old things take a l-o-n-g time to heal:
Now the winter wheels for the Camry out waiting for the new winter tires to arrive. look carefully and only four of the studs have actual tips anymore. Once soft winter sticky rubber age hardened and gone hard slick. (Why my 5 year old boots treads back in the wet slip and fall in September failed me!)
Pissed. They no longer will make studded narrow 15 inch 70 series winter tires. All only 16" to 19-20" in low profiles.
So I am having to go with stud-less winter tires. Tried the once with Nokiens in back 2008. They just not nearly as good on intersections snot ice.
Anybody with exprences with these:
Made in Italy.
Replacements for the Wifeâs now missing 30% on her expensive Nordman 7âs.
For my one set of winter boots.
Maybe even my new to come stud-less ânewâ, âbetterâ, âimprovedâ Blizzak winter tires.
The on-Amazon Asian screw-in studs copies have poor quality ratings.
Regards
Steve Unruh
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Hi SteveU, i use screw-in studs on my tractor and my rubber boots, works like a charm.
Not exactly this brand though, on the tractor i use some cheapo type with a âordinary bolt headâ with two sharp edges sticking up (hardened) has hold up better than i suspected for three years now (im to lazy to take them off summertime)
On my boots i use a type much like the ones you posted, looks like a standard car tire stud, very good, a good advice: NEVER walk indoors with boots equiped that way, they leave holes in the floorâŠ
For car tires i would really hesitate using screw-in studs, i got the feeling they somehow work their way throught the rubber, causing a flat tire, or the other scenario: they just come loose.
I have the feeling they stop selling some dimensions here in the future to, so i have in my âstashâ 3 stud-guns, drill-bits and around 10000 studs. 
Edit: Itâs getting harder to get tires with enough rubber âblocksâ to put studs in though.
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You mentioned salt water. I got an itch that needed scratched so here we are
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Bon appetit Marcus, I really like your videos.
Congratulations Cody, you are dirty now?
You too Kristijan, Äestitke
A little behind readingâŠ
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I only have one left hand middle finger but I hardly ever use it when I wave to somebody. 
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Goran, that was not the intention but l guess te stars aligned then 
thank you. I see the âkindâ in your surname is there for a reason.
Mr Steve, l understand the strugle fully. I broke a collar bone in a bicicle accident when l was 13 years old and it took 10 or so years to fully heal. The surgeon messed it up and it healed kinda crucked, it popped, ground and hurt whenever l did phisical work but now it seems it kinda ground its self in to place but if it took 10 years then l can only imagine what its like to get hurt at 70âŠ
Hvala Joep 
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Havenât been able to use studded tires in the lower peninsula since 1972. Unfortunately. If you want to see studded tires check out the ones in this video. Apparently they are legal at least in some parts of Wisconsin. 
Seems like this would be a good sport in Sweden.
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Same here Tom. I never even saw a stud in real life. Strictly forbidden here.
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Ha! Only two have I been able to do. Iâm not exactly the silent-Bob type.
S.U.
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Thanks Kristijan 
Im going to check one up for you, gasoline, no idea to send you one that is crap. (I have over 80 blowtorches, so this is just fun for me)
Collector/hoarder Göran.
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Hi Tom, we have something like that in Sweden, look for: Speed weekend on ice, it is held every year somewhere in J&J&J s part of Sweden.
Especially look for the maniacs with the jet-powered kick-sled, and the pulse-jet snowmobile.
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My guess is these are the folks that come to âTip Up Townâ from wisconsin. You can probably see them live.
Studded tires are banned on the roads but I thought they were still legal for off-road. I could be wrong. I know the snowmobile racers had issues with them with the studs because they fly off.
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Here comes an unwanted history lesson
Well im a âhistory nerdâ and thought this was worth sharing, iâve done some research about this and finally found some pictures, i know there are more out there.
Hugo Ericsson was a young inventor from Tandsbyn, Sweden, at 18 years he built his first airplane, he managed to take of, and fly it for half an hour (this was with NO training in flying a plane, he counted on to learn as he fly) the landing didnât end well, he crashed and totaled the plane, but didnât hurt himself, as this wasnât enough he later got a pretty big fine for flying a un-registered airplane without a license.
The people in the small town Tandsbyn was so impressed by the young inventor that they collected the money and payed his âticketâ.
Then a world war break looseâŠ
Hugo, now a certified flyer, built another airplane- powered by CHARCOAL! Maybe not the only charcoal flyer in the world, but probably the first.
Blurry old picâs, and the gasifier is built-in, but hereâs some facts.
Plane nicknamed: The Yellow Danger.
Empty weight 135kg
Engine British Scott âFlying Squirrelâ 28hp
March speed 130km/h
Gasifier, weight empty 16kg, flying time 15-20 minutes.
Gasifier should be emptied and cleaned at every refueling.
There are little facts and drawings out there, mainly because the money to get the plane inspected and certified was missing, the plane never fly âofficiallyâ but inofficial test flights was reported
Edit: Hugo and his brother later started a company that made chainsaws-two of my interests.
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Very interesting, I had no idea.
Thank you, your âunwantedâ historylessons is just the thing we didnât know that we wanted, but we do
This sentence jumbled up my mind but I hope you understand what I mean 
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I was already impressed when I read that Ericsson built a plane and flew it without training. But to power a plane with charcoal! Now that took balls. Fire and airplanes donât usually mix well, but then again if there is no av gas around I suppose it would actually be safer!
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Most of the folks around here think I am lying if I mention anything about my vehicles running on wood. That in mind I think I shouldnât say anything about the airplane powered with wood to maintain any small amount of respect I might have
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I can just imagine what the effect would be in the gasifier with some in-air turbulence and a sudden drop which redistributes the charcoal in the gasifier giving poor gas⊠Makes you wish you emptied your bowels before takeoff
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Johan, you just unlocked a whole new level of woodgas troubles
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Some picâs from sunny Sweden.
I wonder what this white stuff is? Canât remember seeing it before?
My hot-bulb engine has always been leaking all of itâs cooling water, i fixed the leak this spring, ofcourse this lead to absent-minded me forgot to drain it
luckily it hadnt freeze-crack, probably because temperature has fallen during long time, no suddenly cold shock.Here i defrost it with a ânorthern engine heaterâ- a bucket of charcoal.
I light my oilfield lantern replica, it brings some joy in the cold.
I should really had done the remaining brake repair, on the soon to be wood-volvo.
But i had to baby-sit the puppy, because wife had to work. Well, i feel pretty comfortable on the couch.
(Sorry for the ugly, bearded, monster beside the dog)
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