Jan, you start your video with:
“At last we have something to do”
Now, that’s a slap in the face from a pensionist 
I have one more nightshift to go and I’m about to fire up the pickup under the carport. The Volvo is parked indoors and I won’t even try to free up the garage doors from the high drifts until tomorrow.
You’re right, the snow doesn’t make taking care of the fallen timber any easier. It’ll be a real test for my - held together with slag blobs junk equipment.
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I had that test JO. Failed miserably. We got a big blast of heavy snow and high winds Monday. I had the homemade V plow hooked up to my half ton Chevy and thought it would be good to test it after beefing it up in the fall. Slowly pushed out the half mile of my driveway to the main road and back. No problem with the plow riding a couple inches off the ground. Got back to the house and decided to lower it to where it was just dragging. Back out to the road and three quarters of the way back with too much speed and it bit into something. The front of the truck went up and when it came back down the plow was wedged in the middle of the truck. Walked to the house, load up a sled with jacks and tools. Took two hours of work to get it free in a windy 12F temp. Tore the mounting brackets right off. I left it on the side of the road for now since we are still getting snow everyday. No chance to see if my “slag Bombs” held or not. Plow is mangled so I don’t have to worry about trying to hook it back up like an idiot. Somebody lied about wisdom coming with age.
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Oh no! Snow looks nice on postcards, but that’s about it.
About wisdom, I think being young and naive is a necessity. If every youngster had the painful wisdom old age brings, that would put an end to all progress. There are several project I would never had taken on if knew from start how much effort they would end up requiring. But sometimes you just forget, or ones inner cheapskate takes control
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JO, but you don’t mean projects with wood gas?
By the time I started working with wood gas, I had order in my home, no unnecessary clutter, I took scrap metal to the scrapyard on a regular basis, there were no old engines and vehicles, I bought diesel fuel, poured it into a tractor or car and did the work,… well, in a few years the situation has changed a lot, I have quite a few old engines, a few BCS lawn mowers, a few tractors (Fiat, IMT 533, MF 35 without an engine), quite a few stainless steel containers and stainless sheet metal, quite a bit of scrap metal,… full of “clutter”,…
Would I ever get into the “wood gas” industry again? YES, of course, well, now I know a little more about what I need when building systems, how to go about converting engines, especially diesel engines, … well, I still need to have a bunch of “scrap” metal on hand…
Can I calculate the invested costs and savings from using wood gas?
May our Lord Jesus bless you and I wish you all the best in the New Year!
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Of course not
Best wishes in the New Year to you too, and everyone else.
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2026 started with snow. Wohoo…
And more to come…
I’ve tinkered some with my rotten snowblower, hasn’t been running in atleast 5 years due to a flat tire… yes, im lazy sometimes, or am i? The shovel is harder work after all.
Fixed the flat tire, fixed carb (lost the needle valve when i cleaned it 5 years ago) got everything unstuck, oiled up everything. No spark… pulled the flywheel and cleaned the points.
Ofcourse i stumbled on the flywheel and one of the magnets broke.
A new honda clone are on it’s way, i would bet my money on that snow is gone when it arrives.
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göran, people who keep all in order ( is also a question of having space…) are only too lazy to search…a real genius can also handle a bit of chaos…
what is with the 100 years old chainsaw…i expected someone will ask for it…i would be really curious to see a houndred years old chainsaw…
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Hi giorgio, i let some pictures talk.
In 1915 Swedish inventor Westfelt built a “tree felling machine SECTOR” one among the first in the world that become somewhat series produced.
In this magazine from 1919 i believe, it is mentioned as a German invention.
After ww1 Germany bought the rights to build “Sector” saws.
Testing at Huddinge, Sweden 1916.
From German manual.
Heres how i found mine.
Here’s how it looks today. The odd ignition system has been a real struggle.
Here i modify sparkplugs to 1/2" tapered pipe thread. Im going to keep an eye open on this summers swap meets, for Ford model t plugs.
Starter crank handle made from scratch.
The engine is a Archimedes two-stroke 2 cylinder opposed. 200cc air cooled. Rated 3,5 hp, weight 47 kilos.
The water-cooled version is known as the “balanced” outboard engine.
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Nightshifts are over with, but work continues. From nothing to quite a lot of snow in 24 hours. Drifting - varies from 1 to 3 ft so far. Wife caught me working the 1947 Fergie in the snow. It’s -9C (15F) , so next thing is feeding the boiler.
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Hey JO .
If you could give me some type of warning before posting such pictures I would have time to put hat and coat on before viewing
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Sorry about that, Mr Wayne. I’ll try come up with some kind of warning system
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“Beware!! Cold Views Coming!!”
We took two of the high-school exchange students from Taiwan up to 4000 foot level, above the low fog; up in the sunshine, to play in the new deep snow three days ago. Lots and lots of proofs and snow angels pictures on their Fuji instamatic smart phones.
Like all westside lowlanders here . . . wife and I much prefer to drive UP to the snows. Drive 100-150 km west to the salty Pacific Ocean views and play. Comfortable home here in the drizzle mists as long as a lively wood fire Inside to dry-off and energize by.
Finally cold enough to be able to wear my sheep’s wool now! The red shirt. The ear muff hat. The unseen long-johns legs, and undershirt base layers. Wool. Wool. And Wool. Knit gloves too.
Steve Unruh
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My daughter Špela’s birthday is tomorrow, I couldn’t think of anything clever to give her as a gift, well, she loves cats, but I recently saw a video about making a cat,… I didn’t do it so well,…
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doctor göran, (sector engine health and medicine) thanks for interesting pictures!
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Long time we have seen this. Mostly wet.
Just above freezing. Next week the same weather. Traffic will be a mess tomorrow 
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Joep, a thin layer doesn’t hurt anything.
As a general rule - if the snow doesn’t reach above the bumper you should be good to go 
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I had to fell a tree a couple of days ago. In the middle of it, the trigger on my Husky Rancher broke.
Cheap plastic piece, but it made the saw useless. It’s an old saw which seems to constantly need attention, so the wife insisted that I get a new one. 
So, yesterday I drove to town on the hottest day of the year so far, 95 F (35 C). I almost wish I was in the northern hemisphere. Well, maybe not given everyone’s latest posts.
AC was not working , so the only coolness available was the sight of snow on the mountain top.
But now I have a brand new saw - first one in 40+ years.
If I can find a new trigger for the old saw I will fix it. I might have to order overseas for it though. I may even try to cast one in aluminum just for fun, although I suspect the original design was to give some flex to the part of the trigger contacting the throttle pushrod.
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Is the picture of your old saw or the new one you just bought Marty. If it’s the new one then I suspect you have a Delorean with a flux capacitor hidden in your garage.
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