I looked up this “Groen Manufacturing Company” and they make steam heated cooking pots for the restaurants food services.
Sure enough . . . the bottom is double walled with an upper and lower welded on pipe nipples to the outer jacket. Now the 40 water pressure rating makes sense.
Thickness is ~10 gauge. 2.5 mm?
Steve Unruh
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It is really useful for heating without burning or just a more even lower temperature heat for like candy making, which is ~250F, but the risk of burning is a lot lower. Simmering like tomato sauce, it would work as well. or even much lower temperatures like beer or wine making where you want the yeast at a more elevated but controlled temperature because you can use heated water instead of steam.
It also works for cooling stuff.
I am actually surprised there wasn’t a lid with it. With a lid, you could use it as a distiller and just circulate like 200F water in it, and it never gets hot enough to boil the water or burn any mash stuff that settled out.
overall it is an interesting piece with plenty of uses as is.
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Blower for the gasifier,… I ordered this online for 20 Euros, I thought it was without a battery, but it comes with two and a charger… unbelievable, who makes this for this money.
It also works great on 12 V, which is what I need for my projects.
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I can’t quite tell, but those looks quite a bit like the greenworks, dewaltish style batteries. I would be surprised if the batteries were actually 4a though. 
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the blower for the new mazda gasifier?..interesting the grill grate in the background…smells from balkan specialities…
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I think that blower is a copy of the Makita blower , i have copy of mini chainsaws the same and they use Makita battery’s as the ones supplied are rubbish for extended use
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A coworker gave to me this Troy Bilt “Pony” rear tine self propelled tiller. Has a good old Briggs 5HP flathead engine. I put some fresh gas in it after doing some quick inspecting and cleaning and it started up fairly quick!
I prefer this style with the “dead man” clutch. If it runs away on me and I let go it’ll stop driving. Sorry about the glare, I’ve dropped this phone so many times the lens cover on the camera finally cracked up.
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I had one of those for many years. A big tree fell on it and now it don’t work so good any more. 
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Make sure to change the oil in the differential that runs the tines and that it doesn’t leak. It is the #1 killer of rototillers.
And of course the obligatory, don’t till very deep.
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good engine cody…our tiller has also a 5hp briggs motor , 50 years old, and runs excellent with chargas…only recently the coil becomes getting bad…not easy to find more here
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Giorgio, if your engine uses the points and condenser you can change to the modern electric coil, but install it backwards so the magnet in the flywheel excites it correctly. The magnets in the newer flywheels are polarized the opposite of original ones.
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cody, thanks for info, i have had the so called "magnetron " ignition with transistor here in reserve, and have mounted this and works well…this spare part , i think, is also old and corresponds with the flywheel magnet…i have looked than if the trader offers yet this transistor coil, but was not available …
the original ignition is with breaker and condensator and extern coil…this coil itself here costs expensive…some years ago it was easier to find this stuff…
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When i was out, getting wood, i had the opportunity to check out a fallen-down barn, and getting some free old stuff.
This is a old log lifter, from the time when trucks and tractors don’t have cranes, and loading was made by man-power.
It works by balancing it by hand when cranking the winch, when the log is higher than the bed, just tilt it over, and lower the log.
These 2 scythes followed me home also, i think i have 10 of various types now.
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I believe there should also be one or two pipe “legs” with it, most likely two, to fasten in the top on that horizontal axle to make a tripod and then be used as a tool to break out stumps from the ground (or what ever else you can think of). Perhaps you can go back and look for those if it’s not too far away.
This is what mine looks like anyway, carefully stored away and as you can see, I didn’t exactly use it yesterday 
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Oh great… now I am going to get chased through the woods by an entity wielding 10 scythes and 50 chainsaws, keys to a tracked machine and has recently acquired the means levitate the dead over pretty big fire. 
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No, Johan, this is exactly how it should look, it is for loading timber logs on wagons and beds.
It was often called helploader, and like.
Some of these had, and was altered to stump pullers though.
By the way: you have a nice stump-puller, is it a “bröderna andersson”?
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Yes as yours seemed to have the longer axle in the top but still was made from lighter material it made sense to me that it was a combined loglifter / stump puller.
I have no idea what brand my stump puller is, the manufacturers sign was already gone when it came into my possession. It is just marked by the company owning it then.
”DIÖS”
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Sean, maybe you watch to much scary movies?
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Probably too many Grimm fairy tales combined with some slasher movies. Apparently, I just need a ticket to Sweden, and I can experience reality horror. Although to be more contemporary, it probably needs to include zombies, which I am sure will pop up in casual conversation or on your youtube channel at some point.
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