An old college buddy got this shirt for my 3 month old son. Cracks me up!
John,
I love it!!
Congratulations !! You should have let us know you were a proud dad.
I’m not much for cigars but I could have made some smoke by other means .
Fantastic!
Hmmmmm haven’t caught up on whats happening round here for awhile, good to see peoples builds are progressing or are on the road since i last looked in, my build has stalled a bit…work and things have had me running flat chat (translation lol>http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flat_chat) most of the time.
What else have i been up to…we got a dog a couple of weeks ago…5 month old Border Collie that is shapeing up to be the smartest and dumbest dog at the same time that i have ever known…rounds up the chickens quite well already tho and is learning that the cat is NOT to be messed with as it is heavily armed and annoyed that this “thing” has invaded its house.
weather has turned cold here with a vengence…forecast is for snow to sea level tonight but i suspect the the weather girl is being a bit hopeful, wind rain and hail is more like it i think.
Found out one thing to my detriment…the Sycamore wood that i have all over my hill doesn’t burn…at all…it just chars on the outside and goes out…asked around and its well known problem that is caused by how fast it grows here so i am told…which is a problem because i now have a lifetime supply of unburnable fire(less)wood and am having to heat the house and hotwater with coal…lol part of the reason i bought my house was because it had its own firewood supply…oh well you live and learn i guess… at least coal is cheap here compared to electric heating and hotwater.
Callum
“Fluid fuels are so superior to producer gas that gaseous fuel for vehicles probably will be abandoned, if we gain free access to fluid fuel again, but the question is, when this will happen. We will probably have to resort to producer gas for years yet, at least for our trucks and busses, and even in the peace economy we will generate gas in our industry gasifiers. It is therefore fully motivated, that we maintain our interest in gasifier problems.”
Introduction to: “Gasifier for damp fuel”
Professor Harald Kyrklund,
Helsinki, Finland
(Translation 2000, Joacim Persson )
(From Teknisk Tidskrift, July 21 1945)
http://www.hotel.ymex.net/~s-20222/gengas/monorator-eng.html
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Thanks for putting that up Carl i had wondered if that was still around
Thats a good document explaneing the operation of the monorator hopper…it was what let me know how the “monorator thing” that i kept reading about worked when i found that article a few years back… lol then i couldn’t find it again when i looked for it recently.
Our weather girl needs a medal…she was bang on with the snow forcast…its snowing now and all schools etc are closed…and i can’t get to work…how sad hahahaha…i’m so disappointed :)-
My father-in-law built a toy box made like an old Stanley Steamer for his newest great grandson. I got to help by building a steering column for it (not on for the picture). He had surgery for brain cancer a few months ago. A birthday coming up next month. Huge party planed for him. He’s been one of my biggest supporters on getting my truck running.
Now that is dog gone neat Marvin! Thanks for sharing. Your father in law is a talented man.
Wife sent me a message at work today saying that there was a swarm of bee’s here at home. When I got home they had found a hole in our big ole cottonwood and were busy scurrying in and out about 20 ft up in tree. So the question is what kind of neighbors are they going to be 30 ft from my back door? Appear to be honey bees
2 minutes of history from 1941 Maybe coal??
i think those are coke gasifiers…my grandmother had a some photos from in england early in the war that had coke gasifiers that looked like those in the background…lol she hated the things…she said they were more dangerous than the german raider aircraft…she was working at a rural vehicle repair garage early in the war and said that they had alot of repairs come in because the gasifier had exploded blowing the bodywork apart around were ever the gasifier had been mounted…i know in about late 1941 early 1942 the british ministry of transport ordered a either one or two types of gasifier (that acually made up about half the gasifiers being used) off the roads due the fires caused when they puffed back or blew up and spread burning coke everywhere…guess its not what you want when you have wooden buildings and thatched roofs…
she said that the ones later in the war were much better…the only complaint people had about them was how long it took the get tham making good gas…coke is far slower to get fired up than wood…its more like coal to work with in that respect
Tom, we have a large number of bees living in a old dead cedar tree about 40’ from our porch. They have lived there for thirty years! These are survivors, (perhaps the cedar keeps the moths away) while the purchased bees in our regular hives seem to die out. The bees throw the dead bodies out of the openings, and the chickens always check the ground around the tree for tidbits to eat. A local beekeeper has lost over 50% of his hives, so we value these living bees for our garden pollination. I did get stung once while mowing with a noisy lawnmower, but for the most part, we get along fine. Every once in a while, some of them form a big swarm and take off. We don’t get too concerned over swarms as they never seem to bother us. You can tell when bees are really agitated, and then it is better to keep your distance.
A tornado was very close today. As it went over the sawmill I knew I better start recording. I could see a thin tail overhead then after it passed, it grew to a small funnel then in the second video, it really gets it together and does some damage to 4 houses and a lot of timber.
That is too close for comfort Carl. Glad you are safe!
Carl, Did you have a good shelter to run to if needed??
I could crawl under the drive on scales. Concrete and steel, very low to the ground.
As I’ve been told, nobody in Texas has a basement. Does that hold true in AR as well?
Yup, pretty much. Although times like this tend to spur the sale of storm cellars.
Carl: First off, I’m glad to hear you and your’s are OK. Second, if you aren’t already, I’d suggest going into the storm cellar business!
Sheesh!
Don’t wanna be any closer than that!