Garden fresh radishes, lettuce’s, broccoli and cauliflower daily.
Picked fresh raspberries and blue berries too.
Life is good.
Make-a-good life too where every you are.
S.U.
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The old saying “never look back” is not true while you are picking sugar peas. They have a way of hiding until you look back along the row where you just picked.
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There is always an exception to the rule. TomC
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And zucchini’s, sometimes there are monsters hiding under the leaves
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That’s why I plant the golden ones, they can’t hide. Once a few years ago I grew a striped green zucchini. After a few days away, I got a real start when I pushed some leaves back and was confronted by this 2 foot long curled striped green beast. My mind took it for a huge snake, it hadn’t been there before. 
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I didn’t know what thread this belongs on but I came across this you tube video of this gasifier guy that I had not seen before. His build looks like a FEMA design but he does a really good job of explaining wood (biomass) gasification for emergency use.
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Good morning Don .
I think his motor will tar up pretty quick.
If I see any smoke coming out of my gasifier I know something is bad wrong . 
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It probably allredy has 
systems like this shed darkness on woodgas systems
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Wow, 40cm !!!
I bet it it put up a fight. I wouldn’t have managed it with my old bambu-rod
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Since you mention tar-----
I think I remember reading in that British “1939 Report” or someplace like that, that one auto manufacturer of the time slightly turned down the upper part of the valve stems to prevent/delay the tar from making the valves seize. I don’t remember if there was a much scientific research into the value of it, though.
1939 report (I’m sure I mentioned this report a while ago, but just in case there are some newcomers):
https://spaco.org/Woodgas/1939Report.htm
Pete Stanaitis
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Thanks for all the information Mr. Pete 
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Wow , a tar producer…
I’ll bet some of us could not do that with their’s, even if they would want it… 
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Bumper crop of black berries and raspberries this year. First time I remember picking both at the same time.
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Al, is that due to the heat, do you think?
First raspberries ready to harvested here. Blackberries need another month. Even the south wall ones.
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Hi Jan, cold weather hung on here till May, then got hot, so I think the combination prolonged the raspberries, and advanced the blackberries. Normally raspberries ripe in June, blackberries in late July-August.
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My whole summer was thrown off by a tractor not working and covid, and now a well pump. But I just saw this and any bets on whether he has a gasifier? 
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I am seeing the same thing here. One thing I have noticed in years past. If it is a hard year to grow a vegetable garden fruits seem to do very well. My garden didn’t come hardly at all this spring. But the fruit trees and berries are loaded. Everyone around here said that seeds just didn’t start this spring. Almost like that is a trigger for the berries to double down and take advantage next year of the opportunity nature has to fill a void.
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Berries and woodgas.
Wife asleep after a nightshift. Took the dogs for blueberry picking lake walkaround this morning.
If you want to avoid the lake, blueberries and me talking to the camera, you can skip to video no 4. It’s the only one woodgas related.
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As always, I enjoyed seeing more of your country. For some reason when I think of Europe, I think of crouded cities and country side. You live in a beautiful area–relatively secluded. Thanks for the tour. TomC
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