Sad to hear you all are Evacuated/waiting for the worst.
Glad to hear you are all safe.
Thanks for the pin-point cause of origin for your local. Helps quash the fears rumors.
The fire most close to actually traveling to us is the Washington “Big Hollow” fire. What we’d local call the upper Canyon Creek/Siouxon drainages areas.
We were just there on the Sunday before showing the two foster girls the old Wind River side family cabin.
Lot of folks out Labor day family camping. ALL we saw were being very careful as it was popcorn dry and hot.
But just one spark or ignition source would have as you saw overwhelm even a shovel and rake prepared. And no one could have enough carried water to kill it once ran away on them.
The Big Hollow fire origin started within a hand full of miles from where we’d been; the next day Monday in the winds that started up at 3;00 PM afternoon. Now has traveled toward our home valley 45 miles away by 20 miles. You’ve seen now these can travel 15-20 miles a day. Valley drainage funneled. And wind driven.
These were the exact same condition of the three Yacolt Burn fires early 1900’s. The reburn 19teen’s. Then re-burn a third time in the early 1920’s.
The same continental weather conditions as the Oregon 1930’s “Willamette Burn”.
The within last 15 years sw Orgon Rouge River fires.
California in 2017.
The Columbia River Gorge burn down just two years ago. (stupid kid with fireworks)
Just take one dry lighting strike.
One wind blow limb across power lines.
One accidental smokers, partiers normally just an Opps, Stomp it out. Tell of the close call. The scorched pants legs.
With a combined populations OR, WA, CAL of 53 million; having just that one-in-a-million angry statement person . . . . expressing. . . . their anger.
No surprises some will be that.
Anyhow why we insist on all metal roofs. Freshen white paint on most of our buildings here.
NEVER allowing fir trees within 300 feet of our buildings. Deciduous shade and fruit trees only. Less mass. Less resinous pitches hot weather extruding. And a working chainsaw to tip those down to the ground, and reduce them, flattened. Quickly.
Multiple frost proof yards hydrants. Hoses. And Lot of sprinklers.
That one Navy veteran California man making his yard into mud was the only one with a home to go back to.
Regards. Good luck. You’ll know what to expect next time.
Steve unruh
Sorry to hear that Carl. Hope the fire leaves your property alone.
Something more positive. We took a few days off work and went for a weekend trip to the sea. Here is a short clip of us idleing on autopilot (idle and 3rd gear ) along the coast of the Adriatic sea.
Not a wood gas vehicle but a ex woodgas vehicle. Has to count for something right?
Ah, not fair…you’re cruzing along the Mediterranean seaside, while I struggle with dussins of firewood loads
I try get the logs away from rocky and stumpy terrain. Unloding down by the road. From there I can use the Mazda on wood with the tractor trailer. Just waiting for customers to mow their backyard lawns for the last time, before delivery.
Jeff Davis made the big time. Farm show magazine. Jeff Davis runs his Wheel Horse garden tractor on charcoal. The burner takes up less space than a wood gas unit and Davis makes the charcoal himself.
“Wood gas can be tricky, but just about anybody can make a charcoal gasifier work,” says Davis. “The secret is using clean charcoal to avoid tar. If you do that, it’s hard to go wrong.”
A charcoal fuel system requires a burner, a cooler, and a way to filter the gas before it enters the engine. Davis modified a 30-lb. propane tank to make the burner unit. He inverted it and cut a hole in the “new” top. This allowed him to clean it of any residue and to mount a tube to hold charcoal.
Yes, this is happening. I’m in one of the areas being targeted. There has been at least one arrested in this area. Our teams have spooked & documented several who appeared to be up to the same.
Very cool! I originally learned of the existence of gasification from an issue of Farm Show… it was on the lunch room table at work. I remember reading the article and remarking to my coworkers about “this crazy farmer from Alabama” who built a wood burning truck.
Morning OregonCarl, and Michael Gibbs, and Levi Mosley
Frustrating time, eh?
I still have nearly four cord of winters firewood outside, layed out to finish dry.
I had been one wheel barrow at a time sweating that 100 feet into the wood shed in the previous 80-90F heats.
The two young foster girls (and two dogs) following me around. The sun was good for them. The mischievous’s for me not so good.
Just where has the riding lawnmower key got to this time, girl-squirrels!?
And quit dribbling out your kids gardening tools into my wheelbarrow travel pathway!
Quit digging wheelbarrow stopping holes! You are not moles! Ruby-dog that means you too!
Just like you’all having to now inside hunker up with the whole house furnace onto re-circ and new carbon active filtering.
I can actually take the air crud kinnda’sorta. Cutting back to 50% expectations.
I worry about their new young lungs.
Ha! And my wood still sits outside wetting down in the every evening now 40 F fog-smokes. 100 yard visibility this morning.
Sigh. Have to black plastic tarp my still outside woods up in this afternoons least relative humidity, and wait now for a past smokes time window to finally get it all in.
Life in the mountain forests. Life in a marine climate zone.
Ha! Still beats flattening tornadoes, uncertainties. And river raising flooding’s, certainties. Or city/urban; never-ending, You Musts.
Steve Unruh
Frustrating for sure… but as usual there are plenty of positives to be grateful for.
It is heartening to see how our community watch group and the one in the next watershed over are coming together. There was much suspicious activity around the 11th, but it seems our patrols are making a difference. We were only without power for a couple days, and although we are only a dozen miles from one of the front lines our home should be safe as long as we can continue to discourage those with ill intent.
My 2yr old daughter will be very happy to be able to visit her tree house again however.
“Skitjobb” is a Swedish word, but I don’t think a translation is needed
Something completly different. I visited the dentist today.
In the 70s they drilled teeth completly hollow and filled them with amalgam, even for the smallest cavity/dent. Of course one of them teeth cracked on me a couple years back, but they told me to wait if it didn’t trouble me.
This past weekend I’ve been on pain killers and today ex-ray showed the crack went deep down into the pulp. It was time to pull it.
After 1.5 hours the good looking female dentist and I were both soaked in sweat. Even with wrench, crowbar and a circular sawblade to split the tooth, only half of it wanted to come out. I was bleeding like a pig and sent home with more pain killers to recover and we have another date day after tomorrow. Soup and sour milk until then.
EDIT:
I wonder if mouth acoustics will change with one tooth missing. Maybe I’ll get better at singing.
@kristijanL , Better return your MB to charcoal power before the next sea cruise. You will never hear the end of it from these guys. I am petrol bound myself. still a dow dreamer. That MB was a brilliant install, by the way! @JO_Olsson I feel your pain. Praying for a peaceful conclusion. I have had 2 dental implants the last few years, painful in the mouth and pocketbook, but worth it.
I had a female dentist. I never felt any pain with her. She would wrap her left arm around to the left side of my mouth and her right hand would work on the right side of my mouth. All I felt was something soft and warm pushing on my ear. Now the dentist just takes my teeth over to a buffer and buffs a little, then put them back in my mouth.
TomC
Hi Michael, if you would of had it covered with aluminum tape it would still be in good shape. NOT. That looks very similar to my cooling tree when I tore mine down for repair. You probably had a lot of pin holes letting in fresh air mixing with your wood gas making some very weak gas.
Are you going to try use the 409 stainless steel exhaust pipe like I am using on my cooling header?
Bob
Michael, if I may, I think I will use that phrase when I tell the story to my workmates, to make it a little more colorful. With boring work you have to take every chance you get to lighten things up
J.O. it was painful for me to read this as I was on my way to the perodontist surgeon for a three week follow up from a very difficult infected molar extraction.
2 1/2 hours. He was sweating. I was sweating. And his cute young assitant was sweating. (They with the excuses of double masked up, gasping.)
My six loss in the past 5 years.
Makes for 11 total lifetime lost.
Like MikeR. Now I am having to prep for the super expensive implants. That costs makes a fellow whistle, and jaw drop in asonishment.
Ha. Still too many remaining to TomC. go dentures.
But not enough left to enjoy salads.
Dental pains just tells a fellow you are stlll here. On planet earth.
No easy days in heaven or Valhalla just quite yet.
Watch out for the offered opiods. Too easy solutions exact costs.
I hammer down the ibuprophin and ancedamediphin. Drink lots of water to flush. Save the liver and kidneys.
God gave us opiods for a final, with grace, sail away imho.
Regards
Steve Unruh
Interesting you know about Norse mythology, even though I expected you did.
Unfortunately some of the guys with shaved heads and shiny boots that keep popping up try making it theirs.
If I wanted to I could claim Oden, who gave name to Wednesday (Onsdag), and his eight legged horse Sleipner, is the sign of my Mazda taking me to the dentist Wednesday. And Thor, with his hammer for Thursday, is the sign of the pain I will then feel.
I’m not on opiods Just too much time to think on a slow rainy day.
) along the coast of the Adriatic sea.
Jeff Davis runs his Wheel Horse garden tractor on charcoal. The burner takes up less space than a wood gas unit and Davis makes the charcoal himself.
That MB was a brilliant install, by the way!