I too use LaCrosse. I look for the old ones at estate sales.
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I have been the last couple days moving hay equipment with the Ram . 
Also had a good visit from Jakob North and his brother Luke .
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I only buy boots at the feed store. You may have one near you. The chore boots are Servus by Honeywell, made in the USA. I do not put the specific hours/wear on them as you would but I do know they are light years ahead of the cheap-oh ones. I bet the specific cost is also lower.
Good luck.
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It went from 80F yesterday to 40 this morning. It looks like we may have frost Friday morning.
The good thing is all the fruit trees are in full bloom now.
I like the mornings I have to light the coffee warmer.
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We had a warm spell over a month ago, all our fruit trees were in full bloom, then we had 2 weeks of cold, and frost, no fruit this year. 
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Same here Al. Third year in a row. I only have a dozen mixed trees but they are in a frost pocket because that was the only available place to plant. Hasn’t bothered the grapes though. They always bud later than the trees.
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Don’t grapes love longer frosts? I heard it makes for better fruiting the longer it stays cool.
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My wineyard is quite OK with current cold weather here in mid of Europe.
Frost will never come back, hopefully, so there is no hurry. Cold days and nights make shoots strong and also wine deseases are kept out.
Both make the grapevine healthy, which is assumption for good harvest.
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Minus 4C here this morning, last week it was 34 one day. The forecast was saying tonight is to be colder, hard to say. That’s probably the end of saskatoons and wild plums, the bears will have a hard time. Very extreme oscillations in weather this year. Almost like the arctic ocean is exchanging heat in unprecedented ways.
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I need to move my first grape vine. It’s sitting in a 5 gallon bucket of dirt currently. Catawba Grape. Had its first fruit last year so I’m excited to see how it fruits this year!
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One of dad’s friends is working on a 70s era C10 pickup and is getting rid of the Inline Six for an LS. Offered it to me for 100 bucks.
Wish I could cram it in my Mazda but you never know what you could shoehorn an i6 into. Might get a gutted C10 some day or an old sedan that needs an engine. For 100 dollars I can’t pass it down.
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Thanks Koen. It seems I got lucky with that alternator. At a little above idle and it is delivering 27 A and sinking. Probably because batteries are full. Only on the alternator and inverter it is working too. Pfoe, we are getting closer. A few last steps.
Alternator is rated for 55A but maybe to big for the engine.
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55 amps at 12vdc is 660 watts. That equals 0.885 HP. The motor should have plenty of capacity even if the alternator is very inefficient it shouldn’t be more than 1hp load
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It is 24 V, 1320 W. I saw 30-40 A coming out, that was hard for the engine. Don’t know, alternators are not efficient, v belt etc. It should be no problem.
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Good Morning JoepK,
Here is the most optimistic way to look at your results:
“I once had None. I now have Some.” Ability to generate electricity for my battery bank other than my PV solar.
To overly focus on efficiency numbers is a mind-sick mania.
From your now baseline; any improvements are a Positive.
And these will come at real costs lay’ed out.
It always has amazed me how many PV advocates with once 3% to now barely 10% conversion efficiency units cry about “only” 50% efficiency generator heads; and “only” 40% efficiency IC engines.
And then their (efficiently manic’s) crying and fussing over belt drives! You lose only 1%-3% there.
Well worth the ability for a safety link. For the flexibility to bolt on hundreds of different available units. Different engines. Different generator heads.
More efficient chain drive does not lend to high speeds. Requires enclosures to keep out dirt’s; keep in lubrications.
And direct drives are all or nothing systems.
I am glad to read you avoid the mania fall-in hole. And focus on the, “I did it!”.
Regards
Steve unruh
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The garden has a few weeds in it from being busy with other stuff but things are growing well. Squash is coming off and cucumbers are blooming. Corn will be setting ears soon.
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We cleaned the garden and found the asperges from last year. Sometimes things go as planned.
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Thanks Mr Steve. No finish, no project. Now there is a project and I can do the math, not the other way around, indeed.
PV is lazy energy, you dont have to do anything to harvest it, so numbers are not that important.
Well, lets see if a Simple Fire is simple enough for me…
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I hope my comment didn’t come across as criticism I was simply trying to say that the motor should be able to hand the load easly. I didn’t watch your video as it has been kind of a busy day here.
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I have a new born Male calf. I will be making him into a steer in a couple weeks time. I was just pleased to see him up and about and his mommy taking care of him. Anyday you get a healthy calf is a good day on the farm.
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