I think for a standard generator that wouldn’t be great, but maybe for a homemade DC generator it could be alright. Just set to the sweet spot RPM and charge up the battery bank.
And yes I’m using it for the throttle, however you could use these to adapt onto the existing carb to replace the air cleaner.
Easy peasy, pickup a kill-a-watt meter and tune it in the rpm range for the correct 60hz and away you go. Shouldn’t be to bad unless you run up a huge load against it that it can’t compensate for. I’ll have to try it when I get mine finished up
Here’s a link to the one I bought last week. These also just barely fit on a Lifan 79cc engine and I’m using it as an air cleaner adapter to maybe plumb in some chargas to that Huffy bike. Not sure if I want to weld in a luggage rack for that though, I would rather build one for a Honda 196 for my future build.
They come with replacement Allen head screws if you want to use it as an intake manifold for a clamp on carburetor, or if you want to adapt from the air cleaner just use the same old studs.
That’s a pretty nice haul considering your plants got diseased. What do you do will all those potatoes? I haven’t pull mine yet. This time of year I keep two dehydrators running day and night and a lot of that is for potatoes.
How do you use the dried potatoes? Are you drying them raw in slices? I grew hundreds of pounds of potatoes one year, and remember trying a few ways of storing them, most of which I seem to recall were gross
Next year I want to do more gardening, and potatoes are on the list. I feel like it has been hard to grow them here the last couple years because the springs have been wet, and then it switches straight to hot summer weather and the plants never really get going before they wither up.
I don’t know about kubu but I stored sweet potatoes for about a year in my horribly insulated humid shop, I took window screen on a frame, elevated on blocks, and laid them on the screen as close together without touching.
Five flats in the last couple days . Three of which needed new ( different ) tires. Two of the rims on my old bush cutter was also gone so I modified a couple of rims off an old dakota to fit the bush cutter . I always heard life was full of dead batteries and flat tires .
No complaints as long as I can get up each morning and go at it
They all will go into cellar once they will have dry peel free of soil residuals and bad ones eventually give up. Then we will sort them, put in boxes and store them on stand to allow them breath. Our cellar made if stone under house, floor ten feet deep with pure soil. So ut keeps both cold and humidity at good levels thanks to ventilation windows at both sides. Last year potatoes were in quite good condition till we planted them back into soil in April.
Concerning the consumption, fairly good share will end up in friends and family. We are the only “farmers” among them, so fresh vegetables is highly apreciated gift.
greetings Kamil, potatoes, similar to yours, are also stored here and will be preserved until next year. this year the crop is a good 2000 kg, completely organically grown.
I slice a lot of them Carl. They reconstitute and fry up pretty well for home fries. Some I make into dried hash browns but that’s a little tricky trying to blanch them without them getting to mushy to grate and still not turning brown when dried. Not always a success. We dry a lot of stuff and just combine the ingredients for soups. Space is the main consideration. I can store some russets and yukon Gold and it will over winter and still be edible. Never managed that with any Reds though.
For dried sliced potatoes I put them through a Kitchen aid food processor and then boil them for 8 minutes. Drain them and put them in the dehydrator. If you are drying onions and that is a stinky process, running a load of potatoes afterward will absorb the smell. I have never dried anything so that it looked like what they show in the books. I have been using the same Excaliber dehydrators continually for 11 years and never had a problem yet.
My grandfather has stored potatoes in the ground. Using a layer of straw and a layer of dirt. I do not know how many layers were used. Mainly stored them bagged in the barn after washed and dry. He sold them year long. If they were stored in bulk there would be a false bottom with a fan blowing through it. But bulk would be processed into bags or sold quicker. Like to a chip plant.
It is a braver man than me who will take appart a bee hive.
Those dried potatoes sound good. We always just baged them in a old feed bag in the basement and hoped for the best. I alway wanted to try canning some as I like mashed potatoes anyway but i didn’t have a garden this year too busy in the spring.
Three dead batteries one needs replacing and one slow leaking tire. It doesn’t matter were you live. Yes getting up in the mornin to a new day is wonderful and getting it done. Makes a day of rest feel really good to regenerate the old body.
Bob
Cody, just pick them up after they fall on the ground. Then we put them in the driveway to drive over them for some time. The hulls will come off leaving the nuts in the shell. You will lose a few, but most will dry out and you can collect them . put in a dry place and let them finish drying. otherwise, you will stain your hands.
You can also take the hulls and make an anti-parasitic tincture if you don’t have ivermectic, etc.