Life goes on - Summer 2021

Aha, only 20-30%? The plan is to let it run trough a 50 mm/1,5 inch wellrohr, lenght about 3m/9 foot. It is flexible and has a big outside area. But the shop is near the house and I dont want this gases around the house. On my normal 2 mile jogging round it cost me almost one minute. Bad bad gases, ideal for lungcancer.
Filter is around 2500 euro??!!! Separate consumable filter around 250. To much, on the other hand, what is your health worth? Maybe even better result with diy charcoalfilter.

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Thanks Mr Steve, I will for sure.

Lots of Lister over there. I have a 2 cil watercooled, but decided to go aircooled first. Mostly inspired by Matt and his on the fly repairs. They are very simple build.

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engine is 4 cylinder 3 liter mercury boat motor has 30 kw potential . engine lost power rpm after half hour . could have been coolant loss was not watching temp or oil pressure . I thought it was empty propane tank but had another gallon in 5 gallon tank . have tank connected directly to 36mm venturi mixer with torch setup and torch valve .

Real good year for growing hay but very bad year for drying and harvesting. All this spring and summer we have had rain just about every day.

I started my first cutting of the season 3 weeks before Argos and just finished the FIRST cutting this afternoon getting hauled home and in the barn. Even got a little rain on this hay in the picture before hauling in .

I guess overgrown hay is better than no hay at all .

PS Working the wood burner hard and regular
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Hay Wayne,
Haying and chunking. Rain is no good for any of them. What kind of work could we come up with to utilize rainy days?

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winshield wiper salesman

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Hey JO

I will PM you some time and explain this to you :smile:

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Wayne I am in the same boat I finished my first cut Thursday and today I will start a second Cut on the fields I cut the end of June but having lost all of July it will be a small second cut maybe 1/3 of my hay fields.
You will have no trouble feeding or selling the hay you cut this late though because the second crop has grown up through the dead first crop it will have decent feed value. I have been down this road too many times working alone with equipment breakdowns costing me a lot of time in the past. So don’t worry in the feed value side it will be fine. I was very concerned when I first started selling hay like that because I sell to horse people who are fussy. But my customers are always happy with it.

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We had a couple light showers today. I told wife what I think you’re implying. She told me to back off :open_mouth:

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“How much wood could a woodchuck, chuck,
if a woodchuck could chuck wood??”
Lots of colloquial American in that old one.

“Fish, or cut bait” says the same thing.
Boat fishing; you keep that line in the water, working for fish or your boat
buddies will have you doing all of the grungy, dirty boat working!!

Means if you are not doing what you want to be doing then, get to prepping for what you want to do, when you can.

Hay making on rainy days you tear open the equipment, lubricate and adjust to be able to roar wide open for short possible weather windows.

Or chunk up wood, rain coat&pants and rain hat to keep in your body heat. Get to sweating. Never slow down, or you will chill up.
S.U.

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It’s the same where ever you are Jan. They pretend to like rainy days until you marry them and then they would rather go shopping.

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Here on the west (wet side) of the Cascade mountains back when I was working for a living. When it rained (6 months) you just put on rain pants, coat, rubber boots and carried on.

I was quite surprised when on projects in the SE of the USA that work would stop when it rained. Later after learning of the weekly lightning strike deaths I understood why.

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The refrigerator ran out after 15 years, the evaporator in the wall started to leak, such a failure means that the device is in the trash but a few meters of copper pipe, a little gas and will again serve its purpose.

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Wow! Cool repair!:grinning::grinning::grinning:

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Good works Mr Tone.
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
You are repair reusing that refrigerator.

My last sellable skill I developed in Auto Repair was AC.
Fun. Fun. Fun. Compressing to Heat to force to Cold. I know. I know. We are pump transferring the heat energy from one place to another. Forcing less to more.

Wife and I just signed paperwork on a new location property with an existing older house.
We are now the proud owners of TWO Mitsubishi Electric split-system ductless heat pumps. Just installed one year ago.
R410A refrigerant.
What refrigerant are you using on your refrigerator restore?
All of our in home refrigerators now have R134A.
Regards
Steve Unruh

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Light showers won’t get the job done JO.

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Didn’t want to derail the electric car thread Joep. 300 mph on the salt flats is impressive but to understand America you go here. 330 MPH in 3.8 seconds. This is a woman in the cockpit.
https://youtu.be/gITd1PFeylw

Another woman. When she got done with this she went back and got their back up car and ran again.

https://youtu.be/SvATna0mzCg

If you have never seen this in person your life is incomplete. Drama.

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GDHP. Gross display of horse power.
A life exsperience in the stands as they go by, and even better down in the pits! Gotta admit though, them Australians can party with their skid cars. Tyres dont stand a chance!

https://youtu.be/5ECF6XRPnBI

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Unreal, so fast!!! And a very very big heart if you jump right inyour backup car.
We came from Luxumbourg 25 years ago on a motorbike. Me and my wife and packs, going full speed a little over 200 kmh and raining. I know it like yesterday, some highway roadcrossing and slight turn. The viaduct had some steel in the surface. Frontwheel slipt a few cm and got straight again. Missed a few heartbeats there.
And if this is electric, it is no fun at all.

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Vehicles losing control at any speed is terrifying. I was only going 35mph when my Mazda got hit, spun 180 degrees and the tires hit the curb making us flip over. It’s only been a few days so my stomach jumps when someone stops perpendicular to me on the street.

I guess if it happens again in the Sierra at least I have full coverage and GAP in this truck!

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