Found another one. Greg Henze’s truck for sure!
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Well, I think for my Honderson build I’m going to make this bike safer while I still have an uncracked skull. I have an old Yamaha DT175 frame that I got as a rolling chassis, it’s such a cramped frame for my size but it has halfway decent wheels on it. I’m going to put these nice spoked wheels on this frame. That way I’ll have real brakes. I’m still going to install some skinny skinny tires on here, cheapest ones I’ve found with road tread were 2.75" wide Front or Rear styles. I might need to get a set of new spokes just to be safe, these look pretty rusted.
If I was good at figuring out what spoke length I needed I’d change the rims out to 21" dirt bike rims to make it look a little bit more bicycle-y. It has 18" wheels right now.
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Hi All
Soon be time to put this Summer topic to bed and change over to a Winter topic.
I pull started up my engine driven wood splitter for the first time in ~120 days.
I now need the in house low fire wood stoving.
For heat some, yeah. Before the Fall rains started it had been just a one-wood-load break-chill fire in the early mornings. One more one-fuel-load fire; evenings, before going to bed time.
Now the wet driving me into needing 12-16 hours of wood stoving to dry out all of the me, kids, dogs and cats in and out’s coming back in wet.
I’ve learned I can lower the inside humidity by one pound an hour when wood stoving. Woodstove sucked in. Some for the charcoal burning. Most just chimney swept up, out and away.
Have to keep the inside humidity between 55-70% relative humidity for best health’s.
Regards
Steve Unruh
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Every month this year we’ve hit freezing days. I’ve lit our wood stove a minimum of 3 days each month. Now we’re entering winter and it’ll be hot continuously. There’s nothing more comforting than a nice wood fire. I get excited when I get to light it especially in the morning to keep the coffee warm.
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Last year I had a killing frost in my garden on Sept 12. Kind of a fluke but this year the coldest night we have had so far in 48F at the end of the first week in October. Curious to see how the rest of this year pans out. It was a cold assed spring though. Just like the seasons have shifted forward about a month.
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I noticed the same thing. Still on time but a month later if that makes sense.
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speak for yourself Steve. 
although, Luke spent the afternoon splitting firewood as well.
That just blows my mind. Sounds crazy to me. Someday I want to get up there to VISIT Bill.
We actually had a late frost. We are just now getting the main crop of figs because of the late frost and strange rain pattern this year. Don’t remember ever picking the main crop of figs after the muscadine grapes.
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Bob, it’s one of my favorites 
I watch it whenever I need a boost.
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Bob and JO . I guess we could call that one Low hanging fruit
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It’s the same where ever you live. Corrupt governments robbing the people they are supposed to serve.
Foreign corporations own 30 million acres of U.S. farmland now receiving subsidies for not growing crops. The Chinese have been buying up millions of acres in the U.S. and Canada. The policies in Michigan have long been to squeeze out the small farmer with regulations he cannot afford to implement in order to benefit the factory farms. The point here being that if you are not working toward serving your own needs by growing your own food, making your own fuel, becoming as self sufficient as possible, the day will come when you will have as much power as a worm hanging off the end of a fish hood.
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This weekend I’m hoping to light off my retort and see how well it does with these oak limbs. They’re the thicker part of the branches being about 6-8" in diameter, I cut them into 6" long pieces and split them in half. Outside is a little punky because it was a dead tree but the core is still solid. Trunk wood is more solid than the limbs.
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It was Catch 22 where I first read about being subsidized for not growing something. I did not believe because of the nature of the book full of crazy nonsenses. But it seems it was pretty much real. 
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twenty times…
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Finally biting the bullet and ordering a plasma cutter. First time I ordered one it was dead on arrival last year. I’m hoping this one works but I bought a 2 year insurance on it just in case.
Not a fan of cutting into barrels with my angle grinder and if I ever want to step my fabrication game up I should get one sooner than later. I’ll probably save a small fortune in cutoff wheel costs. Won’t really need hole saws either since I’m always working in larger diameter sizes.
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The oldest dog and oldest cat know the good-life in the woodstove radiant heat glow:
Sorry. Poor picture. Freezing fog last night now cold sunshine for the first day in four days.
Nope. Not squish, squish, walking around yet. Our soils near here drains well. No clays.
Squish-squish here by the end of November then through April.
S.U.
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That rocker was calling you Steve.
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Hard to think of anything that looks better than a glowing fire.
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Ha! Ha! We overnighted at our new-to-us place. Had to be here for an 8:00 AM installer to show up.
Sad. No woodfire as of yet.
Capability, yes.
(the primary fireplace with insert assembly)
(the free-standing woodstove wall, where my Quadra-fire will be moved to; chimney restored of course)
Having to first test out the capabilities of the duct-less heat pump systems until we live here full time.
And Why here?
The view from our kitchen table. No people. Just low mountains trees and space. Bear, cougars, bobcats, racoons, deer, elk and others.
S.U.
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Sounds like a backwoods man’s Dreamland Steve! Congratulations on the new homestead! I think wood/chargas just became a little easier for you with lack of neighbor complaints and prying 
Freestanding heated firewall, something sooooo satisfying and warming, like a cabin in the woods was meant to be
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