I was a real fool running a flare inside a tractor shed even with the huge doors open .
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No. You are not too foolish Henry.
You survived it. You did learn to do better. The best lessons there. Now to teach the better to others.
S.U.
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Here Guys read these two articles about the same news event:
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2012-10-09/california-moves-toward-ban-on-gas-lawnmowers-and-leaf-blowers
Shame this will no longer load. It had much talk about gasoline power generators; needed in Calif. power outages. And these are to have a 2024 cut off date. Just around the corner, tomorrow.
Other conservative articles talk about the much higher costs for professional land scaping battery electric equipment’s. Foresrty chain saws! Wild fire do-now chainsaws and pumps. Structure rescue saws! Sorry. Sorry. Outta’ power.
And land scaping crews needing 30-40 pre-charged batteries a day. Each and every day.
Of course the first guy say just illegalize lawns.
Ha. I suppose he lives in a high-rise building.
S.U.
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They should definitely look into buying an electric ford F150. They would only need 2 batteries one to run while the other one is charging.
I was just thinking about the crew who fixed my roof a few years back when the old metal needed to be screwed back down and I didn’t want to go on such a steep roof. Anyway they came with old dewalt 18 volt XRP tools with Nicad battery power. The simply asked if they could plug in a charger here for their battery and worked all day long for a week without needing 40 or 50 batteries. Whenever I see something like that posted in an article I have to wonder of the author was paid by the ff industry to write it because it definitely doesn’t come from real world experience.
The automotive technicians I know have all switched from air tools to lithium battery tools it is the future of hand held tools. The gas small engine is not. The exception I see to that is chainsaws. Not sure lithium ion can come close enough to the energy density of gas for that one market atleast not for big saws. That will probably take a better battery.
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Again DanA my real world use examples of really needing portable on-demand power Here, Now:
A Rescue Saw. Whether carbide insert chain; or big abrasive disc type SAVES LIVES.
A remote back packed in portable water pump - saves trees.
A gasoline portable electric generator in a true storms, earthquake Grid-Down saves lives in medicines refrigeration’s (INSULINS!); medical air flow beds and oxygen concentrators; etc. I HAVE FOR PAY MAINTAINED THESE “HOME” GENERATORS for my nursie wife’s home-bound clients.
These all got lumped in to the NO-NO, no more after 2024. Must be Zero emissions after 2028?? Stupid. Short sighted. Anti-Humanistic. Egotists.
I could care less about actual postage stamp house lots yards, side walks and driveways. Buzz, buzz along slow on batteries.
When the Fire Marshal says; or County Vegetative Management Control (County Weed) says: that I must mow down an acre or two of overgrown grasses and weeds I do this one-man in one day using my 2.4 hp Stihl forestry management string machine, double strung up with Gator line. When the previous 2.5 hp Stihl machine after 10 years/~600 hours flat wore out I did try different rental Honda’s, Makita’s four-stroke and battery electric machines. .8 to 1.5 hp or equivalent wattage. Pitifully slow.
I DID do all of this by hand tools back in the 60’s as a young-buck lad. These gasoline powered management tools had not then been developed.
I’m old and solo now. I can only stand to work realistically 4-6 hours a day anymore. The work-done multiplication of concentrated power now gives me more achieved work done than I could even as a young man ever sweat-it-out.
Then there is my hydraulic wood splitter . . . . I use daily in the winter one wheelbarrow made at a time . . .
I tried the plug-in electric splitter machines. . . too slow and would stall out on cross knots and stringy grain twist pieces.
I do sizing break down on the gasoline 10.5 hp/42 tons applied woodsplitter. Things I could not have even done manually even in my prime.
Then you have the make boards small sawmillers like W.K., J.O. and others here.
Doing it with small IC engines.
So F.F. industry spinning us? You betcha’.
BUT so are the Loo-Loo Futurist idiot GREENS.
Really? Really? A home owners one hour use lawnmower/leaf blower the same as a vehicle driven Cali to Vegas??
Do I have s-t-u-p-i-d written on my forehead?
Dharma Noor asks why lawn grass?
I ask why go to Vegas?
SoCow California unrealistic attitudes, and outlooks, have made our life’s up here in Washington state very, very expensive already. Now the Gov’s of Washington and Oregon will jump on board the kill all IC engines train too.
For you out East too. That whole country of California wants to be the tail, wagging the dog of the whole USofA.
And their Governor Newsom; like my states Governor Inslee want to be the next President of the whole shebang U.S.A.
Steve Unruh
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The socialist progressive wokies are coming to fix the environment the same as they did in California…
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Nature has it’s own agenda. These moron politicians are not part of the plan. Just like my guns. You will have to drag that gas powered string trimmer out of my cold dead hands.
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No time for it, but made some. Today I went to a energy fair. Ran around for an hour, quick talks, one wrong answere and bye bye, next one. On some topics I know more then specialist, not going to waste my time with a specialist salesman. Anyway, in a corner of my eye I saw this little devil. It is just following me.
Couldnt resist and started a conversation. It seems possible to have it run on woodgas. Dont know if it ever will happen, but the principle is dead simple. A stock car turbo. Net eff is 16%. ICE 25% and generator 80%, gives 20%. Closer to the 16% but from that number still a big gap. None to little maintenance on the other hand is a big plus. High freq noise is another one, easy insulation.
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The defination of a specialist is one who knows more and more about less and less; the problem is that they soon know everything about nothing.
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Hi JoepK,
On their web site you link to on the top tool bar is a four languages translator.
I am still reading, digesting.
So it uses multiple gaseous fuels to make electricity. And the not-converted, is then heat circulated out for uses? Yes?
I am using the Swiss house with a pool (and personal use electric cars) as my trying to understand tool.
S.U.
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Trying combined heat and power . Took me weeks to find 6 mm flared steel tubing for propane regulator . Sales man did not know specifications .
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I got a 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.2 L 4X4 for free the last week. It was idling really bad. It sound like it was not hitting on all cylinders. I did some work on it. Checked the spark plugs, #4 cylinder not firing. Plug wires new, rotor and cap new and spark plugs are new. It has been sitting at my Son in law for a couple of years. Did a dry and wet compression test. #4 had low compression and sometimes or none at all. Hum…
Pulled the valve cover off and the exhaust spring on the valve looked funny. Yup it was broken. Put it to top dead center on the #4 piston on compression. Put 75 pounds pressure to the cylinder a little air was escaping. Moved the spring it sealed up tight. Removed the valve spring and found this.
Looks like it broke just right so it held the valve up and did not hit the piston and bend the valve. I order a new spring. Hope it arrives tomorrow. I just need to reinstall the new valve spring and this engine should be running on all 8 cylinders.
So far this Jeep is a easy fix. I think a Gasifier hanging on the back would look rather nice.
It has a lift kit on it heavy duty springs and shocks with a heavy duty hitch. Wider then stock tires on it. It is ready for off road gasification.
More to come.
Bob
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Sweet! Free is the price I can’t turn down too, gets me in trouble sometimes. Obd 1 or 2?
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Yup free and OBD1 and 4X4 too. 5 passenger seating, leather seats, sweet. A little TLC on it. The paint job it has that rat rod look. I like it.
Bob
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Sorry, came home late and was on my phone, looked for the english version but screen to small.
The thought is, when you need heat you also need power. I think the same way. If you want to get independent you have to focus on power, heat is a byproduct. The easiest way is to make life more simple, but I am alone on that route. No choice but make things complicated with a CHP. I had contact with these guys and always thought efficiency is bad, it is but noise and maintenance make up. We will have a look.
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Funny I bought a dewalt battery powered string trimmer last year. It is way better than any gas powered string trimmer lighter easier to work with and best of all it always works when i pull the trigger. String trimmers have to be the most frustrating gas engine I have ever had to deal with.
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For those who like random stuff from the world, I present Dalarna, Sweden: today’s wake up screen on my MS Windows 10 computer at work!! Some of you may be familiar… Usually, random photos are from “Notgointhereistan”.
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Just metaphorical Dan. I doubt I’ll have to worry about cold hands where I’m likely going. I had a Ryobi battery trimmer a while ago. It was nice for smaller stuff. The Stihl I have now has started without issue for the past 5 years. I only run non-ethanol in my equipment now. I’m not sure if it matters but it seems to. I’m closing my big garden down and will mostly be growing under cover now so I won’t have to do endless hours of weed wacking.
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Mike, if you use a pair of binoculars you may be able to spot me across that lake 
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It depends on which additives the gas company uses. My old updraft carburetors are very fussy. I can’t get ethanol free local it is about an hour trip and cost a lot more. When you burn 3.5 gallons an hour in the summer that isn’t a happening thing to travel further to pay more. I have found ExxonMobil gas will run through the old updraft carburetors for years on end no issues. But run just a few tanks of Irving fuel through them and you are taking the carburetor apart and cleaning out some gel that plugs it solid and I don’t want to know what it was. So yes the fuel makes a big difference on carburetor systems. Fuel injection I am sure just pushed that sludge through under pressure.
I did a lot of research before buying the dewalt to get a pretty powerful string trimmer. It is every bit as useful as the husky I had before it but has the advantage of being lighter and just works. I am very impressed with it as a upgrade. But I am equally sure it is easy to get under powered versions.
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