It is famous Pinot noir or Blue burgundy in some countries. Best variety for red vines in many places all over the world. Certainly best variety for Mělník, which has terroir similar to Burgundy.
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Well that is a no brainer, Wayne, you were driving your Wood Gasifer Truck at 8,000 feet of elevation. Unheard of at that time. That was a sight to see for that person. Right!
Bob
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Pumpkin patch day with the family
Kids and wife go for the pumpkins, wagon rides and corn maze
I go for the fair food! Crispy brick curly fries, giant corn dogs and philly cheasesteak samiches!!! Good day with the family
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You’re a cute family, Marcus
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This is what wife and I will be doing today and enjoying every minute of it . We are getting covered up with wood and trying to chunk our way out 
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Build fail , fail to rebuild , need to buy more oxygen . I had a pin hole leak and tried to redo twice and burned hole through pipe and fitting .
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I know you didn’t need gas, I hope you at least got a coffee or something!! Must get lonely out there Buford way… 
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Henry
Hope this thing is installed outside. There must be a better way to join that tubing other than high-temperature brazing. I would use black Iron pipe wherever possible. Black iron pipe is a proven way to transport fuel gasses. Then, a short flex to the propane cylinder outdoors. What is wrong with compression fittings and semi-flexible copper pipe?? Will you need a pressure regulator?? Use RV grade parts. What is the application? Home heating? Generator? BBQ? 500 Gallons!!?
This is what I am speaking of:
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Mike just used eletrical solder that worked fine no leaks . Problem was I could not get it running under 3000 rpm , I added economy and emissions part and could not get engine running over 1000 rpm . I have no idea why .
The propane does not come from house into tank
The copper tubing goes from tank regulator to house regulator and has flare fittings
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After a decade of work and a hundred thousand dollars invested I have gotten a generator running on propane which generates no energy and no heat .
This was air intake over throttle body . Just a hole that big in this piece of cardboard . Also solder I used on propane line .
Picture of whole unit
Picture where exhaust enters boiler
Picture where exhaust leaves unit . It is like I am living in a cartoon .
Got my sonic screwdriver working
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One has to deal with something, otherwise the brain and joints stop, a lot of will and energy seems to be invested. Did you use a vacuum regulator? Do you have an automatic mixer?
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Henry, this is a good vacuum regulator and at the same time a liquid propane gasifier, in which case it must be heated. There are many unknowns on your system, including the flow rate of the pressure regulator on the tank, the functionality of the lambda system for the preparation of the mixture, … I’m a little scared for you to guide you right, you should go slowly through the system and analyze part by part.
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The regulator needs to go back to Argentina . I am going to try to run this off Webber Grill . I need new regulator maybe a fork lift .
Speaking of Latin America,
My coworker Jeancarlo went to Colombia for a month to see some extended family.
He brought back some whizzywidgets for all of us in the Wash Pit. He got for me a little wooden Willy’s Jeep hauling coffee beans. We talk about how they keep those work horses running down there.
He was born here in the USA but his parents keep him in touch with his roots. Really good kid.
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Granddaughter Agnes 7 yo had a hard time lifting today’s capercaillie.
The bird’s craw contained a varied diet - lingon berries, pine needles, bracken, leafs…
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Those really are a beautiful bird. After your last hunt picture I looked into what it would take to get some to pen raise here as meet birds…5000$ per chick!!! Guess I’ll go back to planning on raising pheasant
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Hi All,
I took some pictures between raining periods to maybe encourage retiring this Summer 2012 and changing over to a Life goes on - Winter 2021:
Looking SW to NE across our Yacolt-home properties - most of the leaf colors are wind blow off and dropped now. The “smoke” over the top of my house rooftop is actually background fog forming
Now a reverse view NE to SW. Lots of houses tops now -
Now NW corner to SW corner - even more house tops - actually continuous for a full mile to the south now - once just fields, trees and four houses
And reverse view - yes my planted maple trees to make leaf’s for the garden to the right
And everything seen here we did before 2000 cow graze down. Until our dear neighbors made that illegal by town ordinance.
And this is what I must mow since to not have unmanaged grasses Fire hazard fines, and noxious weeds fines.
I did hammer out the last hopefully mowing this year in three hours fast bucking bronco speed mowing last week. Ha! walked crooked for a day or so.
Yes. 1 1/2 gallons of gasoline sacrificed to community standards.
These rocky, stump holed cow pastures only look smooth.
I have torqued-tweaked, worn out, and broken down five different mowers now since the year 2000.
Sorry. Just not woodgas-able to do this. I’d bucking bronco shake apart an add-on system.
Steve Unruh
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Getting my money’s worth out of my log splitter. Good God this thing just explodes the logs open. I’m going to gut one of my cheap harbor freight hatchets for the head, the splitting wedge on here is just too broad to have a sharp splitting edge.
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Steve I can’t fathom a community making it illegal to have animals on pasture. That is crazy.
Looking at that much land needing mowing reminds me of the photos where people take an old Allis Chalmers B and flip the finial drives and front axle dropping them down really low then put a nice wide mower deck under them.
Something like that would make a neet gasification project.
Beautiful country you have there even if the neighbors are a little nuts.
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