My Pomegranate has finally sprung into life, healthy foliage. I’m wondering if I should prune it now or wait til fall. I’d like to have it go a little vertical for a year and then let it branch out.
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Working on the chicken tractor today. The newer chickens need the tactor on wheels instead of the small cage tractor. We like to grass feed our meat birds, better teasting too.
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Hi guys,just joined,looking forward to learning and picking you guyz heads.Hello from lake moultrie South Carolina!
Hi @SteveUnruh this pop up for you. In the (off toptic) on April 9th.
Did you send it. I tap on your Icon
Bob
Potatoes are already under roof.
And cucumbers and tomatoes gave first takeaway.
So its time to enjoy few days hiking in mountains
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Do you plant a fall crop Kamil? I’m getting ready to start second run of beets, turnips, and cabbage. Normally I’d plant more broccoli and kale but I have plenty of kale and don’t feel like messing with any more broccoli. We seem to be about a month behind you on potatoes and salad crops.
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Oh man those waters look pristine! Little ultra light pole and some crawfish traps I would have a hay day… Also be happy to sit on the bank and watch the water drift by
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No, I don’t, @tcholton717. Our tomatoes, zucchini and cucumbers usually last till September, which is enough to take care of. This year we also planted four rows of pumpkins of different varieties, which also are expected to grow till fall. And this year I would like to seed green manure crops mustard and canola. They not only bring the nutrients and nitrogen, but what I expect so much is their ability to work as pesticide against many unwanted visitors in my gardens.
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Dear Marcus, I think your hayday would be full of watching the water drifting by without a single fin at the end of your fishing line 
These waters are extremely low on nutrients so there is almost nothing living in the streams. It’s because of acidity due to sources comming mostly from spruce woods and marshes.
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That is interesting. We have several large streams in the swamp behind my property. I have never seen so much as a minnow in them. Everywhere else they would have at least brook trout. I have always wondered about it.
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The chicken tractor is rebuilt and I made a new connecting portable tunnel to the old tunnel entrence small chicken coop. Now we do not have to move them by hand. They can move in and out on their own.
They seem to like the bigger tractor.
Back to build on the gasifiers.
Bob
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We had visitors from Kalkaska come with a boat.
They wanted to see the dredge. Their ancestors operated it.
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Wow, so cool. I see that old gold dredge is not in good working order or shape, but it is still standing sunk in the mud. Now frozen in time many years passed and gone by forever. What year did it get built and operate in your area.
Bob
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I’ve probably never taken apart one with a lining in it before, but I think it looks good, the linings sit evenly on the edge
Is there anything in particular I need to think about before I screw it back together?
It will probably take a while before I get things cleaned up.
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Jan, what’s the reason you pulled the head?
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I have a problem with it running hot, when I drive for a long time, and have seen water coming under the top at the front and bubbling
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I looked around for a better place to post this but didn’t find one and it’s not important anyway but there was a discussion on my homesteading site about government commandeering inventions and of course the mystical 80 MPG carb came up. However in the 1970’s there was a car assembled from parts by various manufacturers that did get a proven 80 plus MPG. It was Ralph Moody’s Mercury Capri body and chassis with a Perkin’s diesel powering it. I’m guessing most of us, never heard of or remember this vehicle. I do, mainly because Moody was a drag racer. The car was never going to meet EPA emissions standards so it pretty much faded away.
http://www.rexresearch.com/moody/moody.html
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Hi Jan, you should check the height of the cylinder liners, they should probably be a little higher than the block/deck, one can do it the simple way with a piece of flat milled steel or an good steel ruler ( stållinjal) and use a (bladmått, cant find the translation) it’s always good to check the height instead of regretting.
I’ve don’t heard these engines being known for lining “sinking” but it’s good to check 
Edit: this has separate heads right?
That is good, linings only need to be a little higher, not exactly same hight as others.
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