Straight 8 cylinder engines are sexy 
I saw one running at a motor-show some years ago, i swear one could balance a standing coin on one of the head bolts, talk about smooth idle…
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A little anecdote: yesterday i picked up a Dodge Ram hemi, for a customer, to get it to our shop for a brake job, at the way home i felt like i was driving a little fast, but i drove the legal speed of 80 km/h on that road?
Wait a minute, the scale on the speedometer are marked: Mph 
, you do the maths…
Good weather for drying charcoal, almost all done.
Only little left.
Time to crush and sort some
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That’s funny, most North American trucks and cars come with the KMH on the inside. I think only my Square body lacks it.
Excuse the airbag light, the module is bad and I replaced the seatbelts for pure mechanical ones.
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Thats right Cody, this Dodge had an inner scale to, much smaller, and in a darker color, maybe the fact im 25% color blind made it harder for me to see it?
Anyway im used to imported North American cars and trucks get an “inverted” scale, with km/h on the outer, and mph on inner, this particular truck was probably not imported by a company.
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Tone, I really love the look of your stone work. It shows great craftsmanship.
I did a project on a small utility building that was built on a wood foundation that was rotting. I could have just replaced the sill, but I wanted something more solid. I chose stone set in concrete. It doesn’t have the great fitting of your work or the difficulty of working with huge stones. But stone provides a look I like and gets the wood away from moisture.
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Last night went to a local river to check things out, nice big swimming hole and found a good reason to come back
Its got bugs in it! The edible variety
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inventor and practical man!
…the ideal neighbour…
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Martin, thank you for the kind words. Do you have a cable car for transportation installed in your perfectly designed building? You obviously live in a very steep area, even steeper than me or Kristjan. One of my friends once said: “if the Earth was a single plane, there wouldn’t be enough space for all the people”. I will add a still life image here.
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Thanks for those pic’s mr Norman, interesting to see, that little steam donkey (if i remember correctly they was called that) i’ve only seen in old black and white photos, a fellow chainsaw collector told me it was common to find them in the woods, left abandoned when they where outdated, and the big logging sites where done.
And a cool kiddo, give him greetings from Sweden 
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Yes i have found 2 in the woods, this remnant in my new home town, one complete but unrestored in my old home town, 2 in hoquiam at the museum one of which that is functional. I intend on one day doing a logging history themed video. The pacific northwest was once the lumber capitol of the world and there is so much cool stuff still hanging about. The museum has a entire floor dedicated to the towns logging culture i posted a few pics of it a few years back. Chainsaws, steam engines, one and 2 man bucking saws, axes for days, saw mill blades, shake splitters conveyors you name it its there
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Tone, yes this building houses the motor and transmission for a cable car. The car runs about 125m down the mountain on a 27 degree slope to the driveway below. I really wish I could drive up to the house site, but the switchbacks that would be needed are impossible on this property. When the power goes out (as it does frequently here) it makes getting groceries up the hill a real chore. At least this keeps the riff raff away and gives me the high ground if any do approach. 
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How long have you lived there Marty. Looks pretty ideal for a hermit like me. The idea of needing a cable car to get up is very appealing. Is that how you got your building materials up?
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They make an EV for that. 
The HummerEV
In Extract Mode, approach, departure, and breakover angles (the greatest slope angle the vehicle can begin climbing, drive off of, and crest a hill, respectively) are 49.7, 38.4 and 32.2 degrees respectively. Ground clearance is 15.9 in (403.9 mm) and maximum water fording depth is 32 in (812.8 mm).
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Hi Tom, we bought the place almost 10 years ago from the people that had the house, cabins and cable car built. They told me that when they built the house, they didn’t have the cable car. They had a guy with an ox whose entire job was to bring up building materials. There is an identical piece of land next door for sale. (BTW, my screen name for most services is orneryhermit.)
Sean, sounds like it would be a fun adventure every time I left the house! My biggest concern would be erosion of the driveway. With the rain we get here in winter, even my gently sloped driveway suffers.
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I honestly thought being up that high you were going to say the rocks would be too big. OH I got it! Add the cattle guard option! since you are an orneryhermit, you probably only leave the house once a month anyway, with the cattleguard you just take a different path down the hill. 
I would make sure you get the version with crabwalk, then you can put in the tight hair pin turns. Then you can order pizza, and watch the kids get stuck trying to come up the driveway. That would be better entertainment then anything on tv.
I really don’t remember when it rained last and the ground is very dry so watering the potatoes, onions and pumpkins today. Used a pto-driven pump and three ibc containers jerryrigged onto a wagon and picked up water from the stream that runs by the border of our land, did three runs today and three runs two days ago for the greenhouse.
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Johan, I’ve been watering potatoes too for the past weeks, but at a much smaller scale
As far as I remember we haven’t had rain since April, when patches of snow where still melting. Perfect for drying wood but catastrofic for crops. Looks like we will get a few drops tonight though, but they will probably steam off right away 
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