Apparently a little colder in the big lake, but she and the dog are going to swim
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Yesterday i got that feeling, i need a excuse to fire up the truck and burn some wood, already? Havenât had the truck in traffic for long 
Well, me, wife and brother-in-law took it to a little lake nearby, to borrow my fathers boat for some fishing.
Surprise! Some low-life piece of ⊠had stole the little 1970s 2hp Evinrude⊠hope he enjoys the hard-to-start-bastard, even cut the unnecessary heavy chain i secured it with. 
But nothing to spoil a nice fishing trip, no big lake, we did well with oars.
Nice weather and calm wind.
Brother-in-law donât like to be photographed, i told him itâs an honour for him to end up on this nice forum
what do i have to do with woodgas?: he replied.
I felt sorry for my father, ofcourse it was a cheap engine, but anyway, so i started collect some stuff, i had the bottom part from a seized, straight-gassed outboard engine, and a nice Kohler lawnmower engine i got from said brother-in-law.
Started to pair them together, found a universal rubber coupler.
A little boring in the lathe, and making a groove for the key, with a hacksaw blade.
Even found the rubber cross.
Sorry for the long post, i can follow up with this outboard build if someone is interested?
And it hit me right now: if my father dont like the engine, i can make it a charcoal powered outboard
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Who wouldnât be interested in seeing you build an outboard from various parts?
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I would love to see a build like that. I know where there are some free lower units to be had. I have the engine all ready from a lawnmower engine , it runs great , but the drivegear to wheels broken.
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What Tom and Bob said - of course weâre interested!
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Brought out the caravan fron a 13 year long sleep in a barn last week, had the checkup today to see if they thought it was roadworthy.
No complaints whatsoever, not even something âgood-to-knowâ. 
It is old enough to not have any more checkups, at least till the end of 2099, their system could not handle a date further on or indefinate
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That is a nice looking caravan 
Push-brakes?
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Electric/push brakes
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I is a 1971 SMV 25, bought it 2001 I think, I am the second owner. The first owner got a plate in the caravan with their name on it from the factory
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Johan, thatâs a buity. Thatâs not the caravan where you keep chickens, is it? 
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Damn. Do they have to inspect everything before you can use it in Sweden? I hate to think of what you have to do to get a marriage license. I hope they donât put a stamp on all your equipment 
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Haha, people put stamps all over their bodies nowdays. I donât think just another tiny one would make a difference
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Thats a real gem Martin
Naah, that barely looks like a caravan, more like a shed on wheels, I can post a pic of that if someone is interested
My wife didnât have to get inspected, luckily
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It is indeed curious what we all put memories stocks into.
Me it was fits-just-right screwdriver handles, hammers; just picking up brought back circumtances and memories. Books and maps too for me.
Moving for the third time the wifeâs Motherâs cedar chest; this time upstairs having to empty:
In this poor picture are three very heavy old style electric clothes irons. Needed back then for the all cotton and linen fabrics. A hand made childrenâs sized comforter. Real Belgium lace. A woolen blanket four generations back from her great, great Cherokee Grandmother. Fancy, and not so fancy glassware. A cigar box with heavy silver mesh womanâs purses and a silver compact. Old, old photoâs pictures. 90 years back correspondences.
Pretty sure the red stuffed dog was my wife from childhood, her mother lovingly saved from over-play.
Ha! Wife nearly killed me converting her old, old side fold-out mini-tent trailer in to a garbage dump trailer. Stupid, stupid me. I had to finally disappear it to get forget, no-seeâem, peace back.
Then there was âherâ (her-Fatherâs) old 1964 fiberglass lakes fishing boat I would no longer inside dry store. Because she would not consider the $3,000-5,000 to get a new required four stroke outboard; new controls; and a rain top. Nope. Nope. Just see it she remembers days fishing with Dad . . .
Iâm more like Goran and JanA.: I want to feel, hear and use (if just a bit) my remembrances.
Steve Unruh
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In the last few days, there are many posts from our Swedish friends, there is a summer atmosphere and holidays, well, apparently this enthusiasm has also reached my âCobraâ - the Swedish machine. Today she âdecidedâ to have a âholidayâ, first I had to âfixâ the drill,
then the handle on the starting cord broke,
then the cord broke and finally the spring for winding the cord broke.
⊠but the Swede didnât get a holiday yet, she had to drill in hard rock.
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Thats a lot of bad luck right after each other, if it would have happened to me there would be some language heard in the neighbourhood 
I have an older model Cobra standing in the garage, I donât think it has been started in the last 40 years. Probably my grandfather that started it last.
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I am looking at those holes you drilled Tone and it reminded me, believe it or not, that when I was a kid you could still buy dynamite at the hardware store for blowing out tree stumps. Also when I was a kid you could take your 22 rifle to school and stick it in your locker if you wanted to hunt rabbits or squirrels on the way home. Very few people today believe thatâs how it was here at one time. Of course this was a very small town. The only thing you couldnât do was look different or think different. In the barber shop there was a poster with hair cut styles on it. Any one of them was acceptable. You had the freedom to choose one out of about 6. That same poster was probably in every barber shop in America.
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Tone, would you mind giving us an overview of the geografy around what you are building. Is the purpose only to create separate levels of level ground or are you building a moat trench around your castle?
Very nice work either way.
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Nice work Tone
I have some older Cobraâs (BBM47) they have a steel cable as starting cord, and the starting âTâ handle is casted aluminum, but, it dont help, the starting cord breaks once in a while, anyway. Mostly when you really need to use it.
And the spring. A looong spring when you need to rewind it, and make a new âbendâ where it hooks to the starter.
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