nice film, except the tourism destroying of landscape …
but they forgot to show two famous sowenian woodgassers …
and to mention to jakob lorber
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Yes, I have seen other tv-programs and a documentary from Slovenia before and it is a stunning country, beautiful scenery and architecture. It has made it onto my pretty short list of countries I want to go to and see.
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Haha, yes that should have been no1 
With its mountainus terrain Slovenia looks a bit like a compacted Norway. A lot greener though.
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Just checking in 
I haven’t had time to post much but have been working the wood burner daily . The Argos trip took place at the same time as a good weather opportunity for haying that put me behind a couple of weeks and still haven’t finished my first cutting of the year . This last week the heat factors have been up to 112 F and just about more than an old man can handle but makes one sleep like a baby at night . The long range weather forecast for this week doesn’t look good for hay cutting and it is very hard for me to wish for more of the 100 + temps to help with the hay drying 
No plans for the Sunday truck today but about to fire up the old work truck
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The temps here in Michigan 88 too 90 f. Next three days or so, but it has been feeling much hotter for some reason.Hottest feeling year for long time to me. Got my new HWWT plans book- Thanks- I want too keep this book in the package so it don’t get any dirt on it, maybe I post it to the local library not sure yet. Or save as gift to some one needing a project that drive vehicle without Petro or without GASOLINE.
No
. And here is the first plans book I bought and been using.
Nice book plan and easy too flip through the pages.
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Well here is a 1st.
We’ve been here 22 months now and I finally have reason to jack open the big 14 foot door in the shop building:
Finally moving a load of stuff too big to fit through the personal door:
The two old rider lawn mowers and my Peterson swing blade sawmill.
I know from exprences that this 30 foot by 50 building seems big . . . but it has to swallow up yet the Wife’s 12 foot folding-out tent trailer; her Dads 1964 old 15 foot fiberglass boat, our John Deere/Yamnar tractor (Fergie sized with a front bucket and rear load deck) and my 34 ton hydraulic wood splitter.
And a winters worth of stove wood.
And all of my gasifier stuff and equipments.
Yet still have room to get one of the vehicles in for repair . . .
So everything possible has to be taken up onto the hay loft upper floor. Grunt and step by step manhandled. Or pulled up, thump, by thump, dragged up on the appliance dolly:
Ha!
Makes me sore and young man determined again.
S.U.
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*and still room for a 2 post lift 
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Steve,
Speaking as someone who has filled up his garage / workshop with misc. crap making it nearly impossible to work in, I would kick some of that stuff outside. Lawnmowers do fine outside with minimal coverings. Maybe some of that firewood (I know you are fighting rains and moisture all the time). A boat, (covered) should be OK. Trailers, etc. make them easy to roll out, do some work, roll back in when done. Make up a hoisty-thing (dumbwaiter) to move objects, totes to the “attic”. It won’t get any lighter as time goes by… 
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Good thoughts MikeR. All thing I have done with these things in the past.
Only the old tent trailer would canvas suffer badly stored outsides.
Here at our “new” place we are going to try to be different. Better.
And this time I have 1700+1300 square feet of securable, dry storage/workspace to utilize.
The tent trailer and the boat stored insides can be moved dolley-wheeled to the sides and then lots stored on top, within and underneath. The left hand front side corner is already a sheet rocked, insulated workspace already. Wood stove! Safe grinding and welding area.
And I am thinking seriously about an older walk behind DC forklift like we had at the VictoryGasWorks Shop. Backed into the lefthand mid-side with a pallet platform. Be the shops Deep cycle battery bank then too.
Ha! Not getting distracted and time/efforts prioritizing this grand move has been one of my better accomplishments. Just me available for the doings. Like most here on the DOW.
Down at the old place I finally have 3 of the 5 outbuilding emptied out. One of the two house emptied out. 50% done on the remaining two outbuildings. Maybe 30% done on our primary live-in house. WE are deadlining to be done moved out and prepped to sale in the beginning of this September.
So up here I am after the down south rough sorting, boxes stacking and kicking the cans down the road for final storting and organizing. We will have years, then.
Why I’ve never even tried the electric lift door until this load trip. Burnt out motor and control board. A discontinued system.
Sabotaged I figure along with most all of the stolen overhead florescent lighting fixtures by the seller woman’s pissed off adult son in the week after she left and before we could occupy.
No matter. I’ll put in lower energy LED lighting. Later.
And I’ll change over to a manual chain loop door lifter. Later.
That door is insulated metal sandwich panels. Too heavy to just be a manual jerk up and down.
So some day soon I’ll get back to fishing, hunting and woodgasing.
Ha! Marcus not having the made too easy vehicle lift puts a check on those old urges.
Be real nice to once again just have concrete floor for the floor jacks and be able to find dropped tools, nuts and bolts.
S.U.
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My doors are all manual. You can tighten the spring in the top. Be carefull, you need some special tool for it. You can lose a few teeth or more☹️
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It’s once you have learned those time saving tools specially on flat rate pay where your time is LITERALLY your money you find their true purposes and uses. Seconds turn to minutes, minutes to hours. Hours better served elsewhere more productive,fun activities. Or more money made on the job.
Any minute not spent searching dirt and gravel for hardware is a ultimate win. I just spent 20 minutes sorting nail bucket that got tipped over, should have been driving those nails into sheeting on the shed build.
Once shed build is done patio space is cleared of concrete hold down goods of the moment, frees up a solid place to work on cars trucks ect where jack stands don’t tip over, jacks don’t roll on the damn wheels they are built with.
Little time savers here and there.
Factory cut/nail lines layout on OSB vs snapline layout
Seconds. Minutes. Hours. The boys contently playing in the “pool” water hole, wife puttering in the garden. Don’t need second hands for sheeting OSB, but handy for cdx. I don’t have to steal them away from their activities I still get the stupid young I did it myself complex satisfied
Love the idea of forklift battery bank, the beats the hell out of a high lift jack for versatility!
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Giorgio, as always you show excellent workmanship, all stainless steel, your designs keep getting better and better, I look forward to the moment when you start equipping your tractor,… 
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I had to laugh on “fact number 3” as it literaly culd not be further off the truth like literaly completely the opposite.
Yes, tourism is destroying it slowly. We have a lot of hidden jems, known only to locals but social media spreads the word, tourists come and make a mess…
They found some rocks on the top of my property, claimed to have healing powers and be of megalithic origin. Occasionaly people came and visited, and it was ok. I even helped occasionaly by providing a campfire on the hilltop if there was a biger organised group. Things are now slowly escalating up to a point where that all ordeal slowly starts to get on my nerve… things go to crap when you bring the masses…
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Tell them: ’-It did have properties of making the people involved feeling better and it sure is megalithic-ish, it was the previous owners huge family’s foundation for their massive outhouse. The dung has sure helped our crops’ and pick up some dirt, smell it and ask them to smell it 
That should hopefully spread like a wildfire on the internet.
Could be it has the opposite desired effect too, it’s a gamble
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Georgio I like your lids and porting.
These should always be made tool-less; and not hot to the touch.
Regards
Steve Unruh
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When the wife says she wants to go fishing she doesn’t have to say it twice, but she was a little perturbed I got big fish of the night
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first i must finish the gasifier for the motorcultivator…i not like to have too much unfinished projects around…besides gardenwork and washed hay - yes, again- is not much time actually for building, only little steps …
i think also for the fiat tractor 25c…i thought to use thoose 50 liters beer barrels for hopper, but maybee two gets very high…so i think to make completely also the hopper by myself…rettangular shaped and conical enlarged hopper to get more coal volume in…
eddy ramos´ first hopper design contents 65 liters coal for use…he must refill every half hour at 80 km/hour driving speed…but his engine has over 3 liters and higher turn as the tractor…
the tractor should run about 2 hours without refueling…
you are right buying two quality slot hammers…if at one you have the whole metall consumed you have immediately the second one by hand…
i have four…
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Chunked some bags today, the buzz-saw chunker worked well after repairs, no chunk-jamming at all.
Need to expand my fuel wood shed.
Time to start up the old crane truck, to move around some heavy stuff.
When in the drivers seat, cranking the old beast, i noticed i wasn’t alone? There was a volleyball sized wasp nest under the dashboard, they don’t wanted any trespassers! Guess i looked really ridiculous when i abandoned the vehicle…fast!
1/2hour battle later the score was: me-500, the wasps-4.
When fighting only some rebel-wasps i manged to lift away some stuff, to reach my axle-chunker.
Should be good to go, only need to pump some air in the transport wheels, to get it up from the ground (the truck-wheel-flywheel rests on the ground).
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Göran, there are no limits to how much interesting stuff you have. I have no doubt you could quit your job and start selling tickets. I would be first in line
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