Life goes on - Summer 2023

What happened? No kid anymore? I try to play everyday, life is more then serious. I can see they are not from Holland :grinning: They are all Bordeaux red! Wrong words, Swedish red :grinning: Is there a difference?

You dont want to know what I want to show you all, but first woodgas. Maybe stop playing and gonna do some real thinking :upside_down_face:Auw, my head hurts with that tought.

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Wow, he remembers a ten year old trick the kids learned him. Not as smooth as he used to do it but good enough. He even can fly if you ask him. All for a good good piece of meat. :grinning:

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Haha, when you mention it, im still a kid in the soul
 and i still want my own windmill :smiley:
The Swedish red are a special paint by the way, it gots it’s color from copper ore, from Falu copper mine i posted about earlier here, a Swedish copper mine not very long from where JO lives.
It’s called Falu RödfĂ€rg (Falu red-paint) in Swedish.

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Thanks😀. Out in the country you see the colour everwhere.

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Might be getting a '98 Ford Crown Victoria from a friend. 4.6L V8 so it’s the reliable V8, only problem I have is they’re interference engines. I don’t know the mileage yet but it’s the same friend I got the cavalier from. He originally was going to derby race it but hasn’t stripped it down due to a fuel pump problem. No big deal to me to drop the tank, can’t be any worse than the Cavalier was.

Given it’s interference it might go on Charcoal, or keep it stock as my errand runner. Dad may need a backup vehicle in the event he misses payments on his truck and having a spare in the “fleet” couldn’t hurt.

I bet @SteveUnruh may have something to say about the 4.6L

Edit: update, friend told me the car has a title loan on it, he’s the third owner after this has happened and he never intended to put it on the road because of it. He thought I was going to buy for racing. I can’t legally title or get a surety bond on this car until the lender releases the lien. He’s keeping an eye out for me for little trucks and sedans right now.

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About how much charco you use for about 8 hour run time or 6.5 hour run time ?? what size engine on the haw bale tractor. I got to try charco some time next after i am happy with my wood gas designs. THANKS

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Mower Bcs:

  • mowing speed is around 2-3 km/hour

  • to mow 1 hectare, you walk approx. 10 km, the walk takes 4 hours

  • in 8 hours of mowing, you mow 2 hectares and walk 20 km, if the terrain is steep and rugged, this is a demanding task, few people are able to do it
    :+1::grin:

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Kevin, it consumes about 2.5 gal per hour.
I belive its a 470ccm engine, four stroke flat head.

Tone, yes, the surface is maybee a hectare but the terrain is the problematic thing
 and wet grpunds, grass as tall as me

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We had a cherrypicking yesterday :nerd_face:

With the aid of power it was easy task

True cherries were much more harder job. After each bucket we find out that the tree is still full of them

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These are sour cherrys right?

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That is a clever ’potato-picker-upperer’ I have not seen one of those before, just the ones that chucks it away a bit or newer ones.
And what massive potatoes, is it normal to pick up potatoes this early? (in our part of the world it is)

Since you have such a big harvest of cherries perhaps it is. :smiley:

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Right you are, Kristijan. Very sour, if I may say :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

These one are of Red Sonja variety, which is “extra-early”. Requiers only 90 days to ripen. If you pre-germinate them well, they need even less. I put them into soil just after Easters. They popped up from rows just two months ago

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@KKubu , What are these used for?

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This is a tool called combinator. I use it for two purposes. It levels the field after rototiller and provide the drag to keep rototiller from runaway.

The tiller pulls so hard that I can’t keep it back and if so, my feet pres the tilled soil again.

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I am not sure what tool pulls potatos up. or how they work-? THANKS

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That sound like very economical on wood charco- even in your hilly land.

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For potatoes harvest I use that triangle with spikes. It’s on the picture with red potatoes few posts above. It works like plow. It opens the row like open the book and spikes bring potatoes on top of soil. The video is not very instructive, but at the very end you may see the plow working.

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My step dads dad uses this really old plow like this

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Just so you’all do not think I am slacking on my moving:


That heavy woodslitter took some thinking and rigging to get up into the box-van truck.
Ha! And wouldn’t you know it . . . marine air and clouds the past two days. I had to go back to hand splitting wood for mornings fires! As David @dbaillie recently validated to me; a woodstove fire sucks the house negative and makes for sweet-smelling air exchange changes. Look Ma’ . . . no electricity; no motors; no timer-contollers required.

And then the real problem:


A welded on ball too large on the truck. A welded on tongue on the tent trailer too small to tow with!
Not seriously pulling up yet. Still figuring my ramp angles before I below block then for the weight.

Like I’ve said in the past; Real Life is much about shear personal WillPower.
Not so much the “I think I can” , but I Will Make It Happen. (Given enough pain pills and bananas for the muscles cramps.)
Three old wood cooking stoves and three big chest freezers to go loaded up and moved and I’ll have this last of the two outbuildings whipped.
Steve Unruh

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SO i think the prongs behind the pointed wedge lift up the potatos- how many pass it take per row of potatos- THANKS.??