OH Lord, my gallbladder asked for suicide just to see that cooking. 
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They make super expensive binders for those. But if it helps, since my curiosity was piqued as to how it was done…
Which gets to an issue of a knotter, which you probably have to swipe one off a baler. The conveyor is just canvas sewn in a loop. Which even with a manual trip, and a no knotter, it gets you what you have right now without a second person, so it should go faster.
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I started looking at the walk behind reaper binders. 
This gathers everything and dumps really neatly to the side. More advanced models have a gatherer and binder as well. But basically it is a pair of chains with cleats and snouts with matching wheel sprockets that aren’t even powered to hold the material. The actually look like they are plastic. and I don’t see why tines like they use on the bcs couldn’t be used.
This is an assembly
This is a build video of the snouts for a knockoff.
A BCS version knockoff might be the easier and cheapest to build. the gathering mechanism is literally just a 2 discs on each side with curved gathering tines on them kind of similar to a hay rake tine. But because the gathering system puts everything in the middle, it wouldn’t be that great with the walk behind because you want wider wheel spacing.
I haven’t found a good knotter schematic or cad file.
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All my charcoal are finally dried, crushed, sorted and bagged, and put away inside. Had to tinker some with the crusher, it had lost It’s spark.
Some fix with the shaker mechanism, it was a little slow, slack v-belt by purpose, i put som syrup on the belt, and it tried to shake itself into pieces so i put some charcoal fines on the sticky belt an came up with a perfect, controlled slip.
It fills the buckets faster than i put it in bags.
Some of the “harvest” this is “engine grade” and some forging charcoal.
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Who ever heard of putting syrup on a belt without first putting some pancakes on it. No wonder it went into spasms. There are rules you know Goren. 
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Im workingin this 100 year old building in Indianapolis and i found this tag with some wrighting embeded in the concrete
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Hundred year old stuff doesn’t seem so old to me now.
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One of my family reunions is coming up, not this Saturday but the next.
I don’t have a full gasifier system built to show off!
I made a quick flute updraft to run my truck, using Koen’s calculator it said 3 5/8" holes were good for a 3000rpm figure. I was given some beat up drums from my old job, hammered them back to shape and used those without dipping into my good almost new drums.
I’ve got a couple drums of charcoal ready to be crushed, so I should have a full hopper of fuel grade with a bag or two to spare.
I think the updraft charcoal gasifier is a good fit, considering the reunion grounds is at an old 18th century iron smelting furnace.
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Hi All,
This will be last summer I have to fuss about our three-tiered priced municipal water rate to keep things from drought season dieing. First tier usage charge of $1.85 USD for that first 60 cubic feet of water. Then $2.40 USD per cubic foot used for the next 60 cubic feet. Topping at $2.95 USD a cubic foot for all usages above 121 cubic feet.
The days of 3 cents a gallon are long, long past.
So I have done lots of sprinklers types watching and trying to get the most benefits to what I want to live.
Fine mist’er is O.K. for porch sitting cooling but terrible for plants watering.
These oscillators make virtually NO spray or to the air lost mists. Just true uniform droplets going to the plants.
For restricted individual bush/tree watering some of the end of hose ground fan nozzles are good too.
ALL of the pulser spring arm Rain-Birds and spinning whirling sprinkler heads thrown away as too much small droplets and mist makers to the air water wasters.
Next season even finally back onto a private well with just an electric pump bill . . . Waste-not; then, Want-not, later.
The actual yards grasses we let go brown and dormant until the Fall rains re-greening.
S.U.
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I hope that isn’t like the ‘structural tag’. Around 100-120 years ago, they decided it was faster and cheaper to use cables to hold up walls of buildings rather then to use structural steel frames. It was faster and cheaper, but the buildings don’t hold up over time very well. Our fairgrounds grandstands were constructed that way with wood, along with just about every other grandstand built at the same time. They finally tore it down, but it was one of only like 3 left standing since a lot of them caught on fire or just collapsed.
I think the ‘historic’ downtown of my hometown the ‘historic’ buildings used cabling as well. They weren’t built very well, but anytime anyone wants to build something downtown, there is a fight from people who want to maintain the ‘historic’ look, but can’t figure out why businesses keep leaving. The businesses because of space issues, flooding, lack of elevators, extra heating/cooling costs, rent, updated electrical/plumbing, etc. all which lead to higher overhead costs, have a hard time making a profit.
Similar historical fights happen all over the country. Just because something was built a 100 years ago, doesn’t mean it is historical or meant to last 100 years.
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Not that anyone gives a crap, but I got my first 40+ point comment on reddit for making up a conspiracy theory of all things.
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Acording to the engineers they built this hotel building to be strong enough to hold four more stories. They will be adding a “presidential suite” onto the roof that will have its own private elevator.
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With that price I would stop to wash myself in a water and start to use a wine.
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Corey,
Looks like the tag that was on the roll of steel wire re-mesh they used for that section. If you expand the photograph, you can see it is still wired to the mesh.
Hey, Now you are an Archeologist along with everything else. You wear the correct hat, Mr. Jones! 
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You are welcome to pay a visit to my tomatoes field
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That is a nice and well-taken-care-of tomato field, I can taste the tomatoes already 
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Yes, a lot of work went into keeping those plants staked like that and it looks like a fair about of pruning was involved. Really excellent work. Looks like all Indeterminates but it also looks like you are getting a lot of fruit all ripening at the same time like a determinate. I like to grow about half indeterminate and half determinate. Are you canning most of that fruit?
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About half will end in canning jars, either alone or in mix with onions and peppers. One third is eaten fresh or cooked, the rest is given across friends and family.
Based on my experience, all of them are indeterminate. They ripen step by step till there is anything to ripen. I could hardly achieve even one complete cluster fully rippen.
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Wery nice Kamil! I pray you dont get blight this year, and you dont get whiped like us…
Walnut size hail, again. Time for some serious thinking about the furure of our farm…
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Someone I talked to recently about a problem I’m dealing with, said to me, several times,
Never Give Up!
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