Looking out of our living room window to the Northwest. 15,000 acer forest fire called the lower Sugarloaf Mountain fire. Only 27% containment. To the south west of us Highway 97 is closed and a 50,000 acer forest fire burning called the Labor Mountain fire. Only 7% containment. Right now the wind is blowing hard so we are no longer in the smoke but the fires are get whip up. Been Praying asking The Yehovah God for it to rain. Freinds up in the Entiat River valley under level #3 alert and level #3 alert for people living on that highway. Time to leave the house and get out of the valley. These two fires have been burning for days now.
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Prayers go out to you. I think that smoke looks pretty thick like it is going to jump across the mountain top. Unless there is some prep you can do to try and keep it from coming on your property, it is best to skedaddle.
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this summer we have had a lot of bush fires around…mostly some payed people make the fires to confirm the climate ideology…remember we will all die by heat…
here is actually colder and refreshed after some abondant rain…as every year
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göran, a question about the old motor you got…there is a valve with a bended pipe on the motorhead near the spark plug…i have seen this designed in the swiss gengas book , called “zischhahn”…is this a decompression valve for starting?
my son asked how much hp has the motor?
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Hello giorgio, yes it’s probably the decompression valve you mean, a small brass valve.
It has like a cup or funnel at the top, having the double purpose to prime the engine by filling the cup with gasoline, then open/close for getting in.
This is called snappskran in Swedish, from German word schnapps, meaning take a small amount of something strong drink 
The engine is 2-3 horsepower.
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It’s a rainy week here too, so it’s perfect that I got time for this little forklift from 1976. It was necessary to "renew the brakes, clean the carburetor, adjust the ignition, … and many other things, … This is a Slovenian product, the gearbox is mechanical, the clutch is regular, the engine is a Fiat 1500 license made in Yugoslavia - the Zastava company. It has been standing for more than 20 years, but it started without major problems. The weight is missing at the back, which I did not install, I intend to install a different weight, …
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Sorry for peeking at details but I couldn’t help noticing the wooden joints that you did not have to go to the hardware store to fasten. 
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First, the propane mixer…
I used a 30mm inner bearing, an O-ring seal, an 8mm inner copper tube, a 1:15 mixing ratio…
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Surprise. I thought it was a charcoal nozle
LPG, you make things looking easy😀
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Joep, wood is next, I plan to build a gasifier on the back, there will be no need to save weight here, as it needs weighting.
This will be a rather interesting project, the cooler will be easy to install, it is easy to use the exhaust gas temperature, the gasifier will be mounted low - easy to fill and clean, there is relatively much space near the engine,…
I plan to expand the hydraulics, so that there will be another output to drive the log splitter, … well, in short, many plans, … I have to open a new topic,…
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Well it likes that kind of gas. Now comes the charcoal gas from a gasifier.
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Ha! Ha! Here I will show you the ONLY Wife approved duct tape repair of mine in our 33 years of marriage:
The good undamaged side.
Then the side wife-darling creased split 11 month ago, two week after acquiring this vehicle; her miss-negotiating a tight fast-foods drive-through:
Yep. Yep. She over-focused avoiding a protruding sign on her left side and a ground mounted very stout sign on her right side reached out and bit her! She got Titanic’ed. At her next grocery store stop, when she saw the extent of the damage, she sat down and cried. Then puked.
I did a better job of this year taping/sealing. And used a better “Extreme All Weather” tape rated for “Exterior Projects”.
Why not get it repaired? She really, really should not run another claim through our Insurance company. Be the fifth in 10 years. It will tag her as a not-good-driver. And that will affect the rates on her own, mine and two other vehicles.
Plus she and I are abstinent, insistent that our vehicles are our working American Life tools. Not outward icons of our wealth and success’s.
Tools used, do wear and get used up. On road vehicles are for-sure your armor to protect you against all road hazards. Wear your nicks, scratched; dings and dents with honor.
A hand wash job makes very practical silver shine right up.
I hope some of these mild rain fronts are making it over to you @Bobmac
Steve Unruh
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Early morning time here. Time to fire up The Whole House Dehumidifier.
Soon the wife will be up, and for-sure be running the electric clothes dryer. More in house humidity removal.
The make-up air drawn in from the outside is chilled; dew and frost dropped out; drier:
These are the exact same principals engineered into all modern cars. The majority haven’t used coolant water flow control valves to the heater core in a long time.
First they over-chill/refrigerate the allowed in air to drop out much of the air humidity as possible.
Then hot engine coolant is used reheat that air; then “blending” the re-heated air with some of the refrigerated air for the actual conditioned air temperature to the interiour.
That conditioned air de-misting and de-fogging the inside of windows much quicker. Drying out the touched seats leather, wet sticky tackiness quicker.
Natural phenomena is that: more flows to less. Nature insists on balances. Darn adamant about this. She applies constant, insistent, differential pressures over Time.
Steve Unruh
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Hey GoranK. @Woodrunner I cannot find the better topic conversation string to shout out a big thank-you to you.
It is about the made-in-Sweden Aspen brand fuels you recommend for long term in-engines storage.
I am done now seasonally with my made-in-China tracked toter equipment. So suction gun removed the gasoline from the tank and ran it across the yard lot to fetch the two yard hammocks for inside storage. To use up, clear the lines and carburetor of the gasoline.
It has been running now ragged. I’d just thought original crappy Chinese spark needing to be changed out for a Bosch or an NGK.
As soon as I put the 500 ml of two year old AspenFour in it . . . it now runs smoothly and perfectly. Then the same experiences with first the walk behind mower; and then the rider mower.
It was that last 5 gallon can of now six months old, bought last April/May E-15 gasoline. Into the old 94 Ford pickup it goes now. It only has to make the 3 miles trips to, and back to the garbage transfer station.
So now in addition to AspenTwo and Four being my in-engines storage fuel; Aspen will be my running proof fuel too.
Thanks much man for your recommendation
Steve unruh
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Thank you SteveU, glad to hear it works good for you.
It got me thinking some weeks ago, when i started up a oldtimer chainsaw, it started on the second pull, and had been stored in my outdoor chainsaw shed for two, maybe three years, got me thinking, hey, i should have made a youtube video about this, i believe i promised to document some of these storing long-time starts?
But after all, not much use of a video, when watchers only have my word at its been stored so and so, long time, and with this or this fuel?
I still have some trouble with aspen alcylate fuel and some float type carburetors (not every float carb).
Ive planned some experimenting with density, (float level height) foaming due to vibrations, or like.
My attempt to make a see-through float bowl out of resin failed.
And yes, engines runs smoothly on this fuel, it also have a good cleaning effect on spark plugs (could lead to scourcing if aspen is filled in a well-used, rich running soot-clogged old two-stroke, soot come loose in chunks)
On a hard working chainsaw, fuel change to alcylate, it always is recomended to re-tune, or open up high jet a little fraction of a turn, my guess is this has to do with density of fuel passing the jet, i havent noticed any higher consumption.
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I will give you 3 guesses what has been finally lifted in our area of Washington State. We still have two very large forest fires burning in our area. We had snow in the mountains that is helping the fire fighters a lot to contain them.
Wow I am making charcoal again. This is really nice. DOW.
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Have they finally lifted the fire ban?
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“No matter what direction you turn your butt is always in the rear end”. That’s a direct translation of a Swedish saying.
For me personally right now, it’s about fossil fuel and potatoes. For the past year or so gasoline has never been cheaper. Oil prices are down and our govenment has cut fuel taxes to compensate for post pandemic economic difficulties. This means my daily DOW isn’t as profitable as it used to be - less fun passing gas stations reading the signs 
Another setback is I got the best potato harvest ever this year. But I just read I’m not the only one. Apparently there’s plenty of potatoes in Europe, even plenty left in from last year. So, the price is the lowest in a long time.
Well well, I really have no reason to complain - until snow arrives that is. Just for the record it’s 25F outdoors right now, but a comfortable wood heated 73F indoors 
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Hur man än vänder sig har man röven bak, om man inte tar av sig byxorna- för då kommer den fram…
I can absolutely not translate that word- pooping…
Eller: gammalt djungelordspråk: hur lite man än skiter i byxorna, är det alltid för mycket…
Sorry… i guess friday feeling has got me… and no, i havent drink anything stronger than orange juice.
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For here in my area they have lifted the fire ban even though we still have two big fires burning in the mountains near by. I have not driven my gasifier truck for months now. Some one sees a little smoke and they call the hot line to report it in our area. A couple of years ago now I had the fire department looking for a fire on my street. It was from my gasifier truck from opening my hopper. The hopper was closed and no smoke coming out of it by the time they pulled up to the upper parking lot at the Apple Loop Trail looking for a fire some had reported. One big fire truck engine and a smaller fire truck. Close call for me. I would have been charged for the call out if they knew who was making the smoke. This is why I want a stealthy gasifier jeep that can run on charcoal or wood. DOW or DOC.
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