The wife, the dog and I were on a walk yesterday, found the remains of an moose calf about 200 meters behind our house, probably the wolves that took it.
3 Likes
They did a good job. Not much left.
2 Likes
I’ve been playing with wood all day long. I’m trying to clean up some before I bring in the heavy equipment (Fergie) to get to the sawlogs.
14 Likes
Hello JO .
Looks like you are going wide open. Have wood will travel 
Below is a pic of the little creek you had mention. It now looks more like a river . My driveway is somewhere under that water 
9 Likes
Wow Wayne, you sure are not going to need any more water on the land for awhile. Dry land farming you are not. HI hope things dry out for you.
Bob
5 Likes
Wow Wayne, you need a DOW-boat to get to the coffe-shop Sunday.
What about the cows? Are there still finding dry land? And your back yard obtainium parking? Must be flooded too, right?
4 Likes
If your driveway is under the water hope you have vittles stored up. I am absolutely not going to like that picture after seeing what floods can do even here in dryland Nebraska.
Also being from Nebraska I wonder What about the cows?
5 Likes
I am not going to complain and will be careful from now on about what I wish for. Here is the same spot just 3 1/2 years ago 
9 Likes
Well we can only hope that the ducks and beavers are happy
5 Likes
Like the new equipment JO! Is that a winch?
Sorry to hear about your trouble Wayne. The beavers must realy enjoy it thugh 
Its a blessing to live on a mountain sometimes… there is a old proverb “draught takes a loaf of bread, wetness takes two”.
4 Likes
Wow Mr. Wayne, that is a “river”. My driveway was flooded this morning also, but I was able to get the snow blower our and blow the crystalized water off the drive. It was about 10 inches deep but unlike your water, the wind blew last night and the crystalized water was almost 2 feet in places. TomC
4 Likes
JO is that the trailer you were building and we–I-- talked about a “walking beam” axle? It looks like that is what you went with. That set up takes a nice size load.TomC ( I could go back through the postings to see the pictures you posted of you trailer build, but you know I’m just a little bit lazy)
2 Likes
Tom, I do recall the walking beam discussion. I think it was about my log arch. I didn’t like the idea because I like the arch to be lightweight enough to lift it into straddle position.
Equipment in the pic are father-in-law’s toys he left behind last summer.
Yes, it’s a cheap China winch and I welded some junk together for a boom. It’s terribly slow but helpful with heavier logs. I parked against a stump and it even pulled some of the full length logs out out in the open.
4 Likes
@Jan, are you hanging in there? I guess it’s as windy at your place as it is here. I’ve tied down everything I own. I’m getting low on straps, ropes, strings - you name it.
Also, I splashed my way up to the criss-cross knocked down spruce forest area to take a look. At least a dussin more big spruces down 
2 Likes
Yes, it is a bit windy here, too, the boy just called, it had begun to blow the metal roof of the cottage out by the lake, may try to fix it when tomorrow.
7 Likes
Oh that is bad. I have an old barn that the wind blew too much if the roof off before I got back up here on the farm.
Hope you don’t get too much damage.
5 Likes
Hi All,
The wife and I do a take-trip every February for her birthday.
This year it was me suggesting a Puget Sound trip to the Seattle Aquarium and the Seattle Woodland park Zoo.
For the two girls we are fostering.
Ha! My stipulation was NOT staying actually in the City of Seattle.
Wifie found a restored 1912 historic Doctors house, 15 miles, and ferry ride away on Bainbridge Island.
Anyhow. As related to woodgas I got immersed in just how different as applied the ethic of REDUCE; ReUSE; Recycle gets applied.
Ha! Up there some focus just on Reducing and Recycling. In the old Seattle neighborhoods we meander traveled to&from, with lovingly restored 1890-1930’s small footprint homes (ALL with bulk fuel combustion chimneys) not one spec of wood heat smoke on this stormy cold weekend.
SO Reduce dictated down to NO WOOD USE and just consumer packaging Recycling.
The height of the extremes was made to me on the four hour drive back home.
I-5 Interstate truck stop getting a coffee refill.
The cashier and the fellow in front of me were discussing the lack of California CRV deposit on his 16oz of plastic bottled Coke pop. How they’d both been surprised at the “lack of recycling” moving up here to Washington State.
NOT TRUE. We are US EPA rated in the top three states for Recycling.
We do this with education, bins, and social peer pressure.
Not by nanny-state financial punishments robberies.
I said nothing. Paid for the lowest cost possible for my 20oz coffee refill in my stainless steel vacuum bottle Hydro-Flask. It’s been reused hundreds of times.
And it can be once it would loses it’s vacuum; ReUsed as a gasifer component. Or, High metals value recycled.
Only original quality can-be effectively ReUsed!
Putting Recycling as the first priority just leads to cheeped out making on the original. Leads to use-once, and throw-away “recycling”.
Vehicle woodgasing REDUCES fossil oil usage.
Converting an oldie vehicle is ReUseing that vehicle.
Local site growing the wood input; then gasifing is the active Carbons recycling part of it!
Regards
Steve unruh
8 Likes
That’s the most satisfying part of life… and made my day… what kinda component would it turn into ? 
1 Like
I see there is an important part missing on that vehicle… something that gives a need for lemons…
1 Like
Hi K.V.L.
The inner and outer vacuum bottle edges are top welded.
So this is a weldable SS alloy. That leads to many system possibilities.
Even an unweldable SS thermos could be ends cut to sleeve tubes for slip over and h.t. foil tape sealed repairs on a big cooler tube style WK or MikeLarosa type.
Ponder on this you’all.
Soda Pops and cows milk was for near 100 years in thick ReUseable GLASS containers.
Then here USA the thick durable glass for the soda’s first went thin glass “no return” needed. At the same time aluminum cans. Both could be recycled. But were not due to the now just base material values. Only forced deposits money pumped up thier “value” for collection and return.
As a adolescent kid I made good spending money roadside ditch collecting up those 1 cent refillable pop and beer bottles. 5 cents for the quart ones. That’d be respectively 15 cents and 1 dollar today.
Cows milk went first to coated treated paper containers. “No return needed!” No recycling possibility. They would burn dirty/smoky.
Then Cows milk nearly 95% into plastic “recyclable” containers. No true value to these. Regardless of the social commercials.
Sure. Sure. Turn these consumer plastics into rope strands. Public park benches. Just delays their getting particle-ized out into the general environment. With us all eating and breathing these particles. At what health costs?
And before I get slammed by the turn-plastics-into-your-motor-fuel crowd.
Missing the whole point.
Recycling as the #1 focus just leads to more irresponsible ‘use and forget’ (letting someone else to do the work) bleating sheeple consumerism.
“Produce and use more plastics for our fuel stocks”. Really. Just kicking that Dino-using problem a bit farther down the road.
“Social stigmatizing” (fears selling) even down to hand washing soaps. Bar soaps were traditionally packaged in paper. Shipped in paste board boxes. Both clean burnable. Even after most changed to plastic wrappers that was still a minuscule amount of plastic to landfill.
Ho! Ho! But now since declared that multi-person use of that same bar of soap was a potential disease vector . . . . most soaps are now in rigid plastic pump containers. My nurse wife was part of the remove all bars soaps and switch to only pumped soaps public health campaign in the mid-1990’s.
Ha! Took us a decade to use up and family&friends gift away all of her brought home free soap bars.
Grump. And now I trash landfill direct a heck’olot of rigid plastic non-repairable pump soap containers now with the two foster girls we are hands wash training.
A “win” for planet earth? No. A win for the investors in plastics industries.
Directed, demanded Recycling as the #1 priority is knee jerk weak shallow thinking.
REDUCE use. Then ReUse the durable’s. And only then recycle. This is the best ordering of this ethic.
Steve unruh
5 Likes