Well the one Billy bought was great. But thats all craft beer.
The thing that shook me most was the size of the cans. Everything is bigger in America they say, and l think l can confirm that but when l got a beer can in my hands on the plane l thod they gave me a baby botle less thain half of our size can.
hey JO, if we ever go back to the US we shuld bring the Danish Faxe cans with us to tease our friends a bit
Joep, l actualy like the irish style flat beers. I make them often. Actualy, lm making it one of these days, its the easyest beer to make. I like to make it extra light, its my work brew. At just around 1% alc probably even kids could drink it.
Actualy, thats not even real beer. Its more like Russian Kvas with hops. I just make a slightly sweeter barley coffe and let it ferment.
You were given a beer on an airplane? They must have given you a Pony Bottle/Can. Airlines give out smaller bottles for alcohol so people don’t get shlitzed mid flight.
We have a few different sizes for drinks. Pony Bottle/Can looks like a baby bottle, then there’s the Regular 12oz, the Pounder is 16oz/Pint, Tall Boy is about 24oz. Craft beers usually stick to the 12oz or 16oz cans.
So you brew your own beer Kristijan? That’s an interesting hobby/past time. I had a friend when I was young that made his own beer. Always all kinds of dregs on the bottom of the bottle. He stored them under the floor of the shed he lived in. Once when I was there we heard pop pop pop. Sounded like a machine gun. For some reason about a dozen bottles blew off their tops and made little geysers through the floor boards. Place smelled like strong beer for months.
Another busy week. Headgasket of the forklift blown out. Dealer says dont wast your money on repair, buy a new one. Looked for a used truck, €6000 and year is unnown. Maybe from Fred Flintstone s time. Grazy.
And then there is Lukasz, my polski partner. 40 min head is off and yesterday we put it back on and got it started in a little more then an hour. What a super engine. Lukasz changed the gasket 7 years ago. This time I will check oil more often, .
Today fixed a few small things, exhaust leakage and valve clearance. Runs like new. Super.
Engine is a Nissan H25. I think super for woodgas? indestructible!
After 2 years, the most deadly disease in the history of man kind settled in our home too. 7 days of vaication (oh, quarante is the term) will come in handy. Son and l went forging. He struck his first blows on the hot iron and l made my self a new Vejnik. This one has a hook on the back for pulling back the limbs, will see how it performs.
Will it have a long wooden handle pole attached to it for chopping and cutting? Looks great and you forged it out of a file and rebar. I like it.
Your wheel forge is awesome I need to make one like that. Please give a walk around video on the wheel forge.
Bob
Potential winter storm this weekend. Mom asked if we should buy a generator beefier than the 1300W inverter generator that I have. We already have battery banks and packs to keep phones charged up and I’ve bottled some water. We have a gas range so I can start that with a lighter if need be. Fireplace incase it gets too cold but personally I would rather bundle up when I sleep and I already wear a jacket indoors and the house doesn’t get that cold even when the power goes out. Mom wanted to also rent a hotel room because of her job at the hospital and needing to make sure she can leave for work.
It would be nice to have a real deal generator but I’m sure they’re all sold out by now. Maybe I’ll be surprised when she comes home from pickleball with a crazy snazzy 5000W unit. I’ve suggested if she really wants one to get a Harbor Freight generator.
Either way we are already more prepared than most people as far as food, water, and shelter is concerned, frankly I’m amazed that there are still people that keep less than a week’s worth of dry foods and just stock up on microwave dinners etc. I’m more worried about being stuck in the driveway and not being able to leave for work Monday morning, if that’s the case then I can always have Dad pick me up in his 4x4 since our schedules sync up.
As far as the actual forecast it could be an inch to eight inches of snow, and at least one inch of hard ice. We get more ice than snow, if I lived an hour West then it would be nice drivable snow.
If you are healthy it’s not much of a concern. My wife and I had it back in Jan of 20 20 as a gift from our globe trotting son who was back from the far East at the time. A bad cold. Then we may have gotten the new strain in November. That was worse but not at all life threatening. a bad never ending headache and cough and all the wind out of our sails for almost a month. Feeling good now.
Actualy, the rebar is sons first project. Time he starts learning some of the man stuff
The forge is nothing special. Its a wheel with a flute from one of my old charcoal gasifiers on the bottom and the air compressor provides air. This part l need to work on, its noisy and unpleasant.
Thanks for the concern Mr Wayne. My sons are trugh the worst, some feaver and the oldest one threw up once. Wife stlept trugh the day yesterday and is better, headacke and muscle pain. I woke up in the middle of the night with one of the worst backpains l ever had. Hadnt had one in a couple of years. And a headacke, but thats partualy my fault. I hit my self in the head with a charcoal grinding crank
Other thain that, tom is right. Its no worse thain a strong cold or maybee flu. But seems to be gone in just a day or two.
We had it too. No fever, just tired, slept 16 hours a day. Not even felt like a flue. If I didnt test positive I would have gone to work. These weeks 200.000 pos tests in a week overhere. In the bad days it was 20.000 a week and IC was fludding. So, 10 times more people positive and IC is deflating. Covid is over, nothing more then a flue. First wave was bad, the rest was less. I was really scared when Chris warned us about the things happening in Italy. Never happened here, thank God.
I’ve never lived anywhere else and even I know this snow isn’t so bad. The roads around me are awful because the salt trucks neglect to even do one pass around here. Might be snowed in for Monday.
Guys, l have a theory and a warning to all men present here. I have came up with a theory. I worked my back forging and lifting weight at the time of infection, now l got back pain. So did my son, same thing. Wife was on the indoor bike, her legs hurt now that she is infeted. Seems this Covid attacks the most used body parts. Based on this theory, l strongly advise to keep the “marridge obligations” at rest if there is danger of infection
Wasn’t a problem here Kristijan. Went we were sick in November I could barely get my body off the couch let alone getting anything else up. Did I mention that I’m feeling much better now?
The roads are deceptive. Test drive in the Buick determined nobody’s getting anywhere without studded tires. Parked it at the church and walked home instead of testing my luck. Not a very far hike. Under that snow is some hard hard ice and it’s slippery.
It’s honestly amazing the stuff they threw away when they sold the dealership.
Here’s two examples, one pictured. A barely if ever used GM issued coolant kit. With manual pressure tester and air powered filler. The other I dont have a photo of and it’s in the shop is a never used SnapOn brand torque wrench. Mechanical style. The transmission tech threw out both of these. That’s just insane. I have other stuff but I need to go through it all to see what I got.
Even the cheap chinese knockoff kits are 100-200 dollars depending on where you look.
By the way the dealership just changed owners, they made the techs clean up their work areas and the transmission tech wholesale threw away barrels of equipment.
