I had to look this up, maybe i got the oldest hen in the world 
No, i didnât, but i found out a âbad layerâ lives longer, donât âwears outâ as fast.
This makes sense, this one has never been a good layer, and even behaved like a rooster from time to time.
Nice to learn something new.
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No snow left here. Been gone for a bit now. Might be the last weekend for us to get on the ice. Lake ice is singing pretty good today.
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A little old lady goes to the doctor and says, âDoctor, I have this problem with gas, but it really doesnât bother me too much. They never smell and are always silent. As a matter of fact Iâve passed gas at least 20 times since Iâve been here in your office. You didnât know I was passing gas because they donât smell and are silent.â
The doctor says, âI see. Take these pills and come back to see me next week.â
The next week the lady goes back. âDoctor,â she says, âI donât know WHAT you gave me, but now when I pass gas although still silent they stink terribly.â
âGood,â the doctor said, ânow that weâve cleared up your sinuses, letâs work on your hearing.â
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I am hoping mine will start to run again tomorrow. I use the tubing spiles with leaders into a 5 gallon bucket with a lid to avoid those issues. I might move to 3/16 next year, I just read that the capillary action can create as much vacuum as a pump.
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Yesterday was my gardenerâs Wife birthday. Two days ago I let her go into the feed-store solo to buy her Spring topping filling soil for our new raised beds. She now wants to get early peas and stuff started soon.
Ha! Big mistake sitting in her car snoozing. I expected a truck delivery by a dump truck. Or a flatbed boom truck with Ag bags.
Nope. It was me. You can do this she said. Six, 2 cubic yards Ag bags at 2000 pounds each.
Half a day to cut up, and re-stack the remaining fire wood Iâve been using up in our winter parked box-van truck.
Then no way our small J.D. tractor was going to be able to lift these big AG bags on pallets out and off our box-van.
So . . . I chain jerked then out and off. Then rolled them, lined up with tractor. And free up the trapped chains.
But hey. I got five of the six oak pallets now jerked apart and broken to be able to hack up for Spring nights firewood.
Win. Win.
âHappy Wife. Happy Lifeâ
Steve Unruh
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Way up above on this Winter 2023 topic Iâd said I was quick and dirty, super-simplistic build a Pinewood derby car for our upcoming Grange race events days.
Howâd I do? Not so good. Only one win out of six heats.
But I did get to observe who was doing well, and who was not. Not so obvious how though.
Now this next Iâll say very much has a WOODGAS applied knowledges tie-in.
Lots and lots of Internet sites and YouTube videos up on Pinewood best racer building.
Just like woodgas.
Here is IMHO the shortest, visually presented understandable single Pinewood video:
We will have a re-match race mid-next month. Top winners from that will then race off the top winners from last Saturday.
Iâll be able to now change and incorporate five of this fellows six need-to-doâs. In the spirit of amateur; have-fun I will not outwardly change my mildly rounded wood block car. The cheese-heads pinned to the top were slowing. I ate them off one-by-one. A crowd pleaser.
Next converted to a bullet head racer with a 68 caliber, 500 grain muzzle loader Mini-ball bullet.
NOW THE REAL WOODGAS TIE-IN.
Partway through the above Pinewood video he refers to a real good-father science engineer spending a whole year with his son to chart-out and graphs, maths prove the elements of successes, and their ranking of importance on a Pinewood car. Dr. Scott Acton has his own 2 hour video of these proofs.
Then later this video guy says Dr. Acton missed testing the three true todays winners use techniques. One being three wheels down - one wheel lifted. The one down front wheel being gently steered into the track guide lip. Rail-guiding. And the third; angles canting with axle pins. Bending the outwards the two rear. And bending inwards and the one front wheel.
WE have now have lots and lots of historic; and often very scientific articles and papers now preserved in the DOW library about gasification.
Any before the early to mid 1950âs do not reflect the later hearth ash slope form shielding benefits developed in the late 1950âs though 1970âs Swedish and Finnish Government sponsored units.
This later development was to beat the direct char in contact with metals problems that the Germans and now SergeiL. has published out the Soviets could not beat, limiting service lives of their hearth cores.
And now in the last 20 years you have the W.K.'s going with extreme air pre-heating.
W.K.'s and Joniâs units sharing from a historic standpoint; a âwrongâ above the restriction to below the restriction active volumes reversed ratio.
Then Ben Peterson and others who are now modern materials high temperature spun fibers alumina-ceramic insulating from the hearth core inside in layers outwards up to three times.
Their hearth systems then always contact touchable when in sucked pulled flowing operation.
My point. Always has been my points. Math and science in real life things proves after the fact what practicalists; actual users, evolve out. And are âwinningâ with.
Do not be off-putted by a maths-johnney saying it is not possible.
Use-proof.
Use the latest developments that are working out in the real world.
Regards
Steve Unruh
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Coop vs Soup!
If the old gals have given you as many eggs as Iâd expect they have⊠an easy retirement is good karma. Iâve heard the old birds show the new ones the ropes, so they still have a purpose.
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beautiful countrysideâŠsunday walkâŠa dolmen or a stone table ?
some houndred years old sweet chestnut treesâŠ
at least we visited our 91 years old neighbour , he showed us his two bcs mowersâŠ
ideal candidates for chargasâŠ
his son says, when i bring to run one of them (on gasoline), i can
get the otherâŠmaybee only a carburettor problemâŠone has a acme engine with side valves, the other is a condor guidetti engine with ohvâŠ
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Anthony, i agree, she will have her retirement, this chickens, Brown Lohmann, is very calm and friendly, i would let her live with us in the house, but i believe she would shit on the floors, so next to best is to give her some friends this spring 
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Hi Giorgio, The Acme is a good engine but it canât match the Condor engine, those engines run so light and smooth, if you look closely, the BCS mowers with the Condor engine have a metal plate with the tag numbers, the housing was dark green I think , that these models were made for export (probably for the American market).
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Already 55f here this morning. Supposed to go to teens and 20âs the next two days and then back to 50âs and some 60âs. This isnât good. Seen this several times and the fruit trees blossom and then we get a freeze.
Howâs that puppy doing Goran?
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tone, maybee, but i think for mass production acme motors has offered a cheaper engineâŠthe condor maybee was more expensive, overhead valves, valve clearance screws, what the acme not hasâŠ
i think condor was the motor on the first bcs mowers, than they switched to acmeâŠ
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Hi Tom, the puppy is growing fast, one day i come home from work the nose has grown 2", another day the back legs, and so on
She can be a real p.i.t.a, but we love her anyway.
Took me bout 10 minutes to get these picturesâŠ
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Pain in the ass dog beats a pain in the ass human, hands down. Give her a treat and tell her itâs from her Uncle Tom. Dropped 45 degrees F since last night. A nasty day. Most schools are closed. I have some inside projects I can fool with. Went to town in a tee shirt yesterday to get the supplies for them.
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Yes, dogs are allowed to be a pita, atleast when they are puppies.
Funny coincidense: when i tried to take a photo of Cindy, i told her: sit, sit, stay! this is for uncle Tom in America.
So i guess you are her uncle now
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I had that growing up with 5 kids and one bathroom 
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Ha! Ha! Snow and snowing the last two days . . . so we stayed home.
So our somewhat different tastes in movies and even informational programing can become a bit grating.
And I can only watch the wife paint stenciling flat surfaces around the inside of the our house for just so many hours.
So Iâll admit I have spent some hours with headphones on, dropped-out; tuned-in, searching-out and watching interesting YouTube videos.
Here is one for you friend couch trapped recovering now:
(caution to all who may be sensitive! has gunfire in the back ground. has a dog intruding. but no, no-no now political incorrect smoking.)
Substitute all references to guns, and firearms, ammunition-for: and substitute in woodgas, gasification and charcoal.
Me - like him; have made a words pop-off mistake a time to two also. Thatâs just being an ordinary human.
Do watch out for those always promoting the extra-ordinary as somehow superior.
Steve unruh
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