Let s hope this one will help cleaning the woodpile 
Quite unknown brand overhere, but a very useful machine. It has a 50 liter/ 200 bar hydraulic on the arm and one on the back. I am thinking of rebuilding the chipper. First things first.
On moments like this the kids want to help. Mmm. Why?
Never seen one like that. Who is the manufacturer? How much counter weight in the rear? Maybe I should get a job so I could afford some of the stuff you guys are getting.
Boy that look like fun me want me want !
Dave
It is a Timan Tool Trac. I think from Denmark and sold a lot in Scandinavia. Very rare here. The arm is not telescopic but got a big hydraulic connection. Door/ steer is very low, you dont have to climb into the machine thousand times a day, just step in. It is itching to use it today but maybe I act wise and do something that really has to be done.
Brian that is the same saw that is on the front of my farmall H. I donât know the tip speed for those blades but the H has a 22hp 1200 PRM motor iirc. The belt drive pullies are 1 to 1 size wise but i donât know the gearing of the drive pully on those old tractors. I would guess on our H we ran the motor at about 700 to 800 rpm to power that saw. It was over an idle but not half throttle. They donât take much power when the blades are sharp and they are really handy for cord wood to fire wood. Stopped using it here when we got a wood splitter that peaked at 24 inches long. Then we just cut everything in 16 inch lengths and split it stove length not 4 foot length.
Joep that is an interesting machine. One lesson I learned the hard way on my pasquali. If you have the machine in a turn when you pick up a load in the bucket the weight ballance change can also change how it turns. I found this out cleaning around the post in my barn with the pasquali turned next to the post to scoop up a bucket full driving in empty the front end turned allowing me to clean behind the post. Put it in reverse and tried to turn a little to back out and the rear end swung not the front on the center piviot. Found myself will a post between the two tires and trying to figure out how to separate the tractor from the post and also get it wiggled out of the corner of the barn. Center piviots are nice but behave odd at times with a loader. Also depending on how good the mount is to the one arm loader you might need to watch out for loading the far side of the bucket too heavy. Seems like it shouldnât be a problem but i was warmed it is on the old farmall A loaders.
That is a nice machine Joep 
Iâve never seen one in Sweden though? Maybe down south Sweden, closer to Denmark they are popular?
Not as cool as Joepâs machine, but maybe useful to some projects, this followed me home today:
Some time ago i found a âvintageâ empty box, that had contained boxes of woodgas matches, all in all, a warehouse packaging. I bought it cheap on the online auction site, for my âwoodgas museumâ.
The very idea that someone produced wood gas matches kind of amazes me, especially when maybe one in a hundred thousand Americans have even heard of wood gas. I also find it odd that there seem to be plenty of wood gassers in Sweden and Finland but you seldom hear from anyone in Norway or Denmark unless they just hang out in different places than youtube or DOW.
Great catch Göran, amazing that someone held on to that box for so long.
Tom, I have also been wondering about why there is not that many woodgassers in Norway or Denmark (that we know of), same thing goes for the whole of Africa and Asia. I donât know how many Koen has converted to woodgas with his work in Thailand. There should be plenty of people wanting to save a buck or two there as well. Of course on the other hand it is also hard to find or stumble upon info if the thought never occured to you that there could be an alternative to dino, in Europe it was widespread during the war but I have no idea if some people used it in Asia or Africa at that time.
Norway and Denmark was occupied by the nazis during the war, they probably donât want to be reminded about that era.
I also think their cars was confiscated during occupation?
Nowadays those rich Norwegians pump their own oil and can afford to run on dino. 
Danes maybe not sober often enough to drive?
Sorry! This last was two very bad jokes 
Not my opininon about our neighbours.
Other reasons I can think of are Denmark has no wood and Norwayâs flattest road is a 10% incline 
I have never seen one lit. You think they still work Goran?
Been thinking of making them for a long time. I have made matches before and l think it wuldnt be that hard to make these. Shuld come in handy for those full hopper lightups. No need for lighting a coal and droping it in.
Hi Kristijan, ofcourse they work, old times stuff you know 
Old video:https://youtu.be/urDX1r2lzGg?si=XBuoH5_k_f8Nl2CD
These are pretty overkill, they actually contains thermite, and burns through thin sheet metal.
Iâve also tried to make them myself with various results, but found out buying weather-proof matches was a easier alternative.
But i would be very interested to see your results
Wow nice.
I think overkill is an understatement here also that smoke is Aluminium oxide. Probably about the worse possible kinda smoke for the motor to inhale.
Thinking about it, l wuld probably go with nitrocellulose. Burns good with a large flame, contains no metals and is water insoluble. I wonder if its possible to nitrate thicker peaces of woodâŠ
Interesting, i wonder if a vacuum chamber would open the wood cells for nitrate?
What is a good way to flegmatize/ slow down nitrocellulose? (I havenât much experience with that stuff burning slow and steady )
Partial nitration but lm not sure how thats done. Old pinkponk balls were made of partialy nitrated celulose. Burnt like gunpowder.
But l suspect wood wuldnt require any retardant since its about 50% lignin wich l dont think nitrates well. So it shuld be a nice mix of nitrocelulose/raw lignin. Just guessing, never saw one do it before.
Ah yes.
Those pingpong ball i remember from school timeâŠ
I remember reading somewhere about how to nitrate sawdust, and make it burn as fast as cotton powder, but youâre right, wood should probably work that way. (I use to âthink awayâ wrong, im not the chemist here)
I remember we burned cotton powder in our hands, it burned so terrible fast it didnât hurt, pingpong balls would be totally different 
Here, Johan, there was some experimenting with woodgas in Africa.
Svedlunds gasifier in 1930, Kenya.
