In Minnesota you would get a ticket for not having a light for the license plate.
The only purpose of the light is so the police can call your plate in when they pull you over at night. In the old days police cars had a spotlight that they aimed at your plate. Now license plate lights (or lack of) is just an excuse to pull you over. I flagged a guy from Kansas over last night. He was hauling a hog roaster but his back door was flapping in the breeze. He pulled over and fixed it … Sign language at 70 mph … He had a homemade plate on it stating under 2000 pounds … I have a under 1000 pounds home made on my trailer plate … It has a light … less than 2 weeks to go … M
How are some other states when it comes to trailers? here in WI I believe trailers under #3000 need no plates.
Yeah I know I need a tag light and I will put one on the Caddy!!! ( maybe)
Jim I don’t know what the law is about tags for trailers here in Iowa, I’ve had a 16ft car trailer that I use for every thing and I’ve never tagged it but I’m sure I should.
Got my splitter going today with the bigger motor and full 12" stroke, works pretty good.
I’ve never registered mine either Herb. I went to the DMV to do it they said they didn’t do it there, and I had to send my title of to Madason or someplace. I figured if they wanted my money they would have taken it when I gave them the chance. Government seems to go out of there way to make everyone a criminal by making it nearly impossible to be complient. Looks like you splitter would double for driving wells as well. I have a few cord of pies to split to but first I need to get the gasifire built.
Thanks for the video Herb. Be careful and don’t pinch a finger .
BBB
JIm, I understand it to be under 1000 GVW in Wisconsin … I could be wrong or misinformed. It only matters if you get caught anyway … Mike
Very good Herb. The finger thing is a bit scary, but it does have a nice industrial sound to it.
about how the splitter works. First video didn’t show much about what makes it go up and down, this one does!
Anyone can reach me at 515-778-6466, I would be glad to talk! herb
PS I know it does look scary and it is!!! I could cut a finger off splitting with a hatchet, at least this comes down the very same place every time, can’t say that about a hatchet!!! Like anything else a person really needs to be careful. Thanks
Had never tried to flare the Caddy before but to my surprise it went well.
I did a 10 min video but having trouble getting it moved to YouTube, here are some stills for now!
http://jamclasses.drbanjo.com/static/dimages/image_255.jpg
Looks good Herb. Something magic about that for sure.
That’s pretty cool Herb. The only Caddy with that ability.
I like the second picture. The way the license plate is burnt almost looks like the fire is behind the numbers because of the reflective material in the plate.
Looking good Herb !!
Gotter, I’m always amassed when the video appears!!!
I wished I would have waited till latter / darker but didn’t know what to expect
Still going latter in the evening
Thanks for the stills pictures HerbH.
My wife’s gifted found new-old-stock modem is working fine but dial-up is still too slow for vidio.
Regards
S.U.
I’m happy to see you posting again, I will try to find someone that can cut that video down to a minute or so, can you watch short video’s?
Hi back HerbH.
20 minute download for every one minute watched. Comes in ~3 second watched to 3 minute frozen download bursts. Not quite like watching paint dry. I pass the waiting tome to do a lot of detail scrtinizing and thinking.
Even my old man learned patience wears thin after an hour of this. Especially with the long faced talkers, preaching 'the Way".
Far too much “my way or Hell” forced stuffed as a minor kid to ever be able to tolorate it once big enough to take the wupping at 15 for walking away. (not meaning you or WayneK of course)
Ha! Stills pictures and I’ll find less to critique.
In real life there are always many ways to reach worthy goals. Variety is the spice of life. Variety in approaches is the only way to have robust, self-recovering systems. Mono-Anything is stupid, self-destructive and non-enduring and the true way to failures hell.
Regards
S.U.
I wish I would have cleaned the filters before I shot these, I think that May have given a prettier flame. I’m over due, I’ve only changed filter hay one time at 2500m now it’s has nearly 5500miles!!!
Thanks HerbH.
I can see now just fine. Translucent POWER flares.
I’ll give you a phone call on your listed number later if O.K.?
Thanks too IanM. for the cell phone screen shots photos that you put up on the other thread. O.K quality and download-abilty.
I know many of you Newers are disbelievers in this but video has always been matrix “dense” and damaged/aged lost fragile. From the old celluloid days of 8, 16, & 36 MM to the different magnetic tapes - goes bad; gets corrupted; and the “players” systems age out and become impossible to maintain. Same will happen to digital video storage.
Stills pictures from the 1827 and 1833 oldest “heliographs” to current digital stills will then get later the evolved current tech restored and broadly saved on durable print paper in books and albums for view by ALL. Not just viewable then by whomever the then current info-gateway priests may be.
Regards
Steve Unruh
Hi Herb and all,
I just discovered this thread and have spent the last hour or so looking through it - great job, Herb! I will be going back though it and looking at it in more detail. I have a 92 Deville with the 4.9 L , thought it would be a good woodgas vehicle and started converting it somewhat along the same lines as you did a couple of years ago, with a trailer hitch luggage rack but with a LaRosifier unit for the gasifier. I did do two 2" PVC pipe lines under the car but think the vacuum line approach is better after knocking the PVC pipe joints loose driving over ice chunks last winter. Last year after the Argos meetup I decided to switch to a WK gasifier, I have started construction but will be using a small trailer to carry the gasifier and assorted gear. My pneumatic load leveler system also leaks, but I installed a battery cutoff switch to keep it from draining the battery. I just liked the idea of having a little more room for all the gear on the trailer, plus as ML has shown, it could also be used to power different vehicles, too.
Previously I have converted a 69 GMC pickup to woodgas via a LaRosifier based gasifier with much help from Mike LaRosa and the woodgas community. The GMC now resides in Horse Shoe,NC, but may turned in for scrap soon as the trailing arms collapsed again recently and the cab now sits a little cockeyed on the frame after the truck slipped out of gear and crashed into a tree. No one in my family will ride with me in it anymore, I can’t see why, just because I have to latch the doors with deadbolts and the cab has lots of new ventilation in the floors and firewall.
I am sorry to say that I didn’t make the 2014 Argos meetup, my daughter just had our first grandchild recently and last week we came back to Tully, NY after being with her in Kansas City and spending a little time in our new winter place in Horse Shoe, NC, just outside of Asheville.
Anyways, I hope to finish the Caddy conversion this summer (I said the same thing last year, too). Now that I am “retired” it may be more likely to happen.
A question, where did you install the switches for the fuel injectors and pump? I have been trying to do this via the fuse box on the passenger side under the dash but the appropriate fuses are awkward to reach and I haven’t been successful with this aspect yet.
Thanks,
Rick Bates