Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[bamadude]

Anybody know a good source for lavander am hatching eggs?

 

[perchie.girl]

Good Monday morning everyone!

We had rain last night!!! A good soaker!!! You could almost hear the poor grass slurping

Maybe now they can lift the burning ban and everyone can stop holding their breath waiting for the wildfires. We are officially back into a drought situation (another El Nino year). We lost our snowcover early this year and then no rain so the green up didn't come. ALL we had was a lot of crisp, dry, brown everywhere and piles of dead winter damaged limbs mixed with dry leaves, not good. We were under a severe storm warning but all the nasty stuff went to our south. We didn't even get much wind or lightening, thank you Lord.

Love everyone showing off their hard work with their pics and all the baby pics too!

Alaskan-sorry for your loss. Tends to be the bad side of this time of year.

Hope everyone had a good weekend. We played hooky and went to an antique tractor plowin'. I really enjoy watching those old machines doing their stuff, especially the steamers. I also get a great kick out watching all the small older "pucka pucka" motors chuggin' away shucking corn, drawing water and such.


tried to upload a video of one of the larger ones starting up but I got an "illegal file" error, oops.

What was really cool was they had one of the old tractors pulling a seated wagon you jumped on and they would go out in the field and drive right beside one or two of the tractors plowing so you got to go ride beside them down the field.



Thought I had better pics but I was having serious digital "operator errors" from my phones (kept getting my finger in the
way but the sun was so strong I couldn't see my screen

)

Oh I Love Love Love those "hit and miss" engines. They will run for hours on ounces of fuel and they arent too particular on what kind of fuel they get... I WANT one in the worst way.

I have seen them used to pump water but they would be perfect for running a generator of some sort. Or a small sawmill... Like home sawing trees for lumber..... or a grain mill .... I even thought of using one to run a generator for a small electric vehicle....

Some even use the old style Centripetal force governors You know the kind that have three cylindrical weights on it and it spins up to a point causing them to flatten out and shut off the fuel...

The cylinder doesn't fire till it needs to maintain its speed.... 90 percent of the Kinetic energy is stored in the fly wheel.... So it fires when the wheel slows down.... so you will here a little fire only when it needs it .... Kaput...... Kaput, Kaput........ Kaput......................... Kaput kaput kaput..... Kaput the one I spent an hour watching and talking with its owner had a beer can sized fuel tank... I think either filled with Kerosine or Kerosine diesel mix.... Or gas and oil mix. Gosh that was back when my son was about five or so.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit-and-miss_engine

Oh they describe the sound as:

"POP whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh POP"

They will POP more when the engine is under a load....


deb "Lost in thoughts of a Hit and miss engine"

 

[Alaskan]

those old engines are dreamy for me.

So thanks @perchie.girl and @chickisoup

 

[perchie.girl]

those old engines are dreamy for me.

So thanks @perchie.girl and @chickisoup

YOu neeed to get one.... I have seen them on Ebay for around 400 ..... sigh... Shipping would be aweful because they are HEAVY even the small ones

Another good use for one would be for water circulating in a pond or for a fountain....

deb "edited because I am still swimming in possibilities"

 

[chickisoup]

YOu neeed to get one.... I have seen them on Ebay for around 400 ..... sigh... Shipping would be aweful because they are HEAVY even the small ones

Another good use for one would be for water circulating in a pond or for a fountain....

deb "edited because I am still swimming in possibilities"

They are sold and swapped back and forth at swap meets up here all the time. They are in pretty high demand because there are a lot antique machinery clubs and collectors but they are also still put to use by a lot of folks for running homemade sawmills, pumping water for small "homesteader" stock tanks instead of windmills, just about anything you can think of. Oh, a couple of em that use the governors are powering some very old tour type boats on the lakes in the summer time. Where we went yesterday was really just a local club that plows each others' fields every spring and got the idea a couple years ago to turn it into an "event". There are a couple really big antique thresherees in the late summer every year to our south and we are lucky that the biggest one is only about an hour and a half away. The flea market part of it alone is so big they have tractor pulled wagons to ride around it on. It is more like part flea market, part craft fair and huge old motor parts/farm antiques swap meet. There is always over a hundred antique tractors, a really big working antique sawmill, tons of hit and miss motors set up being used to do all kinds of crazy things, some what they we actually used for once and some that come out of the imagination of farmers getting way too bored with our long winters!

I always make sure I have saved my pennies because I never come home without some cool old farm something that either has to do with chickens, like an antique egg scale or some neat old something for the house.

Oh, and old engines that are up for sale draw a pretty good price because everybody wants one!

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:
cool.... There is a horse version called Plow Days too. I have only seen pictures. But they run threshing mashines mowers and of course plowing.... But there is even a horse powered ice cream machine.... too funny... Just a treadmill running the turner and lots of dry ice.

another at horse progress days.... Amish country these are Amish built and used to power Amish tools.

last one.... horse powered Saw Mill in Beliz....

deb

 

[chickisoup]

Those videos are really cool!

Bet you didn't know they still use horses for logging in Wisconsin. They use them when they need to log in environmentally sensitive areas or where you want to keep ground damage to a minimum like parks, etc. or there is one guy up here with a team he uses to log out areas where the machines can't get too or small parcels. I really enjoy watching them work and love it when we happened to come upon them on a job. There is also a farm just down from our feedmill that is a small scale breeder of working Perchies. Love watching those huge spring "babies" kicking up their heels.

 

[Woodsdweller]

I know. This may become my favorite thread. Wacky bunch of caffeine junkies lol

Who you calling junkie?!? I don't know about some, but I am not a junkie!! I can quit anytime I wanna.. I just don't wanna right now, or tomorrow.. or next month, but I can quit anytime and am not a junkie!!

A little hyper........maybe.

 

[chickisoup]

 

[hennible]

Oh I Love Love Love those "hit and miss" engines. They will run for hours on ounces of fuel and they arent too particular on what kind of fuel they get... I WANT one in the worst way. I have seen them used to pump water but they would be perfect for running a generator of some sort. Or a small sawmill... Like home sawing trees for lumber..... or a grain mill .... I even thought of using one to run a generator for a small electric vehicle.... Some even use the old style Centripetal force governors You know the kind that have three cylindrical weights on it and it spins up to a point causing them to flatten out and shut off the fuel... The cylinder doesn't fire till it needs to maintain its speed.... 90 percent of the Kinetic energy is stored in the fly wheel.... So it fires when the wheel slows down.... so you will here a little fire only when it needs it .... Kaput...... Kaput, Kaput........ Kaput......................... Kaput kaput kaput..... Kaput the one I spent an hour watching and talking with its owner had a beer can sized fuel tank... I think either filled with Kerosine or Kerosine diesel mix.... Or gas and oil mix. Gosh that was back when my son was about five or so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit-and-miss_engine Oh they describe the sound as: "POP whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh POP" They will POP more when the engine is under a load.... deb "Lost in thoughts of a Hit and miss engine"

Hey those are the engines that gave birth to the phrase "balls out" as in to go fast, full speed etc...