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Another option is HID lighting, I personally like metal halide for inside the shop/garage as it provides "daylight" illumination good for aging eyes. If you keep an eye on Craigs list you can often find these fixtures in good used condition fairly cheaply. They are cheap to run and the bulbs last for years, they are also unaffected by cold temps. They do take a few minutes to fire up to full brilliancy and when fully light and shut off they can take a full 10mins or more for the bulb to cool and then fire up again. I have a pair of very large screw-in compact fluorescent s that I use for quick lighting if I have to run in and grab something fast after dark, they give light in a few seconds.On dark and dreary Winter days I can light the place up like a day at the beach, it is very good to combat the "Winter-Blues".

We have been having some Indian Summer weather in my neck of the woods so taking advantage of the opportunity I borrowed the dump trailer and picked up 5yds of natural ground bark mulch for the garden beds. The Bride has a fetish for mulched garden beds so I was happy to do it for her and the dump trailer made the job a heck of a lot easier than it had been in the past for me.

I found a great source for only used once 275gal IBC totes from one of the largest suppliers of paper goods in the US. These particular totes were used to transport the red dye used in their paper goods manufacturing processes. He sells 30 of these empty totes a month for $30 a piece, he sold my friend and I a half dozen of them for $150. My friend picked them up with his flatbed tractor trailer and I picked up my two from his house.

I was wondering why the trailer dealer gave my neighbor two huge heavy rubber truck tire chocks with he picked up the trailer, the same ones that you see fuel oil tank trucks using when they park to make a delivery. I did one up-hill dump with that 7x14 commercial grade dump trailer and remember a few uncomfortable moments when I saw my truck rear rise a little while I was dumping the load of gravel. Luckily once again God looked after a drunk and an idiot.

No my truck had the "tow package" so there was a connector waiting under the dash and the electronic brake control I got was set up for the F150 so all I had to do was plug it into the trucks connector.

My neighbor`s new dump trailer finally arrived and after the trailer dealer replaced the defective hydraulic dump cylinder the factory in Texas sent it out with it was ready to go. I used it to pick up a load of rice coal for both my neighbor and myself. It worked very well and the neighbor loves it, I love that he had a set of "trailer-keys" made for me to keep and he insists that I take it anytime I need it. For the maiden voyage I hauled a little over 2 3/4 tons of coal, aprox 1 1/2 tons in my 330gal IBC container for me and 1 1/4 tons in the dump box behind the container for my neighbor.

I did fire this stove up a week or two early in the season but that was the advice the inventor of the stove gave me. He said to have the first burn when you can still open every window in the house for the day. He wasn`t kidding, it smelled pretty bad, I then considered shutting it back down but it runs so well in "idle" mode and uses so little coal that I`m going to keep it burning. It`s keeping the basement a pleasant 66 degrees and helping to knock down the basement humidity. The coal-trol unit is everything they say it is, it makes the stoker behave a lot like a gas furnace. It controls the stoker feed motor, combustion fan speed and the cabinet fans, turning them on and off as needed, quite a system. http://www.automationcorrect.com/documents/Coal-trol_Trifold_Brochure_web.pdf

Lit the coal stoker yesterday to get the new stove smell burned off it and I spent a good part of the day making the necessary adjustments to get it running just right. Once it was tuned-in it worked like a charm, it took a few hours for the bad smells of a new stove to dissipate, I had a lot of windows open.

Three of my "carbon-footprints"

My friend wanted to stop leasing his propane tank so I put him in touch with my propane guy who sold him a new 1000gal torpedo tank. Yesterday I cut a 100ft trench for him with a rented Ditch-Witch to run the new propane supply line from the tank to the house. I must say this is one amazing machine, 1600lbs and articulated so it can do arcs. Took less than an hour and it leaves a really nice trench in it`s wake cutting thru some really dicey ground, digging around here is a usually a miserable undertaking.

We have had a vine grow here and there in the spots that we toss them and I`ve even seen a pumpkin flower on those vines occasionally. But our resident white tails never let a pumpkin bloom get past them, they usually eat the whole damn vine, so we`ve never grown a pumpkin yet.

A tradition of my Wife`s that has been going on for more than 20yrs now was repeated again yesterday with our annual pilgrimage to my friends farm to pick a bin of pumpkins. For the last couple of years my Sister-in-law has joined us and also picks a bin for her house. None of these pumpkins are used for food, actually I should correct that statement. They all get eaten by the local wildlife, everything from the black bear down to chipmunks get in on these. It is all for decorating around the house for the Autumn season. My friend Lenny the farmer roars with laughter every time we arrive each September to do this. He thinks it is absolutely hysterical to not even make a single pie out of what we pick and only use them to decorate the landscape. But it is what she likes to do and she puts up with me and my hobbies and what I collect and that stuff/junk generally never leaves, so I shut-up and pick pumpkins.

I had successfully rebuilt my Carter BB carb more than once over the years but I was always aware the carb was "well worn" and it always leaked a little around the throttle shaft. When it started acting up in late July I figured it was time to "bite the bullet" and send it out for a professional rebuild. I went with one out of of a list of rebuilders I found in another thread here in the forums. http://www.customrebuiltcarbs.com/index.shtml I shipped it out to them and I got a call a few days later asking for my CC info, I gave it to them and discussed my issues with the carb I had sent them, I was told they would call me when the carb was ready to ship. Close to a month goes by and I received no call from them, late Friday the UPS truck pulls up and delivers my carb. Early Sat I install the carb and started the car, it was now running worse than before, the carb was leaking and I finally noticed a connecting rod to the choke had been installed upside down.I called and someone answered the phone and told me the boss was not there and I should send them back the carb. I told him I wanted to speak to the boss and he said he would have the boss call me. After still getting no call by this morning I contacted Mastercard and told them my story and how I was not going to return my carb to the people that installed a part upside down so they could practice on it again.They (Mastercard) were able to reach the elusive boss on a 3 way call and I have to say he was a jerk. Luckily I had taken pictures from the time I opened the package he sent me and pictures are hard to dispute.Also hard to argue that the guy who rebuilt it knew what he was doing. He finally agreed to return my money $205.00 and we mutually agreed that we will not do business again in the future. Here I hold another BB carb along side it

My nearest neighbor was so impressed with that borrowed dump trailer I used to haul the gravel from the quarry that he went and ordered one brand new from a trailer dealer. He wants me to "break him in" on it`s use when he gets it in 4 weeks and take him to the coal breaker to pickup 3 tons of rice coal for his stoker stove. He is also insisting that I treat the not yet here trailer as my own when it comes and to take it anytime I need it. So I figured it was time to finally hookup the electric brake function that came with my trucks factory tow package.I had to install a relay, a 30amp fuse and a harness under the dash, all this had come in a plastic bag in the glove box. What I had to supply was the electronic control to make it all work, I opted for a decent one with a good reputation that worked with my model truck. The neighbor`s ordered trailer, it is a 6x12ft box with the optional 2-way tailgate, roller tarp and built in equipment ramps. http://www.pjtrailers.com/detail.cfm?ID=D2

The Red Rock Quarry

I got to use a Buddie`s dump trailer for a little over a day and used it to move 40 tons of 2B modified gravel from the quarry that is a couple of miles from my house. It gave me a good opportunity to test my trucks towing capability to it`s full potential and it did quite well. I`m using the gravel to groom my access road and fill in around the barn to give me more area I can use for vehicles and storage. I know the guy that runs the quarry for years now and he sells it to me for $6.50 a ton. This is the trailer, the C2500 model http://www.pequea.com/images/stories/manuals/trailer/dump/DumpTrailers_SS_lo.pdf

I was handed a very old wheel from what was once a wall mounted "Wheel of Chance" by a member of my Hunting Club and was asked to make a stand for it so it could be functional again and of course it had to be done for no money. So I recycled a flat screen TV base, a piece of electrical Kindorf and some odds and ends and it is now ready to spin again. As the club member that donated the antique chance wheel is as Irish as paddy's pig I figured I would decorate the stand I "cobbled together" in his honor. I disassembled it,painted it green and printed out some green shamrocks to decorate it.Then I repainted the red and the gold sections the best I could without damaging the antique graphics. I was able to clean decades of nicotine staining off the graphics with citrus hand-cleaning wipes. I then coated the clean but very fragile graphics with 8 coats of clear poly so they are under plastic now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4EIG8KNPMs

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I had traded off my pile of un-split firewood off to my friend Chris who has a side line selling wood. The trade was for him to carve me a 6ft chainsaw bear with "attitude" for my house. He delivered it this morning and we set it in place, he has assured me that it will get knocked over by the real black bear that comes visiting around here in the night and early morning. My friend Chris https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chris-DeMars-Wood-carvings/1098828646813265

My book says the same, but I know what carb is on my car and it is a D6P1, I guess it was a suitable replacement for the OEM Stromberg. I rebuilt mine last year and I was told it was only used on the fluid drive models because it had the second dashpot. Here is my carb opened up showing the extra dashpot to prevent stalling in fluid drive cars. I actually sent that dashpot out and had it professionally rebuilt as no one has them for sale. Whether it is really the correct one or not means very little to me, it is the one I`ve always ran, it always run well and now I have a backup,

Mike`s Carburetor is another great resource, and Mike is a heck of a nice guy. He also has a lot of videos on utube that can be very helpful when you are rebuilding a carb on your own. http://www.carburetor-parts.com/

I have been looking for a spare carb for my fluid drive D24 coupe for years. I even contacted every antique carb rebuilder/vendor I could find. and I was basically told I`d never find one,as they are as rare as "hen`s teeth". I belong to a FaceBook D24 group and a fellow member was seeking an oil pan for a 47. I was doing him a favor and scouring ebay for a pan for him and literally fell over my carb. I stared at the listing like a mental patient not believing my eyes. A NOS rebuilt Carter BB model D6P1 for $175 with the best offer option. I started at $90 and we went back and forth and agreed on $137.50 shipped. For me it was like finding the "Holy Grail" and the Wife did not complain even a little bit, which was another pleasant surprise. It has some surface rust and a bent adjustment screw but to me it is a beautiful thing.

I got the 14in duct work put up and the Coal-Trol control module mounted and connected.

I sold two more of floor model stoker stoves which now makes 5 in total with mine included and I have another neighbor picking up one of the last two remaining stoves tomorrow . Needless to say the now retired owner Jerry has been treating me pretty well and has agreed to get me the "Coal-Trol" system for my stove at less than half the price I can get it anywhere else. This system will control the stove automatically with a programmable digital thermostat and a computer control box that mounts on the rear of the stoker stove.They say it will keep the stove temp within 1-2 degrees of where you set it and feed the coal accordingly.. I had to rewire the feed mechs to go from manual to automatic control Got the flue stack and barometric damper installed Got the feed mechs and coal hopper installed Added a piece of electrical Kindorf as a reinforcement to the coal hoppers support wall