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I understand. A rugged design which you have gotten used to and know how to get the best out of. Hard to beat. I would not change my 50 years old tractor for an brand new one even if someone was foolish enough to make the offer.

For me speaking a dialect of Swedish which retains the old three gender system that is just the normal way of thinking and speaking. In my dialect as well as in the dialects of Norwegian that retain the three gender system and in Faroeese and Icelandic which both retain the tree gender system...

The difference being that when your old car was stolen you could afford to buy an almost new hybrid. For me that would mean taking loans on a level which could only go one way. Bankrupsy and property auction. I do not bash you for that. You probably did a sensibe thing in your situation. We...

I think the youtubers are pulling the general public's perception askew. Many of those youtubers pour enormous resurces into gadgets and jigs and organisation aids and workshop furniture and everything is matching and perfect. In a way that no hobbyist can afford. Nothing reused nothing...

Still with 10 or 15 years battery life there will be a problem for many of us. My fist car was 16 years old when I took it over. I drove it for 21 years. Had to quit because the supply of spare parts is too depleted. The car itself is technically good for 10 more years of everyday use. My new...

For running on animal fat I rekon a hot bulb engine will be more appropriate. The problem being that hot bulb engines and spare parts for them are in short supply theese days and that unlike the aforementioned Perkins diesels few hot bulb engines have reliable governors. Woodgas would be...

The problem is still that the lifespan of all car batteries is very short. Around 6 years they say. A car that is affordable for an ordinary worker is normally quite a bit older than that. New batteries are generally nor affordable. This means that a commoner's electric car will be powered by a...

I have found that once the oganisation in a workshop drops below a certain level productivity will suffer too. Organisation is the mother of efficiency. Therefore my workshop is well organized.......... but there are plenty of woodchips and sawdust and shavings on the floor all the time. I...

I have heard yorkshiremen speak their dialect and recognized plenty of words. Probably loan words brought there by the Vikings. Lowland Scotish has a pronounciation which is a lot easier for me to speak than standard English. Fewer of those impossible sounds that get more plentiful the futher...

I have been sitting in the unheated tractor cab in -10 celsius most of the day today. Running a snow blower on an ice road. On 30cm (1 foot) thick sea ice. Blowing away the snow helps the ice road grow thicker and stronger. I thoroughly enjoy the first reasonably normal winter we have had in...

'If I'd a-know'd I 'ooden never a-went That scentence has paralells in Swedish and Norwegian. If standard English had kept that sort of grammar it would be far easier for us who speak other Germanic languages to learn English.

As a rule cheap tols that I have bought have been useless junk. Though there are a few exceptions breaking the rule: 1. A nameless Soviet made steel rule (I bought it as "new old stock" a couple of years after the Soviet Union fell apart) 2. My Soviet made Voskov scrub plane (actually it was...

I cannot see that it would be worth buying a nailer of any sort for building only one shed. Not if the shed is under 600 square metres.

Looks unnecsessarily expensive. Cheap shed foundation Nordic style: Dig a hole under each corner and pack it tight with stones and rocks. Place the largest fieldstne you can move on top of the packing so that it has a flat surface upwards at least a foot above ground. Place a good sized sill...

I think about the sort of trailers used by smallholders behind their tractors. Many still use trailers with a flat bed and a single axle with lorry wheels. The stakes are often welded in place and if not they fit into a short lenght of tube welded to the frame so that they can only be removed...

That type of cramps were commonly used by boatbuilders around here until the 1950-ies and some used them almost until the present day. The modern style which came after them uses a threaded rod and a nut with a crank handle in center which makes the wedge superficial. Hence they save a pair of...

The Americans were very good at spindle moulders in the 1910-s but then they decided it was good enough and essentially they still live in the 1910-s while we Europeans have moved on. A bit like the ridiculously oldfashioned log trailers still used in Finland. They were very good in the...

No. I have calculated what it would cost in the long term, to keep one running and the figures don't apeal to me.

If I had the choice I would take tersa over anything else. Just because changing knives is both cheap and quick. Why is to noice level critical? Most of us use ear protection for that.

There is really no way of cutting a disc off the end of a log without it cracking. It is all because of the fact the wood scrinks a lot more along the growth rings than in the radial direction. The splitting can be reduced by drilling a large enough hole in the center removing the center of...