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No worries... Mrs. P put a sensor in the shop door. Every time Kevin goes in the shop it pre-dials 911...

Please post the exact time. We don't want to miss the show.

We really do need to get you a day job.

A very cheesy day, National Cheddar Day is celebrated annually on February 13. Created by the Tillamook County Creamery Cooperation, this day celebrates the amazing cheese type called cheddar, and all its edible products. Cheddar cheese hails from the actual city of Cheddar in Somerset, South England. In 1170 the Royals had their first taste Cheddar, King Henry II records the purchase of 10,240 pounds of cheddar cheese. Somerset dairyman Joseph Harding modernized and standardized cheddar-making techniques in 1847. Renowned cheesemaker Peter McIntosh brought his cheese-making skills to Tillamook County, Oregon, in 1894 forming the Tillamook County Creamery Association

Couldn't you just use the "BUS" as a burn chamber and duct out through the slide windows? Just kidding! Looks great. Hope it works well for you.

With a stack up, I have built a burner. Now it needs to be tested, then installed. There will be a drip tube into the pot and air will be pushed into the burner. I’ll manually light and control it.

I have been lurking for a while now, no action in my herd. Decided to quit smoking cigarettes and work on my self for a little while. My smoking was getting out of control, and I needed some dental surgery, so I am making the best of a crappy situation. Working in the shop brought that urge back, because I smoked in the shop but not the house. 8 weeks and minus some way overdue wisdom teeth +1. Time permitting, work n life are...... well yall know. This weekend, I plan to reopen my shop to myself and start with finishing the hydro-pedal on the 520. It's done short of putting tractor together n test/adjust

Bet you let the smoke out of the recorder on that one ...

It's that "Kevin" thing. My wife should have arthritis in her neck as much as she shakes her head over the silliness she sees me do!

@953 nut - That trail cam video of @Achto and @WHX?? last night was outstanding quality!!! I thought they only launched curds...?

Do you think I can hang this from the weight box? 😉 https://www.facebook.com/share/15soLNb615/?mibextid=kL3p88

Lucky, I dated a lady that bought a brand new car. Like literally brand new 5 miles on it, she drives it directly to my place 8 miles away and had curbed both driver side wheels. 🤣🤣

Put the truck to work again this past weekend. Courtney bought herself a 1951 Allis Chalmers WD, I was trying to work a deal with the same seller for a McCormick Deering W4, but that didn’t pan out so I bought myself a 1948 WD. So now we have a matching pair of tractors. That’s mine on the trailer. After our last trip pulling the stock trailer with the two heifers I must admit I was a bit disappointed, but also knew that the wind didn’t help things any. After this weekend I feel better about our purchase, I ran 70-75 most of the way loaded and couldn’t hardly even tell there was a tractor and trailer behind me.

Heating value is a real thing indeed. Natural gas is around 1,000 btu per cu. Ft, and LP being 2500 or so if I recall. I’m sure there are values of motor oil, diesel, transmission fluid, etc. I get a kick at the flash point of various liquids I toss in the fire. Some nearly explode when the fire is hot, but will barely burn when it’s cold.

An engineer I worked with was messing with a waste oil heater a few decades ago. The burner design he was working with was a hollow sphere that was pressurized with air, had small holes in it, and " controlled" amounts of oil were dripped over the outside. Theory being that the air coming out of the holes would atomize the oil for an efficient burn. He used a 55 gallon drum to house everything. It worked better than he expected. The last I heard about that project was a story about a glowing 55 gallon drum and charred floor joists.

I pointed out in the video, but I plan to keep the wheels, rubber snubbers, handle, tubing, etc. as homage to the compressor’s history. I re-started my tool collection as a teenager when all my tools were stolen from my car either in my driveway or at school. Insurance paid out more than we figured, and I re-invested it right back into better tools.

Free hand cuts are decent, cuts with a fence are amazing! I’m running it on my 240v welder plug now, no more breakers popping! The circuit I was using also keeps the chicken water at 40 degrees and runs my radio. I was still able to make a good 6” of cut on 3/16” plate before tripping the breaker, but I knew I needed to run it with higher voltage supply.

Somehow I figured the new toy (plasma cutter) in the shop would lead to a new project and Kevin hasn't let me down. Makes some very nice cuts. Waste oil burning furnaces are used in a lot of commercial auto repair shops in NC and the ones I have seen use LP Gas for start-up ignition and use a fuel oil type gun once they are fired. Looking forward to the video, hope there aren't any red flashing lights in it.

I know a few people who “recycle” a large amount of oil. Some people know they are already welcome to drop jugs of it here. I’ve been tossing a bit here and there on the fire in the wood boiler for years. This has got to be a way more efficient method of burning it.

Please tell me you're gonna put this on your youtube channel?

entertaining you 🤡 isn’t enough?

Got about 5" of the wet heavy stuff. Perfect plow snow. The 312H had a couple hours of exercise.

I have this bike rack, I might use some of the straight tubes for a heat exchanger of sorts.

I’m going to call this a tool or equipment. It’ll be used to safely heat my shop, compared to a “topedo” heater. I also have a fan assisted coil from the wood boiler, but the shop consumes a ton of heat and I spend more time throwing wood in. I’ll call this the brainstorming phase picture. My first ever new air compressor purchase, it lasted about 12-15 years before the compressor gave out. Some drums and rotors for thermal mass and a burn pot, some stuff to create a door area…

I've "ghetto" cleaned carbs before, taken out the jets I could get to with the carb still on, sprayed carb cleaner with the straw through the passage, then dialed down my compressor & gave them a shot of air, last time I did a walk behind snowblower & it worked. I'm not saying that it will every time or that you should do it. Surging is usually the idle jet getting plugged up.

Trina has the basement door and frame all built, filled in, and painted. I helped just a bit. Mostly her efforts.

We had waste oil burners in a few shops years back. Then some of my customers had them when I was in the parts biz. Biggest thing is what's in the oil. Gas, paint thinners, water raise cain. I'm sure the technology is better today but most of them were more trouble than they are worth. The first one I was ever involved in was similar to what you are building. Had to chip out all the hardened soot every morning. Total PITA

So far, today I plumbed in the 312 tank I put on my 308 in, and tested it. No leaks so far. After trying out my snowmobile, I tested the new tank by plowing the driveway.

No, that would only be $ 359.70, not nearly a ton unless they were lead slugs. He would need to save $ 3,200 in pennies to save a ton.

Yes, I’ve been recording my thought process and reasoning. I’m fixing for a test fire, before I weld the burner into the tank.

Nice! That's a great project. I was just recently watching some youtube videos on building those and it probably linked after watching one of your other videos. There's a bunch of waste oil out there that I procrastinate on recycling but also saw some video stuff about mixing it with diesel to run through the chinese cab heaters to burn it. Basically double the volume of fuel and mix it 50/50 with the diesel.

Looks like the new plasma cutter came in handy on this project! Following with interest.

Are you making this up as you go along, or did you find some plan to work from? You got guts I'll give you that.

I wish you the best on quitting. I was 2-3 packs a day when I quit 35 years ago. Best thing I ever did!

I was having trouble with the starter on my dedicated snow plow machine so I pulled the mower deck off a 312 I have and swapped the plow, weights, and chains from one to the other . Rather than take off the rear chains I just swapped the whole tire/wheel, mostly because the tire on the 312 has a pretty good leak but it actually was easier than messing with chains It was a long cold day... But I'm ready for the sloppy weather in the forecast. Sort of. All in all, I'd rather have a warm spell

Tractor Supply has them on line. Troy-Bilt weights 42# ship to store $74.89.

Likewise. Old-school 3/16" black reinforced fuel line works nicely and lasts a very long time.

I'm guilty too. I hate the hood rattling.

I've been a professional mechanic for 19 years. I didn't know it was possible to work on a car for 45 minutes and not bleed.

It is a tractor...tractors rattle and make noises... We aren't working with a Mercedes here.

Most of the parts have been paid for. My time has not. This is Mrs. P’s widowed aunt’s car and she has been driving Grandma’s (who has dementia and cannot drive) in the meantime. I’m glad the car can be gone now, and I can get onto another to-do.

EB & BBT of T & E Wheelhorse Stables Love cheese. 🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀

In my previous role as a cop I saw plenty of examples of the Darwin awards nominees. A guy stealing copper cable to sell as scrap chose an 11Kv feed into a steel mill. Unfortunately it wasn't a closed down steel mill and the cable was live which is exactly the opposite of the guy when his hacksaw cut through the armor sheathing. Another who built a home made machine to allow him to safely "hang" himself by the neck to increase his sexual enjoyment. It was designed to let go of the rope when he pressed a lever just as he passed out. He didn't factor in that this lever needed to be "deadman" style in operation, and he died during its first test run. And from an engineer point of view a guy was working at a scrap yard, cutting up machinery that operated large valves. These large cylinders contained two huge compression springs to provide assistance to the valve operation. Held together by long threaded rods the springs were in a compressed state and there were warning tags on each to inform engineers not to disassemble the units without the proper equipment. Turns out the proper equipment did not comprise of an oxy acetylene torch which our hero selected as his weapon of choice. According witness evidence there's a loud bang followed by a boing noise as the springs made a bid for freedom. We only found one of the two, quite a way from the yard, the other is presumably on a roof or in the nearby canal. Wherever it went it impacted our hero and ended his life in spectacular fashion before vanishing. There are many more as you can imagine. But also many more who really should have been removed from the gene pool, given they were paddling about in the shallow end of it lol.

You'll have to cut @Pullstart a little slack, I watched a 45 minute video of Kevin and his daughter working on her SUV and there wasn't a drop of blood shed.

I am a bit concerned that there may be an AI version of @Pullstart out there...

True that. Tranny felt sound, still gonna pop all new seals in it.

Some forward progress & 1 set back. First the forward progress. Got the body work done on the sheet metal. Paint stripped off the transmission, ready for a wash & some paint. Pulled the head off from the engine to see what was what. This was the set back. I was planning on just a paint over haul on this one but plans have changed. When I pulled the head I thought "Holy piston wash Batman". Well guess I'm doing an engine rebuild too. Given this fact the engine is now torn down and ready to go to the machinist as soon as the new parts get here. Crank measures out perfect, bore is not out of spec but finding the early small bore parts is not easy. So late model 2 15/16" bore will be in order. Took the time to blast all the engine parts as well. Wanting more forward movement I decided to squirt a little more paint. All I got for this weekend.

My wife and I (and our children) are tall. When we built our house, we installed the kitchen and primary bathroom counters and cupboards 2 inches higher than standard. Hugely easier to use. When my very not tall now-DIL first visited she joked that maybe she needed a small stool.

Yep d series dual spools work very well!