Good morning people. Leaving in two hours for this place. We rent the Oak Grove cottage.
The history of that place is really interesting! I hope he finds something cool while he is there!
Good morning people. Leaving in two hours for this place. We rent the Oak Grove cottage.
Thanks Bill
Got the bottle of Everclear on the weekend-maybe a Elderberry tincture for colds-either it will cure me-or kill me results.
We have a few bags in the freezer, might reduce it to a jam, make a hard sucky out of them. When it gets up in the 325F+ it gets the Humbug hardness happening.
Considering the temperature today just keeping it simple for supper. I'll be opening a can of fava beens, adding some frozen mussels, chopped up peppers, celery, onion and some other odds and ends and add some home made salad dressing to finish it off.
And whats wrong with that in the winter ? ? ?
ARC/RC,
Speaking of long johns in the sauna....coming back from my morning walk around 10 a.m. a jogger went by me wearing a ski jacket with the hood up.
Obviously trying to work up a serious sweat in this heat or give himself a heart attack.
C'mon Xaos;
Get your patrician butt in the shop and find me a mid eighties 4H.P. Belgian Johnson plastic prop for $50 bucks, including shipping...
Have a J.C. Penny 3.5 outside that needs tank testing. I expect it to run. But should locate a water pump impeller before getting too ambitious.
Auction bids when I offered it after it didn't sell at estate sale were below 60 dollars. With a good auxiliary metal tank and proper line fitting...
I have not dug too far as to who built it yet. Eska perhaps built the lower unit. Not sure if a Briggs or Tecumseh motor.
My heart got going the other day in the heat wrestling tractor. Hand cranking when it was passed out ect..
Had to take a break. Then another after touring some of the property.
Finally said the heck with it and went home.
Still waiting for a cooler day as an excuse to work on getting that tractor going again.
I like summer. Just not acclimated like when I worked in the heat year round. Or as young...
I do recall hitting the river years ago before I had A.C. on hot days.
Where the creeks enter it from springs , your beverages stay chilled in water so cold your feet hurt. Luxury! And bonus trout most times for supper. They being where the cold water mixes with the river for temperature and oxygens sake.
I sort of collect old outboard motors. I run em till they break and they are still laying around anyways. I got two almost identical outboards, same engine, one is a '82 Evinrude rated at 2hp, the other is a Johnson colt rated at 1.2 shp. They are essentially identical, one was made on license in Belgium, the other was made in Milwaukee. Both of them have been severely overheated but I think I can get one of them going again.
Another one I got hanging in the basement is an old Sears Gamefisher 1.2hp with a Tanaka engine. Tanaka outboard engines in general weren't too good, with the exception of the 1.2hp.. I got it used back in the mid nineties for $100. Ran it on the the skiff for about four years straight until the recoil on the pull start broke.
Found out a replacement used recoil is $100. Took the pull start housing off to exposed the face of the flywheel, tapped a pair of studs into the flywheel and then just wrapped the studs with a peice of cord to pull start. Ran it another two seasons of fishing/duck hunting and the shear pin on the prop broke. Bought new 3.5 Tohahtsu that week.
I think tomorrow im going to stick a 3/4" long peice of coat hanger wire in there to replace the shear pin and see if I can wind her up. Dangerous thing that out board, what with the two 1-1/4" studs whirling round and round and plenty of opportunity to get hung up in the cord starting it, thus maiming oneself, but I got a lot of good memories featuring that two stroke Tanaka.
Maybe just once more around the lake for old times. It sounds like a model airplane engine. I like it.
That's one way to do it, I guess.
I saw a duck boat once with 7hp air cooled Honda and it had a universal joint between engine and shaft with a hinge on the cutlass bearing strut so you could raise the prop inside the hull. That along with a tip up rudder and you could pole your boat wherever it'll float.
A while back I was dreaming about do something similar but with much smaller engine. Maybe make it light enough to portage. 32cc chainsaw engine ought to do it...