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Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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panolo
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yup! back in the mid-60's and up to about 1970... when those new factory hot rods showed up at the dealer's showroom, well, for me at least... ok, me and my buddies... it was
I was a chevie guy then. but I know ford and Chrysler had their head turners, too. any 67/68 Camaro with a Big Block in it was King! and if you liked Chevie, who didn't want and respect a 68/69 Nova with a 375 horse solid lifter engine in it!! ? of course, the '67 427 'vette Stingray was in a class by itself. I think it took right about $4200 too buy one like that... new! guy up the street had just bot a new one, green, 4-spped. 427! omg
104 octane gasoline, Chevron's white pump was usually 28-cents a gallon 'circa 1967, sometimes as low as 26-cents a gallon! (how I grumbled having to buy it for my 12.5:1 427 rat motor! lol run the good stuff, sing, anything else and it would rattle!) and that stuff would make any 11:1 engine sing... and if 12.5:1... no prob, even those would sing on that elixir! 
you just would have had to have been there...
you just would have had to have been there...
thanks for those swell pix!
one poster on another thread said he got to his house and it was 40F! chilly - but up where D-ick Proenneke lived, up at Twin Lakes, AK in his book Alone In The Wilderness he stated that after a day out on the ice (up to 30" thick) and snowy, windy and -35F... when he got back to the cabin... it was a "toasty 45!"
it was a "toasty 45!"
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These days I'd say 90% of the fast street cars around here run e85. 104 octane and cheaper then 87.104 octane gasoline, Chevron's white pump was usually 28-cents a gallon 'circa 1967, sometimes as low as 26-cents a gallon! (how I grumbled having to buy it for my 12.5:1 427 rat motor! lol run the good stuff, sing, anything else and it would rattle!) and that stuff would make any 11:1 engine sing... and if 12.5:1... no prob, even those would sing on that elixir!
you just would have had to have been there...
I have used 104 in the past. not much e85. but up to 10% ethanol, just about all gasoline here is that in the Regular brand. do they add a % of 104 to a tank full, or an entire can? with today's electronics and turbos and the helix-type blowers... and very efficient inter-coolers... the air is not so beat up as with a roots-type... the new supercharged Corvette (@$107K!) is pure poetry in motion... off-idle, part throttle, mid-range and at WOT*... even if it requires premium grade gasoline. I guess, lol... if one has to ask, "really!, Premium Only?"... they cannot afford the car! ~
*modern automotive technology!
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The octane rating for e85 is around 104. No need to add anything.I have used 104 in the past. not much e85. but up to 10% ethanol, just about all gasoline here is that in the Regular brand. do they add a % of 104 to a tank full, or an entire can? with today's electronics and turbos and the helix-type blowers... and very efficient inter-coolers... the air is not so beat up as with a roots-type... the new supercharged Corvette (@$107K!) is pure poetry in motion... off-idle, part throttle, mid-range and at WOT*... even if it requires premium grade gasoline. I guess, lol... if one has to ask, "really!, Premium Only?"... they cannot afford the car! ~
*modern automotive technology!
Yea, that was the heyday for super cars for a long time (just recently being eclipsed). However, even back then, it was just like our "ported saws". If you car was showroom stock, you were not running against us! When I had the 427 Ford Engine in the 70 Boss 302 Body a friend got a brand new 464 460Hp Chevelle. He looked at me and said "no way am I running you, I'm stock".
Looks like Black Cherry to me.
Of course back in the late 60s early 70s power adders were almost unheard of on the street, your car ran on your built motor!
A SC would stick about a foot above your hood, and was almost exclusively for the track, and there were no turbo or nitrous kits. Just bad cams, headers, self ported heads/intakes, and carb and intake options. No AM heads, or crank/rod/piston kits (that did not use OEM cranks)!
That said, we made enough power that if you didn't know how to drive, you could not win a race. Also, all the fastest cars were 4 speed stick.
Some guys would let other people race their cars, because they did not know how to launch or row the gears fast enough.
A SC would stick about a foot above your hood, and was almost exclusively for the track, and there were no turbo or nitrous kits. Just bad cams, headers, self ported heads/intakes, and carb and intake options. No AM heads, or crank/rod/piston kits (that did not use OEM cranks)!
That said, we made enough power that if you didn't know how to drive, you could not win a race. Also, all the fastest cars were 4 speed stick.
Some guys would let other people race their cars, because they did not know how to launch or row the gears fast enough.
Sunny and 19F , I think I'll go find a blowdown to cut
Well , I fired up the Yammy , put together the woodrack by the door and filled it , it holds a face of a cord .
A balmy windthrill of -1 F out there but 80F in the house on scrounged wood
I just expanded my knowledge of cords, well... sorta! ~
not that I was concerned about it, as any time full... a handful of firewood. (see below) but on one of those always too cold in Alaska shows... the 'pioneer'... stated he had to turn some standing dead wood into firewood. and omg all with only an axe.
then once he had hauled it back to his cabin area he mentioned cords and said a cord is 128 cu ft. well... I know a cord is 4 x 4 x 8... but never thot of it in terms of cu ft. board feet? lol... so I got to thinking... hmmm my orange 2-wheel wheelbarrow is 10 cu ft. that means I need just about 13 loads to make a cord. or... each wheelbarrow full is 1/13th of a cord.I know. trivia. but some trivia we cannot live without! lol
orange 2-wheel wheelbarrow is 10 cu ft or 1/13th of a cord...
lol - that's right - if you was running showroom stock, no matter what the options... 'you, they... weren't running against us!'... I ate everything that came up against me on the street... running a '36 Ford 3-window, that L88 427 cu in chevie big block, dual quad tunnel ram, in a near albeit primer look-a-like Stone/Woods/Cook gasser.
I built the tube axle set up myself, although I had to have the radius rod's brackets milled and the king pin bushings reamed out to fit my old ford spindles... all chevie running gear, 4:56 tail end. there was a late nite faction down at the shipyards in Seattle, Bethleham Steel's parking lot. the cnk's would come in late at night... and sit down there with their modified Hemi's... I heard about them, some of my cohorts would go down and chew the fat... I never ran any of them...nitrous was still a legend from WWII P-38's, etc....
postscript: no way was I going to run cast manifolds, or even just duals. I wanted over the wheel sphaghetti pipes n dumps. a guy I knew was going to make me some. he worked in speed shop and also exh shop. I waited, and I waited.... but he never came thru. finally, I got me a flange kit and some big diameter u-bends. and with my hacksaw I fastened up a pair that any drag gasser would have been proud of. but alas, I dint gas weld too good then, but i could run a mean arc stick!... and they were only tacked. but... my next door neighbor was a pro welder at Boeing. so I talked to him, told him my story... he listened.
I was asking him if he would do the welding?... (pretty please!) lol... finally, he said OK. "but I am not doing it for free!" "so how much would you want?" remember back then regular gasoline was 17-cents a gallon. he said... looking me in the eye: " ten bucks! I will do it for ten bucks. no less!" ok, I said... $10.00! you would have had to have been there then! lol
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he did it, too. $10.00. but when I picked them up, he said, there u go! but u can be sure I will never do that... again for no ten bucks!
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Its been that cold in my house when its zero outside and I was gone for a while. When its zero outside with a 15mph wind 45 feels fantastic. Just dont sit around in your boxers. And stay close to the stove till the house warms up.one poster on another thread said he got to his house and it was 40F! chilly - but up where D-ick Proenneke lived, up at Twin Lakes, AK in his book Alone In The Wilderness he stated that after a day out on the ice (up to 30" thick) and snowy, windy and -35F... when he got back to the cabin... it was a "toasty 45!"
it was a "toasty 45!"
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Got those 2 cherry limbs worked up. Let it snow!
Starting to add up.
Starting to add up.
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
Thought of you lot this morning. Wondering how many of you are snowed in and dreaming of Spring.
This crossed my mind as I was admiring the view from my kayak, about to land my first of about a 1/2 dozen fish.
Here's a pic from this morning down here, for the Winter white-outers experiencing cabin fever up there:
This crossed my mind as I was admiring the view from my kayak, about to land my first of about a 1/2 dozen fish.
Here's a pic from this morning down here, for the Winter white-outers experiencing cabin fever up there:
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