Welcome to my channel. Above all, I like to have fun! I do a lot of instructional videos in a wide range of topics. Mostly, I have fun with my military surplus truck. But I also have interests in bush-craft, Boy Scouts, and anything off-grid.
I am a retired helicopter instructor pilot with the US Army and I also flew EMS Air Ambulance helicopters, and managed entire programs after I retired. I also managed an entire County 911 call center. Now I am the Executive Director of Marketing and Sales for a start up company selling overland expedition habitats, sub-frames, and all those kinds of things. I am also highly involved and supportive of the military surplus vehicle community, especially the FMTV.
I do a lot of volunteer work with the Boy Scouts, so camping and cooking off grid with homemade stoves and heaters can be found here. I love pioneering projects and working with my hands.
I am a Jesus freak, and volunteer for the Lewis County Gospel Mission, whom my channel supports.
Get a big long bore bit, with a drill. Set your drum around it after you drill holes. Pour it full of used cooking oil. I mean soak it down. Saturate it well. Let it soak in. Then just build a normal fire on top. It'll take a lotta old oil. Maybe there's a restaurant near you that will just give it to you, since they dispose of it regularly?
Hi Dave, I've been making similar fire starters for a while using what ever is on hand at the time for filler. Cotton balls, dryer lint, saw dust, etc. but just came across an idea to use paraffin lamp oil instead of K1. The idea I guess is less fumes. I only make these when I need them so I don't store them for long, I wondered have you had issues with odor when you store yours? Also, just a thought, have you tried wax paper between the stacked cartons to help with sticking? I also wanted to mention that I really dig your stove. I was just contemplating a stove for my shop (16x45x10 pole barn) and was just thinking I'd use the standard 55 gal drum. I really like the concept of yours, especially the side warmer area using horseshoes (coffee pot). The size has me concerned though, does it heat well? And is it s wood hog if you try to keep it hot for long dur to smaller coal beds?
@@wakule yes, using Kerosene does add smell for storing. I use a plastic bin whether I am storing firestarters with kerosene or any kind of scented wax. As far as ingredients go, the cheaper the better. Most of the time I just use sawdust and wax. The only problem with the rim stove is that it does not have a huge fire chamber and just about everything has to be much smaller. Being that things are smaller, they tend to produce a lot of heat, but burn up somewhat faster. It is not that it hogs the wood , necessarily, but you have to keep adding smaller pieces more often. But it is a very inexpensive and very durable stove.
Hey how are you love your truck 👍 Question do you happen to know how much the old subframe weighed when removed? I’m looking at removing mine and just was curious on how much weight I’ll save buy putting an aluminium frame on
It depends on the length of the subframe. I think this one was 14' 4 point... so that is about 900 lbs.. Just for FYI, we tried going with aluminum frames to start with to save the weight, but found that the strength reduction made the frame way to big and costly compared to steel. The weight savings for the strength lost is not worth it. FEA testing proved with our models.
Making my own fire starters used to be a hassle - so messy and time-consuming. Now, I use Black Beard Fire Starters. Very affordable and they are made in America!
Messy and time-consuming? Hummm... Well, since I like starting fires and have my own stove that I can also cook on and use for heat in the shop, it is totally easy to just have a pan on top to melt the wax. When the wax is melted, I just scoop and plop until I have to melt more. I go back to whatever I was doing in the shop and before long, more wax is ready. In one day of just screwing around in my shop doing other things, I made over 24 dozen fire starters just be taking a break now and then to scoop wax. Maybe your setup is not conducive to making these?
I haven't seen a post over on facecrook for it yet. One suggestion though, you might consider having dinner Saturday night and breakfast on Sunday as potluck style, where we all contribute something. Will give it more of a group feeling without the time or money involved. Just decide on a basic theme for Saturday dinner and we can all say what we can bring to contribute.
Thank you. I was doing refolding trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. Never thought to unfold it completely and essentially do what we used to do for our ribbon bars. It went from being nicely folded and looking like garbage to looking 100% military precise with it "jammed" in there filling the glass fully and aligned. Thanks again. Oh, one extra thing I did was use small push pins on the back of the cardboard to keep the flag in position on the cardboard. This kept it from shifting while placing it into the frame and/or loading the remaining flag into the back.
Our home was built brand new. But my parents didn't live to see the sloppy plumbing work from the house to the septic tank. The "plumber" didn't feel like buying a curved pipe section... so he used two feet of old fire hose. Dad would've said "get a rope".😅
Wow, what a shyster plumber! I still do not know where the sewer drain field is. I have a suspicion, but I am too scared to dig it up to check its condition. lol.
@HelicoolsHelipad About a decade ago I had the Roto Rooter guy use something like an avalanche probe to find my gravel bed. As for the "rest", so long as the comodes flush, and the washer drains, I'm not going to look for problems. When the County decided to connect everyone on the street to the sewer system, they mysteriously ran out of public funds when they got to the last house... mine. So........
We bought a house in SC, AND IT WAS THE SAME WAY! My husband had to redo all the drainage system! You look at it and you go WHY, WHY WOULD ANYBODY THINK THIS WAS THE WAY TO DO THIS?
I know, right?! I am still shaking my head. I've also found live wires to a "once working light" that has been gone for decades. It just keeps giving. lol
This is exactly the kind of ignorant, shotty work I encounter every time I'm making repairs or updates to our home. Some people shouldn't be allowed to own or use tools. 😝
If they would only do it right the first time, we would not have to spend the time and money ripping out the garbage that they put in just to fix it right. I think you are on to something, but I think it is their lack of using tools, or at least the proper tools that leads to some of the mess. Agree?
I removed the tree just last year, as the old 93 year old apple was on its last legs a few decades ago. The septic is still there... though I am scared to dig around it for fear of what I might find!
I would have, but I did not know if it tied into the septic or just kept going. Well, it kept going into the back yard and ended. I extended it to the fence line. It is just grey water, so I'm okay with a French drain from there on.
152BF, 152BI, 152E, 154C ...which one? I flew Hueys, Kiowas, Apaches, Chinooks, Creeks, and was an instrument flight examiner. I would have loved to fly Blackhawks or even better yet, the C-12, but I was not cool enough. ;-0
Seeing this made me think of deleting the planetary with a solid gear. That would achieve a much higher axle ratio, and give the axles a lot more options for the axle swap
Also get a NOCO on your batteries. Way cheaper than new batteries. NOCO Genius GENPRO10X2, 2-Bank, 20A (10A/Bank) Smart Marine Battery Charger, 12V Waterproof Onboard Boat Charger, Battery Maintainer and Desulfator for AGM, Lithium (LiFePO4) and Deep-Cycle Batteries
@@wendydeprey9314 display the flag how best you see fit. As for my retirement flag, I like the symmetrical stars that are facing straight up, and not angled off to the left or right (depending on the orientation of how the flag is placed in the box). That is my preference. This is not a video on how to properly fold a flag, but a video on how to display a flag in a display case that looks aesthetically pleasing. I thank your dad for his military service.
@@madderanger7838 if this happens again, I certainly will. The shameful thing is that I have four new batteries that I bought almost a year ago to replace the batteries in the truck. It is almost embarrassing to say! I need to actually take some time and do some maintenance on Malachi. I hear that coming from my own lips, however, to find the time is quite another task.
@@markwilliams7088 thanks Mark. It’s been one of those days for trolls on RU-vid… not this video, but others. So, your kind words are very appreciated!
That sounded like Air in the fuel line. might be time to look into a replacement set of fuel lines if it keeps doing that. Good to see you are going to get some shop space again. :)
@@BrokeOverLand I have a set of fuel lines I have been saving. Though I think it might be something else, as the truck did sit for a while…long enough to kill the batteries. But I’ll take any advise, thoughts and prayers at this point! 😁
@@MrMikey4026 because I could not get the truck started to get any air into the system since the batteries were dead. Oh, I would have loved to have that assistance!
It was an old scrapped out front wheel drive self propelled (push) lawn mower. Because it was scrap, about all I could tell you is that it was a Craftsman mower.
I just bought a 99 Beetle as a project because in high school I had a 99 Beetle and I remember on my first one it had the coolant light on all the time and when we replaced the water pump it also had the failed plastic water pump. Not a good part to be cheap with!
you can partially peel that red tape off and fold it back 180 degrees and leave a small bare spot of sticky to start it, once it's line up pull that red tab of tape you made.
@@HelicoolsHelipad I was weirded out to see people scared by 3 year old PSUs never powered on, but one day I shut my computer and the same minute disassembled the PSU to give it a dusting
