Wood Furnace Burns A Dump Truck Load At A Time

Steve Kruel doesn't bother splitting firewood for his monster furnace. Instead, he fills it with his skid steer, adding a dump truck load of 4 to 5-ft. long chunks every three to four days.



"We got tired of paying for LP gas," says Kruel. "Now I pull logs and branches out of the woods, cut them to length, and load my dump truck with a skidsteer. Last year I used 48 dump truck loads to heat a 12,000-sq. ft. greenhouse, my house and an apartment building...Read More!

Log Splitter Converts To Pipe Bender

"As a welder, I've always enjoyed using bent pipe for projects. But my pipe bender was powered by a bottle jack so it was just too slow. My solution was to make a pipe bender to fit my log splitter," says Sal Galluppi, Sellersville, Penn.    

The bender consists of a semi circular pipe pusher that slides back and forth on top of a 2-ft. wide metal box. The pipe pusher rides in a 1-in. wide groove and is moved along by a 2-in. dia. shaft that fits into the log splitter's pusher plate...Read More!

Yellowbud Hickory Nut Oil

Fancy Twig Farm, Parnell, IA

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He Plants Sweet Corn “Check Row” Style

Market gardener Daryl Horn wanted the labor-saving advantages of “check row” planting for his sweet corn crop, but he didn’t use a special planter or wires. All he used were two 300-ft. long tape measures.

His wife recently sent photos of him standing in a 1-acre “check row” field that he planted to sweet corn last spring, using a pouch and an Easy Plant “stand and plant” planter to plant a few seeds at a time into hills...Read More!

Liberty Quote

“If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.”

~ Thomas Jefferson

Set For Life

Ole and Sven had retired and were sunning themselves on a Miami beach when they started a friendly conversation.

“I vas able tew move here tew retire after my business burned tew da ground,” Ole said. “Da insurance payment sure came in handy.”

Sven replied, “I'm here living off an insurance claim from vhen my factory vas flooded out.”

Ole puzzled over that one for a few seconds, and then asked, “How dew yew start a flood?”