Builds HJ61 Cruiser build (3 Viewers)

[Tasmanic]

Mate, that is looking cold! Some great pics from the north.
I'm interested in your work - are there a lot of old buildings requiring maintenance or will you be building new ones with the old techniques?

 

[mcguirejohnson]

You ought to post up a video of the old girl starting in the cold, interested to see how easily it turns over!

 

[TLC Norway]

Mate, that is looking cold! Some great pics from the north.
I'm interested in your work - are there a lot of old buildings requiring maintenance or will you be building new ones with the old techniques?

warning: geek post.

Not that cold yet, it's been around -10*c last few days. But with birch handles on my tools, i fare quite well.
-I work for a museum, restoring and maintaining the old buildings. you can check the website of my museum at www.mtmu.no
In this region we have about 120 log buildings in the museum that needs immediate attention, with both minor and huge amounts of work needed.
So i will not be out of work for a long time, as we are just two workers in our museum. It will take a couple hundred years to get up to an acceptable level of maintenance, but the economy is not that strong in this line of work.
So now i'm doing a bachelor in traditional crafts, to get papers at what im good at, and be one of the few 15 people in this country with that degree.

Also, the three northern countys (Nordland, Troms and Finnmark) were just settled within the last 250 years, as the sami people were more drifters. Before that, vikings roamed this area, but very few findings lead us to rebuilding stave churches in the north. So when we're building new reconstructed buildings up here, we need to wrap our minds around the techniqes of how the settlers did it. Within the next three years i'll participate in building a replica/copy of a well documented stavechurch from Mid-Norway, dated 1170, will be awsome!
Right now i'm working on hewing logs for a smithy building, for blacksmith work. Within the last 5-10 years the Swedish and Nowegian blacksmiths are really getting into replicating the steel and forging methods of the axes and tools that were used during the last 500-1000 years, which has led us the woodworkers into a good steam of actually doing the same work with the same tools.
For example, right now im working with a hewing broad axe that i had copied of an old find from my great-great grandfather who was a master blacksmith. I had the copy made exactly like the original, weighing around 2.9 kilos. Amazing to work with, it's clear that theese old tools are superior to what is being produced today, and fabricated during the last decades.
I'm adding a photo of some of the axes i use for felling, scoring and hewing the logs.
The one in the middle with the new handle is the broadaxe (8-9" edge) mentioned earlier.
check out my instagram ptscustom for more photos and videos.

 

[TLC Norway]

You ought to post up a video of the old girl starting in the cold, interested to see how easily it turns over!

Sure, i'll try to remember that tomorrow morning.

But wait, i already did that last winter. You can see on the voltmeter the glow and afterglow is doing its job:

 

[TRAIL TAILOR]

warning: geek post.

Not that cold yet, it's been around -10*c last few days. But with birch handles on my tools, i fare quite well.
-I work for a museum, restoring and maintaining the old buildings. you can check the website of my museum at www.mtmu.no
In this region we have about 120 log buildings in the museum that needs immediate attention, with both minor and huge amounts of work needed.
So i will not be out of work for a long time, as we are just two workers in our museum. It will take a couple hundred years to get up to an acceptable level of maintenance, but the economy is not that strong in this line of work.
So now i'm doing a bachelor in traditional crafts, to get papers at what im good at, and be one of the few 15 people in this country with that degree.

Also, the three northern countys (Nordland, Troms and Finnmark) were just settled within the last 250 years, as the sami people were more drifters. Before that, vikings roamed this area, but very few findings lead us to rebuilding stave churches in the north. So when we're building new reconstructed buildings up here, we need to wrap our minds around the techniqes of how the settlers did it. Within the next three years i'll participate in building a replica/copy of a well documented stavechurch from Mid-Norway, dated 1170, will be awsome!
Right now i'm working on hewing logs for a smithy building, for blacksmith work. Within the last 5-10 years the Swedish and Nowegian blacksmiths are really getting into replicating the steel and forging methods of the axes and tools that were used during the last 500-1000 years, which has led us the woodworkers into a good steam of actually doing the same work with the same tools.
For example, right now im working with a hewing broad axe that i had copied of an old find from my great-great grandfather who was a master blacksmith. I had the copy made exactly like the original, weighing around 2.9 kilos. Amazing to work with, it's clear that theese old tools are superior to what is being produced today, and fabricated during the last decades.
I'm adding a photo of some of the axes i use for felling, scoring and hewing the logs.
The one in the middle with the new handle is the broadaxe (8-9" edge) mentioned earlier.
check out my instagram ptscustom for more photos and videos.
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P, That's some heavy whittling brother. Jealous, I'd love to learn these old ways.

J

 

[TLC Norway]

P, That's some heavy whittling brother. Jealous, I'd love to learn these old ways.

J

Whittling...? I don't know what that is but theese axes and brodaxes are mid-size. I'm not getting into the heavier stuff, max 3.5kilos for me.
-Sounds like we're jealous of each other then, J! must be a good thing.

 

[mcguirejohnson]

Sure, i'll try to remember that tomorrow morning.

But wait, i already did that last winter. You can see on the voltmeter the glow and afterglow is doing its job:

Right on! Starts up like a champ. Thanks for sharing

 

[Tasmanic]

Yeah, that's interesting work you're doing. Thanks for the explanation. Looked at the museum website too - gotta get up that end at some point. But isn't it €10 for a beer or something?!

 

[TRAIL TAILOR]

JUST IN CASE... HEE HEE

J

 

[TLC Norway]

Right on! Starts up like a champ. Thanks for sharing

No prob.
Went out to start up the LJ73 today, been sitting for a few weeks, since handbrake is away. (girl visiting parents)
Earlier the glow-timer started making a fuzz, and since the 2LT engine does not fire without glow, i added a wilson switch for now.
Helt it for 7 seconds, fires right up! Sweet! I had at least plans of hooking up the charger, but it showed it's ready-for-use-spirit.

Yeah, that's interesting work you're doing. Thanks for the explanation. Looked at the museum website too - gotta get up that end at some point. But isn't it €10 for a beer or something?!

Yeah... beer is expensive. I feel like a king when i drink it. Every day!

JUST IN CASE... HEE HEE

J

Yeah, it's all about having the right tools. ;p

 

[Tasmanic]

I was joking about €10 for a beer but just looking it up I see that's not too far off the mark!

Beer is heavily taxed/priced in Aus too. Gotta say, if you can live with the bureaucracy, the Germans have got it sorted on the beer front. One case of premium local Pilsner ( 20x500ml bottles) is €12 ( US$13 AU$18) and that's the good s***! You can halve that if you're a student/tramp. Either way it's all brewed with the German purity law. Anyway, don't want to turn your thread into piss'eds corner! Cheers to the King of Norway!

 

[TLC Norway]

Getting a few hours in on the shed... 10x9m roof is on, and a wall is cladded with metal, keeps the wind out.
Tomorrow i'll get the rear wall wind-proofed, and hopefully some electrics done. workshop is still in the container.
This will just be a temproary shed until next summer, then i will build the shop next to this one. Cant wait!

Leaving sunday for trondheim again, to this semesters exam, so i better get this sealed up! Front of shed will stay open for now.
both cruisers will get a roof, and i will have a place to work, thats the important thing!

 

[TLC Norway]

Well, a new dream rig has arrived. Any guesses?
Hints are: mostly stock with straight 6, diesel, lockers, crawler gears, high clearance, reliable but not Asian?

On my way home now, friend had dropped it off for me, I'm really excited!!! Outside barn find!

 

[The Phoenician]

Well, a new dream rig has arrived. Any guesses?
Hints are: mostly stock with straight 6, diesel, lockers, crawler gears, high clearance, reliable but not Asian?

On my way home now, friend had dropped it off for me, I'm really excited!!! Outside barn find!

Unimog?

 

[Lasse]

Volvo tgb/c30x, pinzgauer or maybe just a tractor?

Wait, stock diesel, then it isn't a volvo

 

[mcguirejohnson]

Maybe an older G-Wagon?

 

[HoJo 61]

Scania TGB?

 

[Lasse]

Scania TGB?

Ouch, that are serious big machinery.

 

[TLC Norway]

Scania, unimog and diesel are correct! A creature of some sort with 10 diesel injected pistons when I count them up! ;p

A photo tomorrow will unveil the madness!
It's not 'just' a ten cyl diesel...

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Oh man. This is gonna be good