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    Quincy Compressor

    Ingersoll Rand and DeVilbus are both good compressors but the Quincy tops both brands with cast iron pistons with 4 rings, timkin tapper rollers bearings on the crankshaft with an oil pump top pressure feed criticle parts.like the replacible shell bearing inserts on the connecting rods.

    My Quincy came out of an old grain elevator that was being torn down 20 years ago,, best $100.00 I've spent in a long time. From the same fellow who sold me the compressor I also bought a Simplicity Powemax 9020 garden tractor with 3 point hitch with a tiller attached ready to go to work.

    No more sail boat or prospecting or scrap for me, I'm going to plant a few acres of winter garlic as a cash crop with maybe some asparagus to sell. In our community we have a lot of retired folks not knowing what to do with themselves so been thinking of the prospect of shared labour for a share of the crop things like corn, peas and beans etc..

    My cash crop would be hands off, but two acres is a lot of room for other produce that could be shared.



    I'm tired of refinery's getting first count on my metals, it a tough way to run a business from my end always coming up short.

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    alloy2 old folks commune! LOL Have fun and keep us posted!

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    Quote Originally Posted by hobo finds View Post
    alloy2 old folks commune! LOL Have fun and keep us posted!
    ROFLMAO, me and the woman patched things up and were moving back to the Elphinstone property the village nearby is very isolated witch as said earlier not much for old folks to do so I figure why not.
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    Alloy2 - Have you looked at "hot house farming" using vertical growing applications, with these methods you can grow more types of food crops that normally you might not consider in northern climates. The return on your efforts would be 4 or 5 times what you would grow on the same amount of land with conventional methods.


    Note all that "white" stuff!



    Some are simpler and less expensive.


    Other hot house types are more permanent and would cost more.


    You could plant and harvest crops using more conventional methods.


    Can also go with a vertical system, that really increases your yields!

    I know from reading your many post, your not afraid to think and go outside of the conventional "box" methods.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bigburtchino View Post
    Alloy2 - Have you looked at "hot house farming" using vertical growing applications, with these methods you can grow more types of food crops that normally you might not consider in northern climates. The return on your efforts would be 4 or 5 times what you would grow on the same amount of land with conventional methods.


    Note all that "white" stuff!



    Some are simpler and less expensive.


    Other hot house types are more permanent and would cost more.


    You could plant and harvest crops using more conventional methods.


    Can also go with a vertical system, that really increases your yields!

    I know from reading your many post, your not afraid to think and go outside of the conventional "box" methods.
    Would be a nice way to go year round growing with easy weed and nutrient control, as most of you already know my personality is much to scattered to dedicate myself to one project full time so I think a seasonal growing schedule would be more suitable to my needs besides I get to play with toys that burn gasoline and make noise. That also need tinkering to keep them running.

    As a youth spent nine months in reform school, my job placement was working in the greenhouse, so I'm not entirely new to the concept of growing in a year round environment.


    When we bought this property the previous owner ereected a small greenhiuse that we'll use to start some of our plants. Manitoba has a short growing season with long hot days so most everything grows like a bad weed.

    After I get some of the junk I have thus acquired home my Simplicity powermax 9020 tractor and my walk behind tiller will post pictures of before and after reconditioning.

    When Pat and I split I sold my John Deere mower yesterday we replaced it with another product of the same manufacture this one has a 54 inch mower deck with a 26 horse power Briggs, the grass was left uncut last summer and this mower eats it for breakfast.

    The ground burrowing critters have over run the property some mounds much to large to scalp, I've borrowed a chain harrow to drag behind the mower to level them out.

    Cooper my Jack Russell has been in the freezer since he died in January, he was 13.5 years old. We buried him yesterday afternoon.

    Met a youngish Native girl in her 20's at the Elphinstone store that offered me her year old miniature blue healer as a free adoption, took the pup back to the house to show Pat she loved the dog but told me she has her heart set on getting another Jack.

    Both of us prefer a male dog with all its hardware intact, seems to give em more personality over the neutered version.

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    Today I traded a 7.5 hp single phase electric motor for 5 hp to replace the 3 phase motor that came with the quincy compressor, told Rob that owns a large farm nearby of my plans to open a small engine repair shop from my garage when he offered me space in their large heated shop with a full compliment of tools and equipment.

    If this offer had come my way 10 or 15 years ago would have jumped in both feet, then probably not was busy scrapping back then having so much fun.

    Anyhow Rob is one cool dude, been in a wheel chair for 20 years, has a van with a chair lift and still runs a 12,000 acre grain farm, they let me use the shop any time day or night which makes having sold my wire feed welder and metal lathe bearable.

    I'm happy to be back in Manitoba.

    My almost completed centrifuge was loaned to another prospector in Hope who is going to make a lid for the unit and use it on his claim during the summer and fall, he has agreed to post on the prospecting forum the pros and cons of my home made machine for others to learn from it.

    I did manage to bring back a truck load of gold bearing quartz that I have already started processing by roasting some crushed ore with salt , this helps turn tramp metals into oxides.

    The little jaw crusher I believe called the chipmunk gobbled up 400 pounds of quartz in a very short time turning it into 3/4 minus with a lot of fine powders liberated at the same time. It is these powders that I am currently roasting.

    For those of you that have never roasted ore using salt, the salt is mixed in with the ore during the heat the salt evaporates and tramp ( base ) metals that are not of a precious or noble nature once oxidized will not go into your leach once oxidized.

    I'm going to pan out the oxides which will leave me with the heavies to smelt out the precious metals using flux then poured into a cone mold to recover the precious metals as dore, not into using chemicals any more hard to get and hard on me.

    Still have my 15 kw induction furnace which will be used to smelt small lots.

    Plenty to keep me occupied in my retirement years.
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    The driveway at the Elphinstone property is fairly long with a steep grade water coming off the highway makes trenches in the gravelled drive couple years back had spread waste cooking oil on a small section near the top. This section remains untouched and looks like it was paved with asphalt so I have started collecting more waste cooking oil to complete the rest of the driveway also going to install a cattle guard near the top the trench under the guard will divert water from coming down the drive.

    Was at the Sandy Lake dump the other day and there's half a dozen 250 gallon furnace oil tanks I'm thinking of grabbing a couple then cutting them suing the top and bottom sections to set into the concrete as my top form during the pour to make the job look professional. once the cement has cured the tank ends will be removed. Probably use wire mesh instead of rebar to strengthen the concrete structure.

    The Sandy lake dump has a new custodian my banishment over the flame thrower expired when the other guy retired so I'm once again allowed in the pick from the pile. during my last visit got an old wheelbarrow and half a dozen laptops along with seven desktop PC's.

    Some may recall the home built car trailer that made me enough money to buy a crane truck, the fellow who bought the truck from me said I could borrow the truck whenever. The man is true to his word I have used the truck twice on my return to Manitoba for heavy lifts at Elphinstone, as goodwill on my part always give fuel money.
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    I have that bad boy Quincy runnning to break in the new belts before making the final adjustments, then proper wiring and plumbing.

    The old boy is running 20 pounds oil pressure, not bad for a 60 year old compressor.


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    Its always great to see old things working. Personally I'm 63 and still put out some air myself. 73, Mike
    "Profit begins when you buy NOT when you sell." {quote passed down to me from a wise man}

    Now go beat the copper out of something, Miked

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