Micro CoGen.

this whole are is  turning into houses and mini malls.   don't know what you would buy worth while at a mall i don't use one unless i have to.   anyway   tv highway is still the same bottle neck from one end to the other and alot of intersections have been changed so much you wouldn't know where you were.   my brother lives in central oregon and come home here once a year and gets lost from all the new construction.   lucky for me we are still on the family farm with little or no changes.

    we are in cornelius oregon   just outside portland.   

just walked down and looked at the tag on my ditch witch and it says 40kw and 57.5 brake hp.   now i have no idea how many versions they made of this thing.  but the trencher is an r65.

currently i have two three cylinder duetz's one is in an eighty foot manlift i am  using to top some huge trees.   the other is in my ditchwitch trencher it was built in the early 80s and is rated at 60 hp.   i like the aircooled side of it allis chambers used it for their powerplants.     i have started this manlift on many frosty mornings with no issues and it goes to gov speed right off.  can't say what kind of fuel usage i get.

great ,  thanks for the invite.  that is one area of oregon i have not spent much time in.  drove thru from crater lake to i-5 last year.   went to look at some milled juniper just south east of crater lake.    we did stay overnite in the lodge that was fun.   sorry took so long to get back been kind of hopping here lately.  doug   503-913-1901

 all i can say is wow .  love what you are doing.  we live on the family farm just outside portland if you need anything out of portland if i can help email me.   would love to stop by sometime and admire what you have done.  we are doing the house plan thing now for almost five years and boy is it hard to get people to follow your dream.

i am headed in the same direction for the floor heat on my replacement house,  i already have a wood outside boiler waiting to install and will be looking for some massive storage.   i have been watching gsa auctions for gov surplus but haven't seen anything useful yet.

we have alot of filbert or hazelnuts in my area and after the shells are dried and cracked out they are waste. so i bought an old pellet stove and had to block off some of the auger feed hole because it is a single feed auger sometime the shells will flow freely into the burn box. anyway i burn straight nut shells . now be warned there is alot of ash content so once a week i vacuum all the crooks and cranny's and every couple days i clean the burn pot and overflow ash. but i am home most of the time or close by and this makes life alittle thriftier.  the shells run from 50 to 90 a ton.  my stove is old so no self starting so it idles alot.  couple buddies tried it said to much work so to each his own. email if i can help

nice welcome , thank you folks for having me.   

would love to be able to be just fine when the power goes off.   wvo in my 300d.  home grown biodiesel in the john deere. filbert shells running thru my pellet stove.  can't get enough.  still chopping wood.  smoking sausage as i write this.  would love a big one lunger diesel gen set.  hobby farmer, mr mom, mechanic.  old stuff is good new stuff is junk imo.