Sometimes I’m a little deranged

 

Deranged is more funner than mundane.

That bill has zero chance of going anywhere yet they waste our money working on it. While I am always concerned as to what Trump will sign into law, there is no way he's putting his name on any part of that bill. I am baffled at how they are turning felons loose on the streets whilst trying to turn us hard working, law abiding citizens into criminals. It just makes no sense whatsoever.

 

Well... this is not a 2A issue, but we received good news this morning (for us, anyway). Homeland Security has officially classified the forest products industry as "Essential", so we will be able to keep all of our 430+ employees gainfully employed. Our specific operation had already secured the "essential" status last week because of how some of our product is used for medical supplies, food packaging, and potentially person hygiene products. Still, having the entire forest products industry receive that classification further emphasizes that reality. Wes will also benefit from this as well. For us, even if we chose to reduce onsite presence for salaried personnel, my IT group has already secured adequate hardware and software to enable 100% of our salaried employees to work from home (at least to the degree possible with available bandwidth from internet suppliers in the area.

 

When the world is ending, just hang outside with family and drink a cold one.

 

It's a good status to have I guess Pete. But risky. Now some minimum wage contractor for the industrial housekeeping (janitors) will probably be our biggest risk to our mill. Symptomatic, but NEED to work because of no savings living paycheck to paycheck types. Granted the 200 truck drivers a day that file thru are required to stay in their rigs on site with our spotters hooking up their air lines and lights and then they are able to check it themselves once they pull offsite.

Every day we badge in at the security gate there's a new brief list of updated rules before we get to the parking lots, then more detailed lists badging in at the turnstiles, and even more on the exterior doors, and more at every department. Every room/office/control room/MCC has max occupancy signs on them now based on interior space to allow 10' of social distancing, even removed the chairs from every room above that count. Not too much trouble when we are on the floor spaced out 100' doing our normal tasks, but at break rooms and bathrooms, coordinating only 2 people at a time can be "interesting"

Can't crank out enough butt wipe. You'd think 1k tons a day of tp is a lot. We aren't looking forward to late summer/fall. Since everyone is hording tp they'll be stocked till October and not buy it for months once this panic blows over, and then we'll be sitting on a crap load of tp in a flooded market

We did hear an interesting story of a stolen semi of tp. Once it was recovered it supposedly had a police escort all the way to it's destination

 

Since you know that it's coming is there any other product you could switch over to to keep yourselves occupied when it happens?

 

FordTruckNoob- Thank you so much for the WVO offer. I would love to get to your state again. The last time I was there was in the late 90swhen my uncle and I drove there to pick up 4 black lab hunting pups. Beautiful country.

What type of WVO system does your truck have?

Rob

 

Napkins, paper towels, away from home TP

 

Tonight's dinner was katsu don.

 

Appreciate the offer, Noob...gonna take a minute to put a system together,..wish I never sold it..dayum

 

Well friends, we lost another puppy. The other runt. Not sure what happened, it was nursing an hour or so before I found it. It was much smaller than the others, so it wasn't a huge shock. Still somewhat surprising though, we thought it was doing ok.
Hope everyone is doing well and has plenty of toilet paper.

 

Heck yeah! Spring or Fall is best. Otherwise it's just mosquitos or blizzards.

My pleasure! Come get when you're ready.

It doesn't unfortunately. It's too cold to run WVO a third of the year. I usually convert all of my WVO to biodiesel. I have gotten lazy lately and my biodiesel production has not kept up with the amount of WVO I've been generating.

 

Sorry to hear that. How many are left?

 

Ive got WVO systems running year-round in colder climates than yours. I’m fact, we can probably burn WVO in colder temps than DIESEL in some cases.

How? The VO fuel system is heated with coolant. We heat the fuel as it leaves the tank, then heated fuel lines and heat exchangers that bring the WVO to near coolant temp before it gets to the injectors.





I like to use an Excursion tank for VO. You can see here where I use a coolant heated fuel pickup and ‘tube in hose’ heated fuel lines (alum tubing inside heater hose). My booger welds look nothing like the ART we have seen Rob produce!!





Then, VO flows through a RACOR PS120 and into a coolant heated manifold block that has fuel pump, FPR, primary filter (with coolant-heated wrap) and a ‘purge valve’.




Under the hood, we make the only modification to the stock fuel system. Diesel leaves the factory filter through check valves and feed the front of the heads. VO is sent to the rear of the heads.

We start the engine on pure diesel and the system switches to VO after reaching operating temp by turning on the VO fuel pump and turning off the D2 pump. Then, burn the high cholesterol fuel while driving all day. When the ignition is turned off, the D2 pump is turned on and VO pump off and the purge valve is opened. This allows diesel to flush through the heads and back to the VO tank - quickly removing all of the VO from the heads/injectors. After purge is complete, the system turns the engine off (works kind of like a ‘turbo timer’).

I did this first (straight VO) and then started making B100 with s BioPro 190 - arguably the EASIEST way to make bio-d. Eventually stopped fooling with B100 because (toxic) PITA and never figured out what to do with glycerol....

 

Well yes you can if you have the presence of mind to remember to activate all the appropriate systems for the given conditions to run WVO. I'm too scatter-brained/lazy for that.

Also, go make soap with the glycerol. See Fight Club