sirhrmechanic said:

Depending on where you are in Ohio, you might also be able to lease out to Hunter’s during deer season. Especially if there are woods and Orchards. And if you get the right lease, they will work with food plots pick up trash and certainly keep trespassers off Because they don’t want people poaching their deer that they are leasing the land to hunt. Big money to be made out in Ohio on deer leases in the right area.

I have an orchard here on the farm that someday I would love to restore. It’s all overgrown. I will tell you it’s a lot of work to keep an orchard or a vineyard up so finding someone who might trade maintenance for a free crop or an almost free cropwould not hurt. But remember trees need pruning and cutting back. The bugs have to be kept out. The crops have to be picked. An orchard is a massively labor intensive business.

But if there’s someone in the area making cider or processing fruit or some of the Amish up there who might want to work the land, there is nothing better than Land because they aren’t making any more of it.

Good luck with the project and cheers

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Gunfighter14e2 said:

Not all would, unless all wood was totally gone. A Wood gasifer will produce syngas that can be used in anything that is now fueled via Natural gas. I've built a few different designs, and they will power any engine I have from 3.5hp to my F350 w/a SBC, (Albeit at 70-75% the HP of the gasoline rating) w/a simple hearth change. The gas can also be compressed & stored. Gas bags on top of cars truck were common during WW II, as well as mounted gasifiers, on same to include tractors, ect. I have a ton of tractor tire inter tubes just for this, just add weight to keep the pressure up, simple.


If you have ever seen a flame appear above a forest fire, leaf fire, or camp fire, out of the blue then quickly disappear, what you seen was the wood gas burning. A perfect mix will produced a perfect Blue flame at night, & during the day is invisible except for the heat waves rising.

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Skip1943 said:

I think I'm a true engineer. My bachelor's is in mathematics, my master's is in systems engineering. I've been working almost 30 years in various engineering and R&D disciplines.

Get yourself a Machinery Handbook. All of the calculations for threads and material strength are explained there. The only thing you need to know after that, are the specific parameters of the materials that you're working with. The calculations are simple. Even estimations, without specific use cases, are sufficient to arrive at a basic understanding.

We won't get a 100% conclusive answer (regarding full effects of torque vs accuracy - or whatever) without someone's empirical data, but you'll get enough of data to see that the physical properties of the material are near the bottom of the limit, and don't put the system in any sort of danger.

Beyond that, we're operating in anecdotal territory, and really shouldn't be dying on any hills. That's the domain of those who have actually put in the work. Don't defend ideas that you can't prove.

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Baron23 said:

Ah Mike....don't you think we had at least two actual engineers run thru some simplied analysis and conclude that 100 ft/lbs is minuscule compared to the material/configuration of the joint and is actually needed to get that elastic deformation (which I'm guessing is being referred to as pre-load).

If you are asking for test data on torque vs precision (or torque vs robustness in case of impact on the barrel)...I can see where that would be very time consuming and complex to eliminate all other factors from influencing test results other than barrel torque.

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