How brilliant is this? A way for 3 men to carry a heavy rock. I recommend that builders, anyone interested in tools, follow these guys. Some of the tools shown are high-tech; others like here are making do with what’s locally available @specialized.tools.
18 solar panels charge a Leaf battery bank that powers the electric motor. When battery runs low, a diesel generator kicks in to power the motor and extend the range.
It has a 1937 Willy’s front end and custom-made doors and grill.
Will be featured in our next book, Rolling Homes.
It’s for sale: SunRay@SunRay Kelley.com.
If you know of any unique road rigs, contact me at: lloyd@shelterpub.com
Mickey Murch rigged up his Rad pedal-assist electric bike to carry his hydrofoil surfboard. His son came along for the mile-long ride to the beach.
The board is an Axis 5′2″ 90-liter SUP with a 910mm high-aspect hydrofoil from Axis Foils.
This is from 4-minute video of Mark talking about Pipeline and this ride on TheInertia.com, called “Mark Healey Breaks Down a One-in-a-Million Wave at Pipeline.”
See entire vid at shltr.net/Mark.
TheInertia.com is a great website, full of real Water People.
From Maui Surfer
Another page from Everybody’s Enquire Within, published in mid-30s
Prickly pear cactus, or nopal plant in garden that just took off. The nopalitos or tender paddles are nutritious and have many healthy ingredients. You need to carefully remove the spines. The tunas are tasty fruit. I burn off spines with a blowtorch.
It needs no water, weeding, or cultivation.
These hand-tinted drawings are in an old Bureau of Fisheries (Dept of Commerce, USA) book titled Fishes of Alaska, published in 1907 that I acquired years ago.
In order: Red Rockfish, Red Salmon, (breeding male), Red Salmon (breeding female), Dolly Varden Trout. There are a total of 20 such drawings in the book.
Photos from yogan carpenter of his friend Robin’s workshop in SW France, with a zome roof. Again, yogan has photographed a building shown in Home Work (page 49) but gotten better shots. This is really a nice idea: using a dome as roof on vertical walls. It’s in a section in the book on countercultural builders in France. (A friend of ours who lives in Amsterdam says that France is the California of Europe.)
