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halifaxhops said:
They have to be picked by hand or can you use some type of implement to do it?
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Funny you ask that, one of my claims to fame is that I helped build and to a lesser degree design a machine to do it. We built our own harvesters. They were largely copied from a manufacture but we added all modifications we wanted. It was hot rodding on a large scale! Used to you paid folks to pick. You pay them by the pound so you get a bunch of green unusable fruit. When ripe, the berries fall off quite easily. So the machine straddles the bush that you have pruned to fit, it then shakes the bush dropping ripe fruit onto a conveyer that moves it up on the deck into flats. The under carriage is made like fish trap so you can go right thru the post. I will look and post a picture of one if I still have them. The machine is the ultimate low rider and self levels every wheel to the contours of the soil.
 
Sublime one said:
Funny you ask that, one of my claims to fame is that I helped build and to a lesser degree design a machine to do it. We built our own harvesters. They were largely copied from a manufacture but we added all modifications we wanted. It was hot rodding on a large scale! Used to you paid folks to pick. You pay them by the pound so you get a bunch of green unusable fruit. When ripe, the berries fall off quite easily. So the machine straddles the bush that you have pruned to fit, it then shakes the bush dropping ripe fruit onto a conveyer that moves it up on the deck into flats. The under carriage is made like fish trap so you can go right thru the post. I will look and post a picture of one if I still have them. The machine is the ultimate low rider and self levels every wheel to the contours of the soil.
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I thought Byron or Oxbow might have a machine. They do that sort of thing.
 
halifaxhops said:
Here is the question.
Have a question that puzzles me. Specifically ignition coils for points ignition systems. When going through my 69 Fury last year I found many things incorrect the way it was setup. I replaced the distributor points and condenser , Cap [i got a few from you]ballast etc to freshen it up. Since it had been running poorly to cap it off might as well get a new ignition coil and keep the old one as a spare. Looking through the application chart for my specific engine ,car etc I saw if I looked carefully there were two different coils offered by different manufacturers.
Specifically a 12 volt and a 6 volt coil. I measured the voltage after the ballast resistor and if I remember correctly was between 7 and 8 volts. Scratching my head I did some research and did find that running a 12 volt coil on 6 or 7 volts would give 50% or more less energy to the plug. I went with the six volt coil and have been running it with no problems,,, So the question in a nutshell,,with a points ,ballast ,ignition system should you run a 6 volt or a 12 volt coil?
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I think they will run with damn near anything. LOL
I was driving into work and see a light blue 66 Fury on the shoulder. Uh oh, that's got to be Bob. I pull over. He thinks the coil died. I give him a ride into work and they the coil from one of the Jags in the lab. Probably the '88 XJS. One of his guys him back and that's all it needed. LOL. Of course he got another coil later on. But I think they will often work even when not ideal.

I bet a 6 volt coil has more turns in it, but I don't understand Henry that well. ;)
 
Sublime one said:
Funny you ask that, one of my claims to fame is that I helped build and to a lesser degree design a machine to do it. We built our own harvesters. They were largely copied from a manufacture but we added all modifications we wanted. It was hot rodding on a large scale! Used to you paid folks to pick. You pay them by the pound so you get a bunch of green unusable fruit. When ripe, the berries fall off quite easily. So the machine straddles the bush that you have pruned to fit, it then shakes the bush dropping ripe fruit onto a conveyer that moves it up on the deck into flats. The under carriage is made like fish trap so you can go right thru the post. I will look and post a picture of one if I still have them. The machine is the ultimate low rider and self levels every wheel to the contours of the soil.
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I have seen and helped with apple tree and cherry tree shakers, but that was 50 years ago or more. I can see where a shacker should work good, we had to be careful to not shake a limb as we picked because they would fall of then you had to bend over and pick them up, back then seems there was tall grass 7 inch high and you could not find them if they fell.
 
Sublime one said:
Funny you ask that, one of my claims to fame is that I helped build and to a lesser degree design a machine to do it. We built our own harvesters. They were largely copied from a manufacture but we added all modifications we wanted. It was hot rodding on a large scale! Used to you paid folks to pick. You pay them by the pound so you get a bunch of green unusable fruit. When ripe, the berries fall off quite easily. So the machine straddles the bush that you have pruned to fit, it then shakes the bush dropping ripe fruit onto a conveyer that moves it up on the deck into flats. The under carriage is made like fish trap so you can go right thru the post. I will look and post a picture of one if I still have them. The machine is the ultimate low rider and self levels every wheel to the contours of the soil.
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Its funny this reminds me of the kids on our crew going blueberry picking like old time new englanders. At the end of the day or their weekends, they'd go through the woods until a good bucketfull. All wild so the berries are somewhat smaller. Be hard to make money doing that today but it was perfect for feeding the crew. :)
 
halifaxhops said:
One of the reasons I got away from growing hops and just doing Rhizomes.
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That's from this Shire publications book Hops and Hops Picking
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Sublime one said:
you guys get me started on farming and I will be derailed today for sure. And yes we grew commercially. Here is a pix of the berries in bloom off my front porch, and our organic rodent control device. The falconry aspect was way past cool.

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That's ok, I'm an old farm kid. I lived in town until mom re-married and then moved to the farm. I learned more about life than I could have in town. My step dad worked on a commercial hog farm. Not market hogs but purebred Hampshire and Duroc breeding stock. A thousand head or so.
 
halifaxhops said:
LOL need about 1/3 more storage space actually! Thinking about a shipping container but the wife does not want to look at it! But the rusted out parts cuda is OK????????????
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Do a mural of trees on the shipping container...she won't even know its there. :lol:
 
Back from the other coffee group and a question.
1969 Dart 340, was the distro cap tan and are the orange wires under the cap stock??
 
halifaxhops said:
Makes sense. Might have to open some of my old electronics books for this one to re learn some of what I forgot! Dam good question though, and if so why are not racers using them? I know the different coils need a different voltage drop but past that need to look up the theory again.
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I think they are, they just don't know it. LOL
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I think the other thing is matching the primary resistance in the coil with the ballast resistor so combined enough power flows through the coil to induce the secondary power needed. But too much excess and it just generates heat.
 
Mattax said:
Theres anothg photo in of a man working on stilts prepping the lines.
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Actually have that book. Here is a lesser known hops fact I picked up in Hops 101 Yes there actually is one. They used to use women in Bavaria to pick the hops but it became unbearable for the men working there when all the women would have the same menstrual cycle. Seriously! Then only men wore allowed to work in the fields.
 
ZMan67S said:
Back from the other coffee group and a question.
1969 Dart 340, was the distro cap tan and are the orange wires under the cap stock??
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From what I can tell after 68 most caps were alkalyde (tan for you sir) Wires under the cap? Or the ignition wires. Now the primary leads had a colored end on the terminal for the coil. No one knows if that is specific or not from what I can tell.
 
halifaxhops said:
Makes sense. Might have to open some of my old electronics books for this one to re learn some of what I forgot! Dam good question though, and if so why are not racers using them? I know the different coils need a different voltage drop but past that need to look up the theory again.
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Here's where I got the idea that excess is wasted energy. And therefore current flowing through the coil is just genrating heat.
Scope pattern for the Duraspark from the '82 AMC jeep shop manual.
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and the HEI pattern which is a little different but same idea.
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seems to have less leftover ??? maybe because its current controlled ??
 
halifaxhops said:
LOL need about 1/3 more storage space actually! Thinking about a shipping container but the wife does not want to look at it! But the rusted out parts cuda is OK????????????
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Then get a shipping container and paint a picture of a rusted out Barracuda on it... ---> Problem solved.... :D
 
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