Jon Los

Author: Jon Los

  • Why Fight It If You Don’t Have To

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    The other day I posted about the upcoming overnight deep freeze and how it was going to force me to stay up all night scraping frazil ice off the intake. So what did I do? I threw a piece of plywood over the Coanda screen to stop the water from getting into the penstock, and…

  • The Summer Kitchen

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    A little history…In 1996 I landed on the side of a mountain in Southwest BC, not by choice but by circumstance, like pretty much everyone else up there. The one thing we had in common was that life had thrown us all a curveball. Some were Christians, some were running from their past, and some…

  • The Calm Before The Storm

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    One of the many little challenges of micro-hydro is dealing with nature. When everything is humming right along, you don’t even think about it, but, when the forecast is for -8C overnight, suddenly it becomes the only thing. We had an “atmospheric river” that blasted through here a couple of years ago, and I’m still…

  • Who, What, Where and How

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    With the chassis done, I needed to build an actual coach body. And I didn’t have a clue how to do it. I was just hoping that there was someone close by that did. So, the search began. There was no internet in those days, so it required a lot of phoning around and leg…

  • Measure Twice, Cut Once

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    This was exciting! I was actually building my dream rig. But there was a lot of engineering that needed to be done. Admittedly, I was winging it. I had some experience with my old 48 KW/FWD, but this was a whole new animal. I was 28 years old. The length laws at that time said…

  • First Things First

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    The first thing on the list was to get the frame lengthened and the chassis and drive train up to snuff. I went and saw my friend Dennis Frankforth at Truck Specialists and asked him if he could do it. He was a bit hesitant, until I told him that money wasn’t going to be…

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