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Home Business schtick again---food concessions always do well at flea 
markets, festivals, public beaches.  They have to be portable of 
course---on a four-wheel farm wagon chassis is a good way to go---good 
idea to have e;ectric brakes on rear axle which set when a vehicle is 
disconnected.

Nothing---absolutely nothing is cheaper than mud---put a couple adobe 
ovens on the wagon, fire them up early so they are at baking temperature 
when you pull into your display area, and be ready to make pizzas.  They 
only take about fifteen minutes to bake. Something to drink is probably 
a necessity too---maybe lemonade in an insulated barrel.  If you make a 
bunch of money, you can branch out with some kind of softserve ice 
cream---like the Amish posting somewhere here, with a make-and-break 
engine for crowd-drawing noise as it turns an oversize White Mountain 
freezer---or several. Store your pre-packaged pizza ingredients in the 
ice cube/ice flake barrel you need to put in the White Mountain 
freezer---get dual use from the ice.

http://www.fogazzo.com/Ovens/Pizza_Recipes/Dough_Recipes/dough_recipes.html
(pizza dough recipes for woodfired oven)

http://www.justvegetablerecipes.com/veg-zucc0010.shtml
 (nothing grows more profusely or cheaply as zucchini---fine as a pizza 
ingredient along with the obligatory cheeses, mozzarella the most 
common, thinly-sliced sausage for visual, not taste-effect, and forget 
about any reference to  those nasty and too-expensive Kraft wrapped 
single-slice tasteless, poor-textured cheese.)

http://www.recipehound.com/Recipes/2544.html
 (eggplant and tomato pizza---do add cheese(s).  I like eggplant 
texture better than zucchine, but of course eggplants are not as quick 
to mature, or as productive as the wildly prolific zucchini plants.)

http://www.amishmaid.com/Equipment.htm
 (repost of the Amish make-and-break engine-powered ice cream maker on 
a four-wheel trailer.
You would need an insulated bag or box to hold ice cubes or flakes, and 
a saltwater collection tank---flea markets, festivals etc., would not 
appreciate you allowing melted and salted icewater to run all over the 
street or grass.)

http://www.mikebrownsolutions.com/baxter.htm
 (not in production, but great concept combining boiler with steam 
engine and all controls---from Mike Brown website.)

http://www.mikebrownsolutions.com/mbsteam.htm
 (commercially availablw now from Mike Brown, compact two-cylinder 
steam engine puts out 1500 watts of electricity, or runs mechanical 
ice-cream maker---maybe smaoo softserve ice-cream machine---have to look 
them up on Internet)

http://www.mikebrownsolutions.com/steamart.htm
 (small steam engines eminently practical on farm with woodlot)

http://www.greensteamengine.com/
 (new, very powerful for low weight, steam engine---2003 patent)

http://ghlin2.greenhills.net/~apatter/boiler.html
 (boiler theory, Doble popularized safest boiler, the monotube)

http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/genboiler.html
 (how to make a monotube boiler from off-the-shelf parts)

http://www.firedragon.com/~kap/SteamTopics/vagg.html
 (monotube boilers and steam-operated bicycles, automobiles, Graeme 
Vagg notes)

http://www.matteranenergy.us/progress_update.htm
 (significant improvement, motorless working fluid injection and 
low-temp 160 degree working fluid---improves woodfired operation, and 
makes solar concentrator low cost)

http://www.lynxsteamengines.com/
 (Lynx, a unified engine-monotube that looks promising, but not now 
available for sale)

http://www.lynxsteamengines.com/drawings.cfm
 (Lynx steam engine drawings)

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=80812
 (the old Audel books and ICS, International Correspondence School 
texts are still valid, clearly written, easy to understand on steam, 
other mechanical, electrical topics--available from e-Bay or Lindsay 
Publications,

http://www.keveney.com/Vstirling.html
 (pictures showing entire power cycle of Stirling hot-air engine)

http://www.starspin.com/stirlings/jimd6.html
 (2.5 hp. Jim Dandy #6 Stirling engine---one of the pictures shows the 
wood firebox beneath the engine. For larger engines you'd have to go to 
steam for external combustion, but 2.5 hp in Stirling configuration 
could be useful, and you can leave a Stirling unattended without worry.  
Not sure I would do that with a steam engine.  A steam monotube boiler 
is safe compared to firetube type, but a leaky monotube can still kill 
you)  Price not shown on the website, but I wrote for it, will post it 
when I get an answer.)

http://www.ambergriscaye.com/BzLibrary/trust393.html
 (steam engines already a necessity in Belize---and cane juice ethanol 
or fermented cane juice turned to vinegar, mixed with cow patty soup to 
make methane---look up Peter Singfield on net and various energy groups 
to which he belongs.)
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/goebel43.html
 (Tiny Power steam engines, kits, by Skip Goebel---great monotube diagram)