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For Sale / Grouser Cross bar tracks for sale
« on: April 14, 2019, 05:45:40 PM »
https://up.craigslist.org/hvo/d/marquette-grouser-skidsteer-tracks/6866507166.html

Figured it's easiest to link to the craigslist ad.  I'm in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.  I can drive them within 4-7 hours of here, so lower Michigan or the Green Bay/Appleton or Northern Wisconsin areas.

Andy

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Plumbing / Re: Badger Circulation Pump
« on: January 24, 2019, 07:15:48 AM »
I would also go with the Grundfos. Great prices on ebay for a 26-99. The one you have is pretty small for your distance anyway, I can only assume you heat load is either quite low or the delta quite high. 26-99 would be a more proper size

I'm not an HVAC or plumbing guy, so I'm not sure how to answer on the heat load.  The house is 4000 sq. ft. and super insulated (R60 blown-cellulose attic, R20 dense-pack cellulose walls, R7.5 foam board wrapped around the entire house under the siding).  We built in 2014.  It's been heating the house and the 1200 sq. ft. detached garage (R50 blown-cellulose attic, R20 fiberglass batt walls), along with DMH, just fine.  Does a super-insulated house equate to a low heat load?

Here we are January 24, and I still haven't purchased another pump.  I tend to procrastinate.  In fact, I once wanted to go to a seminar on how to stop procrastinating, but I kept putting off signing up for it until it was too late... ;-)

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Plumbing / Re: New House....New Setup
« on: October 31, 2018, 05:15:34 AM »
I'd still put an air exchanger in the furnace, and put a bypass to it.  That way when you're leaving for a week, you can open the bypass and allow the propane to keep the lines warm.  When I leave for a a few days in the dead of winter, I turn off the blower on the stove and let the propane heat the water.  I got back last winter and it was about 0 degrees outside temp, but my water was 120 degrees.  It seems counter-intuitive, while actually making sense, that the colder the outside temp is the warmer the propane keeps the stove water, because the more often the propane furnace kicks on in the house to keep it at a set temp.  Right now, with the outside temps in the 30s, the water temp from the propane furnace is at about 70-80 tops. 

Having the exchanger in the furnace with a bypass also gives you the option of burning extra wood from time to time to save on propane to heat the whole house and not just the basement.

I'm guessing you'd want to run to DHW, then to the exchanger/bypass, then to the in-floors.

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Plumbing / Re: Badger Circulation Pump
« on: October 31, 2018, 05:06:01 AM »
Would the grundfos have the same dimensions (as in is it universally sized) and be an easy replacement in the middle of winter, or would I have to change the copper piping while changing it too?

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Plumbing / Badger Circulation Pump
« on: October 30, 2018, 12:26:52 PM »
So I found a pic I took of my main pump after it was installed.  It is moving water through 1.25" lines 225' from the stove.  It's a Badger Circulation Pump Type GPD 25-10SFC No. 13110813.  Finding the pic reminded me that I should buy a new one to have on hand (should have done it while building the house) in case something were to happen and it'd need a quick replace.  However, I can't find where to buy this model pump.  When I go to the badger-pipe.com website and look at their pumps, I don't see it.  I see a whole bunch of model 14113362s but no 13110813s.  Anyone know how to find the 13110813 model?  I guess a call into the business would be appropriate.  I didn't buy the pump so I'm only googling to try to find where they're from.

Thanks.

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Plumbing / Re: Pump Location
« on: October 29, 2018, 06:53:44 AM »
I don't remember which model I have of pumps, but I think they're both Grundfos.  I have 225' of 1.25" pipe from the stove to my basement, and keep the pump in the basement.  My basement is a little lower than the stove so it may be helping to circulate as the water naturally wants to flow to the basement, but it's been working fine for me.  My garage run is about 25' and I keep the pump in the garage as well.  It pushes the water up to the heater on a 10' ceiling.

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Equipment / Re: Skid Steer Root Grapple Buckets
« on: April 26, 2018, 06:19:49 AM »


I bought the stump grapple from Wildkat, I believe.  A local dealer carried their stuff.  It's been good.  The Grapple got a little twisted from hauling around a 40' red pine without having it balanced perfectly, but still works just fine.

I’ve not twisted my grapple yet, but have watched the entire loader frame flex on the Bobcat from not having a tree balanced.

Yikes.  Good to know.  Thankfully that didn't happen.  We had cut a tree down across our private road and I needed to move it in a hurry.  Usually I only carry around 8' logs...

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Furnace Temperatures
« on: April 26, 2018, 06:18:05 AM »
I just finished my fourth season with my stove.  I always keep the top temp set to 190 degrees.  I used to play around with changing the diff between 10 and 15 degrees during the winter based on how cold it was.  Now I just keep it at a 12 degree diff and it's worked well.

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For Sale / Re: PORTAGE AND MAIN BL34-44
« on: April 25, 2018, 01:17:23 PM »
Not 1 phone call from Craig's list or here.  Kind of disappointing.  I suppose people are just getting through the winter now though and not thinking about heating for a while.  Maybe in a couple months there will be some action.  I'll keep you posted.

Where are you located Guswhit?

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Equipment / Re: Skid Steer Root Grapple Buckets
« on: April 25, 2018, 12:04:40 PM »
I bought mine from this place http://wildkatattachments.com/grapples.html
It works ok but looks like they cut all the metal with a torch and hand weld everything. When I bought mine, I called them and they gave me a much better price than what was shown on their site.

I am not sure how they compare to the Titan. I went with it instead of the Titan because it was made in USA and the Titan was made in China. I am guessing the Titan fit and finish may be better but I don't really care that much about looks on something like this.

The 72" #6 from your link is damn near identical to the 72" Titan. Costs about the same as well. Looks dont matter to me either altho I question the "made in the usa"on a lot of things. Very well maybe ASSEMBLED here in the U S of A but using "Chinese steel" as some call it. Who knows? Thanks for the link

I bought the stump grapple from Wildkat, I believe.  A local dealer carried their stuff.  It's been good.  The Grapple got a little twisted from hauling around a 40' red pine without having it balanced perfectly, but still works just fine.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Somebody tell me
« on: April 25, 2018, 09:56:04 AM »
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He’s plenty active on Facebook forums although I hate the format over there…..

I just checked out a facebook forum and agree that the format is not good.  I like having it laid out like this site, with categories to search in.  Endlessly facebook-scrolling through posts doesn't do it for me.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Somebody tell me
« on: April 25, 2018, 07:56:21 AM »
Ugh!  I haven't been on the site since, I think, this past fall due to just being busy at work and home, and now I finally log in to browse and find out Slim is gone.  Sorry to hear that happened.  He was a fountain of good information when I got set up four years ago. 

I'll have to search for his old posts.  I know he had switched from P&M to Heatmaster.  You're saying he had a falling out with Heatmaster, the company?

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Portage & Main / Re: bl34-44 supply line?????
« on: November 13, 2017, 01:36:09 PM »
My P&M dealer said to ignore the instructions: pull from the bottom of the stove.  It helps with the mixing, but also avoids sucking air in case you run low on water for any reason (leak, boil over, etc).  So that's how my 3444 is setup.

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You can also collect cardboard boxes to burn, but they burn best with forced air not just a gravity damper.  Do you have a blower or gravity?  If blower, wire the shutoff thing so it won't open the dampener and blow cold air in once the water temp drops to a certain level.  That cold air is a huge culprit once the wood runs out.  Not sure how it affects it with a non-blower damper.

I have a 30 gallon propane tank with a hose and torch on it.  It can really get stuff going to blast the torch on full blast.  If you put in some cardboard and some smaller pieces or splits, blast it with the torch, add some larger pieces, blast it again until it gets going, it will help.

Don't add a lot of wood until it gets closer to your setpoint.  It also helps to go back out an hour after you've gotten the fire going to rake the wood around then add some more.  That way it turns the first bit of wood you added into good roaring hot coals quicker, rather than drying out and trying to burn a huge pile of wood all at the beginning.  Better to have the BTUs going into your water in the beginning to get the temp up.


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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Where the heck do ya live
« on: January 03, 2017, 05:03:34 PM »
Holland, MI

How many btu's can you get from a pair of wooden shoes???

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