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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / 1st fire of the season AND radiant floor heat ...i learned sumtin !

« on: November 02, 2015, 02:09:44 PM »

  well last Sunday was the day to fire my boiler as the weather was going to chit soon! I  just got the slab heat all plumbed in  and was to start on Saturday the 24th but it was taking me a long time to wire the 24v system up , I got things going and got all the air out in no time , here's where I thought things went wrong... It ran 24/7 till  Tues eve.. Near 3 days to get it up to 60 with my laser temp sensor on the concrete surface! But by weds eve all was well . i started the heat with a slab temp of 28/31 degs...dont do that again !....am now heating a shop with a 1200sf footprint, and 12' to the top plate walls, AND my house in progress, with the same footprint but  28' to the top plate !  Only the slab is hooked up in the 2/1/2 stories hom  I have r 30 walls and r 75 in the roof   the slab on grade in the house  thermostat is/was set to 67 and the top floor  is 46 degs... ...Hot molecules are  keeping my house warm .....or if u are all redneck like me ...heat rises - thereby keeping my azz warm ....all this with a outside temp around 17 to 22 and a lite wind  average of 6 mph over the last week ! , I'll add pics at some point , but winters here and I'm off and running ! I have warmboard on the next two floors up ...but I will have to get more done before I get them on line ...

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / snow! wood or fuel oil ????!

« on: September 25, 2015, 06:41:31 PM »

Just got a 5'"  dump ! Got to get the house online #1 fuel oil is 2.25 a gallon ...cheap!   Anyway winter is here....now what I need in about 2weeks is a big dump of snow ...then break out the 800 RMK and play !!!

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General Discussion / here it comes...termination dust on the mountains !

« on: September 01, 2015, 09:43:11 AM »

29 deg on Saturday morin,   I have to go moose hunting> that is the only plus side as the cool temps get them moving /and it knocks the leaves off which makes better to see!

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General Discussion / well im still uprite..

« on: July 21, 2015, 10:33:50 PM »

working around the house ...listening,,cussing at killary/ er I mean Hillary...what a turd pile the denms  got for he "season" ..trump talks like a regular guy.....the pant'e waste mclame is getting chewed on to... ...big boys only need apply 

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Aqua-Therm / should we be horading parts

« on: June 11, 2015, 12:30:07 AM »

spares? the epa will be on AQ-t  I figure, or use it with coal and change there manual's /ads/everything  to say coal burner do not use wood.....  ??

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / I did it !!! the boiler/ guts >>> off season coating !

« on: May 05, 2015, 09:46:30 AM »

   here is a 60/40 mix of wd40 and fluid film !  it "mix's"  and it did not separate  (after sitting over nite/and the bubbles were gone) ...looks like a "old  pee test in color"     fluid film 50 bucks a gallon wd is 20 bucks a gallon ..so I saved some bucks and I get the best of both worlds and >> IT GOES THUR A GARDEN PUMP SPRAYER ! 

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Well heres my WOOD PILE THUS FAR ...how much would call this?/SHOW ME YOUR PILES

« on: April 26, 2015, 08:01:08 PM »

 I have the numbers as to lxwxhxd      

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Inside fire box > "how clean is clean" ? (summer/storage/no use)

« on: April 19, 2015, 10:56:55 AM »

trying to shut her down ..45deg above, all nite with a 25mph wind !!......I did the cardboard burn (2times), pulled my fire brick  and scraped ..the "line of black above the fire brick is gone the top 1/3 on both sides of center is a mirror like black ...it don't really come off I can scratch it but its only a hair thick near as I can tell  I left it hot all nite > using coal  ... so where do I go from here ?   do it all again/break out the weed burner?

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / got my gallon of fuild flim ...

« on: April 15, 2015, 01:19:39 PM »

from Grainger  50.97 shipped (no ship charges for me thu work ! )  its not haz-mat...either.

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General Discussion / 27 to 30 above... and snow / watching nascar/TX race oh yea !

« on: April 11, 2015, 09:14:31 PM »

 Reminded me of this old song that = "caught me as a kid"/ never to return to the dark side ...eeeerrr I mean the lower 48/outside      here she is >>> I mushed from Port Barren through a blizzard of snow
 Been out prospecting for two years or so
 Pulled into Fairbanks the city was a boon
 So I took a little stroll to the Red Dog Saloon
 As I walked in the door the music was clear
 The prettiest voice I had heard in two years
 The song she was singin' made a man's blood run cold
 When it's springtime in Alaska it's forty below
 (When it's springtime in Alaska it's forty below)

 It was Red Headed Lil who was singin' so sweet
 I reached down and took the snowpacks off my feet
 I reached for the gal who was singin' the tune
 We did the Eskimo hop all around the saloon
 Where the caribou crawl and the grizzly bear hug we did our dance on a Kodiak rug
 The song she kept singing made a man's blood run cold
 When it's springtime in Alaska it's forty below
 [ banjo ]
 I was as innocent as I could be I didn't know Lil was big Ed's wife to be
 He took out his knife and he gave it a throw
 When it's springtime in Alaska I'll be six feet below
 (When it's springtime in Alaska he'll be six feet below)

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Should a guy be "hoging" spare parts ?

« on: March 31, 2015, 09:36:13 AM »

with the epa putting the boots to most OWB makers , should a guy get some extra parts ...while the getting is good ?? ...unless of course they a building them with parts u can get from Grainger atc ...with a little research a guy may be able to source his own parts...what ya say?

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / been in the 30's here for more then a week!

« on: March 23, 2015, 01:59:21 PM »

  our last blast of cold !   I seen u guys got it.... lol !!!   

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / so.... i put the coal to her....

« on: March 13, 2015, 09:54:25 AM »

been zero for the high this week 12 to 18 below with a wind or 3-6mph to boot, so yesterday on my trip about town I got me 4 bags of art-coal, at 45lbs each for 7bucks (28) was going to use for my finial burns next month  for "stove clean out", got home at 530 last nite and decided (being as the wife had a 3'' bed of wood coals going)   I tossed in a whole bag !!  stove WAS on its way to heating back up - but the water temp fell 5deg with the "zero deg" bag of coal tossed in> bag and all .....= heat all nite for 12+ hours  I raked her around and I have a 2/3" bed of and roar ing coal this moring I threw in  a 12"x36" birch + a 6" one ...we will see what I have when we get home 14hrs from now...  WHAT i seen from this "test" is .....  1 long burn ....an a  VERY  very short recovery time from the fan on to fan off ...

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / My newly installed "heat dump" just saved my azz!

« on: February 18, 2015, 02:35:45 PM »

1st time !!!!  ...yup caught it ( wife is at home)... temp has been 27 to 33 outside since I put the wood to her last nite   4 -36"  logs un- split   about the "calf on your leg in size" ....that lasted all nite/ since7pm tue..(and is turning to charcoal too btw)  and all the way to  today at noon where upon >>> the unit heater/dump fan, pops on !!!   = no mess to clean up , no coolant lost, no burnt up pump ...just plain Awesome!      

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / FU ""gylawiera""

« on: February 12, 2015, 09:33:24 AM »

here we go again.........