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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Too early

« on: August 30, 2017, 08:44:49 PM »

Global warming at its finest.

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Plumbing / Re: sharkbite radiant style / sidearm double wall stainless / Pumps

« on: August 30, 2017, 08:43:51 PM »

Heat 550.
  When I do a install in the northeast, I use the Logstor from the boiler to house then to 1"copper tube in basement. I rarely go with 1 1/4" pex. It is just as much as copper. Also use 1"long radius copper A/C 90deg fittings.  The 1" heater hose slides over the 1" copper tube. Copper looks better and has less droop.
Also Logstor specs out at 87psi. Should never see that on a open system.

I’m pretty sure most circulators used won’t build that kind of pressure anyways, they are meant for volume more than pressure. Now if somebody cheated and bought like a booster pump instead of a dedicated hydronic pump then maybe, but even well pumps max out at a certain pressure.

75 psi for a well pump. 

 I just wanted to mention to be a little careful purchasing pex AL pex.  I've seen it in more than one occasion where the inside pex actually bubbles over time separating from the aluminum and restricting flow.

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General Discussion / Re: Harvey

« on: August 30, 2017, 08:36:40 PM »

My friend broddi lives north of San Antonio and said Houston is evacuating by boat and have had nearly 60" of rainfalls

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Equipment / Re: Wood Splitter Recommendation?

« on: August 30, 2017, 08:29:31 PM »

That thing is pretty sweet frozen!  Pretty damn good price too, I might have to build me a wedge like that for mine! 

One question, is the opening actually 26" with the wedge all the way up or is it 26" minus the guard.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: No room for heat exchanger

« on: August 30, 2017, 08:24:21 PM »

I was just contemplating with 44 head feet that pump is going to be working pretty hard.  I'd go with the 1-1/4" for sure.  But at that price plus install plus the stove why not go with a geo system?  Can be done for under 20 Grand now and rebates available.  Plus you don't have to worry about cutting wood or replacing your furnace.

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Fire Wood / Re: Green wood?

« on: August 30, 2017, 08:07:10 PM »

I have also come to find burning rounds in a conventional OWB works better than splits.

Good to know, that was my thought as well, but nice to have it confirmed.  My plan was only to split the stuff that was too big to handle as a round.

If I let this stuff sit all winter till next year, I'll have to buy split wood....

Make a few phone calls to a local tree service.  The ones around here will sell wood for dirt cheap.  Sometimes it's free as they pay to dump it.  In Wisconsin seems like the demand  is much higher so usually you have to purchase it.  I can't remember an exact number but it was somewhere in the $25 a cord range if you picked it up and split it.  Dirt cheap.

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Equipment / Re: Has anyone tried one of the spiral cone wood splitters,..??

« on: August 26, 2017, 03:59:47 PM »

I seen one mounted on a bobcat at the show. Went right threw a 36" x4 feet long pice of narly black cherry. Not sure how it would do on hard maple. Or hickory.

  As long as you split the log from the side and not the butt end it will do great

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Heatmor / Re: Looking at new Heatmor 200CB

« on: August 26, 2017, 03:58:51 PM »

Mlappin said this and it stuck in my head like glue.  It is legal to burn wood to start the coal fire, even if it takes all winter to get the coal going.

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RidgeWood Stoves, defunct, support only / Re: New Name for Ridgewood

« on: August 26, 2017, 03:56:56 PM »

That was one of the main questions I had.  How can they legally sell that stove??

Michigan passed a referendum? resolution? or what ever that basically states no Michigan employee shall enforce the federal EPA law, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist, just that a Michigan employee won’t be the one writing the ticket/fine/summons or whatever. If an actual EPA employee felt  like it then they could write the ticket and it would b e enforceable then.

This is my understanding of it at least.

Not to get off subject but this is exactly how Colorado can legally sell marijuana.  If the Feds wanted to come in a make a fuss, you all know who would win the battle.  I fee like nobody will say anything for a number of years because this is still very "new" but just like doing an emissions delete on your diesel truck it will come to an end soon enough.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Door gasket material

« on: August 26, 2017, 03:49:45 PM »

Are you guys talking about the silicone door gaskets?

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HeatMaster / Re: 2017 G200 stack questions

« on: August 26, 2017, 03:48:03 PM »

Makes sense. Thanks!

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General Discussion / Re: Ripped of AGAIN

« on: August 26, 2017, 03:47:32 PM »

We both thought that was a good price as well.  He was only looking for a 500 gallon but took advantage of that one.  We go to a lot of farm auctions and see them pop up every now and then but most of them are in need of new valves and a good paint job.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Are you ready?

« on: August 26, 2017, 03:45:06 PM »

I have 7 cords up on pallets drying since last June. This will be my first year with 1.5 year seasoned wood. I will be really interested to see how it burns. Last year my wood was seasoned 6 months. I burned 6.75 cords last winter and the winter before  with 6 month seasoned wood. That was down from 12-13 cords of unseasoned wood that I used to burn in the old hardy h4. I split a piece of oak the other day which had the bark falling off, is dark gray/ black on the ends and very cracked. It metered at 35% mc on the fresh split!!!! The ends measured 22%. Wow! Even the maple was only down to only 25%. This was measured with the 4 prong meter that came with the g200. Its a nice meter but damn is it accurate? The wood all has the bark fall off and has that loud crack when banged togeather.

The meter I have says the only way to get an accurate reading is to measure the moisture right away after a split on the split face of the log.  This is the way I alsways try and take my readings now.  If I don't I usually try and add about 10% moisture from the end of the log reading.

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HeatMaster / Re: 2017 G200 stack questions

« on: August 26, 2017, 03:41:04 PM »

Can I ask why they use double wall when the stack temps are so low?  Is this something for the UL tag?

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Plumbing / Re: sharkbite radiant style / sidearm double wall stainless / Pumps

« on: August 26, 2017, 03:39:54 PM »

If you would happen to have a menards hardware store near you that is the place to go for any fittings you need.  Thy even carry a handful of pumps but they are somewhat more expensive.  They have 3 isles full of any size and type of fittings a guycan imagine.