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Equipment / Re: Falling Spikes
« on: February 09, 2016, 08:51:15 AM »
While most won't admit it they add the monster spikes for looks, like jacking a truck up till you need a ladder to get in. For the few that need larger spikes it's for coarse bark trees.
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Rainy and Muddy here in West Michigan, Oh Crap Lost my wedding ring
« on: February 06, 2016, 07:09:45 PM »Ain’t never snagged my wedding ring, I’ve had to buff the odd weld splatter out a few times though.
First machine shop I worked at I saw a guy get his wedding band caught in a machine, mostly you will only ever do it once.
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Portage & Main / Re: Should I upgrade from a cb 6048. To a 3444
« on: February 05, 2016, 12:25:34 PM »
That sounds like an awful lot of wood for the space you are heating!
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Rainy and Muddy here in West Michigan, Oh Crap Lost my wedding ring
« on: February 03, 2016, 07:36:33 PM »
I've been married 30 years and after a 2 week honeymoon the ring came off and got locked up, just like I told her would happen. Between machine shop work, farm work, wood cutting, etc. there are too many opportunities to lose a finger or the ring, plus I'm just not into jewelry. I do hope you find it.
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Oil is now so cheap I'm giving my OWB a break!
« on: January 13, 2016, 06:03:03 AM »
I have access to "Free" wood right here on my little farm, I have good saws, tractor with loader, ATV, UTV, trailers and splitter, but at 64 years old with a bad ankle I cut only a few hours at a time. With these oil prices I am trying to get ahead on next years wood while still keeping a fire going for the Man Cave.
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Oil is now so cheap I'm giving my OWB a break!
« on: January 12, 2016, 05:18:23 PM »
Today I got my oil tank filled for $1.69 Gal and if I pay in 10 days I can knock another 2 cents off. Last year I went through some of this years wood so I am switching the house/domestic back to oil and just use the OWB to heat my "Man Cave" shed where my old dog lives and I relax. It's a 12 X 22 shed with a cast iron radiator and I keep it about 62 degrees, only need to fire the wood off once a day and use very little. Maybe this way I'll get caught up on my wood cutting.
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Portage & Main / Re: Upper door on ML30 rusted out; Update
« on: January 10, 2016, 12:07:51 PM »Portage and Maine seems to be a really good company, how many years have you had your ML30?
About 6 years, paid for itself pretty quick.
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Portage & Main / Re: Upper door on ML30 rusted out; Update
« on: January 10, 2016, 08:13:50 AM »
I got my new door installed with no problem other than it took some prying to compress the gasket enough to latch the door. Hopefully many more years left in the stove. P&M treated me right on this. 
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Portage & Main / Upper door on ML30 rusted out; Update
« on: December 22, 2015, 05:37:13 PM »
First off what happened to the P&M dealers? The upper door into the smoke passage on my 5 year old P&M ML30 has the inner liner rusted thru. Since I couldn't locate any nearby dealer I sent an e-mail to P&M explaining and I got a call the next day saying they will send a new door on their dime. 
Overall it's been a good stove but I do get more moisture in the door areas than I think I should.
Overall it's been a good stove but I do get more moisture in the door areas than I think I should.
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Equipment / Re: Home made shovel and rake?
« on: November 22, 2015, 11:08:45 AM »
A few years ago I got a round point shovel with about 1" dia conduit handle at a auction for 50 cents, not what I'd use for digging dirt but for ashes and an occasional pile of used dog food it's fine.
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Fire Wood / Re: Firewood Hands Hurt Like Hell
« on: March 04, 2015, 02:49:48 PM »
I have both the 8" and the 12" and for me the 12" is MUCH nicer. The 8" is too often not quite big enough and the 12 will grip dow pretty small. Mine are Huskys.
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Portage & Main / Re: Burn Time
« on: December 23, 2014, 07:21:16 AM »
I may do this but here is how I handle our frequent 4-5 day trips to the cabin or beach house. The evening before leaving I load it heavy after 10PM. In the morning when leaving I kill the blowers but leave the pumps going so the oil boiler will maintain about 145 temp. When we get home the boiler will be partly full of warm charred wood so I stick a kerosene soaked corncob in and light it then turn on the blowers. By the time we have the car unloaded the fire is blazing and the temp climbing. I keep a coffee can of corncobs with about 2" of kerosene near the stove with an old pair of pliers so I can do a quick light without getting dirty.
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Equipment / Re: Home made old log splitter
« on: December 23, 2014, 06:56:04 AM »
I would buy new sprockets and chain and be good for a bunch more years. The belts would need to be very tight to not slip.
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Portage and Main owners
« on: December 13, 2014, 12:44:19 PM »
One of the things that I considered really important was that I don't see ANY sparks coming out the stack. My stove is near some large pines and also some out buildings so I thought the P&Ms were a safer bet, I hope the new ones are the same.
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: best time to install
« on: April 08, 2012, 07:32:42 PM »
If you have your domestic hot water hooked to it I would go ahead and fire it up and run a few days, take some long hot showers and check for problems.