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[slimjim]

Wow as usual I am up at 4:30 AM and expecting a bunch of posts from over the weekend, especially from Sunday evening, was the forum down or something last night? not one new post from yesterday / last night. We had a beautiful weekend here, over 60 degrees yesterday, I trust most of you had the same and wood boilers were the last thing on your mind. We spent most of the weekend outside cleaning up the winters mess, I must say that I really dislike oak trees near my house or lawn, very soon I am going to kill 8 or 10 of them to get rid of the darn acorns, oak trees are good for 3 things, firewood, veneer logs and blisters, none of mine are good enough for veneer and I'm tired of the blisters so guess what, they will become next years firewood!

[kommandokenny]

Slim ,everyone is outside,, as it's been a long winter.
Everything is melting and I can get into the woods soon.

kk

[Roger2561]

It was so nice that my nephew and I took our motorcycles out for a nice ride yesterday afternoon.  We didn't want to get off of them.  I needed that ride very much.  Roger

[slimjim]

Sounds like a great time Roger, we were hearing bikes all day riding past the frontage, my boy was out all day as well. As for the wife and I, we got to ride the rake handle, the Cat and the skid steer, not much fun but the yard looks a lot nicer and we had the feeling of accomplishment last night.

[mlappin]

No oak trees near my lawn, standard oak trees don't like our heavy clay soils, have a few massive burr oaks around the property though. One half of the woods on the original homestead has some red oaks though, most of them are getting near big enough that it's almost logging time again.

Have two big black walnuts in the yard though I'll trade yah for the oaks. Was wet enough last summer that any walnuts we missed in the yard sprouted, dug em up and moved em back to the woods in a clearing, maybe someday I'll be able to sell some quality walnut logs.

Have a ton of black cherry's though in all the woods, used to have a bunch of ash as well but we can thank the cheap imports from china for killing those.

[jrider]

I will take oak trees in the yard any day over black walnut, willow, and white pine.

[Chicken farmer]

Too busy measuring my concrete stove pad for a new Heatmaster.

[yotehunter66]

Cleaning up the yard and barn.

[Crow]

Spent the day cleaning up the boiler and putting it to bed for the summer.

[slimjim]

Congrats Chicken farmer, enjoy!

[Chicken farmer]

Not ordered yet. Just getting ready in case I pull the trigger......

[AirForcePOL]

What are you gonna go with if you pull the trigger chicken farmer?  Are you planning on a bigger furnace than what you have now?

[intensedrive]

No Ridgewood anymore,  Well Dang!  Maybe I should follow..

Too busy measuring my concrete stove pad for a new Heatmaster.

[intensedrive]

Hi Slim,

If you lived closer I have you over some nice beer and help me solve my water logged pipes!  I own a microbrewery... anyone in the West Michigan area that could offer any help I have unlimited supply of brews!  Heck I can even trade wood for a keg of your choice of beer.   

Wow as usual I am up at 4:30 AM and expecting a bunch of posts from over the weekend, especially from Sunday evening, was the forum down or something last night? not one new post from yesterday / last night. We had a beautiful weekend here, over 60 degrees yesterday, I trust most of you had the same and wood boilers were the last thing on your mind. We spent most of the weekend outside cleaning up the winters mess, I must say that I really dislike oak trees near my house or lawn, very soon I am going to kill 8 or 10 of them to get rid of the darn acorns, oak trees are good for 3 things, firewood, veneer logs and blisters, none of mine are good enough for veneer and I'm tired of the blisters so guess what, they will become next years firewood!

[slimjim]

I really don't want to start anything here intensedrive but I will give a bit of advice, rip out the pipe and replace it with Logstor or a similar brand, it is pricey to start but I can tell you that I would bet that I have used at least 100,000 feet of it and never a single complaint other than it sucks to handle, as one of the
P and M dealers likes to say, it is the cheapest pipe you will ever buy because it is the only pipe you will ever need to buy.
 I do feel badly that you are having issues now but Please understand that this is not the time or way to get your issue resolved, try again to contact Ridgewood, see if they can help first, post some pictures of your install and I'm sure we can all help on this side.
 Take some of the blame on yourself for not doing the research before the install, it sounds to me that the boiler and install were sold on price alone, sometimes in life, that is not the best route, there is a market out there for higher end units and installs, along with those higher end packages comes better quality products and services. Would you have bought if the package were going to cost you another $4,000, this is what the higher end folks are up against.
 As always I think the best bang for your buck when considering a wood boiler is to not cheap out on the install, use the best pipe and interior components you can possibly afford, changing the boiler later on down the road is a drop in the bucket compared to what you are about to go through.