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NEW POLICY, ALL MEMBERS MUST READ / Member conduct and ban policy, ALL MUST READ
« on: August 08, 2017, 04:50:06 PM »
Its come to the attention of the moderators that this site is losing it’s good reputation as a source of unbiased information, therefore a new policy will be set in place.
All members will treat other members with the respect and dignity they deserve, this includes replying to posts of course. No mudslinging, name calling, he said/she said, etc. will be tolerated. If you have a serious beef with a manufacturer then plainly and calmly state your issue in a dignified manner, name calling has never resolved anything.
Moderators, admins and representatives of the various brands represented here will be held to an even higher standard, no mudslinging, name calling, he said/she said, airing of dirty laundry, insinuations or bashing of a competitors brand will be tolerated.
First offense will result in a warning. If another transgression occurs but very minor it will be the moderators discretion if a second warning is issued or if we goto the next step. Moderators/Admin decisions are final, period.
1: First offense after a warning, 1 week ban.
2: Next offense, 1 month ban and your post count will be reset to zero so when your ban is lifted your posts will need moderator approval before being seen by others. Once you prove you can behave yourself and actually act like an adult your post count will be reset to what it was before plus how ever many posts needed moderator/admin approval.
3: Offense #3, see number 2 except ban will be for 6 months.
4: Offense #4, see number 2 except one year ban.
5: Offense #5, just consider yourself permanently banned if it goes this far as you have proven you belong in a sandbox and not an internet forum.
This is not like your drivers license either, offenses won’t drop off with good behavior.
By continued posting on this site you hereby agree to the above terms and will abide by them, if you feel you cannot for any reason abide by the above terms then please delete your account now.
Moderators donate their time to help keep this site running smoothly. They don’t get paid or receive plush Caribbean cruises as compensation, they have other real life responsibilities to look after as well, so 24/7 monitoring of this site is not possible. if you see a post you feel is inappropriate, a report to moderator feature is in each post in the lower right corner, when you mouse over it, it should become underlined, click on that, a new screen should appear, enter a comment in the box then click “Submit”
All members will treat other members with the respect and dignity they deserve, this includes replying to posts of course. No mudslinging, name calling, he said/she said, etc. will be tolerated. If you have a serious beef with a manufacturer then plainly and calmly state your issue in a dignified manner, name calling has never resolved anything.
Moderators, admins and representatives of the various brands represented here will be held to an even higher standard, no mudslinging, name calling, he said/she said, airing of dirty laundry, insinuations or bashing of a competitors brand will be tolerated.
First offense will result in a warning. If another transgression occurs but very minor it will be the moderators discretion if a second warning is issued or if we goto the next step. Moderators/Admin decisions are final, period.
1: First offense after a warning, 1 week ban.
2: Next offense, 1 month ban and your post count will be reset to zero so when your ban is lifted your posts will need moderator approval before being seen by others. Once you prove you can behave yourself and actually act like an adult your post count will be reset to what it was before plus how ever many posts needed moderator/admin approval.
3: Offense #3, see number 2 except ban will be for 6 months.
4: Offense #4, see number 2 except one year ban.
5: Offense #5, just consider yourself permanently banned if it goes this far as you have proven you belong in a sandbox and not an internet forum.
This is not like your drivers license either, offenses won’t drop off with good behavior.
By continued posting on this site you hereby agree to the above terms and will abide by them, if you feel you cannot for any reason abide by the above terms then please delete your account now.
Moderators donate their time to help keep this site running smoothly. They don’t get paid or receive plush Caribbean cruises as compensation, they have other real life responsibilities to look after as well, so 24/7 monitoring of this site is not possible. if you see a post you feel is inappropriate, a report to moderator feature is in each post in the lower right corner, when you mouse over it, it should become underlined, click on that, a new screen should appear, enter a comment in the box then click “Submit”
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Plumbing / Combination union and female pipe coupler.
« on: August 07, 2017, 09:36:14 AM »
I’m having a complete brain fart here, but I know I’ve seen like a half union before thats like a combo union and female pipe coupler in one. Looking to use em on flat plates so to have only one fitting instead of a female pipe coupler to copper then a union. What I’m thinking of has a flat face with a flat washer like most di electric units use then the outer sleeve would screw onto the ports of the flat plate. Use em all the time on the spray equipment but they are all plastic.
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General Discussion / Can’t wait for winter
« on: July 21, 2017, 04:03:31 PM »
Has been nucking futs with the humidity here. Get up at sunrise and try to get outside stuff done before its too miserable, I was ready for a shower the other day by 10am. Sometimes that don’t help either when its still almost 80 at midnight. I really hate summer, give me the other three seasons anytime.
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HeatMaster / Interesting conversation about honey today
« on: June 10, 2017, 08:58:50 PM »
Did our towns two day festival. Talked to a high school friend today, settled on a G200 eventually. Standard house install, but the pole barn is going to be interesting, going to be a 36x72 divided into three sections, one is cold storage, a much smaller section will be a hot room for extracting honey. Needs to be kept between 112-115 degrees, may need to go as high as 140 once in awhile if the honey is froze or crystalized. Radiant in the floor should handle the 112-115 but thinking air handlers obviously to get it to 140, definitely will want that one first in the loop. He’s talking a minimum of 12” of insulation in the walls and 24” in the ceiling over and above what the building will already have in the shell.
He’s big into honey and has had paid trips to the east coast and other places to divulge his secrets on his very high over winter survival rates. Really pretty simple, bees are meant to eat honey, sugar water isn’t honey, so don’t take so much honey that they need sugar water in the spring to have enough energy to start gathering pollen to make more honey. Last I heard his survival rates are around 95% which is unheard of with hive mites and colony collapse disorder being a common problem across the country.
He’s big into honey and has had paid trips to the east coast and other places to divulge his secrets on his very high over winter survival rates. Really pretty simple, bees are meant to eat honey, sugar water isn’t honey, so don’t take so much honey that they need sugar water in the spring to have enough energy to start gathering pollen to make more honey. Last I heard his survival rates are around 95% which is unheard of with hive mites and colony collapse disorder being a common problem across the country.
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / MOVED: Central Boiler Classic CL5036 for sale
« on: May 31, 2017, 11:31:57 AM »
This topic has been moved to For Sale.
http://outdoorwoodfurnaceinfo.com/forum/index.php?topic=9128.0
http://outdoorwoodfurnaceinfo.com/forum/index.php?topic=9128.0
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For Sale / HeatmasterSS G400
« on: May 30, 2017, 06:10:24 AM »
Have one HeatmsterSS G400 for sale, after tightening up the shop and all new windows in the house it’s too much of a beast, went down to a G200.
Has new updated lower refectory, also has updated cold air intake for the draft fan.
Was used approximately a season and a half. Has lower view port, the video Heatmaster is using in their promotions was shot from this stove.
Comes with a extra pump plumbed in for improved circulation.
Asking $11,000 firm, lifetime limited warranty is transferable.
Has new updated lower refectory, also has updated cold air intake for the draft fan.
Was used approximately a season and a half. Has lower view port, the video Heatmaster is using in their promotions was shot from this stove.
Comes with a extra pump plumbed in for improved circulation.
Asking $11,000 firm, lifetime limited warranty is transferable.
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General Discussion / That time of year again
« on: May 09, 2017, 06:41:02 AM »
Boilers are shut down or getting ready to be,
Actual legitimate members applying are down to nil.
Kinda disappointing to go thru the anywhere from 5-20 members awaiting authorization and have em all be spammers.
Really not hard to see legit members from this mess, there wasn’t any:
Screen Shot 2017-05-09 at 8.34.00 AM by Marty Lappin, on Flickr
Actual legitimate members applying are down to nil.
Kinda disappointing to go thru the anywhere from 5-20 members awaiting authorization and have em all be spammers.
Really not hard to see legit members from this mess, there wasn’t any:
Screen Shot 2017-05-09 at 8.34.00 AM by Marty Lappin, on Flickr
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General Discussion / Anybody ever try the Meg-MO system?
« on: April 13, 2017, 11:33:07 AM »
Thinking about buying a set of the Meg-Mo blades for my zero turn. A set of OEM blades are now well over $100. With the way they can swing back aren’t supposed to chuck rocks as far either. Between semi’s, straight trucks and the equipment up and down the drive way always seem to get some rocks squirted into the grass from an edge of a tire.
I’ve seen the display at the farm shows and understand the reasoning behind using more but shorter blades.
https://www.meg-mo.com
I’ve seen the display at the farm shows and understand the reasoning behind using more but shorter blades.
https://www.meg-mo.com
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General Discussion / That time of year again
« on: March 27, 2017, 01:47:37 PM »
Seems to be sooner than last, in the last week haven’t approved a single new member as it’s all spammers.
Their bots seemed to have got stupider, instead of usernames a lot are filled in with completely random numbers.
A lot of paris.mail topmail.uk and istanbul.mail email addresses as of late.
Makes me a sad panda with no real approvals to do, maybe someday I’ll have clearance to just start deleting the spammers.
Their bots seemed to have got stupider, instead of usernames a lot are filled in with completely random numbers.
A lot of paris.mail topmail.uk and istanbul.mail email addresses as of late.
Makes me a sad panda with no real approvals to do, maybe someday I’ll have clearance to just start deleting the spammers.
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Pro Fab / New link for Pro Fab owners
« on: March 16, 2017, 10:24:39 PM »
I’ve been contacted by an individual from Furnace Compare with a link about Pro Fab since they have gone out of business. Links to dealers that may still stock parts are included in the article at Furnace Compare.
https://www.furnacecompare.com/wood-furnaces/brands/profab.html
https://www.furnacecompare.com/wood-furnaces/brands/profab.html
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Fire Wood / MOVED: CB prim. air intake
« on: March 08, 2017, 06:02:57 AM »
This topic has been moved to Central Boiler.
http://outdoorwoodfurnaceinfo.com/forum/index.php?topic=9028.0
http://outdoorwoodfurnaceinfo.com/forum/index.php?topic=9028.0
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HeatMaster / Placing wood in G400
« on: February 02, 2017, 09:27:43 PM »
Last year I had the firewood processor set for an average of 17”, this allowed a row in the back of the G400 and another in the front, this seemed to work best at keeping the nozzle covered with coals all the time. This year I set it as long as possible, even though it has a 24” stroke on the cylinder the best you can expect to do is 22”, I set it for that as soon as my distributor has more in I’ll be swapping the 400 out for a 200. Lots of work on the shop, rest of the windows in the house have been changed then discovered that under a staircase on a outside wall had zero insulation. Found this out when I opened it up to build a closet under the stair well. So now the G400 is serious overkill.
This is a tip from Scott Sloan of Heartland Energy LLC, my distributor, instead of placing your pieces long ways in the box place em across the box. I tried that once before and it didn’t work at all, trick is to keep em tight, but not as tight as you can, too tight and forget it. So far has worked very well and by cutting the pieces longer, less cuts and less pieces to pick up. If I had a splitter that had a 30” stroke than I’d go back to the way recommended by Heatmaster, but with 22” pieces this seems to be working pretty well.
This is a tip from Scott Sloan of Heartland Energy LLC, my distributor, instead of placing your pieces long ways in the box place em across the box. I tried that once before and it didn’t work at all, trick is to keep em tight, but not as tight as you can, too tight and forget it. So far has worked very well and by cutting the pieces longer, less cuts and less pieces to pick up. If I had a splitter that had a 30” stroke than I’d go back to the way recommended by Heatmaster, but with 22” pieces this seems to be working pretty well.
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / MOVED: Woo who ! He's in , smoke'm if u got'em !
« on: January 28, 2017, 12:01:40 PM »
This topic has been moved to General Discussion.
http://outdoorwoodfurnaceinfo.com/forum/index.php?topic=8947.0
http://outdoorwoodfurnaceinfo.com/forum/index.php?topic=8947.0
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Equipment / Wood Eze Firewood Processor
« on: January 12, 2017, 09:59:23 PM »
Had the processor in the shop for a few days, mounted the PTO pump solid and used a short Cat 5 shaft to drive it as it won’t fit on some of the smaller tractors as the PTO clutch housings are in the way.
Picked up an old New Idea ear corn elevator as the old one was so shot the flat links would open up by just looking at it. Paid about half as much for the New Idea as new conveyor chain would have cost for the old. Had about another $400 in new drive sprockets for the top, new bearings, pipe and hydraulic hose, everything else was salvaged from either the scrap barrels or obsolete spare parts in one of the barns.
Now for the odd part, the PTO pump works just fine when the processor is level like the beginning of the video, tilt the machine to match the log angle and with enough tilt, the rear seal on the pump will leak enough for it to sling oil and the saw rpm’s drop just enough to hear the difference in pitch, I’ve let it run while tilted for several minutes then pulled the vent on the reservoir and the oil wasn’t foamed at all. So why a minuscule leak thats not sucking air would cause a drop in rpm’s is beyond me, raise the processor back to level and the leak stops.
Just doesn’t make a lot of sense, I’m going to reseal it again and see what happens.
Picked up an old New Idea ear corn elevator as the old one was so shot the flat links would open up by just looking at it. Paid about half as much for the New Idea as new conveyor chain would have cost for the old. Had about another $400 in new drive sprockets for the top, new bearings, pipe and hydraulic hose, everything else was salvaged from either the scrap barrels or obsolete spare parts in one of the barns.
Now for the odd part, the PTO pump works just fine when the processor is level like the beginning of the video, tilt the machine to match the log angle and with enough tilt, the rear seal on the pump will leak enough for it to sling oil and the saw rpm’s drop just enough to hear the difference in pitch, I’ve let it run while tilted for several minutes then pulled the vent on the reservoir and the oil wasn’t foamed at all. So why a minuscule leak thats not sucking air would cause a drop in rpm’s is beyond me, raise the processor back to level and the leak stops.
Just doesn’t make a lot of sense, I’m going to reseal it again and see what happens.
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / MOVED: Woodmasters clean fire
« on: October 27, 2016, 06:29:06 AM »
This topic has been moved to WoodMaster.
http://outdoorwoodfurnaceinfo.com/forum/index.php?topic=8742.0
http://outdoorwoodfurnaceinfo.com/forum/index.php?topic=8742.0