Outdoor Wood Furnace Info
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: slimjim on January 26, 2015, 06:07:26 AM
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Looks to be a major storm headed our way this evening folks, if you aren't already prepared with extra gas for the generator, plenty of wood on hand and what you need to hunker down for a day or two, you might consider taking the day off from work to get prepared, I've got my Cat fired up and ready, GM will get the minute mount on today and the portable generator will be moved into the garage to keep it ready to go, I think I may even re fire the old Wood Doctor to be sure it's ready in the event the P+M 250 can't handle the extra load! Be well guys and BE CAREFUL!
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yep, its headed towards Nova Scotia as well, cape Breton in particular,,,that where we are so , yes we will be ready.....possibly 20 to 30 cm coming here, no snow right now, rain took it all away on weekend.
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Slimjim It looks like people close to the coast will really feel the brunt of this thing. I guess the winds are to be near hurricane strength closer to the coast one lives. I'm not too concerned about it. When I get home this evening I'll check to be sure the green tractor starts (I haven't started it in over a month - it should fire right up though) and run the PTO to be sure the front mount blower is operating okay and there's enough fuel in it. The college where I work seldom closes and don't expect it to close for this thing either. They do ask their employees use common sense (I know, common sense in an academic setting is lacking) and best judgement whether to stay home or go to work. I'll know better in the AM what I'll do. But, it is New England so storms of this size shouldn't come as a surprise to us natives, only the transplants. Roger
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5AM and just a dusting here so far but the wind picked up a lot around 11PM, perhaps the wind will blow it all out of my driveway, but the CAT is plugged in, 9 foot municipal blade is on and full of fuel, generator is inside and ready to go, Bring it on!
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Well let's see, at 6:15 I took the stroll to the shop to check on the boiler, it was down to a very few coals, the man door in the shop blew open, there is about 4-5 inches of snow on the ground and about 3 inches inside the shop. The wind is going to be the culprit here guys, get the generators ready!
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We were supposed to get 3-5" out of that and 25 mph wind gusts, neither happened, got a dusting though. I spent three days working on the plow truck. New fuel tank, fuel lines, all new rear brake lines, wheel cylinders, hardware kit, slack adjusters, etc. Haven't had any snow to plow since then. Maybe I should have done that last winter?
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Last evening the weatherman was predicting 10 to 18 inches of snow for my area of NH. This morning when I got out of bed to fuel up the OWB there was just a dusting on the ground. When I left for work around 6:30am perhaps an inch of snow on the ground; I looked at the Weather Channel web site for an update for weather to our area and they have revised their predictions from 10 to 18 inches to 1 to 2 inches by 2:30pm and an additional 1 inch through the night. Man, did they ever miss the boat on this one. It has stopped snowing now. Roger
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OK so rub it in Roger, God Almighty has spared you on this one my friend, we have got to have 16 inches on the ground here with strong winds and drifting, it is supposed to get worse from 2-5PM and not completely stop until late evening. Perhaps somebody up there knows that green tractor can't handle the big stuff and the yellow one can :thumbup:
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OK so rub it in Roger, God Almighty has spared you on this one my friend, we have got to have 16 inches on the ground here with strong winds and drifting, it is supposed to get worse from 2-5PM and not completely stop until late evening. Perhaps somebody up there knows that green tractor can't handle the big stuff and the yellow one can :thumbup:
Reading this just made my day. that green paint is expensive
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I went out to open up the drive for the last time around 6PM, we had to have close to 2 feet by then, this AM there is another 6 inches on the drive, as the old Maine humorists Burt and I would have said, (That were a good un)
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OK so rub it in Roger, God Almighty has spared you on this one my friend, we have got to have 16 inches on the ground here with strong winds and drifting, it is supposed to get worse from 2-5PM and not completely stop until late evening. Perhaps somebody up there knows that green tractor can't handle the big stuff and the yellow one can :thumbup:
The green tractor can handle the deep stuff. When I got home last night I was welcome with a 3 1/2 foot drift blocking the driveway. I fired up the tractor (no problems there) and made quick work of that drift. Thank God for the heated cab, I stayed warm and dry even with all the snow blowing around.
I took a few minutes to help one of my neighbors out. As I was ready shut the green tractor down for the night my neighbor to north was struggling trying to get her drive way cleared of the drifts with her little snow blower. I felt bad because her husband is laid up with a bad back and he can't use the snow blower until it heals and she hates operating it so I drove down and 5 minutes later their yard was clear of snow. They offered me money for my troubles, like sitting in a nice warm cab is trouble. I said no, keep it and buy something for the kids. Roger
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OK so rub it in Roger, God Almighty has spared you on this one my friend, we have got to have 16 inches on the ground here with strong winds and drifting, it is supposed to get worse from 2-5PM and not completely stop until late evening. Perhaps somebody up there knows that green tractor can't handle the big stuff and the yellow one can :thumbup:
I took a few minutes to help one of my neighbors out. As I was ready shut the green tractor down for the night my neighbor to north was struggling trying to get her drive way cleared of the drifts with her little snow blower. I felt bad because her husband is laid up with a bad back and he can't use the snow blower until it heals and she hates operating it so I drove down and 5 minutes later their yard was clear of snow. They offered me money for my troubles, like sitting in a nice warm cab is trouble. I said no, keep it and buy something for the kids. Roger
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I hate it sometimes when people try to pay me for being a good neighbor, maybe that as well is part of whats wrong with this country, wouldn't matter if the hubby was in a body cast and the wifey was nine months pregnant, some people would still expect to be paid.
Used to have an elderly couple on the farm to the east of us, Father has rented the land from them before I was even born. As they got to their mid eighties and ole Max started slowing down finally, I made sure their drive was always plowed and the walk shoveled. My wife would also go down every morning to get their paper for them. Tried to sneak out numerous times without being paid, never worked, they'd either drop the money off in the mailbox, leave it on the seat of the truck, under a windshield wiper or have the grandkids drop off some nice Pączki straight from the old polish neighborhoods in Chicago. Both were immigrants from Poland and neither took a handout straight off the boat and they weren't about to start just because they got old.
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Roger you do know I'm just busting your chops?
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Roger you do know I'm just busting your chops?
Yes I do. I'm just taking time to figure out how to get even... ;D Roger
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OK so rub it in Roger, God Almighty has spared you on this one my friend, we have got to have 16 inches on the ground here with strong winds and drifting, it is supposed to get worse from 2-5PM and not completely stop until late evening. Perhaps somebody up there knows that green tractor can't handle the big stuff and the yellow one can :thumbup:
I took a few minutes to help one of my neighbors out. As I was ready shut the green tractor down for the night my neighbor to north was struggling trying to get her drive way cleared of the drifts with her little snow blower. I felt bad because her husband is laid up with a bad back and he can't use the snow blower until it heals and she hates operating it so I drove down and 5 minutes later their yard was clear of snow. They offered me money for my troubles, like sitting in a nice warm cab is trouble. I said no, keep it and buy something for the kids. Roger
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I hate it sometimes when people try to pay me for being a good neighbor, maybe that as well is part of whats wrong with this country, wouldn't matter if the hubby was in a body cast and the wifey was nine months pregnant, some people would still expect to be paid.
Used to have an elderly couple on the farm to the east of us, Father has rented the land from them before I was even born. As they got to their mid eighties and ole Max started slowing down finally, I made sure their drive was always plowed and the walk shoveled. My wife would also go down every morning to get their paper for them. Tried to sneak out numerous times without being paid, never worked, they'd either drop the money off in the mailbox, leave it on the seat of the truck, under a windshield wiper or have the grandkids drop off some nice Pączki straight from the old polish neighborhoods in Chicago. Both were immigrants from Poland and neither took a handout straight off the boat and they weren't about to start just because they got old.
About 10 years ago when my neighbor first moved to the house across the street from me from the Boston area, I think he was insulted when I refused money for pulling his car of the culvert (He misjudged his turn). I consider it neighbor helping neighbor. Heck, hooking a chain to the draw bar and then to his car took all of 5 minutes. The temp guage was still showing "cold" by the time I got there and had him pulled out. I told him to give the money to a charity of his choice.
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So what was the total snowfall amount for you guys northeast?
I'm saying around 4-5" here north jersey I'll know when I get my reports
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In my area of NH we got maybe 4 to 5 inches of snow. I know by the coast where my cousins live, they got around 2 feet of the stuff, the lucky people. She, my cousin said she may move north to get away from the snow. ;) Roger
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My intention is not to rub it in, but when the storm hit there, it was in the 70's here, record highs. we get back down in the single digits/teens by Monday so January is getting back to normal. But, the national media was talking up the storm before it hit as the storm of the millennium, talking like it apparently had never snowed in New England before. I know you folks have seen snow and can handle whatever is thrown at you, but the drama created by the national media outlets was pretty hilarious drama :o Glad you weathered the storm though and are getting back to normal! :thumbup:
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I think the official total for the Biddeford / Sanford area was 31 inches, OH GOODY, I just let the dogs out and it's SNOWING AGAIN!!!!!!!
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Only about 12 inches here in Central New Hampshire. My parents on the Seacoast got 27.
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I got over 2 feet total from the blizzard then today (friday) another 4 inches ...hmm whats monday gonna bring lol..
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It's funny how some of these storms travel. Take yesterday; I live in Enfield NH which approximately a 1/2 drive to Hanover NH where I work. In Hanover they got perhaps 2 or 3 inches of snow and that's stretching it. When I got home in Enfield we had approximately 5 maybe 6 inches of snow on the ground. To say I was surprised to see that much in Enfield is an understatement. I'll fire up the tractor later this morning to clear the yard. Roger
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That's amazing the differance they really did screw this one up! And they are at it again 18" Sunday into Monday
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I can't get ahead of it, just finished cleaning up last night and the forecast is saying another 6-10 inches sunday into monday, another drawn out one and no place to put it!
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So we just escaped another hit they were expecting it to come for 3 days Sunday monday Tuesday looks like just rain and mix...
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Have another storm coming in this weekend.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-video/video-snow-to-cause-delays-from-boston-to-nyc/3901417444001#.VNQZi3vALL8.facebook (http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-video/video-snow-to-cause-delays-from-boston-to-nyc/3901417444001#.VNQZi3vALL8.facebook)
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We had maybe 6-8" of wet heavy snow Sunday, then another 6-8" of lighter stuff Monday.
I'm getting tired of pushing snow, a buddy plowed 32 hours straight which I think is nuts. His boss needs to reconsider his priorities, from experience on the farm you start working that many hours and fatigue will definitely cause accidents.
Was up early Sunday, plowed enough around the farm to get around, wife was up so went to breakfast at the local Legion, got done with breakfast and went and plowed a cousins, then a friends right next to her, then went and did three landlords drive, changed clothes as Sunday was the mens, ladies aux and SAL meetings at the Legion, plowed that lot as well, they cancelled the meetings, so went to top the plow truck off. Local gas station wanted to fill me up if I plowed their lot after, told em I'll plow it first then you fill it up. By then was getting dark, got up Monday and redid everything from the day before then spent the rest of the day on the farm getting all the drives plowed enough to get the semi around without getting hung as we have soybeans to deliver. Then plowed the half mile lane back to the woods so I could feed cows.
Can say the plow truck doesn't use near as much gas since installing a new tank ;)
Gonna yank the bed off my totaled Cummins, have the frame straightened the best they can, then install a flat bed with a hoist and a plow as the less than 10mpg the Chevy is getting is ridiculous.
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Can't beat the old cummins .. The really destroying the new one I bought 2012 2 yrs ago the cummins has that DEF fluid crap and all the emissions bogging it down they killed this motor..
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I tried to post some pics of my Friend / neighbors 50 x 100 canvas topped Quonset hut that caved in on top of all his equipment 2 days ago, we got the crane truck that he uses for setting the concrete form cages and his service truck out without any further damage but there is still a lot of stuff in there buried under the broken frame and canvas, it took my Cat, a Volvo excavator and a pulp loader to lift the frame enough to clear the trucks, the scary part was going inside to cut the canvas and rig the spreader bars. Nobody got physically hurt and Derek can now get back to work but Please let this be a lesson to us all, TODAY PLEASE look up at your roofline, if there is a lot of snow up there, GET IT OFF!
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That's something a lot of people don't think about is snow load and when these storms come back to back you really need to pay attention.. Slim any damage to equipment
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One of the metal trusses came down on the corner of the cab on the crane truck and broke through the outer layer of fiberglass, took out 2 clearance lights but that was about it on the trucks, as far as the rest of the stuff we will simply have to wait until the snow is gone to remove the tarp and check out the damage as NOBODY is going in there now.
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I tried to post some pics of my Friend / neighbors 50 x 100 canvas topped Quonset hut that caved in on top of all his equipment 2 days ago, we got the crane truck that he uses for setting the concrete form cages and his service truck out without any further damage but there is still a lot of stuff in there buried under the broken frame and canvas, it took my Cat, a Volvo excavator and a pulp loader to lift the frame enough to clear the trucks, the scary part was going inside to cut the canvas and rig the spreader bars. Nobody got physically hurt and Derek can now get back to work but Please let this be a lesson to us all, TODAY PLEASE look up at your roofline, if there is a lot of snow up there, GET IT OFF!
We have five hoop buildings on the farm, all run east to west and are out in the open, any wind pretty much keeps em scoured off. WE just put the fifth one up this fall/early winter, have the semi, a grain truck, three four wheel drive tractors and the seed tender parked in it. A guy in town put up the identical building after ours and it came down, but his is sheltered on three sides by tree lines, they also left all the snow on it from when we got the 16".
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Well the shoreline of Ct is getting another 4-6 inches today. Here we go again. Can't wait for the melt of spring to get here.
Project for this year is going to be finishing the roof on the wood shed. I have had enough of digging through the snow to find my wood pile.
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Glad it cooled back down a little, broke a sweat yesterday in the 42 degree weather.
Wont be long and the black flies will be out.
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This morning in my area of NH I had -15. I coulda swore I saw a mosquito wearing a fur coat.
Roger
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Yesterday in Northern MN we had -26 in the morning and today it's almost 40.. I would imagine this will slowly make it your way soon.. It's going to be 50 next week and it's time to start getting seeds started for the garden! Hopefully you guys out east get a slow gentle melt with all your snow!!
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Yesterday in Northern MN we had -26 in the morning and today it's almost 40.. I would imagine this will slowly make it your way soon.. It's going to be 50 next week and it's time to start getting seeds started for the garden! Hopefully you guys out east get a slow gentle melt with all your snow!!
That's right Brad we will definitely need some rain or we are gonna have a shortage of moisture in the ground!
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My dad and his uncle (both run/ran greenhouse businesses as I still do with my dad). They used to call it "poor man's fertilizer". Well, not sure how good it is, but we sure have enough of it here. Saw a lot of melting over the past couple of days. Cooling back down some today with another round of snow expected this weekend. Heavy wet stuff this time. Most of the storms last month were fluffy and easy to move. Sadly I've lost my nice snow packed base in my driveway. Plowing this weekend will be loads of fun.