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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Shutting down early
« on: April 04, 2015, 02:18:18 PM »
I agree.... and that's why I don't go anywhere. At some point I'll change it over. So my bypass idea is fine? Thanks again for the help.
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Shutting down early
« on: April 04, 2015, 01:26:29 PM »
I believe my indoor oil boiler would be trying to heat the owb water if I did that since I do not have a heat exchanger. My owb is plumbed directly into my oil boiler.
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Shutting down early
« on: April 04, 2015, 10:54:05 AM »
Bondo, not sure on burning green wood because I have a gasifyer. Wood is oak, maple and birch that was on the stump about 5 weeks ago and cut/split almost that long.
Slim, why the exclamation point? My plan is to shut the owb supply/return valves at the indoor oil boiler. Then I'll run the indoor boiler like normal but turn the thermostat down to 50 so no reason to shut that circ off. I will burn wood inside the house to keep warm. I just keep the indoor boiler on to keep the plates warm so the old boiler doesn't start leaking.
For the bypass I was figuring I could put a T in the owb supply and another in the return (both a few feet before the ball valves at the supply and return of my indoor boiler). Then I could connect the supply and return with a ball valve in between. This would allow me to run the owb circ while keeping the inside and outside boilers separate. Does that sound ok?
Slim, why the exclamation point? My plan is to shut the owb supply/return valves at the indoor oil boiler. Then I'll run the indoor boiler like normal but turn the thermostat down to 50 so no reason to shut that circ off. I will burn wood inside the house to keep warm. I just keep the indoor boiler on to keep the plates warm so the old boiler doesn't start leaking.
For the bypass I was figuring I could put a T in the owb supply and another in the return (both a few feet before the ball valves at the supply and return of my indoor boiler). Then I could connect the supply and return with a ball valve in between. This would allow me to run the owb circ while keeping the inside and outside boilers separate. Does that sound ok?
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Shutting down early
« on: April 04, 2015, 07:26:00 AM »
Shoot, I can't do that because I need turn my indoor boiler back on to keep it warm. I suppose it would be OK to plumb in a quick bypass pipe to keep things flowing?
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Shutting down early
« on: April 04, 2015, 07:19:06 AM »
So it's safe to run the pump with my supply and return valve's in the house shut? I do have a CB thermostatic valve installed on the wood boiler side of the shut off valves on my open system. Thanks for the help!
Gregg
Gregg
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Shutting down early
« on: April 04, 2015, 07:06:44 AM »
Hello everyone. I am out of wood and am considering shutting down my boiler. Should I be worried about my thermopex supply lines freezing? They are mostly buried 3 ft below grade. Temps are still getting down to the mid 20's at night but are above freezing during the day. Next week's weather is looking warmer here in upstate NY. I do have green wood here but am worried about burning it. I usually shut down by the end of April. Any thoughts?
Gregg
Gregg
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: average wood usage ?
« on: January 03, 2014, 05:36:44 AM »
3,400 sf of 1860's poorly insulated farmhouse here and I burn a little less than 3 cords a month. I guess I'm not doing as bad as I thought! These -15 nights are not helping any.
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General Discussion / Re: Muck Boots
« on: December 20, 2013, 08:49:57 AM »
Well jeez, I guess I'm gonna have to try a pair. Everybody has good things to say about them but I've been a little reluctant to stray from the Lacrosse Burly's I've been wearing since i was a kid(not the same pair). I never got the Muck Boots because I thought rubber that the Lacrosses are made of would hold up better than neoprene on the Muck Boots.
Are Muck Boots tough? I spend alot of time working in thick brushy woods.
Are Muck Boots tough? I spend alot of time working in thick brushy woods.
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General Discussion / Re: Tractor question
« on: December 09, 2013, 01:08:56 PM »
Ah yes. I grabbed the Diesel 911 at Tractor Supply on a recommendation and never read it. It looks like it will be good to have on the shelf anyway.
Gregg
Gregg
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General Discussion / Re: Tractor question
« on: December 07, 2013, 04:56:49 AM »
This is my first year with a tractor. What do you all use for a diesel additive? I just bought Diesel 911 on the recommendation of my farmer step dad.
Gregg
Gregg
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General Discussion / Re: Tractor question
« on: November 27, 2013, 06:12:32 AM »
Keep us posted. I just got my tractor this year and I'm sure it will not start at some point. Its good to learn from the experiences of others.
Gregg
Gregg
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General Discussion / Re: It's cold outside!
« on: November 25, 2013, 05:25:26 AM »
It was 10 yesterday morning and 8 this morning but at least the wind has died down. It sounds like I had the same wind speeds as you did yesterday.... it was a cold afernoon in my tree stand.
Last night I loaded the owb close to 3/4 full and it was ready for more this morning. When it's -20 I have to feed her a full load before work, a half load when I get home and another full load before bed..... she likes to eat!
Gregg
Last night I loaded the owb close to 3/4 full and it was ready for more this morning. When it's -20 I have to feed her a full load before work, a half load when I get home and another full load before bed..... she likes to eat!
Gregg
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Finding my well
« on: November 22, 2013, 12:15:19 PM »
Newer locating equipment can use energized line without direct connection or inject a signal and can show deths to the tenth of an inch but I am not knocking past methods, had a friends dad "witch" out a place where a well digger drilled on my dad's property and it has a great water supply to this day so both sides of that too?
Hope you find your well, just a fish tape could tell you a lot. Dave when you say the pipe looks like it goes straight up that sounds like the fitting used at the well called a pitiless adapter, the stem points up the pipe and all the piping down hangs on that fitting. At least it sounds like that is what it could be!
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"Witching" or dowsing defintely works. I do alot of work for municipalities with very old infrastructure. Often the systems are so old that the current employees have no clue where lines are since there is no mapping and lines are abandoned and emergency repairs are made. Usually they have to call in some old codger that's been working for the city for 50 years and he pulls out a set of bent welding rods and finds the lines! Cool stuff.
Gregg
Hope you find your well, just a fish tape could tell you a lot. Dave when you say the pipe looks like it goes straight up that sounds like the fitting used at the well called a pitiless adapter, the stem points up the pipe and all the piping down hangs on that fitting. At least it sounds like that is what it could be!
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"Witching" or dowsing defintely works. I do alot of work for municipalities with very old infrastructure. Often the systems are so old that the current employees have no clue where lines are since there is no mapping and lines are abandoned and emergency repairs are made. Usually they have to call in some old codger that's been working for the city for 50 years and he pulls out a set of bent welding rods and finds the lines! Cool stuff.
Gregg
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Finding my well
« on: November 22, 2013, 12:05:50 PM »If the pump was in your basement, than a single line would indicate a shallow well. But in your case you have (I believe) a submersible pump in the well. It would be a single line whether it were shallow or deep.
I would have totally agreed with you before I bought my house last year but I'm not so sure now.
I have a submersable pump for sure but I also have what appears to be casing running down a stone lined shallow well. I've heard that they used to drill down through shallow wells but the casing I have flops around so I'm not sure if it goes below the bottom of the shallow well or if it's suspended! Maybe it's a deep well and the casing is broke? My water tastes great but I have lost presuure for a little while on two occasions when I drew ALOT of water when it's been dry.
Gregg
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Finding my well
« on: November 21, 2013, 05:01:29 PM »Wow, you folks up in the northeast file everything and the govt even knows where u drink, wow weeee.
That would never fly down here, I'm glad that it don't, but a lot of homes down here have wells that are actually part of the kitchen and home, so the well comes up inside the home, I bet those nosey northeastern govts would love that
Its not as bad as it sounds Scott. At least not in my area. Not everything gets filed but many subdivisions that are newer than about 1960 have filed maps with well/septics shown to make sure there is enough room on a lot for both.
That being said, I'm a land surveyor so the more maps required, the more work for me.
Gregg