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They are saying "one to three inches" tonight. Hüsky will be highly amused 
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They are saying "one to three inches" tonight. Hüsky will be highly amused
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If it closes my job, I'm okay
If it closes my job, I'm okay with it. How's it going Stu?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Sycamore Slough
Chuck, everything is OK on
Chuck, everything is OK on the farm. The well - drilling Krewe are almost done with the project they started in Spring. Waiting on the last couple of tiny details.
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Middletown, NJ got maybe a
Middletown, NJ got maybe a half inch
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Sycamore Slough
Just a dusting here; 1/2" - 3
Just a dusting here; 1/2" - 3/4". Supposed to be more tomorrow. Hüsky loves it.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Chuck511
Yeah, probably less than a
Yeah, probably less than a half inch in Jackson.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Thumbkinetic
Fuck! I thought yesterday
Fuck! I thought yesterday was it.
Looks like about 3-4" judging by what's stacked against my car tires and the plow gouge marks.
But we live on a dead end, so it usually looks worse than the wider world.
Doubt I'll leave the house unless the job calls.
But I did dig the shovel out of the closet.
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look like 4" or so in
look like 4" or so in philadelphia.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: nebulous nelly
6" at the coast
6" at the coast
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: comic book colors on a violin river...
We got about 6" here in
We got about 6" here in Williamstown, NJ ( still snowing). It is light and fluffy, waiting till tomorrow to go out and clear it.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Sycamore Slough
Came down all day here in
Came down all day here in Central and measured 5&1/2" - 6" deep on the official Weather Cooler before Dark. That is a Igloo or whatever brand picnic-chest with a flat top, sheltered from Northern wind near the Southern perimeter of the Shack. Extremely accurate sno-gage.
I did get out to the Woods to retrieve my log-splitter about Noon, but the Woods roads were slick from powder atop frozen ground. Truck slid and slipped. Yesterday's leftover snow was just melty enough in the 32-33 temps to make a nice base of Ice-9.The Sled-Dawg of course loved it, and we went a few miles around the Farm watching Deer jump around.
X-C or kid downhill skiis would be the perfect gear for Hüsky to pull me around the Woods rds. in this powder. Maybe even a cheap snowboard.
Getting super-Chill tonight; never much above 25 today.
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2" yesterday, 6" tonite.
2" yesterday, 6" tonite. Very "winter-ey" around here. To complete the "mood", tomorrow I plan to snowblo the driveway, clear the back deck, then join in with my Neighbors in Befouling the Atmosphere w/ my Woodstove/ Fireplace setup, prepping it tonite (gonna be in the single digits tomorrow nite):
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That is a very Groovy
That is a very Groovy woodstove setup, SSB. I have lived with similar 2-door, 2-damper stoves, however the box with vent-pipe on the right side is an interesting approach.
I would guess that it pulls Heat from the coal bed and has a Fan to circulate said Heat ???
(( The Chinese take-out will melt ))
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We ended up with 8.5"-9" at
We ended up with 8.5"-9" at the coast. Glad I shoveled when there was 6" on the ground, need to get the rest today.
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>>>>>5&1/2" - 6" deep
>>>>>5&1/2" - 6" deep
Approx. equal to 1 Tulsa, I believe, in the Oklahoma measurement system.
About how much we have here - snow should be stopping today.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: bweir I like cheese
We got over a foot of the
We got over a foot of the light and fluffy stuff here in northern RI, but it's cold out there
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>>>>>>> the box with vent
>>>>>>> the box with vent-pipe on the right side is an interesting approach. I would guess that it pulls Heat from the coal bed and has a Fan to circulate said Heat ???
Sorry about not responding, internet was off & on all last nite/this morning due to weather.
Yes, that box is a fan which blows air into the bottom of the stove (under the fire brick bed) which then circulates around the sides, rear, & top of the stove. It really increases the efficiency of heat output by many factors (if I'm burning during a power outage & can't operate the fan I get much less heat). Downside of this stove is that the bottom is just fire brick, no grate to dump ashes & maintain continuous burn. This means I have to stop burning every 3 - 4 days, let the coals completely die (overnight or longer), shovel them out (which can be deadly as they can re-ignite quickly upon contact w/oxygen - I almost burned my house down twice), & start from scratch. We had a grated stove when I lived in a shack/cabin in college, plus we could steal high sulphur blocks of coal from the barge docks (it was West VA after all), that was the Shizzle . . .
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That is an interesting setup,
That is an interesting setup, never seen one quite like that. Have seen a few with blower fans attached to the top/back of stove.
Been browsing Soapstone stoves online. A couple of nice ones are 'Woodstock' & 'Hearthstone' from NH and VT. While $pendy, the soapstone models have many advantages.
Ideally, one of those and a wood-burning furnace in the cellar might be the perfect system. Yukon-Eagle are supposedly pretty nice.
http://yukon-eagle.com/TESTIMONIALS/tabid/99/Default.aspx
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Soapstone stoves are awesome,
Soapstone stoves are awesome, I pleaded with Bob to get one and of their efficiency ( and zero smoke in house...lol ) ...but he is very attached and proud of this stove as it comes with a story of how it was acquired...
here comes Bob to tell the story now...:)
I always liked this style and told him I would love to cook on it !
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My 1930's Better N Ben's
My 1930's Better N Ben's stove cost $75, plus $150 for the chimney sweep guy to fabricate a custom vent pipe. 'Nuff said . . .
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A comparison of various
A comparison of various stoves from some dealer in WA state --- https://chimneysweeponline.com/wscomp8.htm
The company in New Hampshire --- http://woodstove.com/wood-stove-reviews
One of the VT companies --- http://vermontwoodstove.com/sample-page/soapstone-wood-stoves/ I think Lyn's photo comes from there.
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A buddy who inherited his
A buddy who inherited his father's house has a very unique stove that heats his whole house. His father was a welder & worked for Electric Boat in the 1940's thru '70's (submarine builders in Groton CT). He fabricated a custom wood furnace out of a 1950's submarine torpedo casing tube & installed in the basement. The approx 4' diameter tube is on it's side, & is fitted with a bottom ash hopper that can be shaken down & removed for continuous burn, & a spaghetti bowl of both air ducting & water piping to distribute the heat thruout the house. The house has traditional oil heat but he hardly has to use any. It's a lot of work to chainsaw & split all the wood (the stove eats wood like a fiend, far faster than mine does) but man his house is always 80 - 90 degrees all winter. I'll have to take pictures one of these days . . .
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Yukon-Eagle and other
Yukon-Eagle and other companies make the wood furnaces with several different form-factors. You could have gas/wood or oil/wood or they make add-ons to your existing petro-heater.
'Charmaster' in Minnesota makes a nice-looking range of stuff, with emphasis on designs for 'when the electricity goes out'. I like their 20-year firebox Guarantee; nice looking catalog. https://www.charmaster.com/sale.html
I already have a cellar oil-burner with forced-air ducting, but it's an old piece of crap. Even after a furnace tune-up the place smells like a truck stop when I run that. probably cracked heat-exchanger. Installing a nice wood-furnace w/ LPG backup seems like the best option. Since I'm almost always home, it would be 90% wood-fueled and use little propane.
This setup makes a lot of sense to me in that I can cut & split enough Firewood in a week or so to heat all Winter. The current diesel-burner might run over 2500 bucks if I ran it from November through March and kept the place toasty.