Archive through November 24, 2011

[fcurrier]

Turned the page, didn't I. I have an excuse for

. Our old computer did the crash thing and I'm working on a borrowed tower, Haven't tried to tell it that I want to take pics and post them. Whatever...

 

[mpatterson]

Normally up here I burn oak, maple, ash, elm, and a little bit of swamp maple. I try not to burn much of it, its soft sticky wood that doesn't really do much good in the chimney. A couple years ago I had a lot of it to burn - the crap I cleaned out of my chimney that Spring was CRAZY!

 

[gcoleman]

This is my project for thanksgiving break...should go pretty quick. One poplar tree and one sassafras tree that was hit by lightning and is now like a wooden pipe. North Star 20 ton splitter behind the 1466 named "Big Foot"

 

[digger]

As of 12:12 A.M. I'm now heating a total 12,840 Sq. Ft. of space up here in the great, not so white north, LOL

I've been heating the 50x80 shop all winter, but just finished up the front 50x80 tonight and this morning.

 

[glippert]

That's great news, Charlie, because your preparation for cold MN winter weather might keep it away! December days in the 30's, with no blowing snow, works for me!

 

[kmcconaughey]

Charlie, nice! How warm are you heating it up to? Just keeping the frost out or is it balmy in there? Let us know how much wood you go through please.

 

[digger]

Kraig,
The shop sets at 69.7, the house 74.6 and the front room is holding at 72.3 as of 15 minutes ago.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Charlie, your house is too warm! Shop temp is about right for the house temp, but too warm for a shop. IMO anyway.

 

[aaytay]

Kraig-
You're forgetting that Charlie is old, old, old.

Since he wasn't smart enough to move South, he has no choice but to turn up the furnace.

 

[digger]

 

[dross]

Charlie, If it's 69 at a thermostat what is it in the rafters 90? I used to get parts of a shelf near the cieling at our old lawn mower shop. It gets a lot warmer up there.

 

[digger]

Dave R.
Ceiling fans man!

 

[dross]

How many you have in a building that big?

 

[digger]

2 7,800 cfm in the shop.
I had to go big as the peak where the fans are is 24 ft.
None needed in the front room as I rewired the blower on the furnace to increase the air output by 40% to keep the air moving at a pretty good clip.

 

[glippert]

{Digger: "I rewired the blower on the furnace to increase the air output by 40% to keep the air moving at a pretty good clip."]

 

[dtanner]

Charlie "Digger" Proctor

I have my shop temp set down to 62 deg here. I found 70 deg to hot to move around working on Cubs.I don`t know how you can stand all that heat in your shop! I guess in floor heat must be much warmer ,standing on 64 deg cement verses hot air above you ?

 

[kmcconaughey]

Lip, now that is funny!

That old Maxell add sure brings back memories...

 

[kshultz]

Still have my Maxell poster hanging in the garage.

 

[jchamberlin]

Don, Charlie, I would much rather have radiant heat, from in the floor heat, from a wood-burning stove, from anything that will keep my feet warm. We have forced air heat at work in the office with cement floors. When the weather turns cold and they cut the heat back over the weekend, I freeze all day on Monday no matter what the thermometer says --my feet stay cold, and I'm cold until the floors and walls finally heat up.

Just sayin'

 

[aschmidt]

Kent S - Nice garage - it is wrong to have a garage so neatly organized, and decorated! I must be jealous!