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    Cover or don't cover

    hemlock is fine. You'd be mad if you paid for it by volume.. because it's not very dense. BUT.. you've got a blowdown. I had dozens two years...
    Post by: JP11, May 8, 2013 in forum: The Wood Shed
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    Wood Split Size for Froeling FHG boiler?

    I was trying to be helpful to the man to LOOK at a boiler in operation. Never did like those BMWs.. except the bikes. I've had a couple of...
    Post by: JP11, Apr 29, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Sign change

    I'm no where near as pretty. Been spray painting 15 on the ends of each pallet U lately. Bout 70 of em piled up now.. Got to get splitting again....
    Post by: JP11, Apr 29, 2013 in forum: The Wood Shed
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    Wood Split Size for Froeling FHG boiler?

    lambda makes it easy on the ones who don't CARE how it works, or what an efficient burn even is. Push button Load wood Push button. Done deal.
    Post by: JP11, Apr 27, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Wood Split Size for Froeling FHG boiler?

    You're not far from Mark at AHONA. I think he's got a couple different setups at his shop. Go and try them. He'll let your wife play with the...
    Post by: JP11, Apr 25, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Storage

    I wanna say my 500s were 38" by about 9'6" or a bit more. I had 10'4" to the bottom of my trusses, and they are standing in there. Including feet...
    Post by: JP11, Apr 24, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Don't give up yet! 22 degrees this morning.

    I used 10 gallons of heating oil today.. siphoned it out and put it in the tractor. I have 500 gallons in the twin tanks.. figured it's the only...
    Post by: JP11, Apr 23, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Don't give up yet! 22 degrees this morning.

    I decided not to have a fire last night. After all, tanks were 191 up top, and 160 on bottom. Nah, I said, That'll last. I usually leave the ipad...
    Thread by: JP11, Apr 23, 2013, 9 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Batteries, potato skins, eggshells

    A cleaner.. something something phosphate.
    Post by: JP11, Apr 23, 2013 in forum: The Wood Shed
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    Spray foam guys were here...some pics

    My guy used the zip ties I had installed to hold my wires for temp probes. He said.. Oh, that's perfect.. I'll just fill to there. I asked for 5...
    Post by: JP11, Apr 22, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    who is still burning?????

    11 cords thru.. and still charging storage. one fire a day.. or maybe one every 36 hours right now. JP
    Post by: JP11, Apr 15, 2013 in forum: The Wood Shed
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    Gassin' on slab wood

    lots of bark in a cord of slabs though. bet you have a lot of ash. not saying it's not worth it.. but something to watch. JP
    Post by: JP11, Apr 15, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    10 cords worth of nozzle wear. Good?

    I wouldn't say that I "clean" it. But I keep raking the coals towards or over the nozzle.. so it's effectively cleaned out quite often. I guess...
    Post by: JP11, Apr 12, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    10 cords worth of nozzle wear. Good?

    Vigas has a steel or iron one. I may try that. Doesn't look like much of a job to change it out. By the looks of it, they should last two years...
    Post by: JP11, Apr 12, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    10 cords worth of nozzle wear. Good?

    Hard to notice the scale.. but I'm saying the "chewed" part is maybe a half inch wide, and maybe 1/2 deep at the deepest point. JP
    Post by: JP11, Apr 11, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    10 cords worth of nozzle wear. Good?

    Yes.. actually I didn't total.. but it's probably 11 cord.
    Post by: JP11, Apr 11, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    10 cords worth of nozzle wear. Good?

    Cleaned the whole firebox out this afternoon. Snapped a pic of the rear nozzle. Doesn't seem like much wear. ???? [ATTACH]
    Thread by: JP11, Apr 11, 2013, 11 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Bought a wood chipper - burning green chips

    lots of bark in chips. do we fill our boilers with bark on purpose? same idea. Not saying there's not energy there. But, much like the 1" limbs...
    Post by: JP11, Apr 11, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Water supply temp for staple up and sandwich radiant floors

    I have staple up. No plates. One inch air space below, then 2" hard foil faced foam below. Runs 140 to maybe 150 if the tanks are really hot....
    Post by: JP11, Apr 10, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Bought a wood chipper - burning green chips

    I had about a 6 yard dump body on my F650.. I tried to blow the chips into that. I couldn't blow them DOWN into it. It was more horizontal, with...
    Post by: JP11, Apr 7, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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