Pellet heads!! What's up today?

The new tree is upping my ancestor count yet again WW now I have a lot of blood relatives that were in-law only just awhile ago but still have more to go. The royal house of Godwin relocated to Norway about 1066.

 

Hummer season in Maine usually ends around the ninth of September.

 

Me don't give a hoot. Me a Bear not an Owl,

 

Been busy with this summer heat
Got up Thursday in the weeee hours to use the facilities and the water pressure was dismally low.
Head down to the pump shack with flashlight in hand.

Pump not running....Starter relay buzzing
Discovered the controller circuit breakers had tripped

Disconnected the wires to the well and did an ohm test on the 3 different pairs yellow/black Red/yellow Black/red

The numbers were all good....
None of the lines showed anything to ground
Figured it was likely the start capacitor.....We had a fresh one in the spare parts cabinet.
Swapped that bad boy in after it got light out.

BINGO
Pump started right up and recharged the tanks

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET

The thought of having to get a crew in to yank out 800 Feet of pipe and wire just SUCKED
Capacitor was new in 2018

The book on the pump suggests replacing the start capacitor every three years....Ah well

Then we are just getting over this drama session and the power went off Friday night about 10 pm

We went on a recon and found a wire dangling to the ground..
Called that in....The power company had us back up by 11 pm...
They had a crew on another small outage only 4 miles away and they just tooled on up and took care of things.

Temps been close to 100 F the past few days....

Cooling trend coming starting tomorrow.....Slow cooling until Friday....Then some rain maybe.

 

The house build was supposed to start 2 months ago, had a problem with the last permit. It's currently raining and it's gonna be a long winter.

 

That is a nice looking tank and I don't blame your wife for opting for that one. As far as mixing concrete, I'll bet somewhere local to you rents out the mixers for like $50 (IDK, I'm taking a shot in the dark since I've never rented one). Heck, HD might rent those out.

 

In preparation for ordering pellets, yesterday I moved 2,400 pounds from the garage into the house (60 bags). That leaves 45 bags in the garage. I would have gotten those too, but my old shoulder blade injury made it known that if I didn't stop then, I'd be regretting it for weeks. I'm also rethinking things, like maybe not moving those 45 bags at all and moving the new tonnage around them.

See, the bags that are already in the garage are in air-tight bags (they are full HWs). Since the garage gets humid, maybe it would be best to leave those in there. HD usually (as in always except that one delivery) send mixed HW/SW and those will have the little breathing holes . But, being a single car garage, with a single car driveway, there isn't much maneuvering room for the pallets. It would probably help if I were more talented with a pallet jack - LOL

If I leave the HW pellets in the garage, I'll need to move them by hand anyway. Those were hand stacked on pallets that are raised on bricks. and are toward the front of the garage. If my reasoning for leaving those 45 bags in the garage is because they are less likely to get humidity infiltration, then they need to be moved toward the back of the garage. Ugh, I'm the master of overthinking things.

Proof of work I did yesterday (there is a strategy for the boxes and stuff - with a last broken-dwon box in front of the pallet, it helps keep cat claws away from the bags.

 

Just ordered 3 tons from HD so need to figure out what I'm doing fast - LOL

Had a 10% discount code, so that more than paid for the shipping charges. They will deliver on Tuesday. I was going to change it to Friday, but looking at the long term forecast, that is the most likely day for rain, so Tuesday it is.

 

Got the other 45 bags transferred from the garage to the basement yesterday. To start with, I had leftover pellets and the top row was just missing 2 bags. Note that for this pallet, each row is 8 bags




All 45 bags loaded. There are no bags behind the 3 on the top. Once it gets about to the 8th row, I have to use the step stool and climb onto the bags to set the back row.

 

COVID again ????

 

jtakeman nice install; just so you don’t feel bad; here ugly black one need roof outside because ice can puncture. concrete pad and hurricane straps are required interior and exterior due to so many floods, regardless is your in a flood zone.

 

Here on interior we can use plumbers strap (1/2 inch stainless roll with 1/2 inch holes every inch) and screw it too rafters.
Had rental in flood zone was I smart enough to strap water tanks… No they fell over and pipes ripped what a mess

 

Received 3 tons of pellets from HD yesterday. I love how they gave me a 14 hour window for delivery. As it turns out, the guy called me about 8:30 and said he was 5 minutes out.



The delivery guy was great and shoved 2 of them as far into the garage as he could. The 3rd one I had him leave out a ways so I would have room to maneuver the other two in the garage with the pallet jack.





Good thing I did that as that last one was a bear. A slat had broken on the bottom and was giving me fits to get to move. I had to lift from one side, and break part of it off, then from the other side, and break the rest off. Then it took everything I had to get it moving (my driveway has a few dips. Thought I would have to wait for help from the neighbor, but I got it done. Was super thankful it was that 3rd one and not the first as I wouldn't have had the room to lift from the other side.

 

The county didn't like something, it had to be re done. Then the head person was on vacation for 2 weeks.

So many rules and regulations, better that is was fixed now and not later into the build.