Pellet heads!! What's up today?

Had 4 tons delivered from HD and my pallet jack was useless. The reason? the pallets had 3 wood slasts at the bottom that were close together, so the wheels would not go thru. And, the pallet jack legs are not long enough to hit the space between the 4 slat and the end slat. Had expected to move 1 ton by hand, since it was going into basement, but instaead moved all 4 tons by hand.

Ah well, got my exercise for the day.






Didn't help that the guy managed to not drop the forklift low enough to push one of the pallets in, but instead pushed the pile halfway off the pallet before he heard me yell for him to stop. I had to tape up the end of one bag, stuff 2 bags into new bags (in completion, no removal of pellets) and 1 bag was still fine. That last bag was completely demolished but I managed to sweep up the vast majority of pellets and dump them into other bags. Fortunately, I had swept out the garage really well, so didn't have to worry about rocks and stuff except for parts of the pallet that splintered off.






I turned the picture of the bottom of the pallet so it would be easier to see the delima with the pallet jack. If the legs of the jack were longer and reached the big gaps, it would have worked. The pallets used had been repaired several times. While moving this particular pallet to stack in the yard, one of th eend slats fell off in my hands and I could see about 2 nails that were underneath where it had been.

 

Last weekend I shut the stove off for some reason or other, and the symptoms came back of it not obeying the thermostat to start up when in Room / Auto. So, I would manually turn it to Stove/Auto to start up and get the house warmed up, then turn it to Room / Auto to have it shut down. Since that was basically during early morning hours, I just wnet with it.

Yesterday, while it was cool, rainy and gloomy outside, I realized I had bought another room temp probe as back up years ago. Fortunately, I had stored it in a place that actually made sense, so it was easy to find After installing that, the P43 is working correctly - and has continued to do so. I've already ordered another temp probe. At this time, I do not have the thermostat set up.

 

X2!

 

He and IHP must be drinking with tie Green One. X3 late me be.

 

X3

 

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Thanks for sharing the details of the symptoms and the solutions. I too will now stock some spare temperature probes.

 

Thinking about taking a look at this xxv. Definitely would need to be refurbished.

 

Tuesday I performed a deep clean and put the P43 to bed for the season.

 

Hi all
Been rather slow here.
We had a couple days last week that we had to run the little stove all day/night....Rainy and cold/cool.
Now we are flirting with 90F
Crazy weather.
Just pretty much the slow summer time weather thing.
Hope Y'all are well and doing OK

 

Looks like I just joined the HARMON club .

I'll probably wait till early fall to get into this project.

Plugged it in before buying it and it wouldn't do anything but made some strange noises. I was hoping it was just a clogged exhaust and it was. Got it home and cleaned the exhaust. There was pellets jammed up that got wet.

I'm surprised but it fired up. It seems the room distribution fan doesn't work. It's been in a storage container for 2 years. Manufactured date is 2014, paid 300 bucks.

 

Had the mini split going for a couple of days. 2 weeks ago it was 42* for a high, then had a week of nice weather with mornings still in the 30s, then jumped right up to 90* (and an official heat wave of 3 days), high humidity and 70's for lows.

If the low temps would get back down to where I can open windows to at night to cool the place off, I'd appreciate it.

Mother nature has such wild temperature swings this time of year.

 

That will be very nice once you get it cleaned up and restored.