A little off topic here...your PMF poor mans fiberglass projects got my wheels turning...how do you think it would work out for "repairing" a low slope roof...on a longer term temporary basis?
Just got these welders gloves last week off of Amazon, and I love them! Unlike plain leather ones, these have a layer or two of insulation in the hands. Meaning that I smell them scorching long before I feel any heat. In fact I haven't had a too hot hand since using them, something that always happened with the old welding gloves I had before. I've mentioned the firewood wrap before, but have realized since that it drastically reduced the amount of chips and dirt my wood sheds in the house, and now none of it gets on me. The best part is that I can shake the scraps into the kindling bucket and use them to start fires later on. I'M STILL WAITING TO BUY A FHC BRANDED FIREWOOD WRAP (hint hint)
Those are the gloves I use also. They’re excellent for stove use. I like the long gauntlet style especially since I always wear short sleeves
Just adding this to my mega thread so I can find it easily in the future. I've been the pastor here a little over 7 years now, before that we had a nice house in a great neighborhood in Lebanon, ME. Ten years ago I put in an outdoor pellet boiler and connected it to the forced hot water in the house . The move to Haverhill was unexpected, just like becoming a pastor, (God doesn't usually let us in on his plans ahead of time) We sold the house in 2012, but the buyer couldn't afford the pellet boiler also, and I'd also installed a nice efficient oil boiler myself , so she really didn't need it. I paid my dealer to move the boiler to the church , but since the church didn't want to buy it, didn't install it. After two years of sitting in the backyard, I sold it to one of my coworkers , a pilot from Barre, VT. I couldn't afford to pay my dealer to move the boiler again, he charged almost $500 to move from Lebanon to Haverhill, so I figured out how to do it myself . My employer bought an aircraft that had pallet moving equipment in it, so I borrowed the equipment since we don't use it in our type of air freight business (Oops boxes) I needed some staging to go with it, so I bought a pile of 4x4 timbers. Using the Johnson bar, I levered up each side of the boiler and put a timber under it until I reached the level of the trailer bed. Then I put rollers under the boiler and used a come a long and cargo straps to pull the boiler onto the trailer . 1,300 lbs! After the boiler was strapped in place, I loaded the timbers into the van. I also had 85 feet of thermopex I dug up and brough home, that I threw into the deal. Thermopex is the best underground piping there is, but it's also the most miserable to handle. It refuses to bend! I drove two stakes in the ground and forced it into a coil between them, using cargo straps to keep it in place as each loop was added. It was a fight, but I just barely managed to get it wrapped into a coil. The next day I delivered it to VT, and unloaded it using the bar and timbers just like it went in with. I actually had a crowd watching , refusing to believe I could unload it without a forklift. It's been heating his apartment building for the past few years now. Up there pellets are a good savings over oil.
It should work well, it will need a solid base to attach to, a good layer of exterior grade 3/8" or thicker plywood, screwed in place, and a good thick grade of canvas. Then completely bedded in, saturated and top coated with glidden exterior paint. (I don't trust other brands) I would rout a rabbet into each edge of the plywood panels and fully glue each seam with quality construction adhesive (Think like tongue and groove joints on wood flooring or paneling) As long as water doesn't pool on it collecting the acid of leaves in the puddle, it will be impervious for decades . I'm actually planning on making a firewood rack roof or two using this exact process
I was thinking of something that would maybe make it to next summer when I can put EPDM on it. And what do you think of putting it right under existing shingles, then down to the low slope part, which has rolled on asphalt roofing on it? Basically this is an added on enclosed porch roof that has valley from the main house roof dumping on to it. The peaks on either side of the valley are 8/12 so I doubt the leak is there, but it could be in the valley itself. More likely though it is where they tied the two roofs together...was not done well in my opinion. And I'm pretty sure the low slope part itself has issues too.
I have similar gloves. Only time I've ever almost burnt myself was taking the shield off my catalyst when it was hot.
another window done, this was more of a challenge because it really didn't have a sill. There was just a board under the front edge of the window, rotten of course . This brought the second trip to the depot for PVC boards for a sill. This window opening was narrower, and actually fit the replacement window I ordered almost perfectly. If you look closely you'll notice how out of square and off center the framing is. in the end it came out ok. Just don't look too close... So two trips to the store, 5 hours time, and no helpers, I might get this figured out by the last window .
So I was driving home before thanksgiving , and discovered that one of my earlier sweet spots has more great wood . Turns out the city cut these down proactively to avoid having them take out power to this neighborhood . I stopped and talked to the homeowner , they're surprised that I can take such a big tree, their son called a guy with a sawmill , but he said it's too big for his equipment. I really don't need it, but it's way to easy and big to pass up. The city should be back to take that standing maple as well . I told them it had rotted in the crotches, but a treeguy they called said it was fine. Now they get it taken down at no cost to them!
I hope the coming temps in the 40's unfreeze it from the ground for you. Or do you have a way to deal with that? Just the one on the ground is a serious amount of wood!
Another trip to Burlington Vermont Friday for work, nice to see my favorite woodstove burning . Camels hump peak has a nice coating of snow The whales sculpture in Burlington Snow covers for the Vermont air guard jets Sunset over the green mountains
Saturday we went to Boston to enjoy the Boston Tuba Christmas concert. A fanciful double belled Sousaphone A Tuba Christmas Enjoy the sound and video of almost 40 Tubas in concert
Surprised they dont have a hangar for the F-16s! I remember my first time seeing that moose stove. I was on my way to Woodstock to buy a stove, and stopped into that rest area for my wife. I'd stopped there countless times before, but only to use the parking lot to answer some emails when working. I had wanted an Ideal Steel, but kinda knew it might be too big. As soon as I walked in the building my heart sank.
That’s a cool stove with the antlers on it. Quite a display for WS. Is the pipe really that crooked or is the perspective skewed?
They do have hangars, but can't get to them. They're going to be flying F-35's soon, and the ramps on the base weren't strong enough for the much heavier jet. This turned into a project to replace the ramps and aprons, and of course upgrade all the drainage and other lines and pipes under them. So far the project is two years in progress. Burlington doesn't want the noise of the new jet, it's really too bad they don't just move the wing over to Plattsburg, the old air force base would be a better fit, and it would be a real help to the local economy. Of course having the vermont air guard flying from NY would cause lots of other issues
