The iron was almost off the charts at my previous house. The well was 210’ deep - just a bad area for iron. It was so bad that taking a shower...
After spending way too much time sitting on my azz this winter, you’re dead on with the sore part.
Took advantage of a couple sunny days and started splitting the rounds I dragged out of the woods last fall. Mostly red oak with some white pine...
NG boiler/baseboard heat is primary. Gas here is pretty cheap. With the monthly meter fee and taxes it’s about .97/therm. My highest gas bill was...
While I’ve never burned Lignetics, I thought I remembered folks saying they were good. Just under a buck a pound, but at least shipping is free.
The tech exam was the hardest for me, but then again I was in high school at the time. A guy I knew back then got me interested in ham radio, and...
I got my license in 92 in N8 land (PM me if you want to know my call sign). Sat at the tech level until 2010-ish, then made the leap to general,...
I seem to remember snow staying for most of the winter when I was a kid. Now it seems the norm is snow, then melt, repeat. What has been...
There was just under a cord of birch, oak and maple stacked in the barn here when I bought this house. The owner moved out in 2010 and only used...
I trashed the breakers and took the panel to a guy near me who recycles scrap. One of the breakers had tripped and wouldn’t reset. The back of...
This is a pic of the XO panel I took out. Never knew this type of panel/bus bar combo existed.
When I bought this house in 2018, the house had an old Square D XO panel from the 50s, with a Wadsworth panel scabbed into the garage. I called...
Light lake effect flurries here now. The big storm that was supposed to bring 8-12” of snow became 4-8, then 3-6. Total ended up being about 4”....
44, for another 5 weeks or so.
My dad let me run a saw for the first time at age 12. I thought that was cool as I graduated from throwing the wood he cut into the trailer to...
Just a gentle breeze here... I felt a bit like Jim Cantore this morning. According to my weather station (mounted to the flagpole in the video)...
Another one today. Found another dead standing oak (maybe 7” at the base) and the rest of the rounds from the pine. Unless that wood reproduces...
Never hit an eye bolt, but I did have a chain find a piece of rebar that a pine grew around. Made a heck of a racket and destroyed the chain. A...
Took me a minute or two to get that one. :D I didn’t even notice that when I posted it. I had to edit it to get it to show ‘right side up’ this...
Snagged a couple more loads today. Found a couple dead standing oaks, then got another (I hope the last) load out of the pine/oak tangled mess...
