True enough. Though I'd rather deal with a hundred mosquito bites than one tick. I have found that permethrin does a good number on both. The jeans, boots, and a couple shirts I typically wear get a good soaking at the beginning of the season and again halfway through. The ticks (knock wood) run away screaming, and the mosquitos will hang around but don't land on me much. Helps to keep moving, too.
Still better than paying the oil man! We've discussed an indoor wood burner to reduce consumption a bit, but the owb does have many advantages that we appreciate.
When I get to broken down (soon) and too tired to utilize the OWB, my plan is to move the NC-30 to 99 lbs basement. I will probably set up some sort of copper tubing to heat the domestic water since I will already have the side arm assembly in place. And of course, when it does take place, I will tell of it on here but fail to post pics of the step by step process!
That sidearm will be a blessing. Have you considered a wood burning furnace for inside? With the owb already plumbed to the hot water tank, and a nice forced air system already in place, I'm thinking about it. What stops me every time is getting wood to the basement.. We have the traditional civil war era new England "hole in the ground with rocks around it" layout, built for the short rail worker Irishmen - not big Irishmen such as myself. It would be a bear lugging wood down there every few days.
Yeah, already had one and took it out once I put in the OWB. Don't want to go back to it as I'm fine with the free standing wood stove.
Remember to plumb in a T & P valve, or better yet run a plate exchanger.... Telling on yourself before don't exempt you....
BigPapi way to go keep plugging away at it. Never can have enough wood split. I've got over 30 cords split and yet when I look over to the unsplit pile of rounds I feel an irresistible pull to split more. I'm now storing splits in my neighbors yard on pallets so I can move them quickly The cherry stacked in the last pic has three more pallet rows of 2 yr old split oak behind it. Put the cherry in front for full sun to dry
damm that's a lot of wood! I think it might be worthwhile to put the splitting on the back burner and work on insulation for the house. The wood has to be restocked every year. Insulation is the gift that keeps on giving.
Took another bite tonight. Too dark for stack update by the time I finished, though. It took a while.. it's like very complicated jenga with the random tree service lengths I've been working up. Way too humid to be stacking, but we've got a little get together planned for tomorrow so I figured I better get the truck bed emptied to be ready for a dump run before hand. Can't have the company sitting around with full garbage cans, and if I put them away near the woods, the bears will come around and tear it up while we're all distracted.
Beautiful setup there, and I'm doling on those nice big straight rounds.. I hear you. I've got probably ten cord left to split, some of that will need cutting... and I still took three loads of spruce Thursday to help out the tree guy who hooked me up with a couple cord of black walnut and cherry. The Orange Truck of Love just took down a huge ash up the road a bit, too.. thankfully it's big enough that most of the guys around here won't fool with it while I make some hay with what I've already got. It's up a hill, and I have strong ramps.. She will be mine, oh yes, she will be mine...
[QUOTE="BigPapi, post The Orange Truck of Love just took down a huge ash up the road. She will be mine, oh yes, she will be mine... [/QUOTE] All yours bud get it when ya can!
Took a pretty good bite today. Ash, sugar maple, apple, and a little bite of red oak. Pallet farm #2 is coming along nicely - should be close to five cord when full. I stacked the apple off to the side to keep it separate. Some has gotten pretty punky, and the ants have been into it, but I still wanted to keep it aside as the good pieces will serve well on the real cold nights, and this way I won't have to dig for them. I also like to burn apple on Christmas and crack the windows to smell it while we drink coffee and open presents.
I know what you mean. I had a indoor wood furnace in the basement of my house ceiling at just over 6' burnt 8 - 9 cord a season had to load it 3 or 4 times a day PITA. Installed OWB use 8 - 10 cord I wouldn't switch back. Will probably look into gasifier when ready to upgrade. Keep up the good work.
