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Popeye the Sailor

#45
July 04, 2009, 12:33:58 PM
Quote from: painter on July 04, 2009, 11:59:02 AM


start and run it at least twice a year.

Run it out of fuel each time.

The last time I let mine sit it flooded because the needle stuck when I tried to start it because...

we had no power.

I suppose we can do that. We finally tested it for the first time today-powers the house great.
If the state had not cut funding for the mental institutions, this project could never have happened.

ducpainter

#46
July 04, 2009, 12:37:57 PM
Quote from: MrIncredible on July 04, 2009, 12:33:58 PM
I suppose we can do that. We finally tested it for the first time today-powers the house great.
How many watts?
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Popeye the Sailor

#47
July 04, 2009, 12:45:18 PM
If the state had not cut funding for the mental institutions, this project could never have happened.

ducpainter

#48
July 04, 2009, 12:50:04 PM
Quote from: MrIncredible on July 04, 2009, 12:45:18 PM
6500.
Sounds like plenty. [thumbsup]

I get by with less.
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
 a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent."


Popeye the Sailor

#49
July 04, 2009, 12:51:59 PM
Quote from: painter on July 04, 2009, 12:50:04 PM
Sounds like plenty. [thumbsup]

I get by with less.

I need to run a hefty well pump off of it, amongst other things, and multiple houses get the water from the pump, so I wanted to make sure I had plenty.

I originally wanted the smaller one, but they had a perfectly good used (bigger too) one with all the records, maybe a year old, for far cheaper, so I picked that up.


It's a Honda-runs like a champ.
If the state had not cut funding for the mental institutions, this project could never have happened.

rockaduc

#50
July 04, 2009, 01:52:22 PM
I have a Vermont Castings as well.  They make a great product!  Heats the whole house while we are at work or over night w/o much of  a prob.  Get my wood from a buddy's property.  Save about $200/mo. during the winter.  I split the wood w/ sledge, axe and chisle one year...never again.  Now i borrow a log splitter from someone.

Nice work, BTW. [thumbsup]
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Porsche Monkey

#51
July 04, 2009, 02:15:39 PM
Quote from: hbliam on July 04, 2009, 09:36:02 AM
We turn the heater (gas) on at night only for maybe 20 days a year. We don't even have AC, just open the windows. But CA sucks.  :P


See I told ya you'd be saying that in no time.   ;D
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VisceralReaction

#52
July 06, 2009, 10:39:00 AM
Price of wood has gone up here in the Pac NW as well. I see prices of about $165 a cord
for mixed wood. Mixed being Larch, and Fir. For those of you that don't know some fir burns like
paper and some burns much longer. I usually go out with a friend of mine and we cut about
16-19 cords and split it between us. I have to say it kicks our asses every year and I keep saying
i am getting to old for this shit. Then I do it all over again the next year when i see my
power bill for the winter average about $50 or less. I have a Vermont Castings "Federal" stove and
it will cook you out of the house.
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