Comments (0) Going in another direction than I had planned today.
Got the blade on the tractor and am clearing and leveling in several places. Main one being around the bamboo thicket. Been trying to get to it for several years and the ground is just right now to rip the privit out by the roots so am taking a day and doing the tractor thingie…
More later.
Going to upgrade the WordPress install to 2.0 so the place will probably be down for a bit.
My brother found this tool the other day and is wondering what it is/was used for.
He says in the email:
It is solid steel. Chisel on the right end. Hammer head and single pick on the left. Overall it is about 9″ long. From pick to hammer head it is about 2 1/4″. The lettering on the handle says “DASCO 399”.
Any help/info would be apprecaited.
Paxton and Whitfield exceptional cheese since 1797
Not planning to order any, but one can look, can’t one?
Baking Biscuits in an Adirondack Wilderness Camp (Backcountry vacation cabin).
The scones are good too. đ
Update – Friend asked me what this post was about so guess at a quick glance it’s not making the much sense. So here’s an explaination. đ
This is a link to a site with a good “from scratch” biscuit recipe. There is also a recipe for english butter scones which I have made and though the self-rising flour I subsituted was bad (and has been throuily spanked for being “that” bad), the scones turned out rather good, though somewhat flat. Will use good flour and more milk next time.
CNC Machining CraftsmanââŹâClen Tomlinson
This link from Steve a while back. Just getting to posting it.
This dude has gone just a bit beyond anything I have ever thought possible in a model. Truly wonderful work!
Been trying to stay warm is about all here. Course been having to put up blueboard and finish some things to do that.
Got the duct installed into the trailer and up to within a foot of the ceiling in the aerie, with a fan sitting on top blowing down. Helps cool this area and warms the trailer nicely. Once the thermal mass wall is done and separates the greenhouse from the common room and aerie, I think the temperature will be easier to maintain too.
Had a brain spasm just now concerning the thermal mass wall. Wondering about putting a couple of water heater tanks in the wall and using them in a separate solar/geothermal heating/cooling system. Separate from the woodburning heater that is. And I can always install a set of coils in one of the bells of the stove when additional btu’s are needed too. With a line to the creek (which I keep thinking about) and a small pump I can cool the wall in the summer also. Gonna have to rethink a lot of this. Knew there was some reason I quit working on it when I did…
About figured out the new heaters operational habits. No real creosote stink in several days and have achieved top temps of 375 f as of this am so am going to call it workable. Still need to move it. But to do that I need to reconfigure the inside of the greenhouse and put in shelves and do a lot of things that I have been putting off. Guess its time to do them though cause I can’t start on the newer, bigger, better, faster, stronger heater till I get this one moved…
Update and clarification of the top temp of 375. This is the temperature as measured with an oven thermometer sitting on top of the stove 4 inches in front of the flue. I’ve found that if I can get it to 300 at this point that the smoke clears up and mostly heatwaves are emitting from the chimney.
Will try to get to other things like backed up email sometime today…
Days mixed together again. Been feeling rough for several days. Since new years I guess. Not getting much done either.
Did get the new test heater fired off this morning. Seems to do a great job. Wish I had built it inside and permeant now. Fired off for the first time the other day to start the drying. Then it rained a couple of times (i think) and I have been down so haven’t tried it again till today. Extended the firebox opening a bit with half a two hole 8 inch cement block, some brick and more mud. Makes feeding it easier and I think I am going to go with an extended firebox on the one I build in here too.
And again thought I had posted this. Sorry…
Tolkien Society: 2006 birthday toast index
30 minutes (or less) left.
Here’s to “The Professor”!
Got down to 24.8 here last night. Not sure what time. Was at 25.2 at 6:15 when I got the fire going and came up to look. Inside was 48.6. 9:06 and we are at 35.4 outside and 64.8 inside.
Heater works fine, just not the way I am used to one working. No instant heat. Takes a while for the firebrick to heat up. Have the top at 150 now. The temp in the stack of brick on top is over 160 at the front and haven’t tested around back. Need to see if herrington would loan or sell me the temp gun. If not need to just buy one.
Rethinking the heater bell a bit.
Thought I had already posted this. Sorry for the delay. Will continue the thought in a new post.
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