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  1. Johnny Yooper

    I converted the splitter to electric and added a 4 way wedge

    I also converted from gas to electric using a 240V, single phase 3600 RPM motor, was curious of the ampere draw so checked it while splitting some gnarly stringy elm, motor nameplate shows 21 full load amps, but even with the elm, I never got readings over 9 or 10 amps. I fabricated a circular...
  2. Johnny Yooper

    Wood identification.

    the slabbed sections do resemble ash but the picture with the bark looks much more like basswood; ash bark, at least around here, is a little rougher than that in the picture.
  3. Johnny Yooper

    Vermont Downdrafter not UL cert

    There is a procedure for this, it's called a UL Field Evaluation, where UL engineering staff would go onsite to evaluate the product to the applicable standard(s), usually one(s) that they publish. You could contact UL and inquire as to the feasibility of this in your case and if they say they...
  4. Johnny Yooper

    What kinda wood

    more stringy elm...…...was using this stuff to test out my gas to electric splitter conversion; swapped out one of those predator engines (which was working fine) for a 240 Volt, 21 amp, single phase motor, couldn't get the motor to draw over 11 amps with the elm and that was only for the first...
  5. Johnny Yooper

    What kinda wood

    I've never seen a gum tree, but I've cut a lot of elm. I'm with Jed on this one.
  6. Johnny Yooper

    All the way from iraq

    After reading this, I have only two words to say to you sb47...…….Right On!
  7. Johnny Yooper

    shop stove

    yep, stainless, not attached....it sits on angle iron welded to the perimeter opening; large pan is 24"x48"; pan sits on stove door rope cemented on top of the angle iron, provides a great seal, no smoke in the sugar shack. A lot of syrup makers build stoves from these oil tanks but they...
  8. Johnny Yooper

    shop stove

    I'm using 6 inch on that syrup stove and it's been working fine, no issues, before the squirrel cage blower, and then with blower.
  9. Johnny Yooper

    shop stove

    not sure why my text wasn't included with the above pic. Anyway, I also built a stove from an oil tank, not to heat a building, but for boiling sap, and I also once tried the pipe with holes in it to get more air to the fire to help with the boiling rate; maybe I used too small pipe ( I think...
  10. Johnny Yooper

    Btus per pound

    just came in from loading the OWB...….had quite a mix as seven different species went in tonight: spruce, soft maple, black ash, white ash, box elder, and topped off with some pieces of yellow birch and red oak since it's -6F now and probably be -12F by morning (we're heating the house...
  11. Johnny Yooper

    Tree ID

    Between deer camp and our home property, we have a total of seven wood burning appliances and I like burning Basswood in two of them: the sauna stove at deer camp, and the stove we use to boil maple sap here at home. Provides a quick, hot fire, good for heating up the sauna in short order...
  12. Johnny Yooper

    How much log splitter can a 5hp electric motor drive?

    A couple of years ago, I converted my gas splitter to electric; I posted the details on here back then and I suppose one could do some searching to find it, but I'll give a quick summary here: electric motor is a Leeson, rated 230 volts, somewhere around 3500 RPM and around 22 or 23 full load...
  13. Johnny Yooper

    Winter '18/'19 - 100* Club

    been hovering around the 97-98 delta last night but did make it this morning with -28 outside and 73 inside. If it's all the same to you guys, I'm hoping we don't need to add more rounds to the membership of this club for the rest of the season:)
  14. Johnny Yooper

    ash

    What I was thinking. Did a lot of cutting in the U.P. over the years and only found black ash in lower, wetter areas, with white ash on higher ground. I also noticed black ash has a narrower sapwood vs white ash.
  15. Johnny Yooper

    Cover it or not cover it

    old timers around here say if storing outside then cover the top only - with metal....tin/steel roof panels, etc.
  16. Johnny Yooper

    Military trailer for firewood

    yep - Aspen and Basswood are my go-to species for the syrup stove; 1.5 cords of this stuff will boil off about 600 gal. of sap with my set up.
  17. Johnny Yooper

    Military trailer for firewood

    1968 M101A1 here, 2250/1350 lbs on/off road...….yeah right........haven't played within those limits since the day I brought it home. Converted to 12V LED lights and popped for new skins since the tires were original and no way I was hauling hardwood down the highway with 'em. Somewhere...
  18. Johnny Yooper

    Chain sharpening cost

    that's weird 'cause I just got home from grocery shopping, and it included a big bottle of Mr. Beam
  19. Johnny Yooper

    Dhw with a owb

    We have a flat plate exchanger between the outdoor wood boiler and the indoor system; the indoor system has four takeoffs, one is for the 40 gal. hot water tank which is of the internal coil design; an aquastat on the hot water tank signals a small pump to circulate water through the coil inside...
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