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  1. Iska3

    OWB struggling to heat the house

    Do you happen to have those "Y" screens on your lines? I have this one out in the garage and when I lost some of my heat I found the screen was clogged. What is your water temp going in to the HX vs the temp going out? If need be tape a meat temp to the pipe and check it Also check the...
  2. Iska3

    who are our oldest and youngest members?

    1945 and so old, I forget how to log on.. Happy New Years..
  3. Iska3

    Heatmor hot water not reaching furnace in house. HELP. Near Muskegon

    I was just reading this link.. Does he have a "Y" screen on his system that could be plugged? If he's had the system for 9 years, that could be the problem. How well did the stove work last year? I would be checking the screen and then the pump..
  4. Iska3

    What's the next step

    If I was just starting out and on my own property, I start out with A good trailer, maybe two trailers. One that that I can get in to the woods. I don't like loading a pick up.. I'm reaching and lifting higher and jumping in and out of the box and a trailer I'm on the ground and not lifting...
  5. Iska3

    What's the next step

    Guns... Check your mail box..
  6. Iska3

    And, another big dead Red Oak

    We were out looking for mushrooms yesterday and the bugs about ate us alive.. That old oak was ready for the mushrooms We fid our Chicken of the Woods around dead or dying oaks.. Nice looking woods.
  7. Iska3

    Owb heat exchanger trouble help please

    A few years ago I went on Craig's List and found two Red Tagged Forced air furnaces that I got for free. Gutted them and put in a Air type heat exchangers so I use the blowers as furnaces in the garage and the house. I learned long ago that the extra valves and strainers are your friends...
  8. Iska3

    Owb heat exchanger trouble help please

    If the water in your system can plug a radiator, then you could never use a plat exchanger. You might want to think about flushing your system before using another radiator. Do you use a Y-screen on your lines? If you have a shut off valve on the line, you can clean the screen and save...
  9. Iska3

    Another Dead Red Oak

    Looks Good! Another oak to the pile is a plus.. Funny how those twist like that. Most of the time I judge the fall by the top and and the base of the trunk, anything in between really don't seem to count that much. I still like the use of a wedge on most trees seems like one can never be to...
  10. Iska3

    Outwood boiler question

    I have a friend who had the next size larger than yours but his was 12 years old. His was in great condition but decided to buy a new one last year before the new so called restrictions. He thought he would store the new one in the barn and run his out before the change over but then decided...
  11. Iska3

    Thought maybe some would like to see this.

    Very interesting Kevin, I always wondered how they did that so clean. When I moved on to this farm, we had several out buildings that were made that way. All the timbers were held together with wooden pegs. Looking back, I wish I would have kept them. A few years back I gutted a building...
  12. Iska3

    Idiot with a chainsaw

    I don't think this person is an idiot..... I'm thinking he was one lucky person... Sometimes people just don't know what they don't know and his actions prove it. I watched my friend buck up a few logs and he also uses his chainsaw like a hand saw moving it back and forth. When taking...
  13. Iska3

    Chicago area loads firewood logs 250 bucks

    Your firewood is only worth what a person would pay at that time of the year. It sounds crazy but most of the time it's worth more than a persons asking price.. Nice dry hardwood is like gold in some places.
  14. Iska3

    Three days from December...

    I remember years ago when the guy down the road was cutting some marsh land and bailing it for his beef cows so we've had a few years of warm weather in December but noting like this. We had 6 to 8 inches of snow on the ground so I started feeding hay and with this last rain all the snow is...
  15. Iska3

    Need a new kindling hatchet

    I like my Estwing tools. I have several of their hammers that are something like 25 to 30 year old and still doing the job. My first Estwing hatchet was purchased back in 1963 and it's my Go2 that fits in my chainsaw box and or on the log splitter. I just purchased a new one a month ago...
  16. Iska3

    Propane

    I bought a 10 plate exchanger from eBay when I installed our OWB some years ago. I heat the HW 365- 24/7 and never looked back. Keep the OWB at 165/155 and use mostly scraps from the splitter, junk wood from the storms. For just the HW, it doesn't take as much wood as a person thinks...
  17. Iska3

    Propane

    We filled our 500 gal LP tank around 5 or 6 years ago when the price was 96 cents a gallon. It's been turned off all this time and a few weeks ago I received a visit from the LP crew wondering how my tank was doing. He saw it was still at 80% so he told me that the company will be calling...
  18. Iska3

    New truck!

    That's going to be one handy ride for sure. We had an old RR Truck that was like yours but without the dump. If I ever found one like yours with a dump and in that shape, it would be parked in my pole barn and only driven at night when my friends were not around. Congrats on a nice find..
  19. Iska3

    How was your day...

    I read your post and hate to think of how many times that could have been me in that car. Living rural we don’t have all the bells, whistles, and lights on the RR crossings, some of the crossings are blind so it’s difficult to see any train so we get so accustom to the rolling-stop or we need...
  20. Iska3

    Another fine, fun-filled day at the sawmill.

    Wow!! That's a serious pile of slab wood. Like a few others on here, I'd be their best customer at that price if I could get oak and ash. Being it's slabs, cut on one side and could air dry, I'd be stacking the extra 'as is' and making more trips as long as it was cool out. With a pile...
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