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    From wood to gas!

    We are in Yorkton , sask my boiler is a cozeburn 250 from profab. It ran our 20x30 greenhouse for about 5 dark hours just fine then needed more wood, we expanded to 20 x50 and it went down to 3 hours and now we have 20x100 and the gas bill was only $836 and I could not imagine this year...
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    From wood to gas!

    I used to love love love burning wood and when my wife started a greenhouse I was never going to use gas because it was way tooo much money to install and run so we bought an outdoor wood boiler. well after 7 years of finding, paying, hauling, cutting and feeding a boiler every 3 hours to...
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    I went from wood to gas and this is what I have to say

    my heat history so you guys can get the whole picture. I have a 2800 sq ft home with a gas furnace and a wood stove in the living area, I bought the boiler to heat a greenhouse and also plumbed it in to heat my home . when heating the greenhouse the boiler is at its peak and will not heat...
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    I went from wood to gas and this is what I have to say

    Tell that to my wife.... so far I have only one thing I can get straight into her head.
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    I went from wood to gas and this is what I have to say

    I was the guy over a year ago that said this http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=109095&highlight=bassman After a year on just gas I got my gas and power bill to see what the differance was and it was $1600 more in power and $185 more in gas over what I paid last year. the power...
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    Have you ever driven over your $500 saw?

    I remember about 15 years back a farmer asked a buddy and I if we wanted to help with wood and being about 16 and needing gas money we did it. the next day he picks us up in his old dumpbed graintruck that had what looked like a full steering wheel worth of front end slop as we trucked out of...
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    Drained the boiler , hauled out the stove... I am going gas!

    here in saskatchewan my wood choices are birch, popular,spruce maybe and black popular , I burnt birch last year and saw very little or no extended burn time but alot less ash at about %30 of what popular left. this load of popular was $10 a cord plus delivary and picker truck option which I...
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    Drained the boiler , hauled out the stove... I am going gas!

    I have a bad back and as you all know burning wood is not a light job!! I have installed a small electric water heater to do the kitchen floor as well . I do have a fresh load of popular (28 cords!!) that I will use for heating our greenhouse in march but the rest is gas. gonna see how...
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    best time to cut old trees for regrowth????

    I am in saskatchewan, canada. I know this is the wrong forum but it's kinda like looking for a cop.... not at the station but you will find them at a donut shop!!
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    best time to cut old trees for regrowth????

    I have a few rows of a mystery tree that seems to have alot of dead branches so I cut one down a few years back and it is now just as tall as the others and very healthy!!! I want to cut all of them but not sure what time of year it is best for the tree??? I live in canada (sask) so today...
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    best time to cut old trees for regrowth???

    I have a few rows of a mystery tree that seems to have alot of dead branches so I cut one down a few years back and it is now just as tall as the others and very healthy!!! I want to cut all of them but not sure what time of year it is best for the tree??? I live in canada (sask) so today...
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    Bobcat saw/splitter

    contact your local laser cutter and get welding. I built a aluminium bobcat bucket for $400 in laser cutting and about 2 grand in material and welding.
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    Does this make me a wood 'ho?

    the big plus here is that the guy dating your sister knows that you own a chainsaw and will think twice about pissing you or your sister off.....
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    I may be giving up on chainsaw...

    build one!! 5 grand tops!!
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    Bobcat saw/splitter

    I could build it for about 5 grand.
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    Underground Pipe - everyone contribute

    250ft roll from free heat 4 u on ebay. good price and my 150ft run has no heat loss . all over again I would like to go with the thermopex as it is sealed well to not take in ground water. but $15 a foot.....
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    My neighbor is burning RR ties....

    I have joked about burning poles and tires ect but the grim truth is that they contain a known carcinogen that is let out into the air and deposited on the soil that then drains into YOUR water . I would explain this to him in a nice way then I would blow the horn on him the instant it...
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    Wood gloves????

    stop splitting with your hand...
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    American Captain Free'd

    I was happy to hear this as well and also to have it explained to me why we have a no ransom policy. I used to think that we should hand over some cash but in doing that we are just funding future kidnappings!! now there will be a strong message sent to anyone trying to pull this type of...
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    Small Engine Stupitity !!!!!!!!!!!

    My moms friend worked at a department store and uses to give the neibourhood kids returned toys and whatever else she would get for free from work, well one summer we spent a sunny day pulling brand new stretch armstrong figures out of there boxes and hooking one end to dads john deere garden...
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