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10 below zero this morning. Brrrrrrrrrrr.......

Window insulation and the fire roaring for 2+ days steadily, it is mostly comfortable inside. As expected water lines are frozen. Damn!!! If it doesn't correct itself by tomorrow morning, I get to crawl under the cabin with the propane Mr. Heater. In the past only 5 or so minutes is enough to heat the crawl space and loosen up the iced lines.

I can't imagine how you folks in N. Dakota, Minnesota, etc. do this on a regular basis.
 
If I had Federal Warrants for my immediate arrest, I wouldn't even visit that place.

Now these people are both tough and crazy. -71°C (-96°F) World's Coldest Inhabited Place: Oymyakon, Siberia. -->

cantoo said:
Yeah they must have it rough there.
I don't have a Christmas picture but here is my place on July 04th.
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It is only -18 C here. We have had a warm December so far. It is expected to change though for the rest of winter.

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Best advise i can give you on the water lines is to move them inside the house. I did mine after the first year of heating with wood. i live in an older trailer house and keeping the under side warm is imposible with wood heat but without wood heat the fuel oil bill is killer. I would use pex if doing it again but the CPVC I used works fine and is rated for drinking water. Was always going to build a box around them like many cabins I helped remodel but with just me, I could care less. Now its just the well line from the ground up into the house and that is triple heat taped and insulated
 
MontanaResident said:
If I had Federal Warrants for my immediate arrest, I wouldn't even visit that place.

Now these people are both tough and crazy. -71°C (-96°F) World's Coldest Inhabited Place: Oymyakon, Siberia.
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Not as bad as the South Pole in the winter, but I wouldn't live in either place!

Merry Christmas everyone!
 
cantoo said:
Yeah they must have it rough there.
I don't have a Christmas picture but here is my place on July 04th.
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Yooper's home is a bit nicer.
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We have 20F here. Not cold, but supposed to get near zero this week. That's more like it!


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Them Muricans always showing us up. Then again he does live farther north than me, I live about in line with the tip of the thumb.
-5 C (23F)outside and 21 C (70F) inside but just turned up the furnace (owb) . It's trying to get nasty out, snow squall warnings. Going to be -13C (8F) tonight. Going to do the Christmas thing with the grandkids then head to the bush. It'll be nice in the bush now that it's freezing up a bit more.
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I've been meaning to address this issue for a good while. An inexpensive electric oil radiator will be put in place next spring. A single location should take care of it, and maybe some extra insulation. Usually I am good until the temp goes to sub zero, which doesn't happen often. Years ago I had to bucket water from the creek to flush the toilet, but that was 30 below which very rarely happens (once in the last 5 years).

Jakers said:
Best advise i can give you on the water lines is to move them inside the house. I did mine after the first year of heating with wood. i live in an older trailer house and keeping the under side warm is imposible with wood heat but without wood heat the fuel oil bill is killer. I would use pex if doing it again but the CPVC I used works fine and is rated for drinking water. Was always going to build a box around them like many cabins I helped remodel but with just me, I could care less. Now its just the well line from the ground up into the house and that is triple heat taped and insulated
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cantoo said:
The bush is behind the barn. OWB is 12' outside the garage door but I still made my wife go out and put wood in this morning. I forgot to do it last night.
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A neighbor had one installed a few years ago. Lots and lots of very hot water he and his wife love, BUT he goes thru >13 cords of wood. I help him as he is 70+, but damn that is a lot of work.
 
MontanaResident said:
I've been meaning to address this issue for a good while. An inexpensive electric oil radiator will be put in place next spring. A single location should take care of it, and maybe some extra insulation. Usually I am good until the temp goes to sub zero, which doesn't happen often. Years ago I had to bucket water from the creek to flush the toilet, but that was 30 below which very rarely happens (once in the last 5 years).
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we hit -30 every winter at least once. I dont mind the cold so much. its usually fairly calm out when its that cold so its not bad
 
Montana, it's best not to keep track of how much wood I use. I heat 2 houses, 2 domestic hot water and some for the 24x56 shop. Have always planned to keep track but I burn so much junk that it's difficult to keep track. I burn construction cut offs from work, wood bunks, cribbing, tree trimmings, cardboard, newspaper, sawdust and tons of other burnables. Considering what I heat I think it's good.
 
do you feed all that heating demand from one OWB or two? i know youve mentioned it many times but i guess i cant remember. whats the water capacity?
 

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