Priorities

[moggymatt]

Well, just spent another 2 hours snow blowing this morning clearing last nights 8" of snow instead of in the wood shop.
We haven't had a day above freezing in 2 months, the whole house has had the bug going around and the snow from earlier snows has slid off the garage roof about 8' and still has not broke off. its just crystalline enough to be light but stiff and cant get it to fall. I'll get a pic after coffee and post.

Hoping after lunch I'll get out there.

[moggymatt]

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[joedw00]

Glad we don't have snow. Stay warm.

[beeg]

To bad it's snowing where your at. BUT I hope MORE snow falls on my Sisters house. They moved there after being in the AF for 20+ years. Didn't want to deal with the summers here.

[reible]

I think it's time to get a roof rake. For those who don't know what they are here is an example:

https://www.amazon.com/Garelick-89421-2 ... B0000BYCD5

They are a way of life some places.

Ed

[garys]

The good news is that Winter is half over and I have only 5 feet of snow so far. And, the bad news is Winter will soon be gone and I have to shut down the Shopsmith for another year because it will be too hot to work.

[robinson46176]

The good news is that Winter is half over and I have only 5 feet of snow so far. And, the bad news is Winter will soon be gone and I have to shut down the Shopsmith for another year because it will be too hot to work.

My temperature problems run the other way. I am making progress in getting my basement woodshop a little cooler in the winter by changing some ducting and by using a little more electric heat for the main floor and not using the wood/coal furnace for 100% of the heat. Over the next week or two I will make a couple of duct connections and install a clear vinyl sheeting over a couple of large openings between a couple of areas of the basement to help keep excess heat out of the woodshop. I could just make it into a solid wall but then my silly, extreme at times, claustrophobia would keep me out of the shop too often. I really like being able to look across the full width of the basement through those large openings but glass would be too $$$. The heavy clear vinyl is cheap to install and cheap to replace if I shove a board through it.

Summer is great since the AC keeps the naturally cool basement air very dry and comfortable.


footnote: I ran across bagged "Premium" anthracite nut coal at a nearby TSC Store (the old Tractor Supply) and picked up 10 bags just to see how it would burn in this furnace. I recently returned 6 bags. It was terrible. I have a history of burning coal full time in the mid 1960's and it was a totally different product. This "premium" crap was about 25% or more limestone... Terrible stuff.

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[oldiron]

The good news is that Winter is half over and I have only 5 feet of snow so far. And, the bad news is Winter will soon be gone and I have to shut down the Shopsmith for another year because it will be too hot to work.

My temperature problems run the other way. I am making progress in getting my basement woodshop a little cooler in the winter by changing some ducting and by using a little more electric heat for the main floor and not using the wood/coal furnace for 100% of the heat. Over the next week or two I will make a couple of duct connections and install a clear vinyl sheeting over a couple of large openings between a couple of areas of the basement to help keep excess heat out of the woodshop. I could just make it into a solid wall but then my silly, extreme at times, claustrophobia would keep me out of the shop too often. I really like being able to look across the full width of the basement through those large openings but glass would be too $$$. The heavy clear vinyl is cheap to install and cheap to replace if I shove a board through it.

Summer is great since the AC keeps the naturally cool basement air very dry and comfortable.


footnote: I ran across bagged "Premium" anthracite nut coal at a nearby TSC Store (the old Tractor Supply) and picked up 10 bags just to see how it would burn in this furnace. I recently returned 6 bags. It was terrible. I have a history of burning coal full time in the mid 1960's and it was a totally different product. This "premium" crap was about 25% or more limestone... Terrible stuff.

Fortunately, I have a separate shop with a very large wood stove. We have hot water baseboard heat with separate thermostats for upstairs and downstairs so, if I had to work out of the basement, I could have it to where the upstairs would run you out of the house and the downstairs be like a refrigerator. I feel very blessed to have the heating system we do.

God bless the folks trying to cope with forced air systems.

Mike
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