feed the dragon ,AGAIN

Anonymous-0 · Jan 26, 2013

We have been below freezing in louisville area,, 4 days now ,been feeding the Ol' Dragon in the basement quite a bit of wood lately ,, all the while enjoying my fireplace in the front room with my Sara ,, gonna warm up COME MONDAY EVENING,, my cows will like that ...

paul · Jan 26, 2013

My furnace quit yesterday, noticed it at 5:30 on a Friday evening. Sheez.

Repair guy left at 10:00pm, curculator pump, trouble was finding one - he had 2 take-offs, but one was dead, other sat too long and had a catch wouldn't spin up, he had to find an electric shop with a rebuilt on the their shelf and get that.

Still not right, it vibrates, echoes through the whole house, but with the temps below zero last nite, just glad to have heat, can live with a little echo for a couple days.

No snow on the ground, a lot of water pipes are busting, the cold is going in deep. I had a frozen pipe for the cattle water too yesterday. Took 4 buckets of hot water before that got going.

Hoping for a slower day today! Up to 5 degrees now.

--->Paul

El Toro · Jan 26, 2013

When I had baseboard heat in my other house I had good service from Bell & Gosset circulators. They weren't cheap even back in the 1960's. The orignal circulator wasn't B&G and started making a growling noise about 2 in the morning. It wasn't that hard to pull the old circulator and install the new. I did have a problem getting one of the flanges off so I used a hack saw to cut the flange, but stayed away from the threads on the pipe. It then broke
and was easily removed. Hal

JayinNY · Jan 26, 2013

I also have a b&g circulator, mine has speeds on it. My brother in law put a taco in instead of the bell&gosset, I kept it in hopes of putting it back in, but I don't think it will mate to the isolators he put in!

Adirondack case guy · Jan 26, 2013

Jim,
Been a feeding my wood chuck since October. Been through a bit over 2 full cord of wood so far. Had to run the fireplace full time for the past week, so the pile is shrinking faster. I still have 12 cord in reserve, and a lot more than that is full length sitting on landings along the roads in the woods, that needs to be blocked and split. I brought down a trailer load last Sun. to mix with the seasoned wood. The fire lasts a lot longer that way.
Loren

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