What did you do today?

[ebinmaine 67,550]

43 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said:

 

Only way to warm the old bones.    And .... wood  ..... 

Keeps ya warm more than once.... 

[Pullstart 62,905]

Got my bin finished up, now need to build the chute!  As for the white triangular item on the wall, it’s a makeshift “drain” that was installed before we moved in.  Must be at one point, there was enough water outside to seep in through the wood boiler lines.  The Farm Truck made a trip to town this morning, I’ve got a ton of pellets on a pallet, waiting to get dumped into the bin.  The 2x4’s on top serve a structural purpose, plus it will prevent the abrasion on hands, arms or chests while digging for pellets with the bucket.

 

Maybe if I am feeling super ambitious one day, I’ll build an auger system to load the pellet hopper for me.  I have one for the wood boiler to load corn or wood pellets into it from a gravity wagon.  I could utilize parts, or use it as a template to build my own.  I also thought about elevating this bin and running a gate valve of sorts to gravity feed it into the hopper.  I thought there are all kinds of ways for that to go wrong, collapse, overfill, etc.

 

 

[ebinmaine 67,550]

24 minutes ago, Pullstart said:

 I also thought about elevating this bin and running a gate valve of sorts to gravity feed it into the hopper

I like that idea

[Pullstart 62,905]

Got the first part of my chute installed. 
 

 

[Handy Don 12,233]

32 minutes ago, Pullstart said:

Got my bin finished up, now need to build the chute!  

Maybe if I am feeling super ambitious one day, I’ll build an auger system to load the pellet hopper for me.  I have one for the wood boiler to load corn or wood pellets into it from a gravity wagon.  I could utilize parts, or use it as a template to build my own.  I also thought about elevating this bin and running a gate valve of sorts to gravity feed it into the hopper.  I thought there are all kinds of ways for that to go wrong, collapse, overfill, etc.

 

 

Brings back childhood memories of our anthracite-heated home in NE Pennsylvania. Coal truck dump body could be lifted vertically about 10 feet before tipping to dump down a long chute. Coal ran into a bin in the basement next to the furnace and an auger tube fed the burner. My job was to shovel out and remove the ashes in ½ bushel tubs without making a mess in the kitchen on the way out.

[Ed Kennell 38,196]

7 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

Brings back childhood memories . . Coal ran into a bin in the basement 

                        My Granddad had three hand dug mines open in the '50s.   

  My Dad delivered the coal to homes in Cumberland, Md. and dumped it down those chutes to the basement coal bins.

 

                My job was to stand in the bin and shovel the coal to the back corners of the bin.   

                 

[Pullstart 62,905]

That aughtta throw a pellet or 758,613!

[Handy Don 12,233]

37 minutes ago, Pullstart said:

That aughtta throw a pellet or 758,613!

 

You'll add a support for the end of the tube to keep it stable, right? Don't want any of those hundreds of thousands of pellets missing the bin!

[Pullstart 62,905]

26 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

You'll add a support for the end of the tube to keep it stable, right? Don't want any of those hundreds of thousands of pellets missing the bin!

There is some 3/4” galvanized strapping holding it up 

 

Haven’t missed the hole yet!

 

 

[ebinmaine 67,550]

1 hour ago, Ed Kennell said:

  My job was to stand in the bin and shovel the coal to the back corners of the bin.

I done that too. 

We heated the house with coal for a few years back in my teens. 

Nasty dusty filthy stuff.  

 

[Ed Kennell 38,196]

4 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

Nasty dusty filthy stuff.  

Yep, Grandad died from black lung at 60 yo.

[Pullstart 62,905]

6 bags left outside!

 

 

[Ed Kennell 38,196]

5 minutes ago, Pullstart said:

6 bags left outside!

Do you have a bulk delivery service in your area?

 

 

[SylvanLakeWH 25,594]

@Pullstart Curious... any dust?

Edited December 13, 2022 by SylvanLakeWH

[Pullstart 62,905]

25 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said:

Do you have a bulk delivery service in your area?

 

 

I’ve never seen or heard of one!

[Pullstart 62,905]

8 minutes ago, SylvanLakeWH said:

@Pullstart Curious... any dust?

not terrible.  A little on the tube.

[Pullstart 62,905]

@SylvanLakeWH here is a “full shot”.  It shows the dust accumulated on the tube, but not terrible otherwise.

 

 

[Horse Newbie 7,071]

3 hours ago, Pullstart said:

Got the first part of my chute installed. 
 

 

No real need for that shiny tape on those flue pipe joints … actually may not meet code, unless you all can get by with it up thar. 
Especially the double wall pipe… probably the single wall pipe too.

[Horse Newbie 7,071]

1 hour ago, Pullstart said:

6 bags left outside!

 

 

Is she counting the pellets ?

[Horse Newbie 7,071]

Not today, but 8 years ago.

 

Since I had 10 oaks took out in my yard now I only have the neighbors leaves to get up…

[Pullstart 62,905]

3 minutes ago, Horse Newbie said:

Is she counting the pellets ?

She knocked down a couple mountains looking to spill over, and was snapping them like twigs!  I had a thought.  We have two cats.  That’s a real big litter box 

[Horse Newbie 7,071]

Just now, Pullstart said:

She knocked down a couple mountains looking to spill over, and was snapping them like twigs!  I had a thought.  We have two cats.  That’s a real big litter box 

Time to build a lid…

[Pullstart 62,905]

15 minutes ago, Horse Newbie said:

No real need for that shiny tape on those flue pipe joints … actually may not meet code, unless you all can get by with it up thar. 
Especially the double wall pipe… probably the single wall pipe too.

I see some forums say that metal tape has been used to seal nuisance leaks… but they do recommend 500 degree RTV

[WHX?? 48,823]

6 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

And free wood that I get the Amish to cut for me... 

 

6 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

$5.50/ gal. fuel oil.

Wow... course anyone burns fuel oil for house heat is livin in the stone age... be cheaper to go get some 55 gallon drums of off road diesel and a transfer pump?? Or is that illegal?? 

[WHX?? 48,823]

1 hour ago, Pullstart said:

I’ve never seen or heard of one!

I'll second that ... what did you have to fork out for a ton Kev?

I'm at 315 for a 50 bag of 40 lb bags. Softwood. Last year it was 295 so didn't go up that much.