Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Sawyer Rob]

I needed to go out to my back woods today, so I went out this morning to start my loader tractor, it was +7* F out,

I hit the key, no glow plugs, no plugging it in or anything else, and third time the diesel went over, it started right up and within a few seconds was running just fine. :thumbsup:

I wish my yuppie tractors started like that! I had to glow the plugs a couple times and crank it over a bit to get one of them to start!

SR

 

[Oldpath05]

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Must a have a supper battery and I dont the need of going out in the woods on a 7* morning.........

 

[Sawyer Rob]

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Must a have a supper battery and I dont the need of going out in the woods on a 7* morning.........

It has a group 31 in it, new about 1-1/2 yrs. ago... It also has synthetic oil in it.

Lucky you, that you didn't have to go out in it. lol

SR

 

[hunt4570]

I don't think it was meant that way. I believe it was more about wood gathering.
I have a neighbor who is 78 yrs old. He was so active he'd put 50 yr old men to shame. He was that way until 77. Then his body railed against him with a hernia, blocked carotid artery, degenerative miiniscus and a bone on bone hip. This accumulation that took years, finally hit him all at once. That' s how it happens. In one year he became a shell of his old self. You don't bounce back from that stuff as easily when one was 27.

I think if I lived up your way, I'd build a house not with hydronics but with hot air. So much easier to tie in a wood furnace and mitigating the frozen pipe scene.

I don't think I would even own a house with water heat again, last one I bought I spent a fortune putting in ductwork so I could have the central air!

 

[ultrarunner]

I don't think I would even own a house with water heat again, last one I bought I spent a fortune putting in ductwork so I could have the central air!

The installs I helped with were all in alpine regions where A/C is practically unheard of and masonry construction does a good job on those few hotbed summer days.

Nothing like stepping out of a shower on a warm tile floor with heated towel racks or going to a grade school where all the classrooms are radiant floor heat...

Some of the installs are now 40 years old and except for an occasional circulating pump no issues.

Water heated mostly heating oil, natural gas or propane but wood fired also and most have at least 2 if not 3 options... staying warm is serious business there...

Most also have living room wood fired tile oven for nostalgia...

Wood Heat is so important that each new home was/is required to be provisioned with a wood suitable chimney as a fall back... even in condominiums

 

[John_Mc]

I don't think it was meant that way. I believe it was more about wood gathering.
I have a neighbor who is 78 yrs old. He was so active he'd put 50 yr old men to shame. He was that way until 77. Then his body railed against him with a hernia, blocked carotid artery, degenerative miiniscus and a bone on bone hip. This accumulation that took years, finally hit him all at once. That' s how it happens. In one year he became a shell of his old self. You don't bounce back from that stuff as easily when one was 27.

I think if I lived up your way, I'd build a house not with hydronics but with hot air. So much easier to tie in a wood furnace and mitigating the frozen pipe scene.

No problem tying a wood boiler into hydronic heat. Having lived in a home with radiant heat in the floor (when we actually use it, rather than relying on our wood stove), I love it. I would never go back to hot air. We've been here almost 20 years and been through several multi-day mid-winter power outages without a problem. We can keep every thing from freezing - and actually comfortable in all but a multiday -20˚F stretch- just by running our wood stove (the open floor plan, and cathedral area open to the second floor balcony helps get the heat everywhere). If for some reason we don't want to run the wood stove, we've run critical systems in a 5 day winter outage with just a 4KW generator (converted to dual fuel: runs on gasoline our our in-ground propane tank). All we need to run the heating system is power to the control board, and power to the several small Taco circulating pumps.

 

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No problem tying a wood boiler into hydronic heat. Having lived in a home with radiant heat in the floor (when we actually use it, rather than relying on our wood stove), I love it. I would never go back to hot air. We've been here almost 20 years and been through several multi-day mid-winter power outages without a problem. We can keep every thing from freezing - and actually comfortable in all but a multiday -20˚F stretch- just by running our wood stove (the open floor plan, and cathedral area open to the second floor balcony helps get the heat everywhere). If for some reason we don't want to run the wood stove, we've run critical systems in a 5 day winter outage with just a 4KW generator (converted to dual fuel: runs on gasoline our our in-ground propane tank).

Actually there were some problems. One of them was the enormous water storage needed to efficiently run the boiler. That would take up too much space in my cellar. Secondly was the cost. 12K for the boiler and 6K to install it. I'm just not able to make that up at my age as i don't now how much longer I can do the wood game.
I just have to be content with the Quad 5700 tucked into the cellar.
Had I gone with hot air 45 years ago when i built the house, wood fired furnace would have been a plug in.
I was influenced to go hydronic when a plethora of ppl stated how much more conmfortable baseboard was.
I dunno, I use 300 gallons of oil per year and most of that is for hot water with the rest for supplemental heat.
The wood stove has trouble when successive 25* days happen. Had I been father north such as yourself, I would have had to have come up with a better plan such as you have and not have built a log home.

 

[hunt4570]

The installs I helped with were all in alpine regions where A/C is practically unheard of and masonry construction does a good job on those few hotbed summer days.

Nothing like stepping out of a shower on a warm tile floor with heated towel racks or going to a grade school where all the classrooms are radiant floor heat...

Some of the installs are now 40 years old and except for an occasional circulating pump no issues.

Water heated mostly heating oil, natural gas or propane but wood fired also and most have at least 2 if not 3 options... staying warm is serious business there...

Most also have living room wood fired tile oven for nostalgia...

Wood Heat is so important that each new home was/is required to be provisioned with a wood suitable chimney as a fall back... even in condominiums

if it gets to 70 degrees in the summer my house will need AC... They told me all that BS about not needing AC when we unfortunately had to move to colorado a few years back.. before the first summer was over I had central air installed!!!!!

 

[ultrarunner]

Homes with A/C are very rare here in the SF East Bay...

Even homes well over a million no A/C... some no central heat.

 

[hunt4570]

Homes with A/C are very rare here in the SF East Bay...

Even homes well over a million no A/C... some no central heat.

Yeah, you couldnt give me a house in california!!