Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

11F clear sky might reach 30F.

Outside chores done E muffin time. :licking:
Plans for today...Clean feeder area and refill feeders,bring the life to burn barrel,if wind light putter outside,maybe watch some nascar other than that :confused3:

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the temperature is 12ｰF and going to 27. Wind SSE 3 mph. 30% chance of flurries.
Tomorrow we will pay for the warm weather today. From tonight through to Wednesday...Snow!

I am going out today and hopefully push back the snow banks to make room for more.

Lately my computer has been crashing on a regular basis. I think I may have fixed the problem. $530.oo later for a Gforce 1060 GTX video card, we are up and running again. I think it was the video card that was doing it. This thing has a gaming motherboard in it, with the new vid card should make it faster than it was.

Popgadget, is it fair to assume the price of de-icing goes up as the size of aircraft gets bigger?


Have a safe day all

 

[Popgadget]

Popgadget, is it fair to assume the price of de-icing goes up as the size of aircraft gets bigger?

Yes, they charge by the gallon, but the price is absurd. It’s a propylene glycol mix sprayed through what is basically an orchard sprayer with a heated tank.
The price can vary greatly depending on the operator, and how efficiently they clear the snow.
It would be rare for a small piston airplane to get deiced, as they are usually not capable of safely operating in weather that would require it.
Perhaps for removing snow after a storm, but a broom and getting into a heated hangar for a while is a much better and cheaper alternative.
We would often go to Green Bay to take people to Packers games, and would pay $300 or more to put the plane in a heated hangar to preemptively avoid deicing, even if it was just frost rather than snow. That saved a lot of time and money in the long run.

 

[toppop52]

Maybe .. you look good .. in an apron Randy.

Without question.

 

[Rich B1]

Good morning! 3 now, supposed to get to 36 later. Sun is very bright this morning. Looking at the hourly forecast, not supposed to drop below freezing tonight. I am good with that!

Didn稚 do much yesterday....actually did energy conservation. That is rare on a weekend.

Stopped to see my dad yesterday, seems he spent some of my sister痴 inheritance. He decided he needed to trade in his Ford 3930 tractor since it needs tires and has some rust on the rims. He is getting a 55 HP New Holland with 4WD. I am really thinking he bought a cab with heat and AC. :laughing: Supposed to be delivered this week.

Maybe I will feel inspired after the grocery run today.

Thoughts to everyone who needs them

Stay safe out there.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 49˚F heading to the mid 60s.

Drew we will let you know of any super high energy bills during this freeze, can't trust the sensational click bait headlines. There is at least one electric company (Giddy) that lets you pay the cheapest going rate for electricity which is a speculative type of investment. Giddy actually told it's customers days before the freeze to opt out of their company but some did not listen. Like the stock market giving you an opportunity to sell before the bottom falls. If the electric customers stay where they are, in time they will recoup their losses - it may take 10 years. But for the last 10 years they have been getting the best electric rates available.

The all electric house with heat pumps or a gas/electric house that used additional space heaters will see their highest electric bill. Strip heaters on heat pumps use more electricity at these temps than air conditioners during August. I had a space heater in the garage where my water softener and hot water heater plumbing is and expect an "August" electric bill or higher. At below 35˚F electricity is probably the most expensive form of heating. But in Texas those frigid days are so few in a normal year which makes electricity cheapest source. I was having trouble figuring out how rolling blackouts were saving electricity, whenever they come back on the electric use was double trying to warm the house after it got cold.

When I built the house on the farm I had an unlimited supply of hard woods for the most efficient wood burning stove, in a foam insulated house, I could go a whole week without turning on the electric heater in freezing weather. But I would use the wood burning stove probably less than 20 days a year.

 

[RoyJackson]

When I built the house on the farm I had an unlimited supply of hard woods for the most efficient wood burning stove, in a foam insulated house, I could go a whole week without turning on the electric heater in freezing weather. But I would use the wood burning stove probably less than 20 days a year.

What brand stove do you have, Don?

 

[txdon]

What brand stove do you have, Don?

I had a Hearthstone.

This house is a natural gas - heater/water heater/stovetop and the rest electric. We pay high electric all year because we are all green - but on paper only, it will be interesting to see how it pans out and a lot of people are looking real close. Our town leaders contracted a certain amount from green sources for I think 10 years and have ben loosing because they bought too much and had to sell the extra for less than we paid for it. The homeowners have to make up the difference (in the $millions). Only the real greenies are happy paying the sur-charges. And we actually get electricity off the grid when the wind and solar go down or produce less than the demand. So I don't see why they should feel like they are saving the world. ???

 

[rswyan]

19F and sunny with winds out of the SSW @ 09:30, was 10F when I got out of bed earlier ... so pretty rapid warm up. High expected to reach 36F for the day ... :thumbsup:

No birds out when I got up (they are starting to appear now) - there was one squirrel on the feeder however.

Refilled hopper, two sunflower tube, squirrel, and deer feeders yesterday. Six scoops of cracked corn spread on ground. Deer feeder was empty this morning.

Cleared off walk in entryway and salted.

Also rehydrated and fed three of the white worm containers - they were pretty dry. Will do the other three here in a bit.

Calling for a high of near 50F with rain by Wednesday, so I'll probably get out on the Kubota later and work on clearing off the ice and snow on the paved portions of driveway down here around the house.

Need to go through the sale flyer for grocery store and work on putting together an order for tomorrow.

26 days until spring.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable, productive, and safe day ... :thumbsup:

 

[LouNY]

Is a "Wildlife Management" tax valuation offered in your Dad's State? Is he in NH too?

He痴 in Ohio. No wildlife management.
Talking to dad tonight, he痴 willing to just pay the taxes. The worse part is having to pay back the last 3 years, even though he had cattle then. Just not fair, but what is these days.
I saw in tax records one of the neighbors had to pay back taxes, because they made a management plan but did nothing, didn稚 mark property, didn稚 cut wild grape vines, didn稚 implement the plan. All this recorded in their tax records online.
I told dad he should have kept a couple cows. But at 96, he痴 not able to do it.[/QUOTE]

Around here just renting out the crop land to another farmer would keep the ag excemption.
Some places the city folks have had to pay to get the "hay" cut and removed from their places to get the ag status.