Good morning!!!!

[Alien]

. Is it better to be tortured by a young woman?



Chris

No No No No... YES! (quote from Vicar of Dibley show)

 

[wngsprd]

Good afternoon all.

Is anyone else curious about how dry their firewood is ? In the past I have weighed, dried in the oven, then weighed again slices out of a log to see how much water it had inside.

Recently I got a Bosch moisture meter, which is a lot more convenient to use. The wood coming out of the store has been drying under cover for a couple of years or more and tests out at just under 20% water, which is what I expected and about as good as it gets in our climate. Hazel that I cut last winter and was late to bring under cover is still almost 30%. Without the meter I could have been putting that on the fire tonight then watching the water bubble out of the end.

At least 10 years ago I bought a combo pack at Costco that had a moisture meter and an infrared thermometer gun...was either $25 or $65, can't remember ...still works great.

I noticed that our extremely dry Autumn helped my oak dry from 35+% when I cut it last winter to 8% when I checked it Saturday...fastest it's ever dried. I cut a dead oak today and will measure it tomorrow when I bring it to the splitter.

 

[Fuddy1952]

We're building a tack room in horse stable.
Pretty rough for me 20s degrees F. I have been using a little propane heater.

 

[txdon]

We're building a tack room in horse stable.
Pretty rough for me 20s degrees F. I have been using a little propane heater.

Looking good, but what is that insulation doing on the floor, put it on the walls, brrrrr.

 

[sodamo]

While I did get the bathroom vanity base installed, the actual countertop/sink is going to require some finessing. Didn’t notice that what is to be the inside edge has a trim piece. Don’t know if I can unglue or have to attempt to cut off. Could be interesting. Probably help if knew what the material is, fake marble?

 

[daugen]

about 14 out here now.

I've been doing laundry and have several small electric heaters on and have been watching the house voltage by a little gizmo
plugged into an office wall outlet. Got down to 114 volts for awhile, getting low...probably the older wiring in this house.
Sometimes it's area wide because I see it dip when I have very little amps being used. But then I don't know when the electric hot water heater
kicks on either. Of course the hot water heater is 240 and I'm measuring 120 in the office.
Could a heavy draw on the 240 lines affect the 120 distribution? Clearly I'm no electrician.

But I made sure my landlord totally replaced the existing panel with double the capacity and all new breakers.
It's the wall outlet wiring that might go back forty or fifty years. Most of my outlets have surge strips plugged into them or just lights.
We lose power so often here that all those on and off surges are heck on electronics and compressors and surge protectors from experience
are really good investments.

Every time your refrigerator compressor kicks on, it sends a little surge through your electric system, a tiny jarring of the system. You can see it on an oscilloscope.
Over the years there's cumulative trauma. I paid very close attention to this when I owned my electronics business and since I gave away
cheap single outlet low joule surge protectors with every tv or stereo, I hardly ever got anything back for repairs due to lightning or electrical damage.
Saved me a lot of headaches every time a storm went through town. Surge protection has gotten much better now. Faster reacting and higher absorption.
Those MOVs will die for you happily.

One Christmas long ago I built the Heathkit all metal surge protector strip kits for everyone in the family. They looked the commercial Tripplite ones made today.
But kinda industrial for someone's living room. Multiple MOV's. Several other line conditioning options.
To protect nice equipment, you want it all. All of our deductibles are so big these days lot of this stuff we wind up eating.

David, that might justify a new saw blade for the occasion depending upon how hard the material is.

 

[sodamo]

Sounds reasonable to me, Drew. I’m guessing this is an engineered marble and I won’t be able to break the adhesive bond.

 

[toppop52]

I heard from my son, his father in law Dan, passed at about 9:25 tonight. I hate it for all of them, and I really hate it for the grandsons, they didn’t handle it well when my wife passed four years ago.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 26F for the start mostly clear sky, light wind. Light wind in AM, moderate wind in afternoon. Sky mostly clear AM, partly cloudy in afternoon, and high temp was 58F, DP19. No rain in 10 day and temps forecast to roller coaster every few days. No fire stoking in insert, putter this morning, bike ride this afternoon and short nap.
Covid update: Cooke 4692 confirmed cases, 454 active cases, Montague 3019 confirmed cases, 244 active cases, Grayson, 18740 confirmed cases, 2523 active cases. Cooke 43, Montague 10, Grayson 411, new cases.
David sorry about the restore, sorry about the 95 issue for the walk through.
JDZ735M welcome to GM thread, no idea on false positives.
Bill enjoy your day, sorry about the chain
Roy that is cold
Ron you pretty cold as well. Stay warm outside playing with the fires. nice pic
Billy, hope rest of people get their power back, hope your cleanup effort went well.
Drew hope you like the fridge, sorry about neck not recovered yet.
Thomas hope you stayed warm. nice pic
Mike hope you can get to branches soon, nice to have firewood to burn
Roy yak-trax good idea as salting walks, not sure how much melting you will get :
Paul sorry about the findings hope easy fix. hope zoom went well.
Ken sorry about coworker. nice pics
Phil sorry about the arthritis, looks nice
Gale glad the mini horses will less ice trouble
Rich glad furnace came back on. glad quiet at work
PJ highly recommend the trip. trip can be powered rafts or rowboats. water is cold most of the way to Lake Mead.
Chris I doubt it is better by a pretty therapist. Talked to a former co-worker who had a lot of scar tissue.
Randy sorry to hear about son's FIL. Are they trying anything experimental?
RNG glad slash is getting burned. enjoy the ride Sunday.
Don sorry about loss of seat time, good thing to take care of knee now
Dennis sorry about snow removal issues, and training courses.
Eric yes am curious and thinking about a moisture meter.
David most people don't expect to have to fix a new house.
Thomas nice pics
Don thanks for the update glad for the good recovery.
Billy thanks for meter report
Fuddy that is cold to work in.
David good luck with the counter top.
Drew don't let the smoke out of the wires
Randy sorry for your family's loss
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, /mom o2 levels /son cough (bronchitis?), Bird/aging issues/, Don/knee recovery, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL Covid /son's FIL death /new cancer surgeries /cataract surgery, Roy/ palpitations, /angina, /shoulder, wife/ankle recovery, Billy /wife fall, David(moss) /remodel /divorce, Buppies/good biopsy report, Thomas/gout, Phil/reflux/wife's eyes, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted/knee recovery/retirement, Doug and wife/health issues/nerve and pain/ wife's eyes, Ken/aunt fall injuries, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery follow up, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/injuries from fall, Paul/ wife's disc issues, Gale and KY/ tornado victims, Bill/ DIL's decision, Drew /new neck pain and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[Trails End]

Just browsing before shutting down for the night. It's a nippy 7 below zero at the moment
and temps were in the single digits all day. We had about an inch dusting overnight, and it's
supposed to warm up a bit into the low 30's tomorrow.

Oh, regarding median age, I'm 4 months shy of 80, and feeling like it as well. I'm not
aging as gracefully as I'd like, but we'll take what we're dealt. Happy new year to the
Good Morning crew.