Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

good morning
long night
gen still running, ran out at 3pm, changed tanks, fired right back up.
small country lane next to my home, tree took down all the wires down the lane, tripped the breaker for my home, may be a while
before power is back.
now Peco still says pending assessment and scheduling crew. Sounds like nothing has happened yet, they are waiting for daylight.
Rated "less than 5 people" affected so we must be down on the priority list.

coffee brewing, 31 degrees

 

[ronjhall]

Drew, they may be waiting for winds to die down. When we had power outage a couple weeks ago. Then they to wait for tree crew to remove tree that was still on the broken lines.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low 23 and high to 30°F. Wind W 20 gusting to 32 mph. Mostly cloudy.

A dump and town run is in the cards for today

daugen, I don't know if you can compare or not, but my Dayton genny gets 5 hours at 50% load out of 6 gallons of gasoline.
I have a 'jiggle siphon', so I don't bother to shut the genny down. Just set the 5 gallon jug on top of the genny and siphon two or three gallons into it. There is also a LED light over the genny, (it takes up one of the 120 outlets), but at least in the dark you can see what you are doing without having to hold a flashlight.

Have a safe day all

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 25° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 35° with a mix of sun and clouds. Tech came out and replaced compressor in my refrigerator yesterday afternoon. Sassy and I spent time in shop cleaning up and had dinner at neighbors. Got home about 6:30 and job was done. But house has smell from gas used in fridge. Have a couple of window open to help clear out the smell. Shop is a lot cleaner. Still more to do. But there is a big improvement. Will work on that when I get back from grocery shopping.
Winds were bad all day. Never lost power. But a couple of blips. Internet was out for several hours.
Birds are trying to eat a suet cake in one day. It never happens. That greasy stuff must fill them up quick.

Everyone stay well and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

Ron, I saw the Asplundh truck come in last evening, but did not hear sawing or grinding.
Maybe none of them want to work in the dark, probably a real mess of downed wires in a tight country lane.
and if they bring a truck in, they block the whole lane and no one can get in or out so it gets complicated.
I'm right next to the road and power, but this mess up the hill took down the whole feeder line. My wires are fine, can't see what the
problem is. Just tired of the constant gen din, I wore my headphones for a while last night.

Bill, I'm doing my best not to put gasoline in this gen, never had a drop yet. Trying to run just on propane to keep the carb ungunked.
But I have at least ten gallons of premium gas set aside as backup to the propane on a dual fuel gen.

Very pleased that gen fired right back up at 31 degrees with a 30 gallon tank. Size is iffy in the winter under full load.
Will head out to TSC this morning to fill up up 40 gallon tank, the one with little wheels on it. Once it gets light out, will go out and shut it down
and check the oil. It was full to the top with full synthetic, should be fine after 12 hours. Which is about now.

woke up with headache. And going to dentist later this morning to be tortured for way more money than I can afford should surely improve that.

 

[Buppies]

Sounds like a rough night Drew and L4N

Very windy last night 31 this morning high in 40s today

Nice picture Ron need to put our feeder back out

Prayers for all our Country

 

[daugen]

Buppies, at 3:10am holding a flashlight while changing propane tanks behind the house,
I thought to myself, well, at least it's not windy or snowing or raining. It usually is.
Still a lot of dead ash trees in local woods and this is what happens when they come down by themselves.
We got rain here but no wind over 20mph. I think this was a dead tree in pretty damp ground.
Poor guy at rear of lane, hope he wasn't going anywhere this morning.

this just reinforces my existing understanding of how wonderful automatic gens are hooked up to 500 gal propane tanks.
And I am really going to investigate providing a solid state backup system in my basement, using lithium batteries. If I can do without hot water or a/c,
I can run this small house easily on an inverter. and hot water lasts awhile. I need to get this gen noise resolved, giving me a headache with my bad ear.
The resonant frequency is doing a number on my tinnitus.

 

[m7040]

Good morning, windy here but no power outage. 30 going to 40 today.
Outages are no fun. Used to have a Miller 400 amp welder on a trailer that I got from one of our surplus sales and used also as backup generator and with the Deutz diesel it was loud.
Drew, dentist is a good profession. Wondering what the gross margin is on the average. Would think it to be close to 100 percent.
Had all my teeth crowned while I had insurance before retirement. Was not cheap

Still dealing with chain saw repairs and daughters car. Challenges are meant to keep us sharp.

Our local bank got hacked and we were notified to sign up for free ID protection. We only had a small account and were not even signed up on-line

 

[mpham]

Morning all!
31 going to 36 today. We survived the high winds and rain with no power issues. I will suit up and head outside to look for damages once it gets light out.
Pellet stoves are a self contained unit and are less dangerous than a wood stove. If your house filled with smoke it wasn't installed correctly!! I've had 1 running for over 15 years. I have changed out the computer board once as it had the refuse to turn off issue after a few years operation and a few power outages.
Not much planned for today as yet. Worked in the woodshop yesterday doing some machine maintenance. Might go down and do some more cleaning up.
Will head out to the other garage and check on the mouse traps and make sure the tractor is ok. Went out for kerosene yesterday for the heater out there and it was over $7.00 a gallon! Clerk says they were out of it for 2 weeks and had to go somewhere up in Maine to get what they had! Glad I only use about 5 gallons a season.
Oh well. Time for another coffee!
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy!

 

[riptides]

37 outside this AM. Weather front moved through last evening, highs in the upper 40's today. Need to restart the wood stove.

Thanks everyone for the prayers and kind words. I am still in a brain fog about the whole situation.

I did manage to get some Xmas lights strung on the front porch, today I hope to get the second story done. And the wife is pestering me to go get a flu shot. She does not want to take a chance on getting sick. I have never had one.

Hope all have a great day. Be safe. And good luck with the power if your out of it. Gets to be annoying after a while. Not having it.

 

[Popgadget]

Pellet stoves are a self contained unit and are less dangerous than a wood stove. If your house filled with smoke it wasn't installed correctly!!

The way I read it was that the controls failed causing the pellet feed to overload the firebox, but that might just be my interpretation.

 

[KilroyJC]

Good morning, low 23 and high to 30°F. Wind W 20 gusting to 32 mph. Mostly cloudy.

A dump and town run is in the cards for today

daugen, I don't know if you can compare or not, but my Dayton genny gets 5 hours at 50% load out of 6 gallons of gasoline.
I have a 'jiggle siphon', so I don't bother to shut the genny down. Just set the 5 gallon jug on top of the genny and siphon two or three gallons into it. There is also a LED light over the genny, (it takes up one of the 120 outlets), but at least in the dark you can see what you are doing without having to hold a flashlight.

Have a safe day all

Way back when, just after Hurricane Sandy, I installed a diverter valve in the fuel line on my generator, and also installed an Evinrude fuel connector. This way I can run directly off of 5-gal marine tanks, and the hot swap is very easy - just switch back to the onboard tank while swapping the outboard tanks, then flip the diverter valve again.

WARNING: Remember on smaller generators you do have to shut them down for a period of time regularly or the motor will fail! (Did not happen to us over our 9-day power outage, but one of the neighbors was running their generator 24/7 (and probably refueling while it was running!), and around Day 3 you could detect the slight change in the sound, by Day 4 it was pretty obvious to everyone except THAT guy, and somewhere in the wee hours of the morning of Day 5 their was a rapid, drastic decline to the quality of the sound until SUDDENLY there was no sound at all. . .)

 

[Popgadget]

I can run this small house easily on an inverter. and hot water lasts awhile. I need to get this gen noise resolved, giving me a headache with my bad ear.
The resonant frequency is doing a number on my tinnitus.

Drew,
I would think that a far easier solution would be to put the generator behind your garage and get a longer cable to plug it into the box on the house. It seems like your existing generator meets all your goals except noise. I would not be a fan of relying on batteries for power outages of unknown duration.

 

[Buppies]

Don upon further review you folks turn cold after the 15th to 20th of December

 

[riptides]

Drew,
I would think that a far easier solution would be to put the generator behind your garage and get a longer cable to plug it into the box on the house. It seems like your existing generator meets all your goals except noise. I would not be a fan of relying on batteries for power outages of unknown duration.

Yeah, batteries are just another thing to worry about.

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

God has once again gifted us with a chance to get it right (or at least not screw up too badly).

23.5F at the moment, just added wood to the woodstove.

The chickens are finally sorting themselves out. Monday night, two of the four new birds simply refused to go back into the coop, so we left them out all night. The following morning, they were holed up in some dense underbrush. We were going on a road trip, so we left them out (we only let our hens roam after 3pm, when the hawks have all gone) to fend for themselves. When we got home around four-ish, they were standing outside the coop. I Let all the other birds out and then ignored them until dark.

they all went in. YAY! They are finally sorting themselves out.

i tried stacking wood in the woodstove a little differently last night. It burned much longer, but with less output. So back to the old way of doing things. But if you don’t try, you don’t learn!

Monday we milled about another 90 B.F. of lumber on the sawmill.
MrsKilroyJC is becoming adept at the handling of the 3” shackle for the sling straps! And she is starting to get the hang of departing logs, too.

Now I have to drop some more trees for logs. . . And I really REALLY need to build that slabwood rack. . .
—-24 Shoplifting Days ‘til Christmas!!!!

 

[KilroyJC]

Drew,
I would think that a far easier solution would be to put the generator behind your garage and get a longer cable to plug it into the box on the house. It seems like your existing generator meets all your goals except noise. I would not be a fan of relying on batteries for power outages of unknown duration.

And a couple of strategically-placed pieces of plywood to direct the sound away (it does not have to be fully-enclosed) will further help.

 

[daugen]

And a couple of strategically-placed pieces of plywood to direct the sound away (it does not have to be fully-enclosed) will further help.

yes that is exactly what is needed. Gen sits near kitchen window, noise gets through, need to reflect it out to woods, sorry squirrels, better you than me

 

[wngsprd]

28 going to 49. Clear and calm now.

Mostly, no break-in required.

Don, white Christmases are rare here, too. If your brother saves that much at AAA, are you looking into switching?

Went to visit my mom in Virginia Beach yesterday...driving the whole way in the rain and mist from truck tires was no fun, but we had a good visit. My mom's auto lease was up...3 years and she only put 7,300 miles on it, so was in new condition...she bought it outright. They had a brand new Maybach in the showroom...but I liked the used Supra out on the lot much better.

Stopped at Ikea on the way home and picked up some things that will find me assembling all day today, after firing up the woodstove again, then roasting coffee.

 

[daugen]

headed out in a little bit now that it's getting light out to turn off gen and check the oil.
happy oil, happy gen
by the time the low oil control shuts down the gen, you have
toasted your bearings and valves nicely.
Oil has about 30 hours on it, now, after last oil change.
Big single cylinder air cooled buzz box. Not just the exhaust, the whole motor
radiates noise.
twin cylinder engines have lower frequency noise, at least it seems, though both run at 3600 rpm.

Hour after hour at 3600 rpm under load is a pretty hard test for an engine.
You don't run your truck or car engines that fast under load usually. Maybe towing up a hill, and you are watching your temp gauge for sure.

I think a diesel running at 1800 rpm would be very, very nice. In a hush box like in a boat.