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Post by Freddy » Sat. Jun. 04, 2011 5:40 am

The coffee is hot & waffles are cooking. Come in, come in, all friends are welcome. Even others if you learn to get along!

What a wild and crazy week. I hope you are all safe. Tornadoes in MA? Tornado watch here in Maine? Insane! Not unheard of, but certainly a rarity. We did have one small one here in Maine that damaged a house. Pretty much wrecked it. Luckily no one was hurt. My heart goes out to all those that had their lives changed or even ended.

I may well burn coal all year! I dunno, the AA doesn't seem to be using as much as I thought it would. Oil is still stupid expensive. Mights well let 'er burn! Emptying ashes is a once a week event now.

Hope you all have a good weekend!


 
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Post by gaw » Sat. Jun. 04, 2011 6:23 am

More yard work today, the curse of summer. It is to be a pretty good weekend so I hope I can get caught up.

The weather this spring has been crazy. Al Gore is right, it must be man made global warming. I have been noticing another disturbing trend, man made day lengthening. In recent months I have been recording longer periods of daylight and shorter dark periods, if the trend continues darkness will be a thing of the past and we will have to build special dark rooms to show our grandchildren what nighttime was like.

Those pictures of Springfield were amazing. It is hard to believe the damage. I was in Springfield Wednesday morning around 7:30-8:00 and can be glad I was not there Wednesday afternoon. I was in Amesbury, MA around four in the afternoon and saw the western sky looked dark so I decided to take my break rather than run into storms while driving on 495 in afternoon rush hour traffic. It was probably a good decision.

Have a great weekend everyone.

 
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Post by Rob R. » Sat. Jun. 04, 2011 6:24 am

What a great morning for coffee on the porch. 47 degrees, but sunny and warming fast. My wife is making blueberry muffins, and the house smells great.

Let that Axeman keep doing its thing. Even if the cost is the same between running the AA and the oil boiler, keeping the AA burning will keep it like new. I am still running the EFM, it seems to burn about 20-25 lbs per day for domestic hot water. Heating the pool increases the consumption slightly. :roll: Here is a short video to warm everyone up this morning...my DF520 running
8 teeth 6.5 air on buckwheat. You can see some smoke rolling off the inside of the viewing door, I think any paint that was left is now gone! :D


 
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Post by freetown fred » Sat. Jun. 04, 2011 8:19 am

Coffee smells great Freddy, Where'd you put the syrup for them waffles? I already looked in the cupboard ;) Rob, I think I can smell those muffins down here :) Gonna help an Amish friend finish up his barn today---he had about 40 people come up from Pa. yesterday--I'm going to get one of these horses saddled up this week-end & go somewhere. Have a good week-end all. Hows that yard looking gaw??

 
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Post by Hambden Bob » Sat. Jun. 04, 2011 8:28 am

Glad to see the power's back on in Freetown ! Freddy's Operation seems to make waffles irregardless of Utility Availability. He's rigged an AA-powered Griddle ! Have a good weekend everyone ! :)

 
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Post by Freddy » Sat. Jun. 04, 2011 10:09 am

freetown fred wrote: Where'd you put the syrup for them waffles?


Real maple syrup is in the 'fridge behind the home made raspberry jam. Yup, yup the AA used an extra 7 pounds of coal this morning to cook up dem waffles!

 
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Post by SMITTY » Sat. Jun. 04, 2011 10:17 am

gaw wrote: ..... so I decided to take my break rather than run into storms while driving on 495 in afternoon rush hour traffic. It was probably a good decision.
A better decision would have been to go to NH ..... & forget MA ever existed. :P :lol: :D

Yeah craziness out here. 1" hailstones bouncing off my roof. I thought a raccoon got up there ... then I look out on the lawn & it looked like it was raining golfballs!! Pitch dark at 5 PM -- all my night lights came on. Sky looked like a bag of grey/black cotton balls, with darker, lower clouds racing in the opposite direction. Had adrenalin flowing for some unexplained reason .... could tell something bad was about to happen. Lucky for me I was nowhere near the action. I don't read the local paper anymore, so I'll have to wait a week until the free paper comes to get the local dirt. Local news stations just show the same pictures, video & stories over & over & over - gets tiresome watching.
Finally got a plate for my '84 XL350R. Just finishing up the wiring today & she'll be ready to ride. Gotta finish installing blinkers & mirrors - gotta have those or else you pay more hidden taxes to MA state gov't. :| Needs new floats & needles, so gotta yank the carbs too. Started this project in '08 ... so a little behind schedule. Brand new piston & rings, & valve seals back then. Should be fun on the road, but I prefer to piss off the treehuggers with the RD ....... so this one will be sitting alot. toothy

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Post by whistlenut » Sat. Jun. 04, 2011 11:26 am

Morning! Blueberry muffins, homemade wheat bread, french toast with local eggs, local syrup( real local), fried red potatoes,Pennsylvania Buck Coal to keep warm (38 degrees at 6 AM)......wonder if the ice is out near Ft Kent???????
Not a cloud in the sky, and Mark Viii is heating the pool.....thought we would make ice cubes outside last night, not go swimming! For those who do not burn year-round, I understand your reasoning, but sometimes the small cost of keeping the unit fired is saved in stove piping, unit condensation, or even for the time you need heat on these nippy nights. My first fired AA 260 still has the original piping, although I have replaced the Baro due to the lack of respect for the 3 screw rule. I know it well now!!!

Graduations going on around here....let's hope they keep the cars and trucks between the navigational beacons and have a great weekend celebrating. Congrats to those who are passing another milestone in life's adventure. Now go 'show em what you've got', whether it be on to more school, workplace, military, wherever.
Just because you are low person on the totem pole again, the only real way out is to climb up to the next level, don't let anything get in your way. Gain the respect you deserve, and remember to always say: Thank you!; open a door or hold one open for someone who may not be able to, and think before you say something foul, it is not easy to say you're sorry for making a fool of yourself! :D :lol: 8-) :idea: :roll:

 
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Post by lowfog01 » Sat. Jun. 04, 2011 1:28 pm

Hi Guys,

I was out early this morning transplanting some Vinca - a non climbing ground cover. I posted some pictures of my yard over on the "lawn mower repair" posting if you are interesting. Other then that not much going on. I'm heading over to base now to pick up some boots for my son. He is doing a recreation of the Mormon Handcart Trek that took place during the 1850- 1860 as the Mormons left the east for the Salt Lake Valley this summer and he needs something heavy duty but light. My daughters' had the same opportunity while they were in high school and it's tough. It's amazing that any of the country west of the Mississippi got settled. Anyway, I'd better get going. Take care, Lisa

 
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Post by freetown fred » Sat. Jun. 04, 2011 1:39 pm

Damn, I looked there--I gotta get these old eyes checked again. ;)
Freddy wrote:
freetown fred wrote: Where'd you put the syrup for them waffles?


Real maple syrup is in the 'fridge behind the home made raspberry jam. Yup, yup the AA used an extra 7 pounds of coal this morning to cook up dem waffles!

 
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Post by CoalHeat » Sat. Jun. 04, 2011 5:53 pm

Checking in a little late, over the past week my cable modem has been acting up, it stops working until I reset it, so yesterday I took it over to Service Electric Cable's office in Sparta and had it tested. Sure enough it was faulty. So I left with another modem and connected it last night, that one didn't work at all! Actually I shouldn't say that, it occasionally worked at about 5 kb/sec. :o So today I went back to the office, had it tested-guess what?-it doesn't work. :D Got another modem, which was tested before I left. :mad:

 
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Post by LsFarm » Mon. Jun. 06, 2011 7:45 am

It's Monday morning, I'm waiting for the first cup from the machine.. I love the first cup, almost like coffee syrup. It really prys the eyes open. :lol:

I had a busy weekend, I spent a lot of time working on the '25 Pierce Arrow, getting it ready for the national meet later this month. The meet is centered around the WoodBridge hotel in Fairport Ny, just SE of Rochester Ny. There are 60 cars and 10 Bicycles registered for the show. a pretty good turnout for a recession and $4.10 gasoline/diesel.

I've been getting a lot of items fixed on the '25, the gas tank had old, dried gasoline in it, when I flushed it out, it looked like a handfull of coffee grounds were in the tank, but the stuff would disolve in MEK if given time.. the tank is now clean.

The steering wheel is made from Red Walnut, a laminated, multipiece work of art, This one had started to delaminate, so I used a large hypodermic needle and good wood glue to inject it, then clamped it tight with cut to fit wood blocks so I didn't leave marks on the wood from the clamps.. making the wood clamping blocks took more time than the rest of the job.

The taillight assembly was the wrong one, it was for a '29-'31 car, and the light's pedestal or mount was a cobbled up affair made from 1" conduit. I had a correct tailight assembly for this year car, so I swaped them out, rewired the light assembly, repainted the pedestal, polished the worn nickle light bezels.. it looks much better now.

I also swapped out the right side headlamp reflector, the silvering had worn away from decades of polishing, I had a reflector with good silvering that replaced the poor one. Now the car doesn't look like it has one black eye. :lol:

I'll change out the Nickled radiator shell next weekend, the current one is chromed [wrong for this year car], and is chromed over thousands of rust pits in the shell.. it looks awful from 5'.

I need to check the trans and diff lube, and air up the tires..

Then get the trailer cleaned out and re-loaded, tires/brakes checked, and the car and truck washed. Parts for the swap meet loaded, and some clothes packed.. I need to do some maintenance on the towing truck too..sigh.

I'm still burning in the AA, it's burning maybe 25-30#/day, the ash pan is mostly powder, still very little unburnt coal, I'm debating on running it all summer this year, propane is still over $2.20/gallon here.. that's about break even point for DHW. Someday I'll install and hook up my Solar DHW system.. :mad:

Lisa: everytime I fly over the western part of out country, I marvel at the fact that people treked across all that land, no water, no trees nothing for hundreds of miles.. and over the mountains, All walking beside horse or ox-drawn wagons, with all your worldly possessions inside.. Like you said, it's amazing the country got settled.

Smitty, and GAW, really glad you both excaped doing the 'wizard of oz' routine with the twisters.. and my prayers for those who didn't escape.

Well, it's time to pack and get on the road to the airport, another week of flying,, the weather doesn't look too bad so far, for the week. But lately it seems every week it fires up some storms and tornados.

Take care everyone.
Greg L.

 
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Post by CoalHeat » Wed. Jun. 08, 2011 8:53 am

Stuck in my head this morning:

 
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Post by freetown fred » Wed. Jun. 08, 2011 9:12 am

How come every utube thing I try to open on the Forum--I get a --error occred, please try again later-- WnC, I know you're becoming an expert with this commuter stuff, how about some help here ;)---NAH, I just opened the stoker one above from markvlll---oh well--and the world runs on computers??? :cry2: :confused: maybe somebody just don't like the ozzy-miester :mad:

 
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Post by Rob R. » Wed. Jun. 08, 2011 10:02 am

Fred, does it work if you try and view the video from the youtube page? Here is the link to the ozzy video above:





Whenever I have had youtube viewing problems in the past it was because my flash player was way out of date. You might want to try the latest version of flash: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/


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