inpromptu truck bed

[RegL]

Needed a quick container today to put on my flat bed.

 

[BobRip]

Very ingenious. How do you like your solar panels. Was it worth the cost?

 

[RegL]

Very ingenious. How do you like your solar panels. Was it worth the cost?

Not really. After rate payers and tax payers subsidize 70% of the cost, I may break even. It's another one of those government feel good programs. My outdoor wood furnace, on the other hand, has payed for itself many times over, saving over 1000 gallons of heating oil per year. Of course, they are being regulated out of existence.

 

[J_J]

Is there some reason that we have to look sideways at the pictures.

 

[RegL]

Is there some reason that we have to look sideways at the pictures.

Sorry JJ. Haven't figured out yet why some pics taken with the Iphone get rotated when emailed or uploaded. Anyway, you can right click on the picture and select rotate to the right. Merry Christmas.

 

[MossRoad]

Here ya go!

 

[MuncyBob]

My outdoor wood furnace, on the other hand, has payed for itself many times over, saving over 1000 gallons of heating oil per year. Of course, they are being regulated out of existence.

Yep, but you can blame the manufacturers for that! If they would have taken proven design from Europe and made the OWB to produce less pollution we wouldn't have this legislation going on. Time to get an indoor unit if you can in those areas so they won't know you have a wood burner(if you can somehow hide your wood piles )

Good thinking though for the need you had at hand! I've done similar when the need arises.

 

[3238dpw]

In the second pic it looks like you have a 2430 or a 2445 peaking from around the corner, but in your profile it says you have a 1430. Did you get another PT? Does that explain why you have 2 buckets the same?

 

[RegL]

In the second pic it looks like you have a 2430 or a 2445 peaking from around the corner, but in your profile it says you have a 1430. Did you get another PT? Does that explain why you have 2 buckets the same?

Yes and yes. I picked up the used 2430 this year with a crap load of attachments.

 

[Gravy]

Not really. After rate payers and tax payers subsidize 70% of the cost, I may break even. It's another one of those government feel good programs. My outdoor wood furnace, on the other hand, has payed for itself many times over, saving over 1000 gallons of heating oil per year. Of course, they are being regulated out of existence.

If you lived around here, you'd understand why they are being regulated. It's really easy to spot the older designs by the heavy smoke pall that settles in around them. Most of the older/cheaper ones operate by maintaining a smoldering fire. Around here, the cheap, wasteful, filthy ones must outsell the clean efficient ones by 10 to1.

I'm a dedicated woodburner - I depend on my woodstove for primary heat, but I've come to absolutely hate those nasty polluting pieces of junk. The valleys and hollows around here are choked with smoke from October through May. It's easy to spot the major contributors by following the smoke plumes. If there's regularly thick smoke, you can count on it coming from a crappy outdoor wood furnace. The owners throw in a half-cord of un-seasoned wood and ignore it for a week (exaggeration for effect).

I am aware that there are good, efficient & clean-burning designs, but there are a huge number of wasteful gross polluting outdoor units that are literally poisoning the market. IMO, it's similar to the diesel vehicle situation - there are lots of efficient, quiet, clean diesels out there, but the noisy stinky ones overwhelm them.