No Mahindra yet, or Paperwork delay grrrrrr

[Varmintmist]

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Well, delivery was SUPPOSED to be the end of the week. Wife called Fri and they said they were backed up. I called today and talked to the owner and he said that the PW didnt come back from the company. Hmmmmmmmmm. Well it is now promised next week.

I hate credit. I like cash.

PS there is nothing to stop a lousy 11K loan in my credit history, in fact there is NOTHING bad in my credit history. This just PI##$# me off.

Anyhoo, some pics of the work I need to do first.

That is the front yard, the brown area is the swale. it has been full of water at times which is why I want to divert some the other way. The pipe from across the road emptys to the left and behind the camera.

BTW, that mound in the woods about center in the picture is my yard /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif soon.

 

[Varmintmist]

This one is of the woodpile. The upper right side is where I am going to run the culvert through the drive. Just above the little pile. For referance that is a split stacked cord on the pallets. The main pile is 8 ranck deep. 30-35 feet long and 9+ feet high /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Varmintmist]

This is the swale/ yard again. The new swale will end in the lower right corner. The piles will be moved and screened some for topsoil. The yard will break around the middle of in between the trees, the logging access. I'm going to break it towards and away from the camera.

 

[Varmintmist]

Here is a shot of the Woodburner, the shed next to it is the oil tank. the flashing on the roof is access to the fill. there is another on the oppisite side to get to the hand pump for tractor fuel. The pine logs are where I lay a ready supply for the stove. I just put it on the concrete last year and could get about 3 days worth stacked. This should hold at least a week, more if I go on the concrete.

 

[Varmintmist]

And one more of the dog doing a George Burns impression

 

[Daxamundo]

I like your dog's G.B. impression. Pretty neat! If he could growl something that sounded like, "Say goodnight, Gracie", you would have a money maker! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Varmintmist]

Or I could just call her Groucho Barx /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Daxamundo]

How does your wood burner deliver heat to the house? I've seen a modern wood-burning unit in a house. In that case, the heat is directed up to a thermostat controlled fan, which distributes the head to a few overhead vents throughout the house.

 

[Varmintmist]

Dax, its a "boiler" in quotes because it doesnt actually boil the water.

Ok, here goes.
There is a water jacket in the burner itself. the water is heated by the wood in the firebox. he draft is what controls the temp of the water. The draft opens at 180 deg and closes at 190. This is a dual fuel system and if the draft opens and the wood is not making enough heat, a fuel oil burner cuts in at 158 deg. Makes starting the thing nice /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

The water is circulated into the house by pipes underground and fed into copper manifolds. I have 3 zones. The garage and the basement zones are radient heat in the concrete floor. The upstairs zone is forced hot air.

When the basement or garage thermostat calls for heat, valves open on the manifold and send hot water into the radient tubing.

The upstair is a different setup. I wanted the option to add AC later with a minimum of hassle. Since the basement will be finished and the garage will also, I opted to get my ducts in at the start. The heat exchanger is pretty much like a radiator. When the upstairs zone calls for heat, the only thing that happens is the fan kicks on.

The water is also plumbed to a heat exchanger for the hot water tank with a mixing valve on top of the tank.

 

[Varmintmist]

the manifold

water from the boiler comes in on the right. The orange PEX tubing on the left is for the basement zone, and the right for the garage zone. the 2 green things on there are the valves. The red thing in the middle is a pump for the radient heat.

The manifolds at the top left are potable water, hot and cold. I fed with 1in for cold and 3/4 for hot to the manifolds and home runs from there. I can flush 2 toilets, run the dishwasher, and you still wont get burnt out of the shower. I gots me some volume /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif