Ready for this winter?
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OldMcDonald
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Believe me, whilst you might love to try it, a try is as much as you would want. I have never had anybody's even half decent home-made wine here, and I have made some pretty good stuff elsewhere in the past myself. Portugal (the only source of Port) does make some of the finest wines in the world - and very cheap too. Everyday wines in 5 litre casks is about $US1-40 to 1-50 a bottle. No upper limit I suppose, but $3 would get you pretty good wines and at $10 to 15 you are in the top of the market for most producers. Always those, like olive oil producers, who will ask outrageous prices of course. Port is more expenisve, Ruby starting at about $6 and the sky literally is the limit for sound old vintages.
I have to get more wood cut and stacked, all the water heaters are checked and work, just bought a bigger snowblower 48", have two 38" blowers, got one more cut of hay to get in and I'm all set for winter. I have more hay then places to put it.
HEC
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At 72 yrs. old I have had to make a few changes , we went to a coal boiler 3 yrs. ago after burning wood all my life . What a game changer as it is so easy to take care of , fill it once every day or two , dump a few ashes and that's about it .I just got 5 ton of rice coal delivered yesterday and that will more then do for the winter for all my heat and hot water . I don't have worry about creosote or cleaning my chimney anymore either .I set the thermostat on 72 and it stays that way all winter long .
I bought a B2650 with a cab and front snow blower for all the snow we get up here in northern Maine . I have always had an open station tractor to do that job but just can't do it that way any longer . It usually takes me a couple hours to dig out from a storm as we have a long driveway .
Like others have mentioned enjoy this good weather for as long as we can .
Have a great day everyone
I bought a B2650 with a cab and front snow blower for all the snow we get up here in northern Maine . I have always had an open station tractor to do that job but just can't do it that way any longer . It usually takes me a couple hours to dig out from a storm as we have a long driveway .
Like others have mentioned enjoy this good weather for as long as we can .
Have a great day everyone
oosik
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HEC, it would be my guess that "rice coal" means finely ground up coal?? I went from firewood to pellets to electric heat - mainly because electric is so cheap around here, fire wood drags in so many bugs and is now too much work for me( 72 years, also) and pellets have become so darn expensive($275 per ton) this year. Electric is just my speed - just twist a knob and its all done, ha,ha.
I still use a rear blade on my open station tractor to clear the snow on my mile long driveway. Its just me & Eddie Bauer on these winter projects.
I still use a rear blade on my open station tractor to clear the snow on my mile long driveway. Its just me & Eddie Bauer on these winter projects.
RoyJackson
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oosik
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Roy,
I think Filson, last time I checked, was a bit fancy for me. Heck, my neighbor wears Carhart all winter and chuckles at my Eddie Bauer down. When I'm all decked out, down jacket,hood and down pants I look like the Pillsbury Dough Boy.
I think Filson, last time I checked, was a bit fancy for me. Heck, my neighbor wears Carhart all winter and chuckles at my Eddie Bauer down. When I'm all decked out, down jacket,hood and down pants I look like the Pillsbury Dough Boy.
RoyJackson
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Great stuff (discounting the newer, non-US crap)...but it's ain't cheap. Reckon most of mine will be around when I'm dead and gone.
HEC
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Yes rice coal is just a little smaller than a wood pellet and is fed much like wood pellets and has a hopper like the pellet stove . Wood pellets here right now are $199 per ton, rice coal is $ 290 a ton in my area but you get much more heat from coal then wood pellets so that part makes the two pretty even as far as cost goes .If I remember right you get 60 per cent more heat from coal then wood pellets . The coal is just dumped in a coal bin so I never have to touch it untill it's time to put it in the hopper . The coal we use today is antracite which is hard coal not the soft dusty stuff our parents use to use .
HEC
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Up here it is LL Bean and I know what you mean about all bundled up . I had a back injury so it was very hard for me to turn and look backwards . I have a 7 ft. blower on the back of the M5700 but I had to stand up all the time using it which isn't all that safe on a snowy deck etc. .
