You’ll want #2 shelled field corn, less than 12% moisture, if a kernel snaps when you bite it you’re good. Check local farmers (best) or grain elevators (better), bushel = 56lbs. Two fans, combustion and convention. Combustion provides airflow to the firebox, either positive (pushes air through the box out the vent) or negative (pulls air out of the box out the vent) depending on the stove. Combustion blowers run all the time the stove does for obvious reasons, hard to make fire without air. Convection blowers are the room air blowers that pull heat from the exchange tubes and push it into the room. These run when the stove runs also, but are typically controlled by a heat dependent circuit (snap disk). Some stoves can run on a thermostat via electronic igniter (may not light 100% corn!), some are manually started with whatever you may use to do so (gel, torch, alcohol). All take maint (maybe daily, weekly for sure, annual for sure), these are not ‘set and forget’ as some sales folks will tell you. Stove must be designed to handle biomass (corn) or wood pellet, or both. Biomass stoves need upgraded venting, corn is corrosive when it burns, vent is rated for wood pellet or corn/bio which handles either. Good info at hearthnet, specific forums for different types of heating including pellet, not an endorsement of that site at all. We heat with two stoves 100% of the time, we’ve burned everything from horse chow (grain) to dog food (cheap stuff is 70% corn)to nut shells, or corn or pellets, whatever I can lay my hands on over the summer. You can drop $3000+ on a decent stove, and consider some relatively expensive parts are considered wear items (combustion fans fail due to heat and can run $200+, vent fails after time, etc), so consider this on ROI. If you are replacing LP this is a no brainer savings wise, NG not so much if at all. Winter heating our 1600/800 sq foot split requires a bit under 4 tons of fuel per year, good price point per ton is $200 or less. That’s 200 forty pound bags of pellets you’ll need to move and store for what it is worth. Install wise, these are pretty straight forward (think power vented water heater rather than fireplace chimney), study the manual as the clearances there are what to go by. I say this because sometimes local code enforcement does not know much about these units (getting better) and pro installers sometime make these sound more cumbersome than they are (high install cost). Hope this helps, sorry for the long post!

Who me?

Dog you’ve got a PM.

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Just don’t use the iPhone map to get home.

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Google has it’s own issues. Note step 41.

http://tinyurl.com/989b3uf

I got a pumpkin for you…..

You mean these? Best tire I’ve ever owned, out the door for less than $900.

That’s not the real Raven! It is a Raven imposter!

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Where did you catch this thing?

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In the bullhead pond, kind of by Chemolite…..

I knew BK had something to do with this. Darn thing looked like a striper and had a mouth like a bass.

There is a cooler within reach….

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Would you have fished here?

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Hell yes. Wolves maybe not….

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I can see a inspector or CO demanding entry into a boat and then breaking something or finding contraband in a compartment.

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When were you in my boat pug?

Hey Jared, let me know when you’re out and I’ll stock you with bullheads!

I had around 250 or 300 bullheads in my garage tank earlier in the year BK, never heard from you….

They did not go to waste, don’t worry!

Hey Mike,

Check with your neighbors and then barter with the company, you may get your free

There are no know confirmed cases of American Dog ticks spreading Lyme disease. That said, take the drugs! You may have cellulitus (tissue infection) from other bacteria at the bite site, that is not good either but the antibiotics should knock it down quick. If not looking better in a day or two, go back in!

Buying Selma’s BK?

Rodentator. Never gets old. If you do it, let us know so we can come watch.

http://www.rodenator.com/pests-controls-videos-rodenators

A pellet stove itself would need to be modified to work that way. I pellet furnace may be what you want, they duct just like a gas furnace and can use the same duct. We heat with two free standing pellet stoves, work good but takes maint so don’t be fooled by the sales guys who say they are set and forget. Good info at hearth.net fwiw.

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A guy I work with just leased a chev volt yesterday and says that he is getting over 100 mpg with it. With the lease he figures he’ll save almost his entire lease payment in gas alone which is about $350/ mo.

This has really got me thinking…

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Thanks Greg, very cool of you to share this with us. Keep us posted when they lift it into place!

The LED replacement bulbs for the masthead and anchor lights are excellent.

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i’ll check on 9 more often, even leave it there. I’m going by the Hunter Gillian if you see the ‘Gun Boat’ go by.

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You can’t leave it there, I believe legally you have to monitor 16. And when I’m hollering for help, I hope you’ll hear me!

Cheers Ryan, enjoy your day!

Yep.

There really isn’t too much you can do with a puncture except clean it, the betadine rinse would be good for that. The problem is, as you know, you won’t get the inside too well unless you do some cutting which should be left to the ed if needed. Best thing you can do is get the wound to bleed out well, squeezing is ok as long as you don’t do tissue damage (don’t squeeze too hard!). Then keep a close eye on it for redness and such, do NOT delay going in if things are getting worse instead of better (not the time to be a man, get you butt in). My first aid kits has the basics, and then some, but you need the ed for the good stuff!

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Duck !!! He asked about setting up your PayPal with your bank info.
Kirt, Just give your boat to me and I will take good care of her.
WKW

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Asking for your PP email and full name is how you do business with PP. I agree this guy is not legit, but he is not asking for anything out of line as far as PP goes. Which leads me back to point one. You want to mess with him, give him what he wants and see what he does, again there is no risk in giving him your PP email and acct name, he can only put money in not take it out. Hell send him a PP invoice and see what he does.

So what’s the deal with Paypal? Isn’t the money yours once he transfers it? I do biz this way for a personal biz, once the money hits my acct in PP I send the product. Hell, let’s give him my PP info and see what happens!

If it was reg’d to her, and you formally reported it stolen, the cops with he help of APL may be able to tell which wireless network it was last on. I had this happen with the kid’s DSi, Nintendo and the cops cops got it back for us. Thieves suck. The app that would of helped is called “find my iPhone” or something like that. Good luck!

If you look under the back seat of my Titan, there’s a 2″x12″ piece of pcv pipe with end caps and a schrader valve on it. And yes inside you will find 4 tps’s and surprise it is pressurized to 50 lbs. No light on the dash.

Finman is pretty right on. I’ve been doing this for years, only tap three large maples and get 15-20 pints a year. I boil (yes, rolling boil, not simmer!) for a few days, consolidated pot, finish inside. Imho the color change is more related to the timing in the run, i.e. later sap seems to be a darker color. Sap to syrup is around 50:1, sometimes less for a good sugar maple. I have one tree that will give 5-7 gallons a day on a good day, below freezing at night, above during the day. Curious how the run will be affected by the weather this year, will know more in the next few weeks.