[AT] The best laid plans of mice and men

[charlie hill]

Hi Cecil,

Sorry you missed the show.  I was looking forward to a report!

I haven't used any PEX but according to my plumber neighbor it is great
stuff.  When it first came out it had some problems but they were in the
fittings not the tubing.  That problem has been fixed now and it is
supposedly very reliable these days.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cecil E Monson" <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 6:50 AM
Subject: [AT] The best laid plans of mice and men


> I had all the intentions in the world of spending two days
> at the Gathering of the Orange this past week. I wanted to bring my
> AC G with the sickle bar mower to show and a golf cart to ride around
> in for a change. I knew lots of my friends would be there and it would
> be a good show. Weather really did me in. We had 3 inches of rain
> Wednesday morning that washed out the driveway pretty bad. Instead
> of happily being on my way to Canandaigua, I spent Thursday hauling
> crushed stone (4 dump truck loads) and fixing the driveway. It rained
> again Thursday night but was easily fixed. I got out of here late on
> Friday and when I got to the Finger Lakes, I found out it had rained
> bloody murder at the show that afternoon. I spoke to both Carl Gogol
> and Mike Maynard on the my cell phone but did not get to see either one.
>
> I had a mission also which was to track down and speak to a man
> who has developed a high efficiency heating system using a combination
> wood and oil burning hot water boiler with a 1000 gallon tank incorporated
> into the unit. It holds heat for several days and furnishes hot water as
> well as heat. I found him and had the opportunity to discuss his system
> at length and liked it a lot. I looked at one of these units that has
> been in service for 4 years and the owner only has to fire the wood
> burner once a day in the coldest winter days and goes as long as three
> days on mild 20 above and warmer days. The firebox only holds about 80
> pounds of wood and heats the entire 1000 gallons of water in one burn.
>
> He, like some of the rest of you, convinced me that my new shop
> should have the heat in the floor and the new house we are building should
> be heated the same way. He builds a unit that looks similar to the rear
> end of a locomotive to me in that it has a small fire door in the rear
> and a large round shape that encloses the 1000 gallon tank. The entire
> unit gets heavily wrapped with insulation to hold the heat. He said it
> can be placed near the house or in a 10' X 20' room attached to the shop.
> Attaching it to the shop was a great idea and will allow me to drive
> right up to it with a tractor and loader or the skidsteer and load the
> firebox. It has an oil burner also and will automatically burn oil if
> the wood is not being burned. Being as we have a nice 10 acre hardwood
> woodlot directly behind the shop, I have all the wood I will need right
> there.
>
> He recommends using PEX tubing placed on the floor joists one inch
> under the floor and I wondered if any of you have direct experience with
> this stuff. Present cost is 35 cents a foot and I am going to need about
> 4000 feet of it plus the fittings.
>
> It should be an interesting year.
>
> Cecil
> -- 
> The nicest thing about telling the truth is you never have to wonder
> what you said.
>
> Cecil E Monson
> Lucille Hand-Monson
> Mountainville, New York   Just a little east of the North Pole
>
> Allis Chalmers tractors and equipment
>
> Free advice
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