[Steam-engine] New guy's sugestion

[James Mackessy]

Hi Eric!
     I should have read all the posts first! A house is a huge undertaking.
Seems it's never done! My brother tore
down a concrete block cape and rebuilt  a "Taj Mahal" on the original
foundation to skirt some zoning issues. He
started in '93. Last week they finished the master bath, and now it's time
to start remodeling the basement bathroom.
I reminded him "Life is like a circle", and I won't tell you what he said
back. 8-)
     We've been looking at concrete prices too, and it's scary. Just like
you said, a full up foundation for the Ames
Unaflow is about 31 yards of concrete. Ouch! We want to generate with that
one, so we need it, but that's a lot of
money. Keep us posted on your progress!
Jim Mackessy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Applegate" <eric at glassactonline.com>
To: "Steam-engine mailing list" <steam-engine at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Steam-engine] New guy's sugestion


> Hi Jim,
> Dang "99" seems like a million years ago.  Now there was a list that
generated a lot of Email.  I haven't been on it since 99 and the puter died
from there we bought a piece of a farm that haden't seen light of day in
fifty years.  If you remember the Saw mill that I was going to get about
that time.  Well we did end up making a deal and brought it home.  It is
here now with the foundations done and most of it set in place like most of
my rusty just it still needs a lot.  Although it is in good mechanical
shape.  After we managed to clear the land a little we built a house.  We
started the house from a timber frame building that we bought near Sparta
KY.  It turned out 2 1/2 stories and about 2000 sq. ft.  very much smaller
than the original 1859's building, but there was a lot of rot on the
exterior beams and posts.  It was all we could get out of it.  Turns out it
was just right.  It fits us very nicely.  We wraped the outside walls with
straw and stucko.  Warm in the winte
>  r and cool in the summer.  Now that is coming to and end it is time to
build engines again.  Yea!  We are hoping to start digging the addition for
the engines and work shop this spring.  I have been counting yard of
concrete and that is scarry.  35 yards just in the one engine foundation.
>
> Nice to hear from you
> Eric
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "James Mackessy" <jmackess at twcny.rr.com>
> Reply-To: Steam-engine mailing list
<steam-engine at lists.stationary-engine.com>
> Date:  Wed, 5 Oct 2005 09:00:27 -0400
>
> >Hi Eric!
> > Good to see you here, I remember seeing some of your posts and pictures
> >back in 1999 on the stationary engine
> >mailing list. I am into stationary engines also, present personal
projects
> >are an 8 x 12 sidecrank engine I believe to be a
> >Bigelow & Co. from New Haven, CT, and a 3 x 4 bottle engine built by a
man
> >named Nathan Jarvis in Oneida, NY. On the museum side, we have an 18 x 36
> >Rice & Sargent Corliss Engine, 19 x 24 Ames Unaflow,  40 HP Nagle center
> >crank,
> >7 x 7 New York Central Iron Works vertical bottle engine, 5 x 6
Sturtevant
> >horizontal, and several others.
> >   We are using a 100HP Cleaver Brooks package boiler at the museum,
> >partially because we do not have enough members to go around, so the
> >"automatic" type of operation leaves the fireman free enough to answer
> >questions and talk to the public in between keeping an eye on the boiler.
> >Recent fuel prices have us watching for a solid fuel fired HRT, as we do
> >have plenty of firewood. You can see our project at:
> >http://www.eriecanalcamillus.com
> >
> >Regards;
> >Jim Mackessy
> >Camillus , New York, USA
> >
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>      Eric Applegate
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