[AT] TEST? NOW Ramble! (long)

[oldiron62 at gmail.com]

Greg, If you want to use the furnace to heat your water heater water. Our 
waterheater is unhooked completly from the electric since lighting up the 
stove. You will need to make a sidearm, or run another pair of lines. If you 
are interested, I will send you a picture or two. What we have is a Heatmor 
boiler that is happy with any kind of wood put in it.
Let me know if you want to see the sidearm that we use to heat water all 
year around. And when we was looking at corn pellet burners we decided that 
wood is what we wanted to burn. Cant feed wood to livestock and do any good.

Kevin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Hass" <gkhass at avci.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] TEST? NOW Ramble! (long)


>I never considered that anybody was trying to tell me how to run things,
> although I must admit it never entered my mind that you were talking about
> domestic hot water. I always welcome any and all suggestions or comments, 
> as
> this is how one learns and that is what is so great about this list.
>
> I have never given much thought to using the boilers for domestic hot 
> water
> due to the fact that they are off too many months of the year, and now 
> that
> the kids are grown we do not use that much hot water.  As for heating the
> shop with the boiler, that was also suggested by someone locally. 
> However,
> once the outside temp reaches over 50 F, I generally don't heat the shop
> anyhow.  When I purchased the unit the place where I got it said 80% of
> their customers were buying the bigger unit and running pipes to the house
> from the shop and heating both with one boiler.  When they say that, they
> are probably talking about a "real" shop.   At 24' x24', most farmers 
> would
> probably consider mine a small storage shed.  As I have said before, the
> overheating is not really a problem as I knew it was going to happen. 
> What
> threw a monkey wrench into things was having three 50+ degree days in a 
> row
> in January.  Something I can never remember happening before.
>
> I did today make the 34 mile round trip with the gravity box to the 
> elevator
> and got 3 tons of corn, which should finish the season.  I will assure you
> that overheating was not a problem today, as we had a high of 10 F and an
> overnight low of -4.
>
> Greg Hass
> Michigan's frozen Thumb
>
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