A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
to all my woodgas-friends
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Did your wife find that saw for you Goran or is that a present from you to her? I enjoy thinking about a woman that would be thrilled with a chain saw for Christmas. 
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Boy oh boy.
Duke Energy is manually shutting off electricity in some areas to “save the grid”.
I’m not affected yet, maybe because I get my power from a Co-op that buys electricity from multiple companies.
One of my friends that lives in a trailer park did get his power cut off. Maybe Duke is doing some sort of round robin system. Either way it isn’t good.
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Good news is we will be in the 40°f in a couple of days, hopefuly I pray it will spread to you all in the east and south.
Bob
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Merry Christmas to all the DOW family. Let us remember the celebration is all about our savior Jesus Christ and his grace for us.
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Hello all and Merry Christmas .
First time ever in my area of Alabama we have had a wind chill WARNING !
Been sick with the flu but feel much better today 
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Hi Tom, no that chainsaw was a early christmas present from myself to myself 
, but, my wife let me stage this photo, (i did it for another forum, for chainsaw maniacs), anyway, i thought it became good enough as a christmas greeting 
At least wife gave me a chainsaw book
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Our pump house became frozen, and all the lines under the house.
The line running to the hot water heater also burst and now I’ll have to fix that, because it broke before a cutoff valve and thus had to shut off the well pump. Hope I can make it to Lowe’s before they close for the day.
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Ouch…no fun at all…frozen water lines…
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In some kind of temporary fix, someone(probably one of my uncles) had put screen doors on the pumphouse and boiler room. They’re a very odd size so we can’t easily replace them. I may just have to make custom doors out of plywood and 2x4.
When we actually used the oil burner furnace to heat the house the screen door made sense. Mom since replaced it with a heat pump AC system and so the hot water heater is the only source of warmth in the room.
I’d really love to fix the old boiler and replace it with a wood fired one, our heating system doesn’t work well in Sub-Freezing temps. We still have the vents in all the rooms.
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Well that makes two of us for frozen plumming, It got so windy chilled over here it froze my shower drain solid, Next year i run a heat tape abour 15 feet too get the pipe under the dirt a ways, and rap glass insulation and plastic rap. And A heat TapeI can Plug In, for these cold spells, last year it never froze, i re’roughted plumming last year,showers too dry bed , Thought it might freeze, but not last year.Got it free till spring.
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Remember, keep the water running and moving in the pipes a little in freezing conditions. It is very hard to freeze moving water.
Bob
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You could allways start building a new fire box ,then put water jacket around the fire box, I need too build a taller fire box with water jacket, for a spare, and a taller one leaves more room for charbed on the bottom, my wood burner heater, has grate in the bottom, ash falls intoo a seperate metal box with ash door, the small fans that feed the fire, push the smoke out the bottom grate, and too the back end of the burner unit, and up though about 10 --2" and 3" pipes, before it goes about 3-1/2 feet through that water jacket box, then up through the standard chimney pipe./ MY Next wood burner will be at leiste 4’ tall and about 18 " too 24" wide. 1/4" plate. THE one i got is about 3 foot tall, a little short, but it would be plenty good in your neck of the woods.
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Merry Christmas wayne, hope you keep on recovering, I had the flue one or twice, since i got over the coved bug back in 2020, just before they anounced that coved 19 was on the loose.
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Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
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Merry Christmas to you all.
After a nice diner with my family, we decided to make a sidetrip on the way back today. We visited a castle and l remembered Bill once sayd he admired European castles wery much. So here are some pictures
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Merry Christmas to All.
My Christmas gift to all . . . a song sung well:
My wife’s gift to herself . . . a new rescue dog.
My gift to me . . . finally watching, “The Life of Ove”.
Be kind to each other.
Learn to first like; then love yourselves. Every nick, scratch and blemish. Lives lived well, Character traits.
Regards
Steve unruh
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I am happy to see you post Mr U. It was a hard day here trying to dig out from a two day blizzard. Neighbor came with his tractor mounted blower and helped because these four and five foot high drifts were kicking my ass. We can at least get in and out now in case of emergency. Still quite a bit to be done and it’s snowing again, but only Lake Effect and the winds have died down. Definitely a white Christmas. I’m hoping everyone had a wonderful day with their loved ones. I hope you southerners are thawing out. I haven’t checked to see if you are unfrozen yet.
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Merry Christmas to all
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