new house for mikemike

[mr.mindless]

Reasonable price for first wood shop item? Tired of testing skill saw talent for ripping things.

Seems likely 140 item.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/644493762833625/

[M4wdFab]

doesnt look to bad. 

this was the one i picked up for 198$ shipped

SKIL 3410-02 10-Inch Table Saw with Folding Stand

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003HIWQZ4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[mr.mindless]

oil furnace fired and functional during an allstaff briefing that didn't require full attention. reset pressures to spec after bleeding oil pump, and left it powered up but not calling for heat for about 10 minutes to let the heater heat the fuel and it fired up no problem. tweaked running pressures and flame looked great. it'll definitely blow some heat.

Not sure how I'll really want to set things up with the FIVE heat sources in the shop. Probably try to burn the free fuel for majority heat while keeping the floor warm with the radiant by keeping thermostats at similar settings? Reznor and electric baseboard for immediate demand. wood pellets as primary in the office when I'm working.

[TrailTamer]

It probably only one way to find out is to wait until winter comes and see what make most sense and where you want the heat the most, along with their efficiency and shop's insulation and how often you have the door open.

no NG down either roads to hook up to? How long the propane tank out back will last you with the slab heat on, at 50* or 60*? Heated slab set at 60* is icing on the cake in my dad's man cave, even when it's below 0* outside, granted his man cave is heavily insulated. He told me it cost him $1/day on average; ~$30/month, but your shop is roughly 6x bigger and not as well insulated.
Crazy idea, but can make it very economic if there is something to buy (or build...?) to heat the slab with either waste oil & propane/NG, to conserve propane.

another thing to consider is to find out what work best for you on what you don't want to form condensation!!!!!!

[M4wdFab]

  with 5 heat sources at least you can leave 3 of them broken and still have some heat

[mr.mindless]

If there was NG here, there wouldn't be LP. I was told I'm 7,500' from the nearest NG service line.

[mr.mindless]

and I have NO fuel use history. requested utility billso from sellers 2-3 times and that went as well as anything I asked of them: silence.

gas company's records don't make any sense for this address, it had to be filed somewhere weird under a different address somehow, or there was something going on with third party filling (these are loaner tanks as are most propane tanks, so that's "not okay"). Their entire history is one $25 charge from January '20, unknown what for. Sounds kinda like their records suck.

[M4wdFab]

id expect the 25$ was a yearly maint cost / surcharge for not filling.  hasent the place been empty for a while?  no fill last year seams reasonable even more if the water was shut off

[TrailTamer]

Probably try to burn the free fuel for majority heat while keeping the floor warm with the radiant by keeping thermostats at similar settings?

I don't think that'll work out well. Radiant works and efficient only if it's set at a temperature & leave it there 24/7 all winter.

My thought; Set your waste oil and LP forced air heaters lower than radiant, just enough to not be cycling when the shop isn't in use. Either  should kick on & bump the temp back up after bringing a car in or out the door, or to turn them up when you need that extra heat in the shop for some reason that day. (radiant will take days)

but we don't know yet on how much (and reasonable?) LP you will be burning through the winter, as radiant may not for you if you can't keep it operational 24/7 uninterrupted all winter.

[mr.mindless]

It was staged, but people were living here in January when I first looked at it. And water was on.

Could be on the surcharge though. Maybe they went hard enough on the wood that they used little propane.

I've gone from the 80-90% of a fresh fill to 60% in 2 months at the house on hot water and stove use. I think that's about where it was when filled, so little idea of accuracy of that gauge (shop tank was reading empty, but took 375 gallons on a 500. gauges are iffy.). That was 34 gallons.

[M4wdFab]

let that waster burner run full bore all times.   free oil is easy to get these days. 

[mr.mindless]

Either the floor is heated or not... I'm not gonna burn $1.70 propane as primary heat when I have several hundreds of gallons of free oil.

[mr.mindless]

mill motors finally fixed. price is about 2x what I expected but given overall price and quality of unit I'm not mad.

Have not looked further at my 3phase issue. working too much. Welcome to August.

[mr.mindless]

Got some waders and spent a few hours weeding the pond. Amusing but will take an age as far gone as it is. Didn’t take any photos yet. Will be wishing for a mini ex or loader to get things out of th me water but it will get me a ton of compost (that costs a whole $50/ yd at Bristols in Victor. Hardly worth any effort)

[mr.mindless]

Motors back from repair.

New mower blades due today.

And it’s the last full week before classes. Bleh