Wow. We started the day at 27F here in Indiana this morning! Brrrrr...
I'm looking for a hay fork for my tractor so a friend of mine with a truck and I went to a farm auction (thanks, John!). Lots of interesting farm equipment, prices way too high, imho. I was in the market for cattle panels, hog panels, fence posts, hay forks and a posthole auger. Well, I found everything I wanted? But everything was within 10-20% of new prices! So I came home with nothing (besides being chilled to the bone) and curled up in front of the woodburner.
I love my woodburner. There's some dust and dirt, sure. But when you have ~20 acres of trees? A woodburner is frugal. A lot of work, but frugal.
I'm looking for a hay fork for my tractor so a friend of mine with a truck and I went to a farm auction (thanks, John!). Lots of interesting farm equipment, prices way too high, imho. I was in the market for cattle panels, hog panels, fence posts, hay forks and a posthole auger. Well, I found everything I wanted? But everything was within 10-20% of new prices! So I came home with nothing (besides being chilled to the bone) and curled up in front of the woodburner.
I love my woodburner. There's some dust and dirt, sure. But when you have ~20 acres of trees? A woodburner is frugal. A lot of work, but frugal.
I've cooked a lot of food on this Fisher woodburner.. Stews, soups, many many meals... The brick to the left of the woodburner came from the Purdue smokestack from the North Power Plant...
The blower in the front is part of a system that I use to heat the house. The Fisher stove is basically a stove within a stove with a channel under and out the top of the stove. When you have a fire in the firebox, the blower blows cool air at the bottom of the stove through the channel. Hot air blows out the top. There is a damper at the right and two dampers at the front. It's looking a bit dusty in this picture. I need to re-black the stove after the heating season is over.
The blower in the front is part of a system that I use to heat the house. The Fisher stove is basically a stove within a stove with a channel under and out the top of the stove. When you have a fire in the firebox, the blower blows cool air at the bottom of the stove through the channel. Hot air blows out the top. There is a damper at the right and two dampers at the front. It's looking a bit dusty in this picture. I need to re-black the stove after the heating season is over.
I got a call from UPS on Friday (yesterday). I'd just gotten out of my exam in Com 318 (Principles of Persuasion) and was waiting for a bus to go back to work. Nope, I had to run home and take delivery of my roofing panels for the atrium (thanks, Ryan for helping!). They weren't supposed to be delivered unti April 6 or later! Now I have MORE to do asap. But I'm really looking forward to having a windbreak/greenhouse/atrium at the front of the house. And if it doesn't work out, I can cut two stabilizers and move it where ever I want. It's LARGE, but it can be moved...
I was able to put the goat babies out, I think they are happy. What do you think? They bounced the whole day. Then? It turned off cold. Both does needed air and light. They're a little underweight from feeding babies. Out in the open air, more hay available, more of everything and they'll regain the weight. Dairy does are like dairy cattle, though. Usually a little more angular and thin - but these girls, Taffy on the left and MayBelle on the right, need some groceries...
I was able to put the goat babies out, I think they are happy. What do you think? They bounced the whole day. Then? It turned off cold. Both does needed air and light. They're a little underweight from feeding babies. Out in the open air, more hay available, more of everything and they'll regain the weight. Dairy does are like dairy cattle, though. Usually a little more angular and thin - but these girls, Taffy on the left and MayBelle on the right, need some groceries...
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