What are you up to?

Geno wrote: We do the same, we use the heat pump when it's weather like this, or at least above 45 degrees or so cause it's as cheap as the AC. What type of wood stove are you using now? Can you box it and put a squirrel cage fan on it? The first stove we had we enclosed and made our own wood furnace.

I run a 400 cfm fan over the stove to push heat around the house. Stove is 1/4 plate with a glass door so we can enjoy the fire, but I would like to put some type of auto damper control on it.

Waiting for leaves to fall before I mow for the last time.

I got to mow yesterday, hopefully for the last time, but we'll see.


I've been sitting in a chair all day reading, learning, and looking for a bigger air compressor that will work for us. Lots of types and options, then there's the how to do the 3 phase thing. My head is about to explode...

And now you need more air?
Sound like its snowballing for bigger and better and so on and so on............good luck.............

Geno wrote: I got to mow yesterday, hopefully for the last time, but we'll see.


I've been sitting in a chair all day reading, learning, and looking for a bigger air compressor that will work for us. Lots of types and options, then there's the how to do the 3 phase thing. My head is about to explode...

3 phase is the boss for big efficiency and power, Rotary Screw with 10 hp 3p should do it.

I hope this is the last of the snowball Naps.


I talked to the Quincy guys yesterday and finally found the easy way to figure cfm on air compressors. Most good piston types, 3- 3.1 cfm per hp, most rotary style 4 - 4.3 cfm. A lot of industrial compressors don't state cfm because they use that formula and figure most people know it, I didn't till yesterday lol.

We have found a company doing 10hp V4 compressors in a low rpm piston type that will do almost the same output as a screw type. These do 3.8 cfm per hp and they have a 10hp 220 volt setup. Either way we go, at 10hp will need 2 of either of them, or at least 20hp in a single. We need 50cfm just to run the cabinet as hard as we want to.

That sounds like a Big Electric Bill to me...........

Probably not much more than running the compressor we have to death.

Adding some smileys. :snow1 :snow

no no not snow.....its way to early............maybe a little around March would be fine for me...................:sun :sun